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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
9
The fragment notes a weekly publication by Hill and Chandler with instructions about a paper or edition, indicating a Thursday release. It references publishers or printers and a legal notice style header. No clear events or names beyond Hill and Chandler.
The record lists births and family notices with scattered details about July birthdays, parental names, and local life events. It mentions a baby born July 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Ped Nuwvash, along with various misread lines about families, health, and occasional incidents.
A damaged OCR social column lists neighbors and events around Dongola including visits by Mrs Lores Wilson and Miss Camron, a sick Mrs Richeer slowly improving, Marvin Abernathy’s return from Joplin, and Mildred Clus Block’s family. Names and places are scattered with many unreadable fragments.
Buchanan reports health issues and accidents in a rural Missouri area. Mrs Barrett breaks an arm. Mrs Durham dies at Bernie with funeral at Bell cemetery. Various visits and farm conditions noted. Penturf family health, horses, and field crops discussed. Roy Patton preached and left news of his visit.
Miss Winnie Long attended New Salem church and visited uncle Peter Bess and family on Saturday night. Peter Welker and family visited A. J. Sample’s on Sunday. Brother J P Yount closed meetings at New Salem Sunday night with eleven conversions. Brother Doc Pennett, who is teaching sing-
Local residents recount weekend visits and family updates across Plainview area. Mentions include Cecar Robertson hosting singing benefit, Ree Barly Upetnreh and family in Flat River, Cal Ridings illness, Bess and Lester in Lutesville, and Mrs Pulbrighe's ongoing sickness. Several others reported travel, medical concerns, and visitors from Hoquiam and Marble Hill. Rev T W Cooper preached at Brownwood with services noted, and Victoria Sitte with her daughters Delia Anna Linda visited HL Newell.
In Hollinger County Missouri the county court considers a petition by W A Yount R H Simpkins and F A Wiggs plus over five hundred taxpayers to submit a bond issue of one hundred sixty thousand dollars for paving grading and maintaining roads and bridges. The court set an election date August 2 and ordered notice and publication in all papers.
An old newspaper ad promotes Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment taken internally rather than local applications. It claims to purify the blood and act on mucous surfaces, naming Cheney & Cy as purveyors and listing Tolotone and Vake as sellers.
A reader’s jumbled memo notes that worry shortens life while a cold bath each morning is praised as a complexion remedy. It mentions the U S Public Health Service reducing malaria in localities, typhoid death rates halved, and references to poisons and a cesspool threat, all in a tense, confusion-filled register.
A quirky listing notes various poultry breeds including Minorca and White Leghorn varieties at the Ske Box 77 event. The notice mentions COC swine and other assets in a brief, informal catalog style with unclear spellings.
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