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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
2
A column from Marble Hill Press jokes about generosity and justice, asks when smokeless tobacco will be common, and notes quirky items from New York trends to London population projections. It pokes fun at headlines like To Acquire Good Hands and quips about Zola in England.
When the town faces accusations of pacific somnolence Philadelphians point to the annual army versus navy football game held there. The clash remains a source of local pride and tradition in Philadelphia.
Washington residents unable to travel large distances walk through the new union station and feel as if they have visited Niagara Falls.
Football, with revised open formation rules, has proved less fatal and more engaging this year. Public sentiment grows against unfair play and brutality, signaling a shift toward safer, cleaner games.
Italy led all European nations in foreign postal orders drawn in the United States with a total of over 600000 dollars sent home in November. The figure suggests improved outlooks for Italian households and adds to a sunny financial picture.
An English postman retires after four decades of duty with a record of 239686 miles traveled. No statistics exist for the tailors' bills and love letters he may have carried during his long career.
After a financial crisis bankers call for establishing a state bank to manage the currency. They argue the current system is antiquated and the question of reform deserves respectful examination.
Elinor Glynn analyzes the American man’s supposed hunter of dollars, suggesting the Glynn method may reveal broader masculine characteristics. The text hints that the discovery could be preliminary to something more startling in the study of gender behavior.
Queen Victoria's newly published letters reveal a vigorous thinker beyond a symbol. Her correspondence with Tennyson and others demonstrates her influence on men and events and her rare art of letter writing.
French and South American delegates to The Hague conference recently presented a copy of Rodin's statue The Awakening of Humanity to Mons Bourgeois the French diplomat prominent in the conference. In accepting speech he said the delegates had heard the whispering of the universal conscience the first slow but regular beatings of the heart of humanity. The Hague conference was worthwhile if it did no more than inspire that message.
A Boston woman marks fifty years as a cook with reports of 394000 pies and 2000000 doughnuts baked in one place. The Baltimore American notes that even in Boston civilization may hinge on a cook rather than books.
Early Thursday burglars dynamited the McCurtin State Bank safe in Haskell county and stole about $3 in currency and 25 pounds of silver coins. A watchman alarmed guards who pursued the robbers, suspected heading toward Muskogee. Nearby Crowder post office was entered, $20 in stamps and $20 in cash stolen, and J L Barba hardware store robbed of revolvers and rifles.
In Ely Nevada rescue efforts at the Giroux Company Alpha shaft progress slowly, averaging ten feet daily below the 500 level. The three entombed miners Fred Grown A D Bailey and Peter McDonald report good spirits and hearty eating though ground remains solidly unreached and caution governs each descent.
Ottawa reports a Wednesday riot in Vancouver's Japanese quarters ending fatally for one white man and seriously injuring two others. Papers predict pressure to abrogate the Japan treaty as Canada, Australia, and South Africa opinions grow hostile. Strong anti treaty sentiment spreads through official and unofficial circles.
In Munecle Indiana a minister who joined the couple years ago married their daughter Kitty Cooper and Emmet Mann on the same date and hour as the parents wedding. Rev. W W Ross officiated continuing a family wedding legacy.
Sedalia residents will ride free on the local street railway system this year. Officials note annual passes had been widely issued in previous years and the new policy aims to expand public access.
Hanover N H Charles A Young a leading U S astronomer is head of pneumonia and he resigned from the professorship of astronomy at Princeton about a year ago.
Judge Jacob Treiber of the Federal court appointed Judge M I Stephenson of Helena receiver of the Bluff City Lumber Co. in answer to creditors petition from Little Rock Arkansas.
Vineland New Jersey ticket agent W H Bennett aged 40 was found paralyzed with his hand on the telegraph key. He died three hours after discovery at the Central railroad station in what investigators describe as a lone incident.
New York detectives Hughes Stanford Donohue and Hegegeerty of the Harlem Detective Bureau report arresting five young men believed to have committed numerous robberies in Harlem flats.
In Little Rock the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago sued the Park Hotel Co. of Hot Springs. The United States circuit court entered a decree of foreclosure and ordered the property sold.
The navy department finally accepted the battleship Kansas. She was attached to the first division of the first squadron of the Atlantic fleet.
Washington D C Postoffice Department issued fraud orders against Homeseekers Cooperative Colonization Company of Hot Springs Arkansas a land drawing scheme for a new town Millison Texas and against Rock Island Pacific Company of St Louis Missouri for a Greenland Arkansas project.
