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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1896
Page
3
Samantha Allen recounts a snowbound family tale of surprising gatherings as Betsy Bobbet leads a party to Josiah and Samantha’s home. A chaotic mix of neighbors arrives unannounced, sparking fear, backaches, and a stubborn stand against the prank. The scene escalates with a ruined lamp, a missing candle, and a tense mockery of the planned surprise that fizzles into conflict.
A man tending a sick infant and the other child at home is interrupted by a raucous surprise party led by Betsy Bobbet. The baby swallows a side thimble during the commotion, causing a frantic scramble as the thimble is dislodged and the scene erupts in chaos before late verses from Gimlet appear in subsequent weeks.
The Galveston Tribune urges women to cultivate punctuality. It argues punctuality impresses men, notes men joke about women's lateness, and suggests practical steps to start meals on time. Busy and businesspeople are especially urged to balance time wisely.
Graves Rawlings of 418 Warren avenue was drugged in a saloon at Thirty third and Armour and robbed of a diamond stud and a watch. He later identified a scarred man named Tom Quinn as the suspect, leading to an arrest at Clark and Madison streets. Mrs. George Binder, starving for three weeks, was found nearly mad with hunger at 146 Washtenaw avenue, now under care as her children were removed for nourishment. Dora Parker, a seven footer, quarrels with attorneys in Justice Richardson's court over a trunk theft. A crowd at the Burlington freight warehouse faced watchman Frank Browning as he fired at threats from Italian and Slavonian youths. Mayor Swift faced a thwarted killer in Joseph Maruska, a Crank who confronted the mayor at city hall demanding entry, while Dora Donnegan faced repeated arrests for theft and moral charges.
A Washington Post tale notes a Massachusetts congressman near Boston entertaining Irish guests at his estate. After a tour, he offers Benedictine as a story, then serves gin and a quip about dog liquor, as guests react with smiles and curiosity.
A Large World Ureous is described as enormous, more than sixty times Earth's size, with a distance estimate of about 1,700,000,000 miles from the...
Norwegian traveler Sven Hedin reports ruins on the north side of the Kuen Lun mountains near Gobl desert buried by sand storms about a millennium ago. The largest town stretched two and a half miles, linked by a canal to the Kerija river. walls were reed and mud with white plaster and vivid paintings. Poplars, apricots and plums once grew there before the sands overran the area.
John Casad of Labette county Kansas is described as vigorous at 72 as the father of nineteen sons and six daughters. The passage notes the possibility of different outcomes if he had nineteen daughters and six sons, and mentions Benzino sprinkled on carpets as a preventive measure that evaporates without harm.
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