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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1896
Page
2
The Marble Press column satirizes laziness vanity and speed inaccuracy, notes on civic debates, a Hungarian caricaturist’s prodigious output, and a New Jersey pension scheme for liquor dealers as part of a broad, wry survey of social quirks and public figures. It mocks police missteps, telephony attire battles, and prohibition schemes with sharp, plainspoken irony.
The New York Journal highlights Francis Fischer Powers leaving with chaperon Mrs Blackmore. Powers, a 6 foot 1 inch tenor with 44 inch chest, is described as handsome and protected from strong minded women and excesses by the chaperon who will supervise meals, speech, exercise, and other duties during his journey.
Melbourne mourns the versatile journalist Julian Thomas known as The Vagabond. A Virginia native and Civil War veteran, he reported for New York papers and later illustrated Melbourne life in vivid, realistic sketches. His works include The Vagabond Papers and Cannibals and Convicts. he served on the Melbourne Age staff in recent years.
The passage notes Denpent Lake as the deepest known lake, with Lake Baikal in Siberia cited as 4,005 to 4,500 feet deep. It spans about 9,000 square miles and is roughly four times the size of Lake Erie, containing pearls and mid water discoveries.
The St James Gazette notes London craft guilds retain ancient rights and powers. It cites the loading and landing of wines and spirits, guns testing at proof houses, notary restrictions, fish trade control, and prohibited sale practices. It mentions the flying act on butchers, past costs, and offal taxes, plus corwainers and boot trade regulation ending in George IV’s era.
The Spiritualists announce a temple to be built at the Yough and Oak streets site in San Francisco. Harrison D Barrett leads the National Spiritualist Association in forming a state group to fund and erect the temple with cream brick, Gothic facade, three gables, end buttresses, and an oak interior. A great organ gifted by a local benefactor will occupy one end, with a dimly lit hall for seances and a banquet hall and library included in the design.
A Baltimore Letter traces Charles Carroll of Carrollton as the last signer of the Declaration of Independence and chronicles the Carroll family from Ireland to Doughoregan Manor. It recaps his pivotal role in Maryland politics, his signatory courage, and lineage including Charles Carroll Jr and John Lee Carroll with descendants such as Royal Phelps Carroll and the Nugget yacht owner.
The article credits engineers for the surge in gold production behind recent gains. It argues improved mining processes will sustain high yields for decades and suggests science may extract gold from overlooked ore and tailings.
In the Colorado desert rainstorms occur where water evaporates in hot dry air before reaching the ground. Rain is visible from clouds yet absorbed midway as desert shade temperatures soar to extreme highs. The description notes near 128 degrees.
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