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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
4
Peter Radford analyzes how World War I disrupts the cotton market, destroying prices and causing mass distress among farmers. He urges cooperative storage, credit, and government-backed marketing reforms to avert famine and stabilize the staple.
Peter Rar''d argues the global food distribution system is the era’s top issue, urging improved marketing and cooperative structures to connect abundant production with demand. He notes vast unused tillable land, rising global yields, and the need for better distribution to prevent ruinous competition among farmers.
Local items report visits by C A Walker and Captain Yount, and a Laflin duo at Snider home. Gay Estes improves and may return home. Mrs Frank Horn dies from a possible ice fall near Daisy. A college musical by Marie Wells and Eula Davault delights attendees. James Turner loses his Millerville area home to a December fire. Ellington editor Robert Daniels dies after years of ill health and service. Stockholders meet January 4, 1915 at the Bank of Zalma to elect directors and handle business.
Practical tips from a home guide describe salt's effects on fire prevention in chimneys, binding whitewash, repelling moths in carpets, removing stains from teacups, and cleaning willowware matting when dissolved in water. The material emphasizes everyday applications of salt for maintenance and cleanliness.
The poem proclaims the gospel of labor with religious imagery of heaven and earth. It frames toil as blessed earthly fruit while praising the Lord who dwells with workers and plants a rose in thorny soil. The piece juxtaposes heavenly rest with earthly toil as a sacred vocation.
An Elberfeld Indiana reader recounts three years of back and side pains and dizziness eased by Cardus the woman’s tonic. She praises the product as safe natural and effective and urges other women to try it. Cardui claims to strengthen weakened womanly organs and has helped over a million women in fifty years.
The Rev Irl B Hicks Almanac now in its seventieth year offers astronomy weather storms and earthquakes data. Priced at 55 cents for the almanac and one dollar for the magazine Word and Works mailed from Word and Works Publishing Co St Louis Missouri.
Notice announces the first annual meeting of Bank of Glen Allen shareholders at the Glen Allen banking house on December 2 1914 to elect five directors and conduct other business. Meeting convenes at 9:00 am for at least three hours. Signed by J A Benny president and Elery Zimmerman cashier.
County court records show on December 3 1914 actions in the Elery Zimmerman petition with J A Berry et al for submission of article 6 chapter 102 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri to a public vote. An order for a special election is noted as part of the proceedings.
More than fifty qualified resident taxpayers petition to form a special road district covering a described eight mile square area in Hollinger county Missouri including Glen Allen village, with a vote planned December 1914 and public notices for the election to be published in local weekly papers. The document also notes a deed of trust sale on January 1915 of property within the district to satisfy debt.
Trustees sale records the conveyance of a large rural parcel from James S Dare and Mattie A Dare to Henry Baker. The property includes the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter with five acres of adjoining land, described by a detailed metes and bounds boundary starting at the southwest corner and running east and north along specified rods. The notice cites a December 2 1914 deed of trust and archival references in Bollinger county Missouri trust records.
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