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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1902
Page
3
A Victorian era notice describes a sculptor adding a scene to a gravestone. The deceased wished to honor her late spouse and aunt with figures in national dress, a symbolic departure from conventional marble imagery. The piece recounts the plan and the undertaker’s review.
The article extols Mary’s Academy at Notre Dame Indiana praising devotion to national Christian work. It emphasizes loyalty to Mary, high standards for girls, and exceptional facilities and care in classrooms laboratories and study rooms.
A garbled note describes a pocketable pet with a muff hiding it and a creature about the size of a dime, eyes tall and neck curls when asleep. It references Dussarde's Founders for Engies, plume ads, and the jeopardy of eagle supply, buzzard feathers, and starch priced at 10 cents per package amid political chatter of the next generation.
Fragmentary OCR text presents names and phrases with unclear context. The readable elements include a person named Rathborne and several garbled words suggesting a title or poem. No discernible event, date, organization, or outcome can be established from the legible portions.
Captain Brand, presumed dead, meets Charlie Stuart in a Windsors lounge. Brand proposes a bargain over Arline with a condition about his allowance, while Charlie masks disgust and probes Brand’s motive, seeing only a base lure of money. The scene blends grave danger with a volatile parental demand.
A mosaic of translated proverbs reflects sailors and lands, from Dr Johnson and Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, German, French, Arab, to Russian perspectives. It contrasts caution about the sea with humor and blunt judgments on navigation, labor, and virtue, capturing attitudes across nations.
Tacoma report tells of M F Gordon, Colorado and Alaska miner, traveling to Corpus Christi Texas to marry an Indian maiden who loved him. Her life includes surviving months lost in Western Mexico, avoiding execution by tribal rite, and later becoming a Texas Indian school teacher with a chieftain father’s estate. Gordon’s letter sparked a reunion in Tacoma as he heads to join her.
Austrian Matlisch develops a machine to reproduce torchon lace, a hand made pattern. After early trials in Vienna and Nottingham the design allows swapping jacquards for patterns, reducing need for multiple machines. He has invested nearly $100,000 and seeks a buyer while Nottingham lace firms fear impact and Vienna presses expect lighter lace season.
Mr Hutchins of Genoma Mich says Dodd's Kidney Pills should have been used 25 years ago to stop crippling rheumatism. After four boxes, back, hip, and leg pains vanished and hands and feet improved, though some final effects remained. The note also mentions a hurricane records and assorted notices from papers.
Public notices and promotional snippets discuss Stopa the Cough and Works Of the Cold Laxative Broo Quintoe Tablow with price hints and various claims. The text mentions Defiance Starch, public drinking fountains in New York and education costs in France as it wanders through unrelated topics.
A weather summary reports unseasonably warm trends and late cold spells, noting Rochester and Hudson navigation patterns and late frosts. It contrasts January and December warmth with spring expectations, while a financial glimpse from London Chronicle surveys borrower composition, types of loans, and the pawnshop’s role in credit.
A dynamo will be mounted on a whaling vessel and an insulated wire reel fed toward a whale. One wire end connects to the dynamo and the other to a sharpened metal rod to pierce the whale. Upon contact the circuit completes and a shock of ten thousand volts is delivered, killing the whale instantly.
A fragment notes Dra C Ned Lovie of Atlanta and associates in Montgomery Ft. Worth and Galveston promoting correspondence study in Fine Arts. Businessmen from Maine to California join the effort. The piece hints at several thousand participants and ongoing recruitment through ads and letters.
A collection of curious 19th century items includes Hooley’s belief in luck bringing threepenny pieces with holes, gifts of such charms, and a note on Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup. Other items mention Birmingham overcoats poisoning, Eiffel Tower police watch duties, and early tea experiments in America.
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