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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1895
Page
2
The Rev Dr. Talmage’s fifth Round the World sermon tours Delhi’s ancient walls, memorably recounting Nicholson’s siege and the Cashmere Gate sacrifice, then tours Amber’s abandoned palace city, praising India’s wonders and urging Christian mission.
A collection of brief curiosities and incidents: 9 742 locks and keys in Paris’s Grand Opera House, a steel ship built in Cardiff with steel rigging and hull, Maine man lifting a flour barrel and holding a quintal of fish. A Cherokee County boy survives rattlesnake bites. a Philadelphia man in jail for a mother’s death ends his life by hanging. Brooklyn’s first paper traces to 83 years ago. An Indian in California kills a doctor who failed to cure his wife and takes the man’s horse. Meat in the Southwest shows a tuft of wool on mutton carcasses to distinguish from goat. Waverly parish objects to Farnham’s encroachment. Walter Scott’s naming link to its abbey ruins. Petroleum as locomotive fuel proposed for a distant Russian railway, with large reservoirs planned for St. Petersburg and Reval. A steerage birth aboard a transatlantic liner prompts a hefty naming bribe from an advertiser, while the clergyman declines to participate.
A string of light vignettes and banter spans urban life with plucky humor. A plumber’s helper, a head injury, a caution against lies in politics, a collectables dealer, a charitable mantle, a Buffalo infant’s school note, and a British tourist’s remark at a World’s Fair troop encampment reflect social quirks and mild satire of the era.
A fragment discusses Hoetters Stomach Hitters as a nervine and stomach aid claimed to promote digestion, relieve gastric disorders, debilitate nerves less, and reduce need for sedatives. It asserts it aids liver, kidneys, malaria, constipation, and rheumatism, and ends with a fictional dialogue about kissing and wine.
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