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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
2
A fragmented 19th century miscellany touches on legal notices, public affairs, a Boston urban view, Siberian revolution talk, and careless headlines. Mentions include Mr Robert Pitesimmo, Mr Gates yacht, John L Bullivean, the battleship Massachusetts repairs price tag, and a Fort Wayne boy Ezra Miller. The tone blends satire with brief notices from finance, literature, and sport.
The fragment cites Abdul vl Hamid as suffering cerebral anaemia with delusions and notes the Sick Man Méitor Watterson being robbed in New York. It mocks public talk, mentions a guest monkey at an event, and jokes about color of eyes and money. A Massachusetts professor allegedly says love begins at eight.
The document records a dispute involving Superintendent Avdree and board actions about salary withholding. It mentions Mr Carrington replying to Miss Evane and a debate over attending meetings. It notes 1801 actions on color lines at state teachers college and Lincoln Institute board regents stance against white teachers and interracial mixing in Black education.
The State Board of Fund trustees including Gov. State Treasurer Robert Willian and State Auditor Albert Allen authorize paying interest on school certificates amounting to 187,000 to be distributed to public schools. They also approve interest on seminary certificates totaling 24,100.91 for the state university at Columbia and the School of Mines, bringing the total interest paid on all certificates to 260,006.09.
One year old Leonard Adams and several other children narrowly escaped poisoning after eating rat poison cakes mistaken for cookies at Brightwell Landis drug store. Doctors say most will recover though Leonard Adams and Harvey Donaldson were briefly considered beyond recovery.
A doctors team exhumed Mrs. Elizabeth Coates in Oakland Cemetery, challenging the inquest findings and potentially clearing William Coates, on trial for his mother's murder. The case may be dismissed if the new evidence leads to dismissal or a new trial. In Carthage, the Bonner ruling prompts new trials for several defendants.
Rev A G Schell of Third Presbyterian in St Joseph resigns over church policy rifts while Belleville church calls him. In nearby Poplar Bluff voters approve local option liquor by 667 majority. Wright County also goes wet.
George Lome a 26 year old coal miner employed at Northwestern coal and mining company mine No 7 was instantly killed by a large fall of plate and rock while at work This marks the second fatal accident at the mines last week in Bevier Missouri
In City of Jefferson, Mo, the Mathews robbery case adjourned as Special Judge W Graves of Butler set March 55 for further proceedings. Counsel for both sides argued over a speedy trial and an agreement, with Jeffries noting no state notice of any agreement. The court had adjourned January 4 after a lively exchange among attorneys and the judge.
Margaret E. Bee, widow of Vendalia, files in Osawatomie County to cancel a $17,234.70 note and deed of trust on 280 acres and four lots in Vandalia. She alleges threats by her son C. J. Hutchison to kill himself to pressure her into signing the note. she claims she did not owe Guthrie at the time and seeks dismissal of the deed of trust.
Kansas City will operate two telephone systems starting January 2 with the old Bell system competing against the new Home Telephone Company offering cheaper service. Home directors met at Bryant building with attendees including Henry Koebler A W Lambert L Barbour Arnold Kalman J J Heim J J Swofford D C Snyder Walter Dickey Hugh Ward and others.
Senator W J Stone sues Judge Chrisman for 10000 over investment in the old Kansas City Times. Circuit Court grants change of venue to Lafayette County Missouri. Trial before Judge Alexander Graves. Stone cites prejudice among five circuit judges. opposition by Frank Walsh and John Sea for Chrisman.
Burglars entered J. B and O Neal store in Mill Springs one mile south of Leeper last week, blew open the safe and secured 500 dollars.
Nebraska university notified Missouri on Saturday it declines to participate in the annual debate this year. The two universities have held debates for years and Missouri was preparing. Officials said no extra claim but relations between the schools must be severed, strained since last fall.
St. Joseph Missouri report states the Perkins and Derge Clothing Company filed a voluntary deed of assignment on Saturday. Liabilities are listed at about 36000 dollars with assets nearly equal in amount. The firm plans to reorganize.
W J Clark, a wealthy mine operator, collapsed and died in the Buech building office in Joplin last week. He had come from Montana two years ago and was closely related to Senator Clark. Local reports also note New Madrid County’s county option election resulted in a 300 vote majority for the measured outcome.
