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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
3
A humorous exchange unfolds as Noor Artist offers a free portrait print while Mr. Rieghmann protests high charges. The old man buys the daughter’s portrait, while Roy and others drift to the store to forget or remember the day. A passerby inquires about a music teacher.
A garbled open letter claims Castorila and Castoreas as a trademark. It references Samuel Pilcher of Wyannis and Centaur Company, with a sales pitch about a five percent interest loan turning into substantial sums over decades.
A marble head, found in Me Webb's outhouse near Guilford, England, is described as a tiny, plain artifact with hollow eyes and a broken nose. Webb donated it to the Haitish museum, where experts date it to a stylized archaic period around the seventh century BC. A curious detail notes three rows of roseate rosettes along the scalp line.
The Pavis municipality votes a 4100,000 credit for the second half of the year to raise wages of all municipal workers earning under 4 francs. A plan for a small periodic wage increase over five years for those who stay at work has been adopted.
A humorous exchange features Kirst Lawyer angrily threatening a suit while a second lawyer jokes about lawyers pleading their own cases. Virkt Lawyer quips that Pil should plead his case and plead wine, highlighting the absurdity of self representation in law.
A jumble of local quips and notices with jokes about spelling lessons, religious collections, and strange anecdotes. Items include a pupil missing all spellings, new Unctions pledged by the Treasury, sales pitches for Stomachs Bitters, comments on a church fundraiser led by ladies, a missing trick horse in New Jersey, coffee ads from Salzer's, and a Mishawaka farmer concealing cash in feed, later found in a cow's stomach.
An older newspaper fragment markets the Lindell Hotel in St. Louis Missouri with modernized rooms dai ly rates, Flooma meals at two dollars per day and up, and Hooma at one dollar per day and up, plus a dining room with popular prices. The snippet also mentions Dole's Headache Powders and a jumbled line about a family dispute and a person dying, with references to a father and a man knocked out.
A collage of verse and notes on love and marriage appears with reflections on nature and happiness from an old elm tree motif. It weaves poems and observational prose about marriage’s appeal, plus a cautionary wartime reminiscence and a humorous sketch. The piece also touches on fashion with an all yellow gown and a brief medical testimonial about Dr Williams Pink Pills.
A guide to the long loose box coat for little girls with ermine edging and a handmade muff, plus a note on a Columbia Missouri plan to train Negro girls in cooking sewing and general housework under industrial school style supervision as part of social debates about domestic roles.
A quotation notes Mexico pow featuring lady bullfighters Brooklyn hosting lady football players and Middletown N Y with a lady street car motorman. It jokes that soon there will be lady everything except lady women while remarking the brain alternates activity between hemispheres rather than acting continuously.
A garbled Chicago News clipping describes a morning crew sighting and a noon arrest sequence. It mentions a detective observing activity and four or five individuals linked to a criminal incident. Names and precise details are unclear due to OCR errors but the report centers on police action and an unusual crime scene.
The article extols Western Canada with claims of vast prosperity driven by homesteading rail access strong schools churches and nearby markets. It cites Associated Press reports of Manitoba mortgage payoffs loans rising, climate safety, and Canadian inducements for settlers, plus anecdotes and ads about coffee substitutes and light humor.
A fragmentary text blends Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s love legend with notes on grave exhumation and a medical ad. It recounts how Rossetti’s buried poems were sought after after a beloved’s death and describes a casket found with hair entwined among paper. It also includes a deafness cure pitch claiming Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure most cases.
Earlier studies reveal paper in Egypt as early as 2800 BCE contradicting the view that it began with Alexander the Great. The ancients, including Greeks and Latins, used various inks and pens, with manuscripts showing red, purple, green, blue, silver and gold pigments.
The notice promotes Salver's corn yield claims and seed potatoes at $1.50 a barrel, offering seed catalogues and 11 new farm seed samples, with claims of high yields and a $7,000 income example. Also includes assorted ads on tobacco cessation and alcohol production notes and a moral quip about choices.
An advertisement touts Dr Bell's micro-far-Waney cure promising to heal lungs, end coughing, and strengthen the body. It asserts relief from inflammation and lung ailments and guarantees satisfaction with a no cure no pay policy once consumers understand the referendum.
A misused morphine prescription and a woman's pain lead to addiction, prompting her to seek relief with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter from Mrs Lucy Puasney of Derby Center Vermont details improvement after five bottles, claiming restored health, energy, and absence of headaches or womb-related pains.
A collage of gossip and notices runs through this jumbled page. It features a mock dialogue about finding a girl with large feet, doctor ads for remedies, milk market anecdotes, Wall Street tips, travel lines, phantom health cures, and assorted product endorsements.
A couple exchange risky quips about life insurance and the potential consequences of self harm. The wife questions life coverage while the husband asserts the risk and financial impact if he dies by his own action.
An 19th century patent tone note claims Bell's Pine-Tor-Honey cures lung ailments. It asserts healing of air passages and strengthening of bronchial tubes, boosting oxygen supply. The text praises perseverance and courage to endure worn clothing until new ones can be afforded.
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