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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
2
Fragmentary report covers diverse topics from beet sugar yields to prophecies of a cold winter. Mentions a French health diet, a German professor, King Edward, and a bank clerk in Elytta with unconstrained finances.
Miss Hoss Devker has been appointed a claim agent and United States pension attorney in Missouri. She has been noted as one of the most successful women in Ft Lante, serving as a military public and something agent.
A garbled excerpt discusses Massachusetts traffic law and penalties for reckless driving and speeding under liquor influence. The text appears as a misrendered passage, referencing authorities and the phrase driving under the influence, with unclear context or outcomes.
A government official discusses holding parents responsible for offenses committed by their underage children. He notes that child behavior can be influenced by home environment and parental guidance. The secretary outlines potential measures and policy options to address juvenile misconduct.
A crowded cheap theater in New York faced a dangerous exit blockage causing panic as patrons searched for escape routes. The incident underscores the need for effective egress planning and safety measures to prevent repeat catastrophes.
The text references a New Jersey wings figure appearing in court to complain of cruel treatment and mixes in unrelated culinary lines about baking biscuits and dalpties. It presents as a garbled OCR fragment with no coherent narrative or verifiable details.
A Mintinipolis Woman sues the Western Triton Telegraph Company claiming a misread message caused a wrongful wake notice. The message to her brother stated Pat was drinkin and to Rome at once but was read as Pat is detle, prompting a flood of relatives to call and attend. She says she must cover wake expenses.
A mother asks a family doctor what to do about her daughter Mary who craves candy and eats little substantial food. The physician jokes that placing her in a sweet shop would make her hate sweets, a drastic yet effective cure, leaving Mary to lament lost pleasures from self denial.
In eastern England a surge in demand for old dirtier Bibles drives a market where aging books fetch half a crown despite previously worth four pence. Women use these volumes to fake age proofs for pension claims. one woman’s title to prove age 74 was spoiled by a flyleaf showing the Bible dated 1895.
American musicians press the president on whether imported players are artists or contract laborers as the dispute over jobs intensifies. The confrontation signals that music industry tensions will continue to shape policy and daily life.
The colorful figure known for giving away money expresses a wish to join the Marine Corps. He argues he would be suited to the life and believes the move could resolve his famed impulsive spending.
Long list of house committees with chairmen and members from St Louis city and county, rural counties, and various districts. Names such as Rhodes, Speer, Droste, Cuffee, Adams, Ledtetter, and many others are named across Judiciary, Appropriations, Public Schools, Law, and other panels.
Special representative Clade B. Remick reports that 51 Sons and allied groups push for child and woman protection laws for the general assembly. They back extending the two year age limit in the chiller law, compulsory attendance wide coverage, striking poverty exemptions, salary instead of fees for factory inspectors, and regulating street trades in towns over 1,000. They seek to extend juvenile law to counties with 50,000 or more, limit women’s work hours, forbid wife and child abandonment as a felony, and bolster cattle disease control and the state board of charities.
Dr N R Holcomb of Kansas City introduces a bill to make Missouri adopt an official state flag. The proposed flag is rectangular with all red and five white stars on blue, surrounding Mo in Gothic letters, using 24 stars for Missouri as the 24th state. Braswell also proposes liquor inspection with a governor appointed inspector and three deputies. salaries funded by fees.
A lengthy commission report to the president details farmer deficiencies and the need for broad reforms. It calls for a national extension system, improved credit, transport and health oversight, and a campaign to educate and organize rural communities for a more prosperous, diversified agriculture. It stresses knowledge, cooperation, and state–federal action to lift farm life and policy.
A Metropolitan Museum curator vents about a misattributed Franklin label on a porcelain statuette in the Franklin collection. Visitors insist the statue is George Washington, sparking repeated corrections. The strain of endless explanations and interruptions drives him toward insanity, as a visitor interrupts with a claim about a statue named Gen Washington.
A new London constable on duty at the police courts guides a prisoner to safety with a weary joke about knowing the step. The exchange hints at the streetwise tenor of early 20th century policing and urban life.
Reports from women across Kentucky Georgia and Louisiana claim Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved them from surgery and cured female ailments without operation. Testimonies describe relief from pains and health restoration, asserting widespread success over decades.
An old advertisement extols Cascarets as a universal remedy for constipation and liver trouble. It asserts widespread use, likening its effects to nature’s work, and recommends a week of Cascarets to restore health, promising life saver benefits.
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