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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1891
Page
2
A miscellany of dated social commentary ranges from advertising profits for a struggling merchant to predictions about electric travel to New York, a French memorial grave model, marriage costs among Yorxans, and church politics in Utah. It surveys lottery laws, textile preservation claims, Chicago World’s Fair prep, pension widows, and detective proof in conscience debates.
The piece mocks popular myths as pot illusions and recalls old beliefs in Salem era superstitions. Harvard Professor Davis critiques the idea of an equinoctial storm, arguing there is little basis for such a notion and expressing skepticism about its persistence in public thought.
Professor Virchow leans toward viewing the house cat as a domesticated savage rather than a direct heir of ancient feline figures. The text notes no Egyptian mummy line aligns with Thomas d'Tobby of the Nine Wowlury, casting doubt on royal or sacred cat links.
Long, tense account of Captain Barnaby commanding the Hecate against two Spanish galleons Santa Anna and Ruy Das. Cannon fire cripples Santa Anna, Hecate’s crew endures heat, wound, and thirst as the battle ends with the burning ship and prisoners taken.
In a Brooklyn Academy of Music sermon series on his Palestine tour Dr. Talmage describes Nazareth and Christ’s boyhood. He paints Nazareth’s wells and hills as formative to Jesus teaching and highlights Galilee’s landscapes, vineyards, and shepherd imagery shaping biblical messages.
In Boston Charles Dickens prepared to depart for home with Ms. Dolby. A polite hack driver, who had aided them, wished them well and Dickens replied with a curt farewell saying Dale dull as he walked away. Dolby and the driver shared a quiet exchange as the scene closed.
A New Haven man reports a pigeon nesting on a deck and a hen entering the nest a week later. The hen drove the pigeon away, destroyed the eggs, and laid her own. The pigeon returned to warm the hen’s egg for 24 days. A chick emerged but faced feeding troubles after being placed in a brooder, leaving the bird distressed.
A fragment discusses the origin and corruption of the terms foullo-capo and follovalaed, noting ancient associations with fools’ heads wearing caps on paper from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries and a watermark motif in Dry Goods Chronicle text.
A traveler climbs the Mount of Beatitudes as horses struggle through rough soil to the peak. From the summit the landscape echoes biblical imagery with Safed, Lake Galilee, and the valley of Hattin visible, inviting reflection on Christ’s Sermon and the harmony of Palestine with scripture.
From abroad a 1880 wheat total of 2,872,417 tons and 1,094,414 rye tons are cited, with oats at 4.97 1a¢. Austria mortality in 16489 falls short of earlier years, while births reach 808,250, a rise from 1848. Kudajar ol-Hanum becomes the first Mohammedan woman to earn a medical diploma and practice, in Odessa. The Japanese parliament adopts a diverse ministerial slate. telephony expands across countries with subscriber tallies from Berlin to Denamark. America is said to hold 6 million subscribers. Peasant proprietors in Austria push radical demands, including tax relief and land policies. Germany’s East Africa company issues new coinage. Italian coinage for Africa uses Arabian inscriptions and Humbert’s portrait.
A fragmented 19th century note highlights inventors earning large incomes from tiny ideas. The rubber pencil tip, a gimlet-pointed screw, and a common needle threader each generated substantial sums, with yearly incomes reaching into the hundreds of thousands. The text also mentions colored shading pens, copper-iron impracticalities, and a roller pirate device among notable gains.
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