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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1904
Page
2
The Marble Hill Press reports a stream of social and cultural items from Paris to Tokyo. Notable mentions include the Duchess of Norfolk receiving no congratulations from heiresses, Lueien Lyne set to become a physician, and a Western railroad mandating daily exercise for workers.
The Cramps and the Krupps anticipate brisk trade once current issues are resolved and Japan and Russia complete new loan negotiations.
The Massachusetts minister who officiated at thirty five funerals last year earned a net profit of 2.69 dollars, with hopes for better luck at weddings.
Plans are underway to establish a first class baseball team in Washington for the upcoming season. Such planning occurs annually around this time, reflecting the city’s interest in competitive play and local sports development.
The remark notes that Russian warship names are frequently altered, which may help explain losses where a portion of a fleet disappears from a potential four ships.
A bold outlook declares Baltimore will grow greater and grander, urging Americans to grit their teeth after a setback and prove their resilience to the world. The message frames adversity as a spur to progress and national pride.
The remark suggests renaming Seoul to Sheol as a satirical jab during the war. Foreign residents speculate the joke will persist until the conflict ends, reflecting wartime hardship and language play in political sentiment.
A fragment argues that lazy people claim ease after a period of effort, then rest and let the mechanism finish their tasks, highlighting a preference for passive outcomes over continued labor. The wording emphasizes the tension between initial effort and eventual complacency.
A real estate dealer, who recently lost at Saratoga and other racetracks, intends to sue a bookmaker for 75000 dollars. The motive is implied as frustration at losses and a statement on risk and gambling.
A Chicago banker once wrote passionate missives to his beloved calling her 8 veritable frozen moonlight and addressing her as Mon chere. He appears to have moved on from past feelings while continuing to learn of romance.
Lieut Peary told a Boston audience that the long Arctic night frightens him more than the cold though he does not mind the chill. He spoke on his polar project and noted his acclimation to Boston.
A poured verdict of 500 dollars for alienation of a husband's affections is judged to meet reasonable expectations in most such cases, noting that the value of a husband's affections can be modest and that a horsewhipping is mentioned as an added factor in the narrative.
A doctor asserts appendicitis is contagious challenging old grape seed theories and the blame on flour, and notes the medical field’s tendency to equate treatment with swift removal rather than understanding the ailment.
A scrambled text from an OCR page mixes a New York farmer confronting a sheriff with broken phrases about Geneva conventions and birds eating mulberries. It references Rhode Island cherry crops and birds, plus stray garbled terms about Japan, China, and naval topics, yielding no clear single event.
Dora and Grove-ward wanderings spark a fading cough and growing sadness as Delores endures unspoken fears for her father Joe Johnson. Dr Dunwiddie worries over Joe’s slow recovery while Jemnel Johnson seeks hope for his brother. The elder Johnson broods on fate, money, and a desperate push to save Joe with the physician’s help.
In a crowded tavern Johnson lies in a troubled posture while men drift by to watch him and discuss his illness, the fate of his daughter, and Lemuel's return. Debates at the tavern and with Dr Dunwiddie question the doctor’s view of recovery.
Tomuel Johnson urges his brother Joe to seek recovery rather than accept a doomed fate. Dr Dunwiddie and Dr Gres present two stark options, offering a chance at renewed life through careful treatment despite initial pain and risk.
In a tense scene, Dolores watches from the doorway while a dying man lies among pillows, his brother and doctors gone. Dolores suppresses emotion, framed by Dora’s careful dress and a late sunset stillness as she contemplates a patient, haunted moment.
The young King of Spain grows popular in San Sebastian the summer capital. He travels alone with two attendants and palace staff, in uniform, saluting peasants. He attends state duties with the foreign minister, then rides or drives with Queen Christina and his sisters. He enjoys hot weather races, sailing, and shows interest in the national game juego de pelota.
A crowd gathers outside Tiffany's on Broadway and Seventeenth Street to glimpse a displayed America's Cup replica in a chaise case. Eyewitnesses debate authenticity as a bystander explains the famed trophy won by the yacht America at Cowes. An Irishman questions the fuss, while a local Irish bystander disputes the significance, claiming there are better cups elsewhere.
The piece recalls returning from summer recreation and resuming daily life at Lombbe station as heat worsens and a celestial sunset nears. It urges restfulness by the river, imagining endless days spent fishing and pondering the road to the country. The tone matches a reflective rural Tribune voice from Hattimore.
A clevoxy man with limited seamanship preached to sailors aiming to illustrate entering harbor against head winds. His metaphor collapsed as the ship found several awkward positions, prompting confusion and sporadic shouts from the crowd. The scene ended with dismissive mutterings and a rebuke to press on.
