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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1889
Page
2
A compilation of editorial snippets notes Chicago Sun's fairy tale view of Southern progress, San Francisco Chronicle on inflated Indian reservations, Chicago's bid to be America's largest city, and Sioux land immigration fears. It mentions Oklahoma homesteads scarce, Naples slum redevelopment, Yale freshman baseball turmoil, a new Little Rock washerwomen association, and evolving anti trust laws.
Parson Duncan of Eufaula after his wife’s elopement with a neighbor, fled on foot toward Florida in what is described as the first instance of a walkaway match in the south amid shotgun menace.
The Tradesman reports 1,021 new industries established in the last quarter, rising from 600 previously, and 1,711 new enterprises in the first six months of 1889 versus 1,200 a year earlier. Cotton and woolen mills lead with 51 new mills, Georgia tops with ten, North Carolina eight. 52 foundries and machine shops add seven stateside, Alabama nine leading in that sector, with Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky at seven. Mining and stock companies total 82, Kentucky contributing 17, up from one. The trend indicates accelerated southern industrial growth.
A fragment from HL 8 Keller describes four waxen petals as symbols of renewal and sweetness, noting nature’s kindness and a brief life span that lightens pain, set in a poetic scene of calm shadows and untroubled skies.
A graceful young woman models a Directoire gown set in cream gorage with Egyptian red and gold stripes. The coat features Egyptian red silk lapels and a cream tave neck finish, with red silk trimmings on the skirt. A golden brown mantle lined in red and a brown straw hat with cream lace complete the ensemble.
An old letter carrier explains why recipients dread missing mail and rush to read letters. He notes some neighbors eagerly await daily notes, treat each letter as a treasure, and treats himself as a popular figure with a lighthearted matrimonial ambition.
An old timepiece in a Lady of the House prompts a bold chap to offer his clock instead. The woman retorts that forty years of routine hinge on the clock’s signals, saving her husband’s comings and goings, the dinner, schooling, church, and funerals, and rejects the shiny shop item as mere trinket.
A fragment tells of a widow who sponsors herself after lending to her husband and a visiting gentleman who stops at her counter a moment later. The tale hints at a path for young women to rely on their own resources and ingenuity.
A fragmented Chicago Mail quotation recalls a past salary remark by Mr Hartridgs and notes a woman remarried. The speaker warns about a girl selling to the store proprietor and securing a good husband, reflecting social gossip of the era.
A simple home candy recipe uses ripe strawberries, sugar, and water. Boil to brittle stage without stirring, dip berries quickly, lay on greased pans, chill on ice, then eat. Optional Malaga grapes and nuts can be treated similarly.
A prescriptive piece urging girls to build healthy bodies through good food, exercise, and sleep, learn household arts, cultivate minds with books, and choose friends wisely. It advises delaying marriage, watching for a true lover, and upholding high standards as women gain access to professions and fame.
A fatherly musing urges mothers to speak to babies and read stories to them. It notes that children understand early even before full speech and that sharing tales strengthens bonds and learning. The writer recounts a niece who prefers hearing rhymes about frogs and hens, highlighting a mother who neglects such storytelling.
An octagonal seven foot high postal pillar box with three divisions was shown at the Anthenæum Club Melbourne. It includes police and fire alert facilities linked by telephone and an electric button, a secure letter slot with a wire comb, a spring drop to deliver letters, a timing dial for clearances, and a bottom battery compartment for the police and fire systems. An electric lamp sits atop the roof.
Readable lines describe tooth-pick making with long thin items passed through machinery to form ribbons. The text names a process and materials but is heavily garbled with nonsensical phrases and unclear details. No clear date place or entities emerge to identify a specific event or subject.
Allan Wilton, a noble English pearl diver, vows love to Bella Lakin against her father Sir John Sudham’s wealthy plans to marry her to the baronet. Bella’s father schemes to force a dangerous dive for a legendary pearl near Hangale Rocks. Allan dives, survives, and wins Bella, gaining wealth and a future as a famed diver with the prize pearl as the ultimate symbol of their union.
The illustrated June Century recalls a quiet shorthand reporter who built a cheese-box atop a timber in his Vincennes Avenue yard near Ellis Park and Dearborn Observatory. He used a homemade dome to study double stars, working daily in court then nights until daylight. Neighbors and street kids recalled him as a queer man who lived in his telescope.
A playful exchange about music and a dog as a piano substitute. The speaker claims to have written a waltz and a piano is requested, while the other party suggests testing the piece on a dog, noting Har per's Baxar.
A New York Weekly item notes a tired living skeleton act in an American dime museum. A sympathetic visitor quips about being tired of hearing about fattening tips as the performer earns $500 a week, while audiences, especially old women, constantly urge him to gain weight.
A vintage advice piece lists home remedies for colds: soak the feet in hot water and drink hot lemonade, sponge with salt water, remain in a warm room, inhale hot water at intervals, snort hot water, and use ammonia or menthol, plus outdoor exercise. The source preserves dated, practical guidance with steps and timing.
A satirical recount from the New York Sun portrays a representative mocked by his constituents after promising reform and 400 law amendments. They grill him on local matters such as a mill dam, a fish pond, and a school district, noting delays and failed promises as he retreats toward the woods seven miles away.
A writer reflects on defining chemistry and mathematics, noting the difficulty of conveying deep chemical work to non specialists. He seeks to sketch key recent chemistry discoveries and relate them to the broader science in Popular Science Monthly.
A fragment describes a child in a nightdress kneeling to pray, interrupted by a sibling who tickles his feet. The boy asks for pardon while the incident is framed as a religious or moral anecdote noted by the San Francisco Chronicle.
London Truth notes the royal china at Buckingham Palace and Windsor likely tops £200000 with the Berres dessert service in Windsor valued at £100000 and Rose du Barre vases at $50000. Six Barres vases at Buckingham could fetch £30000 each. the crown owns all, funded largely by taxpayers during George IV’s reign.
A garbled quotation appears from a periodical voice complaining about modern writing and praising past prose. The text shows misspelled words and broken phrases, resembling a historical newspaper fragment with editorial mystery and uncertain attribution.
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