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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
8
A Detroit Free Press told tale recounting a dramatic clash between a herd of 88 wild horses and a stationed camp’s 75 mounts. The wild herd charged, split, and collided, with 57 escaping after a brutal melee that left seven dead and 36 crippled, while captors recovered several horses, including the captain’s.
The article extols coal tar as a valuable, cheap laboratory source yielding hundreds of medicines dyes and sweet compounds. It notes aniline and its salts provide vivid colors, the origin of madder dyes, and warns azarin from coal tar has disrupted traditional dye plants in Europe and Asia.
An elderly observer on a summer boarding-house piazza recalls changing views on marriage and who is suitable. A school friend detested New Jersey and vowed never to marry a widower, wig wearer, or New Jersey resident, yet she married a businessman. A grandmother’s tale ends with a punch line about a one legged husband.
Richard recounts a dream where a millionaire offers him 810,000 in cash or a check. He prefers cash, but wakes before the money is delivered, regretting not taking the check. William comments that it was a fine dream.
A traveling man recounts a rambling tale of Bacon versus Shakespeare, cipher schemes by Jake Colbertson in Pike County Missouri, and other sensational claims. He cites an affidavit affirming Shakespeare as author, then references a Baltimore speech by Bishop Turner and notes ex-recorder Jobin G Bailey's dying stipulation about Col Robert Ingersoll.
A Whittier Cotton Mill near Atlanta Georgia begins operation with 10 000 spindles and a cost of 8500 000. The Jefferson Davies mansion at Richmond Virginia has been formally turned over to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. The twenty eighth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association will be held in Washington DC from May 25 to 28. The Federal Court at Little Rock Arkansas awarded 215 582 to the First National Bank against ex President Allis. A discharged soldier Charles H Anderson cut his throat near Frankfort Kentucky claiming he preferred death to dishonor. The Cedar City bandits leader was shot by citizen Charles Gilbert ending the gang. W M Ebner of Juneau Washington predicts southwestern Alaska will soon rival the world in gold production. BE W Agnew former president of Ocala National Bank found guilty of misapplication. John Alden house at Duxbury Massachusetts built 1680 now occupied by the ninth John Alden in direct descent. Five hundred people took part in a rabbit drive at Market Lake Idaho last week capturing or killing about 2000 jack rabbits. live rabbits shipped to Salt Lake City. A Mississippi steamboat roustabout killed by a snapping hawsers breaking his neck. A Chicago theatre comedian told a story that made Nicholas Ringhardt of South Bend laugh himself to death. Postal authorities with debtors’ addresses refuse new addresses, stating such information is confidential.
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