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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1896
Page
2
A collection of opinion lines on the Monroe doctrine fame and notoriety, retirement near-stage arcs, and political figures. It jokes about dooms, Dark Horse candidates, Bayard and Henry Irving, and shifts in patriotic song usage, ending with a note on marching through Georgia or Canada.
A sizable cohort of college professors casts doubt on the value of higher education. The critique targets not college life itself but the narrow mindedness and lack of spirit some professors have shown in commentary on the Venezuelan case.
Secretary Marion of the department of agriculture has ordered the postponement of export beef certification to March 1, 1896. He cites numerous petitions from exporters claiming enforcement will damage trade and seeks authority from Congress to modify the law to prevent loss of part of the beef trade.
Northern explorers view an ice berg with a glittering peak that seems stable yet two thirds submerged reveals warmer currents at its base as it sinks. The piece uses this image to warn that reputations collapse when hidden sins undermine foundations and character is lost, leaving ruin behind.
A Wisconsin company with 150000 capital plans beet sugar production near Milwaukee next year. Fifty half acre patches in southern Wisconsin show favorable results and soil conditions, including limestone beneath and high saccharine content, with 17 percent sugar. Chemists will select land and seed for cultivation to begin the project.
A historical analysis explains why gold coin commanded a higher value than bullion due to legal tender status and coinage delays. It details 1844 UK law requiring the Bank of England to accept bullion at mint rates, effects on exchange value, and how demonetization of silver shifted gold’s purchasing power, altering producer prices.
The National Bimetallist declares it backs silver remonetization openly and aims to educate the public without profit. It distances itself from any secret group, notes attacks on Sherman and Cleveland, and asserts it will target anti silver figures across parties while remaining impartial in pursuit of restoring silver.
Kanene reports in Sedan that business is revived with a rising horse market. A local trader who last week traded a single chicken for a horse now holds a horse in exchange for two chickens, illustrating sharper exchange values and improving commerce.
Clara sends a romantic verse to Maude written during the Valentino gesture. The note remarks the poem mirrors the roses in Maude's phooks with a playful, affectionate tone.
A Kentucky governor pardons O G Garden of Louisville for manslaughter. Garden, a trusted mansion employee, is greeted by the governor’s collie who delivers the pardon envelope from the mansion to the penitentiary. The dog’s return with the envelope triggers cheers among inmates.
Vernon G Richmond a 19 year old Muncie Indiana youth who attends Rev Coons revival at the Methodist Church has endured daily trances of up to 22 hours. He describes heaven as a large crown filled room where Jesus sits on a throne among angels and relatives while he remains conscious and only says he witnessed the scene and is aware of all around him.
In Sodus Point New York the Emery cottage is linked to autopsy remains and eerie events after a series of dissection, fires and disembodied whispers. Neighbors report signs like Spooks to let and The Morgue while Mr Emery seeks 187 dollars from Wayne county for coroner damages.
Four years after a Brooklyn confectioner Henry Lewis and his wife housed an aged woman found on their stoop. She lived with them six months ending when he could no longer support her, she sought the poorhouse then returned with eight hundred thousand dollars she handed to Lewis in gratitude. The San Francisco surrogate later learned she was an heir and an inmate of the Brooklyn poorhouse.
Warren Harley of the Indiana state prison reports a remarkable revival with more than 100 hardened convicts professing conversion. A 200 member Christian Endeavor society formed inside the prison, convicts head of the society consider delegation for the next national convention, baptism takes place in a bathtub, and conduct shows notable improvement under the warden’s support.
Robert Powell of Rushville Indiana awoke Saturday night to footsteps on his tin roofed porch and saw a man attempting to raise a window. He chased and captured the intruder after a fierce struggle, only to find the captured burglar was a woman in male dress. The woman pleaded for release saying she would be ruined and driven to crime by want. she refused to give her name but Powell allowed her to go after tears and pleas.
Farmer J. Patterson of Fort Dodge area reports his family watch vanished after a hog yard mishap. While dropping the timepiece the watch was swarmed by hogs drawn by its glitter, and Patterson drove them off leaving the watch missing. The article notes the odds of recovering the heirloom without slaughtering the animals.
Daniel Andrews a 26 year old resident of Went Rock Port Maine cut 1000 hoop poles last week and carried them two miles. He said he did it for exercise as he was stiff in the joints.
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