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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1897
Page
7
A Burlington Free Press quip contrasts Northern and Southern attitudes toward race in a sharp joke about elevating the colored race, while a vivid, odd aside on the Livery of Billowsness notes a pronounced yellow hue and bodily discomfort, segueing into an advertisement for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claiming wide efficacy and health benefits.
A fragment collection shows Daisy Bell quipping about her husband’s business while Mrs. Sourwein confirms his prior work. The page then blends assorted era ads and notes on consumer goods from unfermented grape juice to a floral guide, railway plans, and nostrums, with some humor about theater hats and family chats.
Scientific Corner reviews Professor Frank land’s lecture at the Royal Institution noting microbes entering the Niagara River from Buffalo sewers leap the falls yet perish in Lake Ontario, supporting reservoir storage to reduce microbes. Dr. A M Holmes cites blood microscopy for early consumption detection, and Professor Brewer notes 1800 Paris and 1801 London population contrasts, underscoring evolving urban science and global food links.
Travellers report a succulent Hryophyl lum plant from the Crassulaceae family known as the Hfe plant. Leaves four inches long, rich green and waxy, survive months on walls when pinned, sprouting white roots and small green leaves within days. In Bermuda it reaches about a foot tall and thrives in hot dry exposed places.
The passage notes that small offshoots may reach an inch in length and bear several leaf pairs. Their survival relies on the amount of heat and light available, with growth limited by these environmental factors.
A noted writer reviews paralysis causes from a recent French medical journal. He argues overexertion and inactivity after a life of activity foster the disease, especially in those who retire rich and idle. Extreme bodily or mental fatigue are the predisposing factors.
A Philadelphia Times item explains shaping camphor into a scorpion that swims gently on water. It notes camphor’s density, cohesion, and behavior in water versus alcohol, asserting motion comes from surface tension and vapor movement.
An official German inquiry examined how telephone wire networks affect atmospheric electricity. Data from 340 towns with telephone service and 660 without show lightning danger is reduced, with the risk ratio about 1 to 4.6 favoring towns with wires.
The multiplex printing telegraph by Prof. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University will enter the market. It can send a typed message and reproduce it at the receiving end. Five or six messages can travel the same wire in one direction, and ten to twelve in duplex, enabling about 300 words per minute with five operators.
A note from N J Smith founder of Rexeno Home notes improved health after years of distress and a testimonial for Dr Jaxs Lune Bus from Omaha Neb. He describes overcoming cough chills and lung hemorrhage with the remedy and urges others to try it for similar afflictions. The letter dated January 1st 187 includes claims of curing consumption and renewed vigor.
A polite conductor helps a crowded streetcar passenger, an elderly lady, reach Windsor Street. She reveals she meant to view her daughter in town, not exit at Windsor, and explains the reason with gentle humor.
Edmund D. Murdaugh, president of the Territorial normal school, writes in praise of Danderine, claiming baldness reversal and hair restoration for his wife. He recommends the product, noting it sells for $1 per bottle through the Knowlton Danderine company of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and is available if local druggists stock it.
A dialogue fragment shows Lady accusing Bridget of high wages due to lack of experience while Bridget retorts that it is harder for her when she lacks knowledge. The exchange hints at class or gender wage tensions in a rural or period setting.
The most unique calendar of the season has been issued by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. Copies can be secured by sending six cents in stamps to cover postage to A. J. Smith, G. P. A., Cleveland. In 1896 there were 122 legal executions and 131 lynchings in the United States.
A dialogue quotes an Arctic explorer musing that if his lecturing tour earns enough money he will mount a new spring expedition to find the Pola. A friend asks what if it fails, and the explorer jokes about seeking another explorer instead.
A Burlington Free Press item recounts a classroom exchange about a boy skipping school to boat. The teacher chides Johnny for fear of drowning, and Johnny quips he fears being drowned “not so much as on suore” in a vent, prompting astonishment.
Calendars and novelties issued by Hood's Sarsaparilla feature a pretty calendar with coupons to win attractive novelties. The calendar includes a lithographer's specimen and a small book on Weather. Readers can obtain Hood's Coupon Calendar by mailing six cents or stamps to C. L Hood & Co. Lowell MA.
A brief note compares religious and state marriage laws urging lifelong unions of one man and one woman. Public notices touch on No-To-Bac tobacco cessation ads and a prediction of a tunnel railroad approval between New York and Brooklyn. The piece blends moral commentary with assorted advertising lines and a quoted frontier tale excerpt.
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