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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1891
Page
2
A compilation arguing that immigration influx shapes law and society, noting workers’ power and the need for orderly enforcement. It compares European policy, rail safety incidents, and press attitudes toward American liberties, calling for unity among native and foreign-born workers to uphold the rule of law.
A fragmentary poem recalls a morning search for a worn book with three golden linden leaves. The speaker reflects on memories of love, the linden tree, and a lasting wish to preserve a golden day in memory through affectionate images and fading lyric longing.
Dr Winter, a middle aged bachelor with a comfortable practice, reads a notice of Edgar Percy’s sudden death. He later discovers Percy alive as a dying impostor who admits to four thousand pounds in staged deaths over five years. The impostor confesses to deceit, revealing his own crimes before dying, with a confederate unnamed by the lawman.
Dietary guidance for sedentary workers emphasizes light, digestible foods such as fish poultry eggs game fruit and vegetables. It recommends a warm drink before rising a substantial breakfast a midday digestible meal and a light dinner with outdoor activity and recreation.
A Victorian era essay envisions a new global race formed from all peoples. It predicts blondes disappear as a dark pigmented majority rises, claiming the future American will be the world’s representative man. The piece foresees gradual change over a thousand years with humans growing larger, longer lived, and more intelligent.
A young mare camping in the Sierras captured an unusual butterfly, sent it to the Smithsonian in Washington and received a $1500 check with a request to search for more. The specimen, a fossil species thought extinct, sparked great excitement among scientists. Despite diligent searches by paid workers, no other specimen has been found.
A traveler notes a man in the Old Colony so stubborn with his temper that he refuses an umbrella in rain, claiming the weather will water him. The anecdote highlights local wit about stubborn resolve and storms.
Modern science links energy with matter, denying action at a distance and detailing energy’s mobility. Practical tests praise a turbine driven vessel for life saving use, noting reduced wear, continuous steering with turbine alone, and superior maneuvering with both systems.
A compact foldable Turkish bath unit offers dry heat from alcohol or steam, with a collar to seal in steam and adaptable top cover. It is pitched as ideal for travelers and small rooms, enabling quick setup for Turkish, vapor, or steam baths.
Professor Smithells spoke to the Leeds Association of Engineers on rust prevention. He noted methods such as flawless cleaning, painting, oils, tarry coatings, galvanizing, and enamel coatings, with boiler water treatment absorbing carbonic acid gas to reduce rust. A novel space saving rolling door and a combination chair desk for apartments were described.
At the Royal Academy of Lyncei on December 18 researchers Signore Sella and Oddone described studies on magnetism distribution in Alpine regions. They identified magnetic foci and rocks with distinct Danielic properties among maignetite serpentiny diorite metaphyre and syen ite. A magnetic rock sighted by Lignor Silla on Punta Guletti in the Monte Rosa group showed surface fusion traces resembling lightning strikes, which are said to confer magnetic properties.
A patent describes a bronze powder suspension held long in a resin varnish. Damar resin is mixed with one third potassium carbonate or sodium carbonate, melted, sifted, and thinly spread for months at 120 degrees. After dissolving with ammonia to remove acid traces, a varnish yields bronze powder that remains suspended. Articles treated with the varnish retain their metallic lustre for years.
A technical journal surveys construction trends. It notes brick walls for cable railways houses, argues steel as the best material for durable, economical shelters, and mentions steel nets, giant paper sheets, metal bookbinding, and shifting uses of phosphorus and gum arabic in industry.
A mosaic of moral sketches and anecdotes on virtue kindness and life’s small graces. It praises modest acts and daily duties as true paths to holiness, contrasts quiet service with loud displays, and shares tales from Babyland Harper's Young People and New York Sun to illustrate character and neighborliness.
An essay argues that early home impressions persist longer than adult experiences. It recounts a dying Sandwich Island king in San Francisco speaking in childhood language, and notes that memories of boyhood shore scenes surface in later life. The Sun day School Times and The Mient Club are mentioned with a London club that bans words, requiring silent expression at meetings.
In Hodleian Library at Oxford an exchange recounts two boys exploring St Leonard's Church Heidgeworth. A joist gave way sending them into a dangerous fall. The elder saved the younger by hanging on but both were left in peril with the younger choosing to loosen his grip and die to save his companion.
A damaged OCR piece reflects moralizing advice on speaking, youth vulgarity, and parental influence. It recalls a quip about happiness and emphasizes cleansing the heart, urging children to avoid impure words and to choose virtuous speech for a better life.
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