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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1901
Page
2
A collage of brief items includes a mother excusing a boy from school after a brass padlock mishap, a Denver minister’s playful sermon line, a Reno County Kansas parochial classroom, and J S Moffat’s return to Rhodesia. It also mentions buffalo counts, US tool imports, and ambitious New York skyscraper work, plus European and Austrian notes on professionals and architecture.
A garbled tale confirms Marie Leret, aging 83, kept gold and bonds totaling about £400 in a Versailles hovel cupboard. The money allegedly came from a deceived estate, with most of the wealth found in gold and securities, and some warrants long unwedged.
An analysis of rising American capital and trade in London notes influx of US firms along Snow Hill and Petticoat, with estimates of American investment and factory activity. Mention of notable figures like Consul General William McKinley Osborne and commentary on sectors from oil to machinery and typewriters.
A foreign piece on bamboo depicts its vast role in Chinese daily life from cradle to grave. It covers building, water pipes, hedges, clothing, furniture, ropes, paper, instruments, and even medicinal uses, with sensational notes on bamboo as a cause of executions and cruelty.
The article notes the Red Cross badge and flag as symbols adopted for aiding the wounded in war, praised by military and nations under the Geneva Convention. It names Dr. George Ansel Stirling Ryerson of Toronto as Canada’s representative of the British Red Cross, returning from South Africa. It also identifies Mina Clara Barton as president of the American Red Cross executive board in Washington, D.C.
A fragment rails at violent men who brutalize wives and dependents, calling out the cruelty as a regular, senseless vice. The speaker condemns such acts and notes the inadequacy of mere brief imprisonment as a luxury for predators.
A Missouri incident reports a farmer lashing to drive off attacking mules, leaving the ground dust filled with fine sand-like earth. Investigators find extensive deposits valued by experts between 10,000 and 16,000 pounds, suggesting a valuable mineral discovery in the area.
Ohio will be represented at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo opening next May by a plain Grecian Doric building. Plans approved by Governor Nash show the structure as Bdix 122 feet occupying a commanding site on the exposition grounds. It is seen as a sample of other states plans for the great all-American exhibit.
The Duke of Marlborough owns a valued art collection led by the Blenheim Mailonon Raphael from 1507 worth about 450000 dollars. It was painted for the Church of the Servi at Perugia and shows the Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Nicholas. Government purchase has been proposed.
James Thompson, 34, has been in a prolonged trance at the Royal Infirmary Newcastle for eight months. He lies bedbound, refuses nourishment, and is sustained by IV liquid nourishment. He shows no movement or life except two faint eye signs of mental awareness. The case is unique in English medical science.
A London Jewish World note recounts a schoolboy’s humorous misanswer about Abraham. He writes that Abraham was the father of Lot with two wives, Jetimalo and Hagar. One wife stayed at home while the other was sent to the desert, becoming a pillar of wall by day and a pillar of fire by night.
The Christmas revels at Temple-Dene unfold with Gladdy Templeton radiant yet fragile, Leila Desmond tending her, and Gervis masking grief behind festivity. Leila consoles with faith as Gladdy fears a brief life while the hall glows with carols and a grand dance led by Barnes.
John Bach McMaster in the Century recalls the early life of Daniel Webster, a ninth child with frail health, who preferred books to farm work. His eloquence grew at academy and college, leading to a Fourth of July oration in Hanover that, though simple, reflected his lifelong patriotism and faith in the Union and constitutional liberty.
An English observer in Russia notes Russians are good looking and well built but adds that genuine depth and wit lie behind appearances, while a New York Tribune item reports no rift between King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Margherita, praising economies at court as supported by the queen and father.
The Venetian press calls for drastic action to stamp out organized railway robberies. Suspecting widespread involvement among railway officials, editors urge collective dismissal or punishment of every official on a train where a robbery occurs.
The western classification committee decided not to require wiring of boxes for boots ware millinery goods and other mal articles at Hot Springs Ark A protest from Milwaukee shippers via Secretary H B Wilkins of the Merchants and Manufacturers association prompted the action. Laborers using wedges in wood blocks apply only necessary blows to avoid elasticity forces and eject the wedge.
A tram and a railway line in Le Mann France share a cross shaped bridge to save money. The X shaped structure lets both lines cross in the river, avoiding two separate bridges and reducing costs by more than a quarter. This uses common construction to ease traffic and expenses.
Minneapolis man A E Ayers, long ill with Bright's Disease and Diabetes, credits Dodds Kidney Pills with saving his life after four doctors gave up. He recalls spending most of his savings for the remedy and urges others to try the pills, noting he has recommended them to many and that copies of his testimonial can be published.
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