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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1900
Page
3
A Kansas woman Mrs. A Boydston of Atchison reports hair loss began about a year ago. She says using Ayers Hair Vigor stopped the fall and caused rapid growth, with her hair reaching 45 inches in length and becoming very thick by July 25, 1899.
An advertisement claims hair loss results from starvation of the hair and promotes Ayer's Hair Vigor as a remedy. It asserts the product nourishes roots, stops shedding, restores color, and promotes thick growth, priced at S100 w bottle and available from all drapists.
A cryptic note promises a doctor will provide guidance on the Vigor and offer a book on the Hale and Sealy. It directs the reader to contact Dred. C, Avi, Lowell, Mowe for further instructions or a requested volume.
Charles Morley aged 0 years attempted to take his life by Juhaling ras and was found unconscious in bed by Mrs. John Siller at 11d Washington street. He was sent to the county hospital. Morley, cleanly shaved, showed signs of careful preparation to end his life. Mrs. Hitter said Morley was despondent over losing his job and being unable to pay his room rent.
A garbled legal notice promises a payment of one hundred dollars per case of dispute, sworn before a notary. The text shifts to a humorous exchange between a telegraph and a telephone about connections and social status. An illustrated pamphlet on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line through Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties is offered free with a 2 cent postage request. A brief medical note touts electric cauterization as a method to arrest bleeding by Lawson Tait.
Judge Andy admonishes Minnie Coleman for loitering and profanity on city streets. Coleman explains weariness with life as she mutters about not caring for anything. The judge orders a $3.75 fine for using public papers as an arena for wasted entropy.
Alfred R. Riggs buys Springhill Uno wire-haired fox terrier from Weeks Turner. Uno rose from a strong New York puppy showing to win across Chicago St Louis Louisville and Pittsburgh circuits becoming the best wire-haired fox terrier of the year. Breeding includes Halifax Revival and Maybrook Vixen.
A strange ad promises cough relief with a free bottle and cites a misprint filled claim about Go to your druggist today. It then mentions the Gate of Tears and Gate of Tetirs near the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb and explains the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with historical misstatements.
Fragmented OCR style page with mixed ads and stray anecdotes. Mentions a resort hotel in Evrein Spelags Arkansas and a Mears nose superstition about polar bears. Also references aluminum wire trials, a heat remedy, and Burmese school methods stressing shouting to keep minds engaged.
Sol Smith Russell famed for simple quaint characters is reported seriously ill and mentally exhausted. Born in Brunswick Missouri in 1848 he began as a drummer boy in the Civil War era and rose to stardom in George Peaceful Valley and A Poor Relation. He has become one of the wealthiest actors with a reputation for upright living.
The fragment recalls enemies as foes who fight for the same causes as their forefathers who stood bravely at Bunker Hill, echoing historic resolve and shared struggle across generations.
Long neglected European sport of falconry resurges with renewed interest in England, Scotland, and Bosnia. Dutch hawk catchers struggle to meet orders from England and France as goshawks and high flying falcons command top demand despite nests providing many young birds. Hawking clubs gather on Salisbury Plain each spring, re creating the ancient scene with falconers, carts, and riders pursuing hawks that search across dawn-lit skies.
The article notes Marriot Brossius and Charles Butler of Pennsylvania, both Quakers, affirm rather than swear oaths. It describes their religious practice, contrasts it with the traditional Bible oath, and briefly mentions Brossius’s decade in Congress. The piece also discusses falconry trends in Britain and the goshawk’s popularity in France for hawking.
Marriot Brosius aged 66, once a Union Army officer wounded at Bermuda Hundred, is now a lawyer and Republican figure. A O Shor notes American influence in South Africa with Yankee enterprises dominant in farms, machinery, railroads, and mining, shaping Kruger's forces through American industry and labor.
The Manchester ship canal, built for 3000 ton ships drawing 22 feet, struggles with larger ocean steamers. Poor depth and lack of docks and warehouses hinder cotton trade growth with American ports, though canal revenue rose in past years. The piece also surveys profit sharing in Britain and local industrial downsizing, then notes Lake George’s stone-smoothed pot holes, nicknamed Indian kettles, once mythic cooking pits for the Indigenous people.
A fragmented 19th century advertorial collage recalls William Stokes during the famine and a beggar's quip about soup, grain drink ads claim health benefits, and miscellany on bee collections, tonics, and social mores. The items mix humor, medicine, and consumer notices with sparse context and period tone.
A Woolwich correspondent reports Britain’s navy will gain a twelve inch steel and wire gun, the most powerful weapon yet for the Royal Navy. Weighing fifty tons and forty one feet long, it fires 850 pound projectiles with a 167 pound cordite charge. The Admiralty ordered 460 at about £10,000 each. 150 completed, 300 awaiting contractors. Each ship to carry four, with future use on sea forts. It’s set to replace older guns and extend reach to France, Dover heights, and beyond, though accuracy at long range remains limited. The article also notes parallel developments in Krupp and U.S. naval armaments.
A period communication extols Mrs Pinkham guiding women to write about their physical condition directly to her under her supervision, urging readers on the continent to seek her advice and support.
A mix of advertising praise for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a humorous note about pumpkins and whisky, a scientific mention of polar regions, La Porte port news, and a school scripture exam anecdote ending with a boy's joke about making gravy.
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