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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
2
A Marble Hill Missouri page features a collage of satirical and observational lines. Topics touch on fashion, labor, transportation, crime, and social trends with punchy, period voice and sharp quips. It blends humorous commentary with social commentary, reflecting a lively early 20th century press fragment.
The granddaughter of Bismarck plans to marry the man she loves prompting a rare public stir in European high society. Her engagement marks an unexpected deviation from traditional expectations and draws wide attention across courts and salons.
The piece notes Sir Wilfrid Laurier is better off than Asquith as suffragettes camp on his stoop. It also suggests Castro’s proclamation failed to blunt the bubonic plague in Venezuela and hints he might adopt firmer sanitary measures to remove the unwanted visitor.
Dealers no longer accept old square pianos like Ichabod in part payment for new pianos. They are heavy and cumbersome, making attic storage impractical as the instrument falls from favor.
M. Tournay, a Belgian engineer, is commissioned by the Brussels 1919 international exhibition committee to build a tower at Sixelles. The structure will surpass the Eiffel Tower in height, with an estimated cost of 210000 dollars.
Visitors at a Paris hotel awoke to missing boots left outside their doors with one remaining pair bearing a note reading Not good enough for me. The incident implies a solo thief targeting guest footwear.
A elegant chapel bell is presented to Tufts University as a gift. The piece notes how college chapel bells are now more devoutly and attentively listened to than in earlier days when student attendance at religious exercises was more compulsory.
A man takes a pretty girl to a baseball game and spends two hours explaining foul balls and base hits. The New York Press says this, but if she is his wife and misses the point, he goes wild over the currency idea versus Congress.
A new method lets theatergoers show approval or disapproval without disturbing the play. Traversi proposes placing tickets into three boxes labeled good indifferent and bad as each patron exits.
A German scientist reports that bachelors show greater lunacy risk than married men, citing hospital lunacy ward investigations where about 80 percent of inmates are unmarried. He argues that resisting charming advances reveals a radical mental flaw.
Alaska holds large coal deposits and petroleum veins yet to be tested, with coal already available. The territory currently imports much of its fuel, making the find highly significant. Prospects seem just beginning to be understood.
Dr. Darlington, health commissioner of New York City, compiles statistics on heart disease. He says Massachusetts has the highest death rate while Indiana has the lowest, attributing the rise to Americans’ traveling pace. Indiana residents may be surprised to learn their rate is the slowest among states.
In Texas a convoy carrying treasure cars travels across the prairie guarded by a armed team. The security detail ensures the valuables remain protected as the convoy advances. No injuries reported during the leg of the journey.
Abilene Texas fifty armed guards stood watch over the wrecked luthion train on the Texas and Pacific railroad ditched near Midland. With 1 500 000 in bullion bars protected the watchers take no chances from robbers while the wrecking crew clears debris. Ten cars carrying bullion bars were involved. The train hauled precious metals from the Gugtenheim mines to Jersey City refineries. Bars of lead copper and silver formed the treasure, said to be the most valuable cargo ever moved on the line.
About thirty thousand rebels led by Turkish soldiers from Macedonian garrisons move toward Constantinople to seize the Ottoman Empire from Abdul Hamid. Gen Wolffe Pasha mobilizes at Salonica to block them while rebels gather from Monastir and Seres, with unrest in Asia Minor and Angora. The Sultan rushes troops to Salonica as peacemaking falters.
Beulah Carter testified in a preliminary hearing for her brother Irvin Carter, accused of shooting and killing her sweetheart Thomas Bagby at her bedroom window on June 27. The 16 year old described clandestine meetings with her lover as the case moved toward circuit court with Irvin Carter bound over without bond.
In Milwaukee a jealous husband, William Hill, shot and killed Joe Biettner and his wife, Mrs. Kimball, before killing himself. Hill also wounded a man before the fatal sequence ended with his own death.
