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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
2
A chaotic mosaic of short items from Marble Hill Missouri style notes. Satirical quips about lawmakers poets and inventors appear alongside curious claims and humorous observations. The column cites Edison Peper and a Virginia preacher with lighthearted skepticism about sensational news.
The Washington Post notes a belief that a diet of lamb is absolutely essential to life in the New York financial jungle, reflecting era attitudes on urban existence and appetite in business districts.
A speculative note suggests crossing corn and beans to form a new crop, following the success of a pomato cross between potato and tomato. The author touts bold genetic tinkering and imagines future crop innovations.
A cryptic note notes Pebiedonstself has been dethroned while suggesting the author hopes he will review records. The text shows uncertainty over spelling the subject name and implies investigations into the correct record. No clear dates or places are provided.
The Minneapolis Journal notes rising unrest amid signs in the air and on the heft, opposing the boiled shirt and staretverd collar as symbols of authority. The piece signals a brewing movement challenging established dress codes and social norms.
A Philadelphia girl nearly burned to death in a home incident while preparing for the day, saved by quick action as a ribbon tied her hair. The event prompted remarks on courage akin to battlefield heroism.
Paris experts urge women to avoid perfumes, alleging most contain harmful chemicals though musk remains preferred.
A quoted notion argues that Panama mosquitoes, if as described, could be harnessed for work in excavation, suggesting a government error in not using them for labor.
The Treasury department states frogs legs are chicken and dead rabbits venison while noting chicken salad is real salad. French scientists have created artificial eyes, and readers are urged to supply genuine potatoes amid cryptic phrases.
Authorities in Newport prepare to tax affluent individuals who have abandoned New York residency to dodge taxes. The remark notes a harsh world beneath the policy discussion.
A reader questions why Luther Burbank does not apply his famed fruit and vegetable breeding genius to graft the strawberry onto the prune. The remark suggests cross-breeding concepts in horticultural practice.
A bold Pennsylvania tramp stops a pretty girl’s runaway horse and, quoting Byron on hair and eyes, insists a kiss as his reward. The piece presents a romantic Don Juan persona defined by charm rather than attire or anger.
A New York poet was mocked to the daughter of a city banker. Mr Carnegie says a good coachman outweighs a worthless duke. The banker is urged to share his opinion on a decent poet with the world.
President Loubet vows a fatherly eye during Alfonso's Paris visit. The remark evokes men who attend the circus yearly for the children's cake. Medical Record notes that excessive water drinking stimulates protein catabolism and warns readers to heed the hint.
A playful musing wonders if Dr Osler would try chloroform on the revived fighter John L. Sullivan. The remark imagines a dramatic medical intervention in a historic boxing figure.
The body of John Paul Jones will be buried in the great memorial chapel at Annapolis. It is expected to rest there in peace forever.
In the hall of Renichone CC, Duchess Joan of Holwastein commands with a sword. Werner von Orseln, Danish prisoner, seeks release as Joan offers a trial by single combat aided by Peter Balta as second. The duel escalates with vows of honor and risk in a rugged courtly setting.
In a staged ballroom scene Duchess Joan of Hohenstein presses a diplomat, confronting political bounds and personal love. The ambassador Von Dessauer resists, warning of scandal as Joan insists on accompanying him toward Courtland and the looming royal rendezvous.
An incoherent OCR page presents garbled back and forth at a hotel desk with lines like Now fiearee and Yassah amid a chaotic social gathering. Characters debate engagements and misunderstandings while a crowd reacts, leaving plot threads and names unreadable.
The text urges individuals to act original, arguing nature equips each person with a distinct talent and copying others harms true achievement. It cites clergymen who tried to imitate Beecher, duplicating his voice and manners, but failed to reach his impact, asking where those imitators are today.
The Washington Post reports a midnight dispute where a professor asserts the earth is shifting toward waste and axis change. The piece notes public confusion and suggests relying on traditional court appeals amid technical talk and local concerns.
