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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
2
A collage of editorial quips and statistics spanning Europe and America. It covers labor norms in Germany, gender role debates, the British ballot question, London water history, the Panama Canal progress, Scottish overcrowding decline, Mme Melba, Chinese housekeeping study, tuberculosis theory related to drivers, coin collection notes from 1802, Berlin income figures, and a Methodist preacher’s remark on wealth and church reform.
Prof Goodwin of New York argues for revolutionizing big city public schools by forming groups for trades, commercial preparation, and college, noting a ten year old can choose between becoming a haberdasher or a minister.
A traveling Japanese noblewoman claims American women are unhappy and discontented because they are overly sheltered. She suggests that without a little neglect from husbands they cannot appreciate happiness, implying that occasional spousal misbehavior would heighten appreciation.
An ardent suffragist followed a New York election board chairman to expose his political influence. She learned he owned a home in New Jersey, waited to vote, and arranged his arrest for allegedly being a nonresident. The case highlights the activist’s determined bid for payback in politics.
The piece questions judging criteria for a Chicago contest based on how fast husbands button wives’ embroidered shirt waists. It argues against punishing or praising based on temper and compliance, urging restraint while contrasting northern crime with southern stigma and urging charitable self-improvement.
A clipped reference in an old song sparks talk about American women and access to warships for travel back to marital homes, suggesting a social debate or rumor without concrete details or names. The fragment hints at gendered power and nautical imagery but lacks verifiable facts or attribution.
In a lighthearted note the writer laments crop failures and recent forest fires reducing the Christmas tree stock, urging Santa to allow children to hang more than one stocking as a small comfort.
Sheltered within her arm the Son of Man lies sleeping with warm breath upon her cheek. Her eyes, still marked by motherhood, dwell on the infant Christ’s placid brow and cherub features as the babe in swaddling clothes carries a destiny toward Golgotha.
In a poetic Christmas visions scene, Mary awakes as Joseph admires their sleeping child. Threewise visitors bearing gold, myrrh, incense arrive, prophesying a divine cross hidden in gold. The Magi bless the holy family and depart as Mary trembles at the cross yet the scene ends with Bethlehem’s dawn.
The text discusses lettuce likely derived from endive found wild in Europe and other regions, with inscriptions on a worn coin decipherable by heating. It also notes cabbage, cultivated from ancient times, is believed to originate in Europe.
A Washington Star excerpt recounts a lunch at the Plaza where a beautiful actress tells how Tony Pastor rejected her typewriter girl job. She notes Pastor praised her but preferred she not accept Koppen bank offers, choosing his office instead.
A preserved Thanksgiving rule details a rich mince pie mixture. It lists beef, apples, sweet cider, currant jelly, citrus rind and juice, sugar, salt, Cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg and pepper, raisins, currants, citron, suet, candied orange peel, and optional spiced peach juice or vinegar for flavor. The note labels it richer and more spicy than others.
Reports of efforts to restore slavery terms Papua as frizzled hair linked to island inhabitants. The text notesPapua or New Guinea origin from mainland Australia, Portuguese discovery in 1526, possible sighting by A. Dabreu earlier, and Britain establishing a protectorate in 1884 after urging annexations by England amid Australia’s coastal security concerns.
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