William Coster aged 90, of Troy Missouri, died by his own hand Friday night at his home near Moscow Mills. He shot himself in the head with a revolver, according to authorities.
A fragmentary OCR read shows garbled text about a supposed cure and references to a street and hoarding. The passage lacks coherent facts, names, dates, or places and does not establish a clear news event or outcome.
A humorous scene unfolds as a buyer laments a furnace that won’t heat while hardware clerks, a draft expert, and a stout man offer conflicting fixes. Tips include proper shaking, keeping antler drafts free, and allowing cold air to push hot air, ending with a joke about moving to a steam heated flat.
A loquacious man recalls an evening with a bright, entertaining woman who listened intently and spoke sparingly. He contrasts her with others who chatter to be agreeable and discusses topics from the shipping trust to socialism, wondering about motives and perception while insisting the woman was not deaf.
In Place of the Atom piece argues that discarding the atom requires two new ideas the low as the unfit of matter and the electron as the unit of force. It claims matter and force are different manifestations of one substance and questions if ultimate particles of each are the same. Prof. Vileminghee says electricity cannot exist without corpuscles just as momentum cannot exist without matter.
Police were appealed to at Madison Square Garden to protect wearers of expensive frocks from eager imitators at the horse show and opera house. The piece argues for copyright protection for clothing and other designed goods to shield creators from dishonesty.
The queen reportedly traveled to Denmark on September 6 and then to Copenhagen before visiting Norway and Sweden. Rumors claim a royal wedding involving Queen Margherita, though the exact bridegroom and venue are denied and details remain uncertain.
The U S Senate caucus selected Rev Edward Everett Hale of Boston as chaplain of the Edward Everett Hale senate, to begin January 1. Hale, 78, is a Congregationalist and has pledged to serve. He plans to spend the winter in Washington with his family.
Prof Marelus Willson of Vineland New Jersey, author of a successful school series, was 90 last week and believed to be the oldest American author still able to work. He could not attend a birthday reception by an historical society, citing work on a new book and a patent in progress that would surprise his friends.
Extraordinary potato prices emerged at the Smithfield show with a York run selling four pounds of Fidora potatoes for 3000 dollars, equating to about three times their weight in gold. The grower rejected a 360 dollar offer for a single potato and ten tons of Northern Star fetch 15000 dollars.
A Confederate chaplain, Rev. Thompson L. Smith, a longtime Denver resident, is reported near death. Smith was a renowned military chaplain tied to General George Washington lineage and related to a Chief Justice figure on his paternal side, per the fragmentary notice.
Mr. Buchanan served as director general of the Brposition at Buffalo and was a member of the laws commission for the Columbian world’s fair. Born near Covington, he was engrossing clerk of the lower house of the legislature in 1874-5. He recently acted as arbitrator on the Argentina Chile boundary. He has lived in Sioux City, Iowa since 1883.
Surviving soldiers of Duke Francis urge the Vatican to account for a large sum intrusted to Pius IX. The move arises amid Italy Vatican tensions and hints at forthcoming developments in the long standing dispute.
A London cablegram reports Winston Churchill, famed writer and war correspondent, visiting the United States with the aim of marrying a rich wife. The piece notes Churchill's prior prejudice against Americans and hints his mother counsels the young man toward the advantages of such a match.
An Indian traveler in Philadelphia recounts experiences in London where locals misjudge his race. He notes English beliefs that a red man runs hundreds of miles daily, Apache hearts are consumed, and Indians are endlessly generous. He recalls beggars, pin pricks, and perceived stoicism, illustrating cross cultural misunderstandings.
Dec 8 at New Britain Conn a small gathering marked the thirty third anniversary birth of Elina Burritt known as the learned blackamth. Mayor Camp recalled Burritt’s boyhood poverty and self education the path to mastery of Latin Greek and fifty languages. Also notes Guardian sought for rich man and Mrs Giiman re elected president at the National Civil Service Association meeting.
The region reports a rapid rise in fruit production and sales led by western slope counties Metis Delta and Montrose. Grand Junction and Whitewater growers move multi car loads of peaches pears plums and prunes with net fruit value nearing 545000 in Mes County and total county fruit money around 1 million. More districts in the San Juan Grand and Uncompahgre valleys show strong shipments as settlers move in and land remains affordable for farming expansion. Gypsy Queen Evaira Lavol dies at 96 in Harrisburg marking the end of a Romany figurehead era.
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