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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1897
Page
4
Religious services listed for Rev. H W Marshall at multiple churches with schedule. Local ads include hardware, clothing, carpentry, and druggists. Community notes mention visits, marriages, postmaster appointments, and a tunnel accident delay near Glen Allen.
A long local note column reports plans for a teachers institute, confirms the Supreme Court affirming a manslaughter conviction with ten years in prison, and lists marriages licenses. It also mentions wind damage to crops, preparations for a July 3 barbecue, and community visits by local officials, merchants, and correspondents.
A long fragment lists discounted rail tickets to Nashville and Tennessee outlets via Mobile & Ohio and Great Southern Short Line with dates in 1897, plus stopovers south of the Ohio River. Also promotes Homeseekers’ Guide, agency openings for the Grit newspaper, and assorted patent medicine and eye salve advertisements with multiple vendor names and locations.
A collage of ads and anecdotes including Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve pitched as a 25c eye cure, testimonials and claims. Local dealers Sander & Son Marble Hill and F. P. Biggs Lutesville. Also notes on American Business College Omaha Neb and light humor exchanges. Additional items mention Dr Bell's Chill Tonic and household sayings about language and faith. Discusses hemp and flax cultivation advances and government flax stations with uplifted fiber value and harvest handling improvements.
Readable fragment notes that some readers doubt the approach but are willing to take a second dose, reflecting mild disagreement over the method described.
Two elderly men discuss meddling in their daughters marriages in a humorous tale about a proposed match with Maggie. One father reveals how a frank warning about imagined financial losses cooled the engagement, highlighting a cynical view of dowries and marriage as a business proposition.
The Salina Mayfield sanitarium reports growth with several new beds to handle rising patients. Notable operations include Mia. L. P. Chandler of Winfield for a cervical tumor and E. Montgomery of Waldo for heritis. Others treated include Mrs. H. Verzele of Gypsum City and Miss Lara Tinkler of Gypsum City for appendicitis and hemorrhage. Several patients discharged after recoveries, and the facility plans expansion with a skilled assistant to be hired from the east.
A quirky, fragmented note notes army worm impacts surpassing the Revolutionary War costs. It mentions descendants of a single female wasp reaching about 25 000 in ORG sonemi, suggesting a discussion of rapid pest spread and ecological effects.
A Birmingham tradesman releases two herons with ads on them in the street. Wasps kill many flies. a single wasp reportedly kills a thousand flies daily. Sexton beetles bury a mole in an hour, double the pace of roen interring a whale. US farmers lose an estimated 100 million yearly to pests. A queen bee and attendants may lay 5,000 to 10,000 eggs annually. Two white-winged crows visit a Maryland farm, eluding capture. Spider silk attempts fail due to insect ferocity. A Jonesboro man kept one sleep when wool’s price fell, later raising a pair of white ewes.
A Detroit Free Press column argues the forgotten man is the taxpayer burdened by duties on sugar lumber wool and many goods while private interests gain. It condemns the senate for bowing to lobbyists over revenue measures and warns of rising costs for consumers.
After a spat they sit apart on the veranda and drift into affection as the man apologizes in a coy, comic exchange. A change in the weather and a few words lead to closeness, and he wraps her in warmth as the moon hides behind a cloud.
A reflective piece argues against false modesty and urges virtue, steady effort, and balanced ambition. It stresses duty and right together, parental tenderness with control, and turning home into a magnet through patience, humor, and self-respect while warning against slander and unnecessary fame.
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