In an interview Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal secretary of state, expressed confidence that before year’s end and possibly at the next consistory held shortly before Easter, another American cardinal will be created.
In Flemington near Grafton, two of James Clevinger's children died from starvation. A third child is critically ill and five others are barely surviving. Local residents were unaware of the dire conditions.
Dispatch reports twenty people killed in a railroad crash near Litbiana in Northwest India. Four victims are Europeans and the rest natives. Two passenger trains collided while traveling at high speed.
Washington DC reports the secretary general position of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons Southern Jurisdiction has become vacant again after another death, following a recent interim period.
Engine No. 2731 of the St Louis and San Francisco line exploded near Luther Oklahoma, injuring engineer P.M. Conway and fireman J. T. Teeters who were badly hurt Thursday night.
Jerome Protovich withdrew years of savings totaling 1675 dollars and locked the money in his boarding house trunk. The cash vanished while Protovich was at work, leaving a puzzling case in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Tsauce Hollenbach, a driver for an I. C. and N. Co. mine, was killed instantly when a fractious mule rolled over him at the work site in Tamequa, Pennsylvania. The accident highlights dangers faced by miners and nearby animal handlers in industrial settings.
Paris newspapers report Signor Vincenzo Florio and Signor Alfredo von Weller have each bet $20,000 that this year they will build an aeroplane capable of flying in a circle 1,500 meters long. The wager emphasizes ambitious aviation goals and rivalry between the two inventors.
Rome reports the Italian government has ordered ten large steamers from England to carry mail under state control. The project aims to boost national communications and maritime capacity, reflecting broader state-led modernization efforts.
Pettibone former Western Federation of Miners official was acquitted by a Boise jury on charges of complicity in the assassination of ex Governor Frank Steunenberg. The verdict followed a late night deliberation after the defense refused to open the case allowing Senator Borah to address the jury.
William J. Bryan sounded near announcing a presidential bid in Nacogdoches Texas remarks. He urged listeners who never heard a real live president to judge his own speech as proof he could be a future leader.
After eight years New York shareholders of the defunct Republic Savings and Loan Association may share in a recovery of six cents per dollar of original investment. The last report showed assets of 1,086,000 and after attorneys fees referee fees disbursements for counsel salaries of clerks and rent the distributable funds total 360,000 to be divided.
A Cologne conference of Catholic bishops issued a reply to the encyclical against modernism. The letter calls the encyclical timely and necessary to expose modernists errors and to examine their causes and pernicious effects.
Johnn D Browl was killed and G F Fisher mortally wounded when Browl’s car plunged from a Hastings bridge early Friday. The automobile went over the side and fell about 40 feet, trapping the men beneath the wreckage.
Paris-La Patrie in its Friday issue headlines asks if the Japanese fleet has been seen sailing toward Hawaii and publishes an alarmist story based on reports of a sighting near the islands.
Captain Von Goeben, a noted German artillery officer, confessed to the murder of Major Von Scheeneveck in his Christ Eve home, ending the long mystery surrounding the case.
Oklahoma City police report an early Friday robbery at the Oklahoma Hide Company office. A blast blew the safe door across ten feet, wrecking fixtures as robbers seized 114 dollars.
Allan Anderson a Vancouver fireman is dying and two other city firefighters are badly wounded after a Thursday morning clash with a number of Japanese. Police report says the incident occurred in the city area and the wounded were taken to hospital while the dying man fights for life. The event shocks local residents and raises concerns over public safety during wartime tensions.
New York actress Cecelia Loftus, 26, remains in a private hospital in serious condition following an appendicitis operation performed Wednesday.
United States Judge Jacob Trieber ruled Thursday that the bucket shop ban passed by the Arkansas legislature is valid, upholding the new consumer protection measure and its enforcement authority.
A 54 year old resident of Green Boon, Indiana, was waylaid on his way home in darkness and severely beaten, suffering a concussion and fractured skull. He lies mortally wounded as police search for suspects.
John Niederhoust of Mount Vernon was killed and seven people injured in a wreck near Evansville on the Mount Vernon traction line. The collision occurred between a passenger car and a freight car.
El Paso reports former Iowa Governor Horace A Boies is improving slightly though doctors warn relatives he could sink without a turn for the better. He suffers pneumonia and was removed from a train while traveling toward California.
A San Francisco Bay incident places the cruiser Marion at the water's edge three miles south of Hunters Point during a May visitation. The event occurs in the San Francisco area, with naval craft details implied.
