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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1903
Page
2
A noisy collage of outdated quips about war, marriages, money, cars, and cities. References include Marcosigraph, Shamrocks, 90 footers, Boston and New York lore, Carlyle style jabs, and a Dutch reprint mood. The passages mix humor and social commentary with names, places, and numbers.
Miss Harriet T. Horna of Kansas City presented organ selections at the Missouri Music Teachers Association meeting in Jefferson City. Election of officers included H. E. Rice as manager, W. D. Steele as president, and Mra EF Yanver as secretary treasurer, with a slate of committee chairs and regional vice presidents appointed by the president.
Jefferson City Mo Crow files a motion for a rehearing arguing the Supreme Court erred by upholding a right of Continental Tobacco to acquire independent concerns and by omitting federal precedent from the Northern Securities decision. He asserts improper admission of evidence before the commissioner and claims the court ignored federal rulings.
W Hoegh Clark Armetroeg is appointed coat al inepector for Neusbo in a local government update. The decision names Clark and Neusbo officials, signaling a shift in public service roles and responsibilities.
Kansas City scene shows Employers Association pressing to erase both city and state labor restrictions. President Phil Toll cites eight hour law as harmful and vows to elect officials who discriminate against union and independent workers alike. A committee is surveying ordinances for anti independent labor provisions.
George Earhardt, temporarily deranged, flourished a revolver at Bird H. McCarrey in Union National Bank shortly before noon Saturday. He yelled that “tre been robbed” as a crowd fled the room. Earhardt was overpowered and taken to the police station. he is a stranger in the city.
Judge Schafer and attorneys Cole and Owen petition Sheriff Busch to move Rodolph and Collina to Union Missouri so they may access their clients freely. Current confinement sixty miles away hinders consultation before trial.
In Clinton county on Friday William Streeter of Liberty and a party of Clay County farmers went fishing. Hessel struggled in deep water and Streeter dove to aid him. Streeter saved Hessel but drowned, getting tangled as the rescue unfolded. The body was recovered.
In St Joseph Missouri all freight handlers from the entering railways except Burlington walked out on Saturday after a 25 percent wage increase was refused. Burlington workers chose not to strike, staying on the job at noon. Nonunion workers are being hired as fast as they apply.
Excitement grips St Frevcls County as the new eight hour law starts June 21. Workers at the Federal Lead Company and Derby Lead Company plants join a district wide strike with about 6000 men employed poised to strike at all facilities.
Columbia city attorney W H Rothwell narrowly escaped drowning last week while boating on the Perche He was unconscious when rescued and is now recovering In Kansas City suit filed to set aside the will of William Askew valued at 500000 He left property to thirty nephews and nieces and the suit claims he was of unsound mind filed by Wilson Askew Martha J Gladdin Hannah Ki and others seeking to overturn the will
Hobson Day at Carthage Missouri drew 300 plus attendees despite a heavy afternoon rain as Captain's lecture by Judge T. J. Stark drew applause. In Sedalia, Judge T. J. Stark, longtime Cooper County resident and educator, died at 70 from heart failure in Otterville. In St Joseph, Mrs C. C. Burnes and daughter Marjorie of Chicago sue for 1 million dollars of the Burnes estate seeking an accounting from L. C Burnes.
Jefferson City Missouri Gov Dockery has set the date for July 24. The action appears tied to Privitt Reapled, with official scheduling announced from state capital.
A southern senator recalls the 1790s Georgia western land scheme known as the Yanco fraud. Legislators authorized bribery to push a bill and later burned the records to erase evidence, saying the fire came from heaven as they destroyed their own corrupt acts.
Eleanor seeks counsel from Aunt Emma and Uncle Harold after revealing Prof. William Struthers has asked her to marry him and become president of Clavering. Harold opposes the match, while Eleanor weighs the move, believing the union could secure her future yet fearing the personal costs. Emma shows curiosity and mixed concern as the family debates the vow.
Representatives Landis of Indiana and Littlefield of Maine observed Chief Justice Fuller in a downtown book store before Christmas. They speculated he sought a rare volume to shed light on a major issue, possibly affecting millions. The chief justice asked for a copy of Jack and the Beanstalk.