In Drearyhurst a resident guides a guest through a spacious warden at the rear of the house and jokes about a turnip patch used to throw at neighbors' chickens. The banter contrasts fondness for turnips with their use as cheaper fuel than coal.
A pair of boys debate heaven and women’s expectations, with one expressing doubt about going to heaven as taught in Sunday school and the other misdirected by a cocky rural view, reflecting a regional dialect.
A Chicago man asks if Cleveland is slow. A Cincinnati drummer retorts that it is worse, claiming some residents of the village actually die of old age.
Mrs Polly Card of near Vernon Missouri, at age 95, is said to be renewing her youth by cutting a second set of milk teeth. She has had no natural teeth for thirty years.
Out of 346 Chicago smallpox cases this year eighty nine were unvaccinated children under school age and fourteen of these died.
Laborers in alkali works must wear woolen clothing as alkaline gases destroy cotton in forty eight tours.
Congressman Eben Weyer Marrin of Samth Baketa, who steered a resolution for investigating the beer combine through the Dwother department of commerce and labor, is a Cornell and Michigan Law School graduate. He has practiced law since 19xx and is active in Dakota politics, twice serving in the territorial legislature. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution and the Loyal Legion.
New York stores deploy trained women as shoppers to visit rival shops and gather price data. They monitor promotions, note new wrinkle tactics, and report how sales unfold while avoiding identification to preserve usefulness. Stenographers are rarely used in this role.
The market values up to date photographs of Miss Helen Gould or John D Rockefeller at high levels. Interviews with them are nearly impossible. Rockefeller has not been photographed in five years. Caricatured sketches of the magnate abound, but many labeled Mole Rockefeller are old. An eager bidder would pay substantial sums for a private portrait within the last year.
Massachusetts Senator George Frisbie Hoar humorously points out a drafting error in a pay bill. He notes the text reads four hundred fifty dollars per item for all senators and suggests inserting the word each after senators to alter the meaning, prompting a light exchange with Senator Hansbrough.
A historic quotation links the seven years' war to Frederick the Great's vanity, the Indian mutiny to sepoy ridges believed unclean, and a Turko-Russian war to a blacksmith's hammer after a tax collector insulted a daughter. The passage blends opinions and myth with direct attribution to a confessing source.
A New Orleans paper endowed a yearly prize to honor the city’s greatest servant. This year the award went to Miss Sophia Wright for starting a free night school fifteen years ago. Her program now serves 1500 students, with demand outpacing space.
A Servian army drum is not slung on the drummer’s chest but placed on a two wheeled cart pulled by a trained des. The drummer stands behind the cart and plays as the animal pulls it along, maintaining its position during long marches.
Congressman Castor of Philadelphia is nicknamed the leap year member after taking the oath on February 29. The report claims he is the only member ever to be sworn in on that date.
Thomas Nelson Page the novelist announces plans to create a technical school for young men and women in Hanover County Virginia, the county of his birth.
A concerned mother wrote to Harvard President Eliot asking about her son's progress. Eliot replied that personal attention to each student was impossible, and the mother visited campus unannounced, finding her son smoking and his belongings scattered. The president told her that students must largely care for themselves and be ready for college.
Among Russia's most powerful figures, M. De Plehwe, interior minister, shaped Nicholas II's policy and the war effort after rising from Cholies department head. He has been accused of instigating the Kishineff massacre, though he denied sanction by the czar or himself.
Senator Fairbanks was new to Washington and unaware how widely poker was played by officials. He was asked to recommend a treasury department appointee, but Senators Pettus and the Chicago Chronicle argue poker players are numerous enough to form a debating society even if they lose their jobs.
The 4th of March marked the end of thirty-five years of continuous congressional service for Senator Hoar. He began his national career on March 4, 1808 with President Grant’s first inauguration and later served twenty-seven years in the Senate after an eight year House term representing Worcester, Massachusetts.
The Cattle King of Mexico Don Luis Terragas, governor of Chihuahua, dominates vast ranchlands. His grazing grounds span millions of acres with cattle near one million and substantial sheep. He irrigates about 1000 acres, owns valuable reservoirs, and is a banker and manufacturer. In Mexican dollars he is reputed to be a twenty millionare.
McGill University in Montreal Quebec granted the honorary Doctor of Laws to M Jusserand the French ambassador to the United States in recognition of his distinguished services to literature.
A group of academics and historians led by Victorien Sardou work on historic research to clarify the death of the son of Louis XVI.