Warsaw Indiana Friday afternoon saw Billy Sunday the baseball evangelist star for the Winona Lake Reds deliver timely hitting in a 4 to 3 victory over Plymouth. Sunday, at left field, sparked the offense amid a fifth inning flare as Tebay pitched rough, but Sunday kept his composure, showing his enduring form.
A Friday gathering of about 4000 people protested Russia Switzerland extradition. The meeting urged abrogation of the Russia Swiss treaty and backed a public petition to the government after the extradition of Vasillief, charged with murder in Russia.
In Columbus Indiana Miss Elizabeth Deupree aged 40 is dead and her mother Mrs Mary Deupree aged 65 is fatally hurt after a runaway horse was frightened by the touring car of Thomas Taggart. The crash occurred as the horse bolted near the Deupree residence.
Ralph Kenmenway, a well known resident of Resuing Pa, died suddenly in the county jail. Authorities cited heartbreak over his arrest as a possible cause. The incident occurred in Trenton New Jersey, details pending.
The ailing Sultan of Constantinople faces pressure from advisors over the possible marriage of his son to a Christian princess, which could spark a revolt. He battles internal decline and a German note discouraging Turkey’s alliance with Germany, seeking support against Russia but wary of an open pledge.
Chicago judge Kohlsaat held illegal all contracts where newspapers pay rail mileage in advertising. The decision sustains the Hepburn act and ICC interpretation, granting an injunction against the Monon railroad from issuing passes for ads. The suit, brought by the district attorney, targeted a Munsey's Magazine contract and argues such exchanges discriminate against the traveling public.
Michigan City Indiana Thomas McCarthy aged forty years returned to state prison Tuesday night and surrendered himself facing 12 more years unless the governor or parole board grants release. He escaped in 1905, lived on the Pacific coast then joined the Salvation Army at Yakima Washington before deciding to return and pay his own way home.
London England Robert Sevier editor of the Winning Post has been committed for trial at the Old Bailey Bail set at 25000 for each surety and 50000 on his own recognizance He was arrested June 27 at Sandown on a charge of attempting to blackmail Jack Joel nephew of the late Barney Barnato Sevier allegedly threatened to publish a defamatory article unless Joel paid 25000
Paducah Kentucky reports a major expansion as the Illinois Central shops increase force. The worker surge was ordered Wednesday and shops began operation on what was essentially full time starting July 11.
Verfaille and Carlier found guilty of stealing the Van Dyck painting The Raising of the Cross from a Courtrai church. Verfaille jailed five years and Carlier thirty-two months in Brussels court.
Two year old Pratikimapt New York Wultany died at Samaritan Hospital in Brooklyn from blood poisoning after a mosquito bite on the right calf. The case focuses on the fatal infection linked to the bite and hospital treatment. Additional details on the family, timing, and medical response are not fully clear in the report.
Troy Missouri defense attorneys began their opening statements in the trial of Dr. W A Hemphill and Rev Clyde Gow charged with causing Elizabeth Gleason’s death. The state’s case ended the prior afternoon. physicians testified Gleason died of peritonitis after microscopic exams.
A fight between Black men in the Alhambra Theater lobby at Eighteenth and State Streets Thursday night left John Fitch dead after a stabbing. His wife Mary Fitch was severely wounded as John Henry Long and his brother Oscar were arrested after striking Fitch and escaping a police capture. Witnesses cited loud talking by the Long brothers as the trigger for the disturbance.
Fred Purtle aged 28 a member of the Smithburg Pa musicians union was run down and killed by a Lake Shore train in South Chicago early Friday a letter addressed to him on stationery of the P H Purtle Hotel Smithburg was found among his effects.
Chicago W. Hamilton an assistant district attorney of Allegheny county attempted to discharge his pistol amid preparations to move him to a hospital for ill health. He fired at himself in the head and died without regaining consciousness.
Fremont Ohio Jay and Myron Smith brothers aged 20 and 14 were drowned while bathing in the Sandusky River Thursday night.