A red fire exit lamp caused a small scare when a suburban woman urged a panic evacuation mid performance. Patrons rose, a lone usher stood in the path, and bystanders doubted the danger as she claimed the red lantern signaled a fire trap.
A Kansas City family tale centers on a boy who lists his dream Christmas feast. When asked for one item, he counts turkey and chicken and pie and coke as his ideal dish, revealing a child’s festive appetite and simple joys.
Mrs. Daniel T. Campbell testifies in New York court that marrying a millionaire leads to mistreatment and contempt for ordinary people. She recalls brutal acts including being struck, threats, and humiliation after her marriage at seventeen.
Robert M. Budd, known as Back-Number Budd, runs a tunnel-like shop on Thirty-sixth Street where he buys and sells old papers and magazines dating from 1832. He built an enormous stock by purchasing daily and weekly publications, then resells back numbers at markups from 1 to 600 percent. Clients are few but pay high for rare clippings and the privilege of copying passages from old issues.
In Washington Brigadier General George C. Elliott is named to command the Marine barracks at Washington, succeeding General Wood who retires due to age. The appointment elevates Elliott to a high-position in the command structure.
A Chicago man found in possession a list of unusual Maine names once written by the late Thomas B. Reed. Reed joked that Maine could produce more statesmen and quirky names than any state, naming Bek Smith Has sagiah Jones Liberty Brown Calvary Thomas Hopefuil Waters Bana Bullock Kilah Manley Guion Kirk Summer Allfiend Generous Pascal Use Fellowes Zophan Harum Diodamia Gilmore Mesbach Carson Cotton Milliken Piiam Sproull Delnva Dickson Barcilial Sawyer. These men were known to Reed.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson has returned to the house of commons and jokes about his liquor bill abound. One witty quip involves Sir John Astley who once sought parliamentary office and was heckled with a question about Lawson’s bill. Astley replied that he knew nothing of Lawson. His own fate as a teaser last month is noted.
Survivors who traveled from Baltimore to California during the gold rush era gathered for a reunion last week. The youngest participant is seventy-nine, recalling perilous journeys and early northern routes.
A fragment notes a Liverpool group described as the dorks extending along the Mersey for six and a half miles as part of a wan dere of modern commerce. The phrasing suggests a satirical or critical regional remark about urban sprawl and commerce.
The urban population must be fed by expanding farms while farm workers grow fewer and of lower quality. City workers lack the spirit and pace of eight hour day town life, and city boys lose farm vigor. Agricultural training may help, and the next few years could see city bred workers leaving to join the districts that produce breakfast foods.
A French writer notes street posters reveal national traits. He finds English posters cold, French posters gritty, Austrian posters soft, Swiss posters stiff, German posters intricate, Italian posters nosy and vivid, Spanish posters orange tinged. He says American posters reflect Puritan ancestry, implying he has not crossed the Atlantic.
A historical overview shows West Point graduates shaping U S power across fields. It lists one president or presidential candidate, two presidential electors, four cabinet members, 29 diplomatic representatives, 24 members of Congress, 122 federal officers, 18 governors and lieutenant governors, 86 state legislators, 124 civil and 178 military officers in states, 64 city officials, 280 educators, 236 railroad officials, 293 civil engineers, 214 judges and lawyers, 22 percent clergymen and 50 men of other professions, 268 business leaders, 30 farmers and planters, and 172 authors.
Herbert Gladatope is greeted by the historic nickname he bore at Eton. When his father added two-pence to the income tax about thirty-five years ago Herbert, then a diminutive lower form boy, was christened "Tuppence" a name that clung to him through his school days. Mr. Gladstone is a shortish broad-shouldered man with Spaniard complexion and a golf loving euthantaetic lifestyle.
A London writer notes rising ill health among members of the House of Commons. He argues the British empire is governed by tired men and urges reforms to the present house and its habits to restore vigor and effectiveness.
L Allen will travel to Europe to visit the patent offices of Germany Great Britain and France. He will also visit the Bureau for the Protection of Industrial Property in Bern to pursue protections.
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