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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1903
Page
3
Fragmentary notice reports on tobacco purchase and livestock values. Mentions Dewees Animals and Yale reference, with comparisons of milch cattle oxen sheep and ewe prices, including an average value around 100 dollars and marginal differences among species.
Prances Stafford of New York writes to Lydia E. Pinkham's files praising the remedy. The passage notes widespread adoption and trust in the product among women, highlighting its controversial reception and growing popularity.
Roosevelt to dedicate central Illinois armory in Springfield with Gov Yates presiding and Senator Cullom presenting welcome. Building features a 10,000 seating hall, extensive military offices, library, rifle range, and state party reception. Cost exceeds $50,000 to local sponsors, with ceremonial luncheon and a grand architectural ball planned.
Wan-Wen-Taao, newly appointed minister of foreign affairs of China and virtual premier, is hailed as a progressive celestials advocate of Occidental diplomacy. He helped end the early war and has led suppression of antiforeign revolts, regarded as China’s most powerful figure, trusted in high posts during Li Hung Chang’s long overseas tour.
Police in New York search for Rogslo an anarchist linked to the Chicago Haymarket riots. They believe he and G Russell who sent the Umbria dock infernal machine may be the same person. Rosale’s friends claim he is in a Biblical prison but this is unconfirmed.
The emergency committee of the New York Building Trades Employers' Association released a statement denying any plan to distress or oppress labor unions or disrupt cooperation. It emphasizes harmonious employer employee relations and the right of labor to organize, while noting Charles L. Kidlits advocates a tougher stance against rising labor demands.
James Judge of Minneapolis, a master mechanic and inventor, is a lifelong blind baseball enthusiast who has never seen a game yet attends with a sighted guide. He loudly cheers, often shouting Down in front, and remains a heavy smoker while enjoying the contest.
New York dramatic critic Tiflary Bell, recently deceased, was a man of varied roles including artist writer editor and corporation director. Despite a heavy workload he maintained a yearly ritual retouching his wife’s portrait painted ten years earlier changing costume and hair to current fashion each season.
The czar enjoyed a remarkable present described as a Siberian convict carving a chess board inside a hazel nut. The object was said to be intricately carved in bone and crafted over many months, attracting unusual attention among many gifts at the event.
Western Union telegraph poles along the right of way of the Pennsylvania Railway were cut. The cuts stemmed from a judge’s decision, with the company seeking to maintain service by routing around via Baltimore and Ohio and New York Central lines. From Pittsburgh the line runs east to Philadelphia, and north to Portum, Winchester, and Washington, spanning 5,600 poles and 16,000 miles of wire.
A series of tornadoes across Barton County areas including Ballas Assaria Smolan Mentor and nearby towns caused fatalities and injuries. William Olsen aged 18 and his uncle Peve Olsen died as a home was destroyed near Assaria. The Gleason family suffered a death in Kinsley. Ashland reports extensive wreckage but no serious injuries. Continuous storms drenched the region with severe rainfall.
A noon Wednesday blaze in the Brownel block, a four story office building on Eleventh Street between O and N in Lincoln Nebraska gutted the structure. Loss placed at about 125000 with 25 000 in crockery belonging to Carl Funke. Fifteen firemen were overcome temporarily by smoke and heat and hospitalized though none seriously. Two clerks in Funke store were reported missing but later found safe. The fire started in the Funke store cellar when a clerk dropped a lighted lamp igniting straw packing material.
New Orleans delegates adjourned the Confederate reunion at noon after electing General Gordon as commander in chief and re electing Generals Lee Walker and Cabell. Next reunion site to be chosen by executive committee with possible venues including Louisville Nashville or St Louis. Also notes local fires, a suicide, a monument unveiling, a burglary, and a union made music stance at the national musicians convention in Indianapolis.
A jumble of brief items covers patent medicines, a farmer’s lush bees, Confederate memorial debates, wedding counts in Washington, butter regulations for Germany, Shakespeare in Vienna, a railway car quip, a catarrh cure, Paris press warnings, and a vast Kansas apple orchard of over 64 000 trees with 8000 new plantings this spring.
Travel note outlines bargain daily tourist rates after June 1 and July 1 to Minnesota and California, with round trip prices near one fare plus two dollars, and California half-rate rounds July 1 to 10 and August 1 to 14. Describes route by L. W. Wakeley Burlington Route
A fragment from a 19th century miscellany covers medicines like Dodd's Kidney Pills and Defiance tablets, odd anecdotes about Hungarian premiers and a French jewel tale, notes on Mount Acton height changes, a Mt Gaurisankar token for the king, Ping-Pong society fads in Paris, and a description of Towers of Silence funerary practice.
The text notes orange production in Southern California grew from 200 to 300 carloads in 1886 to over 24,000 carloads, with capital invested in orange growing rising from 1.3 million dollars in 1887 to more than 40 million dollars. It includes a testimonial on Piso’s cough cure and a consumer offer for Defiance Starch with a satisfaction guarantee.
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