Elyria Ohio resident L Sears, a railroad man of 124 Garvin avenue, claims he knows where $200000 left by a New York man named Conrad is hidden and will disclose the location to the heirs for a 20 percent share, asking $40000 for the information.
In Blair County Court Altoona Pennsylvania W PF Sweveland the presenter and J E Barr a defendant with one leg faced an assault and battery case. Both had notable leg disabilities as the matter proceeded.
Dallas Texas witnessed a grand Elks parade with thousands lining streets. Delegations from nearly every state joined in carriages and marching bands, as about 150000 spectators watched a 10000 strong procession.
A large lake excursion steamer collided with the three masted schooner Lucy Simpson five miles off Chicago during a blinding rain storm. The Simpson backed away unaware of the other vessel. Many passengers are feared injured as life saving crews investigate. The steamer is believed to be the Ti. W. Williams of the South Haven Line en route to South Haven Friday.
Shriners' imperial con clave in St Paul ended with many nobles leaving the city. Zorah temple hosted attendees as Minneapolis week concluded. Friday afternoon is a city holiday in St Paul and a civic and industrial parade will start at 2 30.
Eight cars of a southbound Chicago Great Western freight derailed from a bridge over the North Skunk River between Melbourne and Baxter, dumping into the river bed. Loss is heavy as trains are diverted over the Chicago and Northwestern line.
Santa Barbara Cal a blaze in the Santa Maria oil fields since Tuesday night was brought under control. The Union Oil Co large pumping plant was destroyed Thursday with a total loss of 150000 dollars. L L Stevens burned by blazing oil died Thursday.
In Chicago on Thursday night the Black Hand Society left its calling card at John A. Rogers saloon on West Madison and May streets. A projectile packed with gunpowder and a tire fuse exploded on the roof, shattering windows, blowing down chimneys, and shaking the ground for blocks.
A well dressed stranger robbed First National Bank in Cincinnati, seizing checks and currency totaling about $2,000 from John Toomey, a messenger for Adams Express Co. Toomey was making a deposit when the robber grabbed the parcel and fled.
Washington receives the battleship Montana as its new war vessel with the Navy Department accepting the ship. Captain Alfred Reynolds is named its commanding officer.
A sick man from St. Louis praises Peruna after rapid recovery from bronchial inflammation and fatigue. A Brooklyn physician endorses Peruna for catarrh and notes wide availability, recommending it to patients.
A playful fragment shows a prior exchange about the meaning of post mortem with a pun on letter closings. The dialogue hints at linguistic humor about endings and the idea a woman might place at the end of a letter. The terse snippet reflects casual language within a broader text.
Lichen-coated stone streets in Madeira make pavements slippery yet allow sleighs to operate year round.
A quoted exchange notes a woman who never asks for wine directly yet feigns deep suffering when nearby it. The remark calls this behavior an all around case of sham pain, highlighting performance over need.
A Washington Star quote shows Dustin Stax arguing that mergers have not created friendly terms among great capitalists. He says the mergers simply bring the struggle closer, rather than easing hostility.
A fragment shows Newitt, Dr. Price and Markley debating charges to a poor patient. Price declines a fee from the poor, Markley recalls being asked for payment and the doctor agreeing to take it. The statements reflect a dispute over medical charges and possible compensation.
A humorous exchange notes a parrot’s long life and its appetite as a factor. Miss Miami Brown says the parrot is one of the longest lived birds while Mr. Erastus Pinkiey calls the claim ornithological. The joke implies the bird’s longevity stems from not being good to eat.
The Pioneer Mail notes that while Anglo-Indians deride extreme Swadeshi rhetoric and its economics, they largely support developing indigenous industries and new ones to boost future prosperity, aligning with Harcourt’s remark that many are socialists now.
A Washington DC physician reports suffering headaches and sleeplessness from coffee use. After switching to Postum with proper preparation, he says headaches, sleeplessness, and irritability vanished, weight rose by 20 pounds, and memory improved. He credits dropping coffee and adopting Postum with nourishment and phosphates.
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