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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
3
A garbled but readable note mentions seeds, vegetables, and new open opportunities for a pushing young fellow. It references various seed names and products, with stray phrases about events and a possible cooperative effort. The tone resembles an informal prospectus or shop listing from a local newspaper page segment.
Mrs Mary Eton Purrahy of Crockton Mass celebrates a 105th birthday maintaining a life long habit of smoking a cigarette and pipe beginning in youth though she jokes about having started later. The piece blends humorous ad language with vintage tone and Sage quotes.
The Republican Fict ional Association of Missouri adjourned after electing officers including Henry King of St Louis as president and Mary H Mitchell Springfett as secretary treasurer. Districts across the state elected vice presidents and leaders such as A J Martin Unionville Semisid Clark Cartelitens Ward and Sam Keller Jefferson City.
United States government case in San Francisco against St. Louis based Techvwad Co. Judge Smith McPherson imposed a fine of 100 dollars on each of two counts. Oklahoma stock shippers testified. McPherson condemned railroad dispatchers for causing delays that harm animals shipped in cattle cars.
Sedalia Mrs Hansbrough sent to death for injuries after she set fire to her clothing in a stove fire. She had been insane for months and started the blaze then threw her shirts into the fumes. She fled the house and fell in a snow bank where a brother put out the flames.
An army of homeless men gathered at the city hall seeking work and aid. James Kade How, a philanthropist, tended to them at the Welfare Association headquarters located at 1417 Locust Street amid cold and hunger as they pressed for relief.
In federal court Judge Smith McPherson fined Walter C. Warrington $250 and sentenced him to four months in jail for robbing country depots and express offices. The jail term was remitted. Warrington, son of Charles Q. Harrington former Carthage mayor, is a wealthy county figure.
Mrs Camille Jacobs 72 wife of Leo Jacobs seneral naingeer at Acme Cement Plister Co killed her two sons Samiti 11 months and Edwin 5 years with prussic acid and then took the same poison after allegedly manufacturing it.
A Jackson Military Academy cadet Bert Laden accidentally discharged a pistol while unloading it. His roommate PMvonstan Parks, who was sleeping, was struck and died. Parks’s body was sent to his mother in Caruthersville Missouri.
The Rev Jarris A Jenkins former University of Kentucky president and Linwood Month ward Christian church pastor says righteousness cannot be lowered to a number and opposes laws for Sunday observance. He emphasizes moral standards over legal quantification in Kansas City.
Twenty five students are in the hospital at the university with grip. The Students Protective Association and student insurance efforts are noted. A clear sheet was hidden until help arrived to fill the hospital. One fiery student in hospital is not a member of the association.
The Bank of Tissex has sold its entire business to Partners Bank of Mainz. The transfer completes a full sale of assets and operations to the acquiring institution.
Kansas resident John Harowld Borden was taken to a Newstead Avenue station hospital after surrendering himself claiming ruin by violating local laws. In a separate incident Mrs Ewing, wife of John Adams, suffered fatal injuries from a casaline explosion while attempting to start a fire.
A fire gutted the Union Station annex on Union Avenue in Kansas City. Firefighters saved the main Union Station as flames raged through the structure, described as a hard fight against a fierce blaze.
Springfield S Boarman died suddenly of heart failure. He served as an inspector under Governor Lon V. Stephens and once saved the governor’s life during their boyhood swimming days.
West Plains a 23 year old farmer named ehilde Lewis Drumrieght died in a house fire near a stove. Her 5 year old brother tried to help but she was fatally burned. Poplar Bluff in Cairo branch the victim Peter O'Brien, about three miles east, was struck and killed by a passenger train while walking on the track.
Teuth and Quality Teuth and Quality spot to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a bilative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection alle substuners. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine manufacturead by the California Fig Syrup Co, only, and for sale by all leading drug gists.
A young boy named Ralph loses his cherished Shetland pony when it is sold to a girl about his age. He keeps a nightly prayer asking for blessings for the pony, then asks God to not bless the girl who now has it, revealing a child's tender longing and misdirected affection.
A Kokomo Indiana mother recalls her boy breaking out with itching sores first on the hands then spreading all over his body. After trying Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, nightly applications for four days left him entirely cured.
An aged former slave in Atlanta’s prewar household, Taele Morton, described as a philosopher and diplomat, faces a dubious challenge from two young mulatto writresses who ask him who treats him best Pelle or me. He hedges by saying the question is too tedious to say.
A sharply dressed young man enters a Chicago hotel and checks in as William Menry Tyler 116. A middle aged man follows and, after Tyler steps aside, signs the register as John Smith with the mark MCDCCCLXLIEX.
A reader recounts nervous headaches ending after switching from coffee to Postum. A mother, a cousin, and a friend all quit coffee after learning how to prepare Postum properly, leading to both homes banishing coffee and embracing Postum as the better choice. The ad cites Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan and promotes The Road to Wellville with the slogan There’s a Reason.
E Ingalls urges immediate tariff reform to curb trusts and wealth concentration in a Lancaster speech on Democracy. He condemns Republican protectionism, proposes licensing and public accounting for interstate trusts, and argues for transparent corporate history and regular financial disclosures.
The Kansas City Star reports that the country seeks to know Republican Congress stance on tariff revision. Progressives demand clarity across states as the next election hinges on the Republican convention and its presidential nominee. Congress’ attitude, if pressured by Democrats, could influence outcomes.
In Port Jervis a doctor determined which baby belonged to each mother without a coin toss. The method would likely have pleased authorities on race policy and federal patronage distribution by lot.
The text notes a possible relocation of Mr Teft to make his politics more practical. It states Filipinos now have the vote and describes the sugar trust as extremely aggressive, implying significant political influence and pressure in the period.
A rickety memoir style fragment lists Bernard P Woods of Jackson street Lonaconing Md recounting fatigue headaches and tremors. It credits a patent remedy Rodney Pills with restoration and urges readers to buy from Foster-Milburn Co. It also riffs through miscellaneous ads and quotes including Defiance Starch and Castoria noting varied health claims and humor. The piece mixes testimonials public notices and random promotional lines with little cohesive narrative.
A tour group in Ciudad Juarez marvels at adobe houses and old church as a American woman grows starry eyed with the town’s charm while a New York man praises a rustic scene. A brother boasts about skating rink duties and a girl’s reactions reveal teen vanity. Nearby Echo Mountain glows at night with Pasadena’s lights, then a girl reports stars fallen on the porch. The page also includes health ads for catarrh cures, family tonics, and patent remedies urging internal use and testimonials.
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