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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1894
Page
2
The Marble Hill Press comments on lawyers ethics, a police beating case with a $500 fine, and ongoing sports chatter. It notes frequent train robbery reports and jokes about dangerous gadgets and odd lawsuits. An Oakland man sues after a tram clash, seeking $1,000, and a Chicago scientist predicts Mongolian extinction, with playful skepticism.
Mr Brown of Bangor shot Mr Peters and moved the body in a wheelbarrow to the late home, a grim act of courtesy pursued. New evidence in the English case of Mrs Mayveterx, jailed for poisoning her husband, is claimed by counsel as grounds for a possible new trial.
A Chicago soup house feeding 2.90 patrons daily now requires a few hours' work as return for hospitality. A day after the announcement 1.5 percent of the patrons failed to appear, suggesting many unemployed soldiers may not seek discharge papers. Also reports a small herd of buffalo in Colorado and a further find, highlighting near extinction and urging government protection before the species vanishes.
Senators brace for more threatening letters from a New Jersey crank, urging secret arrests by authorities. The piece laments a lack of genuine ora tor y in Congress and argues the cuerpo of work happens in committees, not the flamboyant public display.
A fragmentary excerpt attributed to John G. Whittier murmurs about olden times and a divine, peaceful future. It references Palestine and a breaking of doubt, faith, and fear, with a vow that the heart shall no longer sick for bygone shores as God’s love spreads everywhere.
Percy questions the trance patient and learns the man may be Captain Bervie. Mme Lagarde calms her son and offers to answer more questions tomorrow. Percy thanks them, notes their poverty, and leaves, placing five pounds in their money box.
Major Much lures Percy Linwood to a Woolwich ball where Arthur Bervie worships Miss Bowmore. Charlotte Bowmore, calm and simple, captivates Percy as Bervie, jealous, confronts the pair. The waltz marks Charlotte’s first dance, shaking her world and deepening tensions among the trio.
In a 1893 notice readers hear of No-to-bac marketed by The Sterling Remedy company. Quoting testimonials from Aaron Gerber and others, the piece claims the remedy cures tobacco addiction, improves health, and offers a three box guarantee, with price one dollar per box and nationwide availability from drug stores in the United States and Canada.
A collection of varied items including tobacco stalk paper, Massachusetts button factories, wool industry ranking, anthracite use, large California pumpkins, a shoe polishing machine costing about 25 dollars, Cairo population estimates, Lake Michigan depth, fur trade costs, postal card cardboard use, drunkenness arrests at a world fair, a butterfly collection in New York, San Francisco and U.S. Chinese populations, an iron lighthouse at the world fair, a brass wire protection device from Elihu Thompson, New York clothing sellers promoting new shirt styles, a hunter from Tionesta encountering a bear, and J H Liver nore of Augusta returning a pocket dime with repeated mislaid ownership across years.
A parrot kept as a pet on a man of war grew terrified during a fierce battle. Before fighting it was lively but as hostilities began it cowered and answered questions with the same replies. The bird never recovered its shock and remained mentally weak for life. The owner lamented he could not have foreseen the bird’s fate.
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