French writers pursue public opinion on Japanese American relations, an effort ongoing since the initial friction between the two nations became evident.
President Roosevelt has extended horsemanship requirements to civil life candidates seeking commissions as second lieutenants in the army. The move tightens standard for officer selection, emphasizing riding ability alongside prior qualifications.
Oyster planters in Atlantic County, New Jersey will petition the legislature to cut rental rates from two dollars an acre to at least one dollar. They note that elsewhere rents run from 24 cents to one dollar per acre and seek relief through legislative action.
An alleged dynamite blast rocked the First National Bank in Kansas City at noon Saturday. Ten injured, no arrests. The explosion wrecked the basement cloakroom and wall, bending a steel beam. officials say dynamite caused the damage, not gas. Bank president KE Swinney and insurance superintendent John Pelletier witnessed the scene.
Washington D C every railroad system in the United States is threatened with dissolution as a result of the administration's decision to institute proceedings against the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific for Sherman anti trust violations. Interstate Commerce Commission members and transportation interests view parallels or connecting lines policy as a factor in the actions.
Georgetown Kentucky fourth trial of Caleb Powers ends with no verdict. Judge Morris clears the courtroom after the jury is dismissed at 11:45 am following foreman Price insistence that no agreement was possible. The outcome is announced with secret reservations noted by the judge.
In St Louis an 18 year old girl Gertrude Maer faced a warding decision between the Murray family and the Newton family. A coin flip favored Robert J Newton who then took her to his home. Police report no response to a letter sent to her Pendleton father. In Jefferson City Governor Folk received the resignation of Howard Gray a Carthage district judge amid a dispute over a $1200 annual salary increase for circuits with single counties. the state supreme court had ruled against entitlement.
Jefferson City assistant attorney general T. Gentry arrived in St Louis to join prosecutors and defense for Harvey W Salmon in a banking law violation case. The conference aims to align the evidence plan for the appeal and coordinate strategy.
Holden council in special session authorized a census to test eligibility for separate local option votes. The completed census fell about 200 votes short, forcing Holden to vote with the county under state law.
A robber tried to hold up former Sheriff Samuel Lone in the suburbs of Jefferson City. Lone and merchant Geo. Knollmeyer confronted the attacker, who was subdued until the police arrived. No weapon was found on the suspect at the station.
A dispute arose before Governor Fox in Jefferson City regarding the requisition for James I. Settle, once a Marion Paint Co. traveling salesman, to be returned to Grant County, Indiana. The firm accuses Settle of obtaining $20 under false pretenses.
St. Louis police search for Prof. Henry Korehmiann a pianist from Kimmswick Missouri last seen October 14 boarding a Chicago train for St Louis He carried 1000 dollars his late father’s estate share earned in Germanya.
East Joplin Congregational church, built without any Joplin funds, was dedicated New Year's night. The construction was financed mainly by a Kansas City woman and a St. Louis millionaire. Sheriman A. Willard serves as pastor.
Sedalia officials and Pettis county residents face full fares on the street railway this year after a special grand jury reviewed passes given and accepted. No indictments were returned.
Horace Greeley era warnings echo in a reckoning over Republican financial policy. The piece laments ineffective reforms and a failing tariff stance while detailing a banking crisis with New York and national banks holding sparse cash versus deposits. It urges depositor prudence, bank abstinence from hastily resuming cash payments, and cautious budgeting as Congress remains inert.
Annie Catron of 7 Main St Cincinnati Ohio writes Peruna cured her severe catarrh and related head throat stomach and breath problems within a month. She reports improved health and urges solid medicines like Peruna tablets and Man a lin laxative with a free Peruna Almanac offer.
A Kansas City man, obsessed with stock quotes and sports, began reading the Old Testament nightly but misread a line as horse whipped the beasts. His wife corrected him with They worshiped the beasts, ending the readings for good.
A confrontational exchange unfolds as a father accuses his son of being selfish and calls him a pig for not sharing candy with his brother. The boy deflects with stammered excuses while insisting he knows what a pig is.
Burlington authorities combed the livery sewer catch basin and outhouse areas hoping to locate Dr George W Jones of Keokuk who vanished on Christmas evening. The hunt yielded no sign and police believe he may have thrown himself into the river.
A passenger car collided with a freight car on the traction line between Evansville and Mount Vernon Saturday morning, twelve miles out. John Niederst of Mount Vernon was killed and several passengers were fatally injured.