A quirky quote outlines a supposed growth pattern for a man from birth to eighteenth year with yearly inch gains. It claims an average man reaches six feet eight inches by adulthood and then stops growing.
A Washington Post excerpt argues money’s proper use aids relief and education. It notes the need to distinguish pure money from tainted funds and suggests churches and charities evaluate benefits against the source of contributed funds.
On the first of July next, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan will become legal. Each province will receive 92,500 dollars annually from the Dominion government for five years to fund the erection of public buildings.
Immigration into Canada shows rapid growth with 16,825 settlers in 1896 compared with 240,000 last year. The figures indicate a strong, sustained influx from diverse regions, underscoring Canada’s expanding population and labor pool during the period.
Flooding spreads through Missouri and Mississippi river basins. Thousands of acres of rich farming land inundated as creeks and levees fail. seven people missing near Alexandria. Levees along Missouri and Illinois cities guard against further breaches while rail lines and bridges suffer damage. Weather observers fear larger rises may follow, threatening property and lives.
Latest dispatches place Gen Lineviteh eight miles west of Pakumen as forces move along a curved front from west of Fakumen to Renjechoan on the Ktrin road. The 40 mile line crosses the Fenghansien railway. Plans remain conjectural.
President Roosevelt urges direct peace talks between Russia and Japan to end the war. He offers limited mediation to arrange timing and location, insisting negotiations be conducted directly by the two powers without intermediaries for world peace.
The Federal Grand Jury investigating the beef industry will continue its inquiry. Jurs will hold two sessions daily until conclusions are reached. Instructions were conveyed to the jury by Assistant US Attorney Goldman from DC Morrison in Washington.
Deputy Marshall Teel arrested Charles Green and Annie Grant in Tulsa after witnesses Elizabeth Hunt and Leone Johnston swore a pink ribbon belonging to Grant tied them to a government mail theft. They are charged with robbing the government bag of first class mail last Friday night.
Severe rioting reported in Minsk with nearly a hundred people shot. The unrest prompts emergency responses and raises concerns over security in the region. Authorities have yet to release full casualty figures or explain the incidents leading to the violence.
The jury found Thomas Dennison of Omaha not guilty in the 1898 diamonds robbery involving James Pollock, a New York jewelry salesman, with $70,000 in gems seized as the alleged loot.
London reports Whitelaw Reid the new American ambassador met King Edward at Buckingham Palace on Monday and presented his credentials in a formal audience.
In Washington Indiana at Odeon James Churchman allegedly held up James Beard with a revolver as Mrs. Churchman whipped him with a Dlacksnake whip and struck him on the head with the whip’s butt end during the incident.
Prominent farmer W. J. Ssrock near Waterloo returned home Sunday to find his wife dead in the ruins of a coal shed. Authorities investigate possible foul play as the case draws local attention.
Governor Folk of Missouri commuted the two year sentence of Henry L. Lortz for felonious assault. Lortz was in the penitentiary after a quarrel between neighbors in St. Louis.
Moorish robbers entered the Austrian Vice Consulate at Mazaran on June 1 and murdered Vice Consul Madden, a British subject also representing Denmark. Madden had long served in the post.
The Cleveland Leader changed ownership again when purchased by Joseph Medill McCormick of Chicago, son-in-law of the late Senator Hanna, following a previous sale to Charles Otte Jr. and party two weeks earlier.
Nashville report states Colonel Andrew Jackson sold the Washington chair, the prized relic of President Jackson, to the Mount Vernon Association for 7500 dollars. The sale highlights a historic artifact changing hands amid public interest in Mount Vernon’s preservation efforts.
During a Sunday event at the 101 Ranch near Okla Fifty or more yards of the mile and a quarter grand stand collapsed injuring sixteen people, as 5000 spectators watched buffalo hunts and allied Wild West displays by Miller brothers for National Editorial Association delegates. Thousands more newspaper men and guests attended with excursion trains bringing crowds from surrounding states. Sections of the grand stand failed as crowds cheered, with cries of the injured heard amid cowboy and Indian acts.
