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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
1
Begin the year by shopping at this store and take advantage of money saving values. Best Northern Potatoes advertised at 24 bushels to a park per sack this week for $1.50, or 45 cents each. This offer aims to turn shoppers into regular customers in the New Year.
The severmd semester begins January 4 1915 with Teachers Training courses. Sunday school Pedagogy by Dr J H Coleman is free to all and aims to end hazy teaching methods. The college is accredited by Missouri University for about twenty units and strives for high moral advancement in teacher training.
Olathe Colorado reports a light snowfall with ongoing revival meetings at Highland schoolhouse drawing good attendance. Delta visitors Chas Berry and Chester Helmack, plus Mrs Mollie Winters and Mrs Ruth Deck visited. The Berry couple shopped in Montrose and Delta for Christmas. Miss Ive Ament left the mesa for Delta to attend business college. A surprise party honored Fairview teachers. literary society skipped due to last week at Highland. John Berry bought the Christ-
The passing of 1914 recalls duties done and neglected and calls for unprejudiced effort in the coming year. We hope for happiness and prosperity, noting churches and fraternal groups aiding the needy and educating orphans for a brighter future.
A sweeping wartime tax plan totals 105 million dollars with beer and tobacco among heavy contributors and a push to fund the war through duties on luxuries. The piece extols the civilian and industrial effort, urging farmers and workers to back Uncle Sam as measures intensify to sustain national credit and military needs.
Peter Radford argues in a national union piece that industrial wages oppress women farm workers, many barefoot and paid under 50 cents daily. He compares enslaved labor to women’s bondage, urges wage reform, and calls for “women and children first” to protect homemakers and mothers from field labor.
A committee led by Frank Trumbull and thirty five rail systems presented to President Wilson a memo urging government and public cooperation to sustain railroad credits amid higher costs and rising interest rates amid wartime dislocations. The president praised the memo as plain truth and welcomed cooperative action to address railroad funding without rigid regulatory constraints.
The University of Missouri College of Agriculture offers a broad short course with lessons in building framing concrete, livestock and corn judging, butter making, stock disease care, and many other farm tasks. Women study food prep, canning, dressmaking, and poultry raising as men study shop work and fertilizer practices.
A broadsheet exhortation urges boys to wait for a girl who helps at home and may delay. It contrasts beauty with domestic virtue and cautions that reluctance or haste leads to regret, urging steadfast waiting as the price of a lasting relationship. The piece blends moral rhetoric with humorous hyperbole.
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