07 Jan 1897
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1897
Page
1
The speaker recounts a strict Spartan upbringing that denied affectionate nursing until a fevered night when a dying infant pleads for a kiss. The dawn reveals the child has died, leaving the narrator with lifelong grief and a mother’s remorse. The poem ends with the child’s pleading cry echoing through years.
Readable excerpts describe Baptist and Presbyterian Sunday school Christmas entertainments in Marble Hill. Decorations dazzled, music directed by Maggie Satterfield and Amalia Fischer. Program details list numerous recitations solos duets and choral numbers with many named participants and children in both churches.
Christmas passed quietly as residents noted visits and local events. Weddings occurred with J B Chandler and Nevada Estes married by Squire Lincoln. Annie Hartle recovering from illness. teachers Chestner and Cole active in Greenbrier and Cedar Branch districts. Community members scolded for drunkenness during the holidays.
Christmas passed off quietly in Glen Allen with cheerful spirits and small gifts. Local notes report a very sick child of Mr. and Mrs. J A Taylor, Jake Berry ill with chills, and Sam Bess visiting town late. Mrs Dora Limbaugh on the sick list, Miss Dora Zimmerman homeward, James P Walker visiting family, and Lee Bowman from Cape Girardeau visiting relatives.
Trace Creek reports W. H. Kinder of Fredericktown on our creek last week. George Allbright circulates a petition for road overseer in our district and is expected to be a good boss. Rev William Bess of Sheperville leads a meeting at New Trace Creek church this week. Miss Annie Sample of Hurricane visited her parents here last week. J A Underwood plans a new frame house on his farm. Two weddings recently with another pending. Wolves increasing. boys hunting them with no known fatalities. New Year shooting postponed by rain and mud. Best wishes to Tax Press.
Word from Ava Missouri recalls Miss Bertie Crow a popular evangelist from Marble Till and Lutesville who led a revival that converted 178 attendees. During the last night the southwest wall of the church collapsed causing many to flee as the audience emptied rapidly.
A newspaper editor debates how to satisfy readers by balancing humor, selections, praise, and social circle choices. The piece catalogs endless accusations for every publishing decision and ends with a question about what path to take.
The Rev Ir R Hicks paper Work and Works enters its tenth year with rising circulation and quality. The 1897 Hicks Almanac, 108 pages with color cover, features star maps and astronomy chapters worth five dollars elsewhere. Subscriptions cost one dollar per year, with a premium offer for multiple copies.
The passage extols a reformer as a living declaration of war on wrong, urges faith and godly living, and stresses that true influence comes from conduct. It discusses personal virtue, responsibility, and the idea that small deeds matter in building a life centered on Christ, with a specific drug advertisement at the end.
Southeast News notes the first telegraph cable across the Mississippi was laid from East Cape Girardeau Illinois to Cape Girardeau Missouri eleven years before the St. Louis crossing. It also reports local saloon license remonstrances by Jackson women and the death of Andrew H Kinder in Jackson born 1828, with prior service as Cape Girardeau assessor.
The advertisement promotes SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR from J.H. Zeilin & Co. Philadelphia as a home remedy for liver kidney and stomach derangements. It claims to purge, cleanse, and regulate without violence, curing dullness headache poor appetite and sleep issues with a safe tonic dose.
The article notes the death of Dr Mahette, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fredericktown, after a brief illness. It describes his eighteen months in Fredericktown, his cultured Christian character, and a life devoted to charity. A quiet bedside vigil and prayers are mentioned, reflecting the community’s shock. The piece also includes remarks about newspaper men and references to practice with numbers.
A pompous English Bishop visits miners near a city and learns of a group debating who can tell the biggest lie to claim a kettle. The scene exposes hypocrisy and the miners’ temptation while the Bishop’s moralizing meets a humorous, teachable moment.
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