New York Paul Morton retired from the Navy secretaryship on July 1 and was elected chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The move follows the resignation of President James W. Alexander and several vice presidents. Morton demanded a free hand and had Hyde divest from majority control while retaining a partial stake. The board’s acceptance of resignations remains undecided.
In St Louis a resident at 721 North Spring avenue exposed a plan by two highwaymen. Samuel Sears fired from a second story window as the men closed in on Miss Hattie Watelsky of Ludonia and her escort on his front porch. One robber was wounded and both fled as Sears opened fire. Police have no clue to the robbers.
Springfield reports the investigating board found signs of carelessness by Leiter Company led by Joseph Leiter. The mine allegedly violated state law since March 25 by not inspecting properly and harboring marsh gas, with explosions believed to cause the disaster that killed many miners.
Nellie Taylor twelve year old daughter of Orris Taylor of Herald Post Office near Springfield died after drinking a glass of tassum cyanide. The poison, used in developing negatives, was in a photographer’s tent rear compartment where the child sought water, drink mistaken for water and died almost instantly.
Five persons were slightly injured when the St. Louis limited daily express, the Missouri Pacific passenger train, wrecked near Mount Washington eight miles east of Kansas City Missouri on Thursday.
Four men aboard a Grand Trunk construction train died when the engine ran into a washout near Penama. The entire four car train was ditched.
Berlin reports the marriage of Crown Prince Frederick William and Duchess Cecelia of Mecklenburg Schwerin in the palace chapel. A vast, rank‑less crowd of embassies, ministers, admirals, and nobility attended as 300 candles burned in a hot chapel. The reception followed in the White Hall, with the ceremony lasting over four hours amid guards and formal processions.
In St Louis a meeting among Secretary Swanger State Bank Examiner Cook and four current directors led to a likely new board composition. Four new directors are expected plus one old member. one old director will resign. Possible resignation of F J Culot. The State Department has long insisted four new members, giving time to select the fourth director.
Madrid outlines a six year program to rebuild naval strength after defeat in the war with the United States. Plans call for eight battleships of about 14 000 tons, nine cruisers, and two training ships. Four cruisers are already complete as British dockyards are to be utilized for most of the work.
A workman in Bennington Vermont unearthed a six pound cannon ball from three feet underground along the southeast route used by Berkshire County troops during the Battle of Bennington. The ball lies on the direct road the troops took before reaching Stark's army.
Joseph Richardson Coomes, 62, a convict tenant in the Confederate army, who while a prisoner of war at Rock Island Illinois in 1863 with seven other Confederates planned the Ku Klux Klan, died at his Norfolk home on Saturday.
Judge Ramsaw of Albany New York denied a writ of error allowing Mrs Mary Rogers of Vermont, under sentence for killing her husband, to appeal to the United States Supreme Court Peckham of the United States Supreme Court today declined to grant the writ.
James Moore once among the Southwest’s wealthiest and most infamous gamblers, died Sunday night in Austin Texas. His reputation began decades ago with high stakes gaming across the region and drawn attention from lawmen and society alike.
Walter King was detected robbing a residence Sunday afternoon in Vincennes Indiana. In a running fight Patrolman Wells fired several shots and the thief was surrounded and captured with a mob joining the pursuit.
In Galena Kansas Wille bathing in the Spring River near the city led to the drowning of Maude Horton daughter of former Senator W S Horton of Columbus. The tragedy occurred as Horton was swimming with companions when distressing conditions halted rescue efforts. Authorities investigated the accident.
Dallas reports Texas oil men are incensed and demoralized by Saturday's cut in raw oil prices from two to five cents per barrel. Humble Oil drops to 15 cents per barrel as producers accuse the standard monopoly of crushing small producers. Weather improves trade conditions.
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