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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1896
Page
2
The Marble Hill Press notes shifts from bloomers to skirts and questions the women candidates for president while Ben Belva Lockwood and other women are cited. It cites Weyler and Campos, mocks juror jury exclusions, and defends reporters as truthful narrators amid Spanish War talk.
Mr H P Wood of Youngstown finds his horse painted green in the stable, then whitewashed the next night. Distressed, four youths who carried out the paint and whitewash now work to calcimine the jail’s interior walls during their moments of anguish.
The Fleming case excites New York as a sensational cause celebre. The public, including various social ranks, follows a high profile criminal trial with morbid fascination, especially since the defendant is a woman.
The text cites about 7,000,000 Jews worldwide with roughly half in Russia. It questions growth since Christ, notes no clear rise in England France Germany or Spain since persecution, and records 1890 US Jewry at 130,000. It argues public credulity cannot predict Jews dominating 70,000,000 Christians.
The document questions Mrs. Drayton’s role in a New York sale of Astor relics, condemning New York aristocracy for their private affairs. The inventory reportedly includes grandchildren’s toys of the Astor line, along with items from the Drayton and Livingston families.
The Siberian railway is gradually extended from Tschelyabinsk, now 1280 miles in use for traffic. It spurs industry and commerce as towns along the line grow. Tomsk adopts electric light in main streets and Moscow to Tomsk trips take eight days.
German commercial ventures spread globally, challenging British influence as German firms secure long term concessions in Asia and Persia. A 75 year railway concession links Teheran and Bagdad, while other German interests push electric and steam railways in Teheran’s northern villages, aided by a new Buahire bank.
A correspondent asks how silver would circulate if coined freely. The article argues that opening the mint would raise silver and product prices, draw idle funds into investment, and increase general circulation. without coinage, silver cannot enter circulation, while coinage spurs economic activity.
A compact note explores how pronoun shifts and the phrase we can use in place of can not. It considers plain language and cautious phrasing to express restraint and tentative effort.
An exploration of how gold value is set by law in the United States and England, detailing coinage weights, mint versus bank rates, and delays in coinage. The piece compares English and French practices, noting that price moves with delays and the monetary value of gold shifts with coinage timing and exchange rates. It argues that gold’s money value is fixed by law but its purchasing power varies with exchange. It discusses bullion, mint rates, and the impact of delays on bullion prices.
The London Illustrates News recounts James Payn on famous cryptograms from history. Ways include shaving scalps and wrapping paper around staffs to conceal messages. Sympathetic ink is noted as dangerous, while the simplest cipher uses two identical books for a two part message.
Joseph Conner, a Sugar Lake farmer and fisherman, had a peculiar experience while camping. A snake swam from the lake toward the campfire, and Conner used a blazing stick to drive it off. The reptile rushed the fire, wrapped around the stick, and burned to death in an odd, likely fatal, incident.
Maj. H B Johnson of the British royal cavalry, famed tiger hunter in India, has arrived aboard the Doric and is lodging at the Palace Hotel. He recounts near-fatal tiger encounters, his voyage from Melbourne to the Orient, and plans to visit Denver Chicago Philadelphia and Baltimore before touring California including Monterey and Yosemite.
The article surveys historic and exotic beverages, noting blood from live horses as a notorious drink among Tartars and Mongols, and describing other practices such as lamb flesh wine in China, smoked snow water among Laplanders, a Tonquinese drink with chicken blood, and the strong French absinthe. It warns absinthe as a potent poison and moral danger.
A refined man on Fifth avenue with a Russian cigarette meets a stylish New York woman as she passes. He removes his hat and speaks condescendingly while puffing smoke, in sharp contrast to a grimy man in coarse clothes on the canal street corner. An old shabbily dressed woman asks for Canal street directions. The man quickly pulls away his pipe and avoids conversation.
A Wilmington Ohio woman recounts her battle with malaria and rheumatism, years of pain, and paralysis-like weakness until three boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills restored her health. The affidavit dated June 23, 1895, confirms the testimonial and sale details.
Jesse Arter of Zanesville Ohio has finished a hammock for President Cleveland. He says it is built three double and trusted to hold the president at his heaviest fighting weight. The order stems from a fishing net he made and gave to Cleveland three years ago. The next year he sent funds for another hammock and this year the order repeats.
Parents are urged to consider the Academy of the Sacred Heart St Joseph Missouri for daughters education. Next session opens Sept 1 1895 with five month terms 115 dollars includes tuition boarding wash French German or Latin library use and physician's fee. Mother Superior welcomes inquiries.
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