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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1894
Page
6
A ragged recap covers war brutalities in Berszt and calls for a mutual exhaustion solution. Kaiser Wilhelm seeks a U S audience while Chicago real estate pockets rise. Obituaries honor Mr Childs influence on journalism. The piece toys with Arctic scoops and Manitoba immigration shifts, noting a push toward tighter ties with the United States.
E W Gillmer of Warren Ohio convinced a judge and jury that the Pullman Palace Car Company must care for patrons property left in a car. A patron left an overcoat on his seat to dine and found it gone on return. He sought payment from the company and won a judgment, a verdict seen as likely popular.
The writer argues standard time should anchor the year to solar return rather than the Christian date. They critique the varied historical start of the new year and propose dating from the sun’s northward journey. The idea includes shifting days from January and March to February to equalize month lengths.
Wealthy businessman is killed in a street confrontation as Clyde Weatherly, an ambitious Northward artist driven by the dream of a life changing moment, wrestles with despair and a promised stroke of luck that never arrives before a fatal twist of fate. Pratt, his friend, watches as the climactic moment coincides with the artist's deteriorating resolve.
In Vogue style a French comedian debuts at Comedie-Francaise with eight children in the front balcony. He instructs them to cry out with glee upon his entrance, and they respond in unison shouting Bravo, papal, to the rousing reception.
Mrs Portly Pompous asks a returned explorer about African mourning customs. The explorer notes that for very heavy bereavement natives may simply remove the few clothes they normally wear.
New York markets sell jack rabbits from the Far West. Firms buy from pet hunters and ship them east in large numbers. The native hare of the East is also sold. Each jack rabbit weighs about twice as much as an Eastern cousin.
A narrator recounts a prank at a rural fair involving guinea pigs. He bets a countryman that a tail will cause its eyes to drop out, only to learn a tail exists. The man proves the pig has a tail and wins the gambler's stake, admitting the joke backfires.
A Toledo Blade item recalls a boy pestering his father with questions about the word Selah from a psalm. In Sunday school the superintendent asks for the meaning, the boy blurts out a harsh reply and is told to be quiet as the exchange hints at a tense family moment.
Mrs Hylyfe asks why Mrs Skekkles hides the price of her diamonds. Mrs Hotong says she wears them at receptions where detectives aren’t engaged. Chicago Record reports a curious social exchange about jewelry and honesty.
The fragmentary text shows a conversational snippet with stray phrases about staying, eating, and a casual remark. It lacks coherent events, clear persons, or a definite place or date to ground a news item.
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