Washington D C The president has asked for the resignation of Ernest G Eagleson surveyor general at Hoise Idaho There has been friction between Eagleson and land office officials in Washington
American Paris-Raphael Weill of San Francisco has been named a member of the Legion of Honor. M Thiebault, formerly first secretary of the French embassy in Washington, has been gazetted an officer of the Legion.
Maury Connick aged 78 in Knoxville Tennessee nation. Daughter of J. A. Brown who served in the American Revolution passes away at her home near the city.
When Jim the gold fish owned by Drugets Harry Nershaw of the West End died the couple gave him a proper burial. A small casket was used and the fish interred in the yard at the rear of the residence.
Henry Ashley a 40 year old farmer living near Paducah was found drowned in the nearby river. The death is being investigated by local authorities.
The body of a man who fell from a wharf and drowned in Long Beach, California, has been partially identified as George W. Mark, formerly recorder of Modern Woodmen Lodge No. 144 in Decatur, Indiana.
Amsterdam reports that more than 4000 diamond cutters have lost jobs due to the American financial crisis affecting the industry and labor market locally and regionally.
Rumor alleges Prince Philip zu Eulenburg intends to purchase a large estate near Stockholm and settle in Sweden. His wife, Augusta von Sanders, is described as born in Stockholm, linking the couple to Swedish ties.
Rev Dr A P Stone of Canton Missouri has accepted a call to lead the First Baptist church of Aurora and will begin duties at the start of the new year. Stone formerly served as president of a Baptist college in Oklahoma.
Brown Shoe Co directors decide not to open the Moberly factory until January 13 due to the late financial flurry and a recent strike by shoe factory workers in St. Louis.
The Aurora Mine No 1 of the Doston Aurora Mining Co. caved in following a day’s suspension of operations. The affected area covers an acre or more.
Tilden Howe age 62, deputy county recorder of deeds, died here of grip. Adam Walk Sr age 81, died here of pneumonia.
St. Joseph contractor William Misnery, known as a leading local builder, died when a brick fell at the Buchanan hotel construction site at Fifth and Francis streets. The project is by a St. Louis company.
Miss Lillie Menz a Wellsville social favorite became unconscious for over an hour after entering her home parlor and was reported in a coma for twelve hours following the fright.
Noah Siford died after twenty five days with half his skull fractured by an ax blow. Luther Pageet is charged with the crime while Siford’s wife is held on a $1,000 bond as accessory. Siford was buried at Ash Hill.
Bevier reports Mrs Bertha Peikert aged 24 wife of Gustafson Peikert drowned herself and her two month old baby girl in a cistern. The incident details indicate a fatal family tragedy with authorities investigating the case.
Postmaster D T Rast telegraphed to Chief Postoffice Inspector Fulton that a safe at Winfield postoffice was destroyed by dynamite. About 50 dollars in cash was stolen.
W P Snodgrass, 60, Tipton, died Sunday, six days after his wife’s death. Funeral was held Monday in Tipton.
A critical look at executive overreach under Roosevelt era policy. The author argues that cabinet members usurp legislative roles, introducing many bills and withholding information from Congress. Centralization is blamed for undermining the separation of powers and obstructing reform efforts.
A Gotham minister argues neither Washington nor Lincoln could fill President Roosevelt's place. He cautions against disparaging the current president while noting both early leaders faced strenuous times and proved equal to emergencies.
The passage quotes John D. Rockefeller asserting confidence as the root of prosperity while contrasting “stand patters” who credit tariffs the gold standard and the national bank. It argues that confidence has eroded and contends Rockefeller cannot admit trusts impact the economy, portraying trusts as innocent bystanders.
The document asserts the Democratic stance that taxation is for revenue to fund government functions, contrasting it with President Roosevelt's view and noting a disagreement with Judge Cooley’s definition. It emphasizes taxation as a means to raise funds for constitutional duties rather than social or redistribution goals.
Defiance Starch introduces an improved formula omitting harmful chemicals and adding a new ingredient to enhance strength and smoothness, claiming progress over 25 year old patent starches and rivals.
A witty exchange from Harper's Weekly features the line So Nelson is dead What killed him You know he had one foot in the grave Yes Well someone pulled his leg The quip echoes obituary era humor and dark irony in a period publication.
Patrice informs Prudence has eloped with her father's chauffeur, a bold personal upheaval. The dialogue hints at social expectation and family dynamics as Prudence flees. Names anchor the facts while the tone suggests a cautious, witty exchange.
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