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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1901
Page
3
Fragmented OCR lists items and phrases about a Garden of Eden and Western Canada, with references to mills, schedules, and advertising practices. The unreadable text mentions Beier Masisest of Reed City and various commodities including fruit, flowers, trees, fish, and fowl, plus government involvement and advertising notes.
The author describes months of unable to stand due to sprained ankles before Layp tied it, after which the pain lessened daily and healed. They claim doctors offered little help and compare a long history of pain to a past fifty years. They noteSt Jacobs has twelve gold medals for a world-leading remedy.
A peculiar experiment describes using a vibrating fork connected to a web to sense its edges. The subject, Mr Epidér, experiences the sound traveling through threads and imagines a person leaping from the web as the fork sounds.
St Paul Minnesota asserts a claim to the largest bridge in the world by both length and height. It features a 24 foot roadway, 37 trunnion and girder spans, 30 foot high clearance, and a total width of 43 feet. Completed in 1850 at a cost of $450,000, the city also hosts the largest law book publishing house in the country.
A woman long tormented by sciatic rheumatism reports dramatic relief after using Dodd’s Kidney Pills, taking eight boxes and claiming full cure. Skeptical doctors now amazed by her recovery and ongoing good health. The piece also touches on various medical views and unrelated anecdotes.
In a tense night at the Star and Garter inn in York Mary, a courageous maid, and landlord Morley discuss the abbey and a bold wager. Taylor and Wilson, fellow guests, tease and gamble as inn talk centers on Mary’s daring and possible abbey outing amid rumors and ghost tales.
A garbled dialogue recounts a nervous chat about travel and attire, with a quizzical reference to London. The passage ends on a cliffhanger line about continuing the tale.
A fragment from the Globe describes furtive lies and cold officials indifferent to affection. Hana saves to send for gray haired parents and embraces them while tears mix with joy. Friends who never come, stories of longing and privation are shared amid reunions.
Veteran Chelsea rector A G W Blunt recalls Thomas Carlyle and their dinners together. He recalls Carlyle’s garden key and his sharp judgments about burial. Blunt, who resigned after forty one years, also recounts Rosetti and Holman Hunt and a tale of unpublished poems buried with his wife.
A remarkable bridge spans the Per river in eastern North Carolina, built entirely on air tight whisky barrels and kept afloat for nearly fifty years. The piece notes wartime use of improvised buoyant materials such as barrels, cork, coffins, ropes, and planks to aid military river crossings, and remarks on the ingenuity needed to span gaps with whatever buoyant items are available.
Prospectors in the Tierras Desconocida district of Durango Mexico reported a newly found waterfall in the San Cuuy atan canyon. After days of climbing the great barranca they observed a roaring cascade that appears to exceed 5,000 feet in height while pursuing the Naranjal lost mine.
Loat the superintendent of the survey of the fishes of the Nile has returned to Egypt to resume work. It is proposed to voyage during the caaving sea non to explore the Blue Nile from a tie with the White Nile to Roseires and possibly farther if the steamer can ascend. On completion Loat is to ascend the White Nile from Par sbodm to Gondokoro in Ugenda establishing fishing stations on the way up.
Annie Gath Brown, longtime Philadelphia resident, died recently at age 181. In her early years she was known as a prominent social figure and caregiver within the city. Her passing marks the end of a long life linked to Philadelphia’s civic and club circles.
Fragmented text depicts a crowd near a crater with fear and awe. A young woman speaks of a fortunate place while references to Turkish and French ministers entering a city appear. The passage is garbled with unclear names and actions, resembling a wartime dispatch or eyewitness account.
The report describes the Chestnut Tree of Hundred Horse near Mantall at the foot of Mount Aelia as the world s largest. It notes a track circumference of 204 feet and mentions other giants in the United States and Nevada with large circumferences, including a California Tule River specimen and a Nevada giant redwood.
Parishioners of Eccles Hall England form a society to buy and hire a piano for parish use. Shares fund the instrument with hire charges to redeem back to shareholders by ballot over years. After several years ownership transfers to trustees for parish use. Also notes a giant evaporator built in Jamaica to dry bananas to sugar crystallization.
The article notes the Wyoming division of the Lehigh Valley Railway runs between Boston and Fairview with locomotives claimed to be the largest in the world. It lists engine and tender specs: tractive power 65,063, engine weight 245,082, and total weight 245,082, with associated weights on drivers and trucks. It also mentions Defiance Starch ads and Army returns on nationalities.
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