Elsadora J. Faulkner of Portland sues Louis Sulkowitch for 1500 dollars alleging he kissed her against protest and wrapped his arms around her waist. The case seeks compensation for damages from the incident in a civil action.
Ex Governor William Claflin of Massachusetts has just observed his eighty sixth birthday anniversary at his home in Newtonville. He is in the midst of excellent mental and physical vigor.
Jefferson City Mo proposed constitutional amendments include free school books creation of a state capitol fund initiative and referendum provisions on laws and constitutional changes pensioning of police in large cities free railroad passes for state officials and judges a five year 4 cent tax levy for a new capitol and a national military park in Greene County centered on Wilson Creek battle site main sponsor Rep Oliver aims to curb lobby influence.
The annual meeting of the State Historical Society of Missouri will be held in the Academic Hall at the State University in Columbia on March 8.
St Joseph Missouri report says William M Stanton presiding judge of the county and a noted politician is critically ill at his home. He is suffering a complication of diseases brought on by an attack of the grip.
Columbia Missouri reports the Missouri Agricultural College Farmer published its first issue on Thursday. The publication is edited and conducted entirely by students at the State Agricultural College.
Clarksville Missouri Fritz Fielder a well known local businessman and member of a Pike county family was instantly killed last week by the accidental discharge of a companion's gun while hunting.
William Carrick of St Louis died by self inflicted means at his brother in law Martin Douglass home near Lone Elm in Cooper county last week. Cause unknown.
New Madrid Missouri Dave Discher was shot and killed at Portageville Saturday night at seven oclock. Two men are under arrest. The cause is not yet known. Discher was a prominent citizen.
George H. Kunkle was appointed to succeed William M. Treloar as postmaster at Mexico. Treloar was first appointed March 28, 1898, and reappointed March 23, 1902, in the continuity of the federal posts.
St Louis Assistant Circuit Attorney W Scott Hancock outlines a plan to cut about $20,000 yearly by moving witnesses directly from court to the grand jury room to avoid subpoenas and daily witness fees. The proposal would keep witnesses in police custody until grand jury decision, touching cases going to the grand jury. Legal opinion largely holds the measure illegal.
ASK DAMAGES FOR EXPLOSION St Louis The United Railways Company and the St Louis Transit Company sued Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York in the Circuit Court Saturday for 82.50 on account of a boiler explosion in the power house at Missouri and Geyer avenues December 21. Plaintiffs claim property damage of 87 787 25 and damage to others amounting to 1.09 which has been paid. They say 4528 has been paid for injuries. Judgment is asked for 7440 the policy amount insured against explosion collapse or rupture. They also seek 75000 additional if the insurer refused payment.
Macon Missouri forms Citizens Committee to oversee city finances. Chairman Thomas Johnson, with S C Brock J W Patton and Adam Gilstrap, will audit municipal books with expert help. Officials deny corruption. aim to ensure funds used wisely and businesslike.
In St Louis the Laclede Power Company has won its fight with the City Water Department over drawing water from the Mississippi River. Water Commissioner Ben C Adkins said a permit would soon be granted allowing the plant to bore through the levee to place suction pipes for its supply.
Miss Gertrude Duello and Theodore and Conrad Duel filed suit in the circuit court at St Charles against the St Joseph Catholic priests' school at Josephville to invalidate the will of the late Rev. Father Theo B Krainhardt their uncle. The will allocates all real estate income to the school for teachers, but another paragraph bequeaths the income to Duello. Will dated August 2 1890.
In Boonville on Saturday the Central Missouri Horticultural Association elected officers and directors for the coming year. Officers include President Col. John Cosgrove Boonville first vice president R T Kingsbury Howard County second vice president David Edwards Boonville treasurer J H Zolinger Boonville secretary C C Bell Boonville. Directors named were S W Ravenel Mrs James W Gault Levi Gibson and Herman Schmidt.
Washington news reports the House Committee on Railroads favorably passed the Vandiver bill authorizing a bridge across the St Francis river near the North Arkansas boundary. The Para gould and Memphis Railroad Co will undertake construction of the bridge.
Sikeston Missouri Harry Miller a prominent dry goods merchant was found dead in bed Wednesday morning in what authorities term a sudden death. Miller known in local business circles and active in civic affairs was reported by neighbors. Police said there were no immediate signs of foul play as investigation continues.
Washington representative Lamar from Missouri pressed for a USGS survey of Shannon County copper fields. He received no firm assurance but anticipated early consideration and had reasons to expect approval. Roger M. Moore died at 84 in St. Louis and was buried by Knight Templars.
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