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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1903
Page
1
A scrambled Sedalia item recalls a June 96 fire at a packing plant, post office disputes, clerks ousted, and a statewide mood of cautious celebration. It notes varied local reactions, missing penitentiary outcomes, and remarks on regional growth, timing, and political tension amid broad uncertainty.
College notes announce A Rows Hill Ph D named head of the University of Mississippi Teachers College. Professor Willis brings broad knowledge and long experience. he earned a Ph D from Cornell University in 1895 and has since..."
Professor Hill will head the Missouri Teachers College starting July 16. He is praised by Presidents of Cornell Nebraska and Iowa for his qualifications. The university offers a six week summer educational course at a low $5 rate with railroads providing discounts for teachers.
The piece discusses stomach catarrh from indigestion and claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure helped a sufferer. It then shares a humorous editor’s son anecdote about an ashman and a mule, ending with a moral remark about Jesus and hell.
The Mendon Michigan Leader laments readers who recycle cuts and rush to press with copied copy. It contrasts such impatience with the skilled precision of typesetting, noting how a compositor places letters and spaces to exact lengths, teaching patience and reducing editor scolding.
Our Correspondents update says health is good in the vicinity with Fourth of July celebrations at Zale. Miscellaneous notes include new birth announcements, a baby girl for Homer McClendon and wife, and several families visiting Minter's. A few dysentery cases but overall good health. local sheep losses to starving dogs noted. suggestion to cull dogs without alibis. Clingingwmith sold his farm to an Illinois buyer for 6800.
A column shares warm weather, health concerns, and greetings. Updates include the Sniders sick child T. J. Bollin, visits by Mrs. Will Allman and others, travels of Miss Edith Reed from Marble Hill, and farming reports from Oklahoma with wheat yields, hail damage, and threshing activity near Pond Creek and Jet. The writer signs as J. W. Davaunr, sending best wishes to Bollinger and Tur Pars.
Loyd reports health is good as farmers stay busy plowing harvesting hay and tending crops. People celebrate the Fourth with community events while animals and equipment fill the fields and lanes.
Spy ong denon and good time mentions P. R. Shell returning from St Lor with a car load plock. Yount & Son praised for good business. Ida Reagan visiting Madison county friends. Thoma s Hawn nearby with his family. Dogs killed 18 head of sheep for W. G. Kitchen. Deputy sheriff active during court. Flat River visitors and Wm. Shell Jr. preparing to move to Bisimarek.
Articles of incorporation for the Farmington Sanitarium Association filed in the Recorder of Deeds office last Monday. Incorporators include Dr W H Mayfield Roy E V Lamb H B Whitener G M London and L T Hunt with a capital stock of 25000. The organization plans two departments a hospital for the sick and disabled and a training school for nurses. The piece also notes rapid growth in Southeast Missouri with new town developments near Charleston and East Prairie and a civil suit in Cape Girardeau over toll roads.
An advertisement touts De Witt's Little Early Risers as a non-gripe tonic. It claims the pills stimulate secretions and strengthen the stomach liver and bowels without irritating mucous membranes. Endorsed by Dr. M McAnally.
A fragmentary piece reflects on gossip and intrusion with lines about neighbors scandals. It contrasts the danger of meddling with the fate of the innocent bystander, hinting at social Taboos and moral caution without a clear narrative arc.
Every Senator and Representative of the General Assembly of Missouri may before the first day of Adjust each year appoint one cadet to the Military Department of the University of Missouri or Columbia. These appointments carry with them free ration, du ally a cool suit of clothes, and first close military instiuction. Hon. J. M. Welker, representative of this county, now had a cadetship at his disposal. Interested parties should write him in regard to it.
The recent anti cigarette law makes it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or give cigarettes or papers to anyone under eighteen. Violations are misdemeanors with fines up to one hundred dollars per offense. The piece also argues that boys should avoid street life and cultivate good habits for a useful life.
The State Pair offers two thousand dollars in beef cattle prizes with premiums on all beef breeds. Magnitude of prizes aims to attract top herds from Missouri and other states. Exhibits include animals valued at ten to twenty thousand dollars with entrants from Kansas Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio and more. Champion herds from Texas to Maine expected to compete as Missourians recall past Chicago and Omaha wins.
Missouri railroads offer a single fare out and back to Sedalia for State Fair travelers with return valid through August 28. Excursions operate on major days. livestock tariffs apply to Sedalia shipments with free return if ownership stays. farm products ship at tariff rates and may be refunded if kept to origin. Shippers must keep receipts and get a fair secretary certificate confirming exhibition.
The text extols a product named Kodol as the essential medicine for digestion. It claims to enable the stomach and digestive organs to digest and assimilate foods, nourishing the nerves, tissues, and overall health. The excerpt uses promotional language and names a single remedy as the key to vitality.
An advertisement claims immense relief from bleeding and protruding piles after twenty years of suffering. It narrates IT. A. Tisdale of Sumerton South Dakota finding cure with two boxes of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, sold by Dr S. M. McAnally, urging others to try the product first.
Readers are invited to share experiences using Green's August Flower for indigestion and liver troubles. The offer promises a free book and notes a new 26 cent bottle, with larger sizes available, encouraging correspondence through Dr. M. McAnally's.
A catalog of multiple parcels totaling hundreds of acres offered for sale by The Fara and Home Real Estate Agency. Listings include various 40 to 240 acre tracts described by section and township, with many noting timber potential. Interested buyers are directed to contact secretary WwW. K. Chandler for prices and details.
The Camp Meeting of Farming ton district M E Church South will open July 24 at the Tabernacle in Lutesville. Rev J R Vaughan presides with district pastors and visiting ministers in charge. Old-time methods, ample provisions, tent rentals, wagon space free of charge, and strong singing are planned. Information from Rev Wal ltox Glen Allen Mo. The Ad-Writer notes a caution about gambling.
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