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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1898
Page
2
A jumble of satirical remarks and short items on politics, science, philanthropy, and public life. References include Missouri politics, Edison, Wheat trade, Lewis Carroll, New York temperance efforts, college education, trading stamps, theosophy, Booker T. Washington, tax reform, Chicago crime, and a Virginia Senate debate.
Advice stresses a strong, healthful, and concentrated food supply for Klondike travelers with emphasis on meat, bread, and baking powder quality. It notes Royal Baking Powder as reliable and urges buying bacon and prepared foods, plus a free recipe book from Royal Baking Powder Co. New York for miners and prospectors heading to Alaska.
An Irish minstrel Tim Brennan charms a Galway audience with sweet song as an improvised churn head banjo plays along. A traveler recalls chatting with Brennan who quips that he never argues with a lady and jokes about bold Irish women at the other end.
N W Ayer Son announces Albert G Bradfort and Jarvis A Wood join as partners effective January 1. The firm traces its growth from 1808 with modest beginnings to annual business over 1 5 million, reflecting steady progress and long-term staff dedication to clients and publishers.
A confused fragment features a character named Mather and a Count debating a daughter’s French with a sharp line about astonishing science and a biting remark. The text mixes stagey dialogue with era flair, suggesting a dramatic or satirical exchange.
A collage of aphorisms and humorous maxims on marriage money charity and social foibles. The author riffs on appearances fortunes housing and church life noting paradoxes about love debt and aging while mixing playful misprints and clever reversals. Limited by fragmentary phrasing the piece offers a snapshot of period humor and social observation.
An exhortation to avoid judging by appearances and to control temper. The text urges steadiness, humility, and restraint in behavior, warning against quick conclusions and praising temperance as a guiding virtue. It reflects a moral stance on personal conduct and self restraint.
A radical call to unite across parties to back a silver standard at 16 to 1, denouncing the gold monopoly and Wall Street influence. Attacks on Bryan and Harrison, praises McKinley but warns of money power, with stark warnings about universal adoption of gold and its alleged global enslavement.
A Chicago Auditorium speech by General Harrison denounces tax fraud by the wealthy and corporate managers. He warns that evasion harms government finance and risks social order, urging enforcement and accountability to prevent violence and unjust wealth retention.
The New York Times notes a plan to place the pension bureau under the war department with Colonel Ainsworth leading, arguing it would ensure pensions are paid fully and fraud prevented. The idea is unlikely to be adopted amid political opposition and treason accusations in Indiana politics. The Century Mart notes ongoing fundraising toward a fifty million milestone with hopes for a century within the year.
In a report from Professor Garrett Croppers, Japan criticizes the U S banking structure as a risky force guiding the nation to imitate and adopt a system that failed to curb credit expansion. The critique notes banks extended credit during boom times and withdrew during panics, harming public confidence and urging Americans to oppose the system. THURSTON.
A condensed political critique traces Washington figures and Ohio Republicans, citing Quay and Hanna. It comments on partisan manipulation, recalls incidents of appointments, and notes shifts in party leadership and influence across national and state levels. The piece references the Louisville Courier Journal and Atlanta Constitution observations on Quay, Sherman, and Conger amid party turmoil.
A Brown City banner editor toured a seven acre Edmonton District garden owned by Donald Ross. He reported 750 bushels of onions and beets as large as a man’s arm, cabbages the size of a pall, and crops priced for sale including onions 1.25 per bushel and potatoes 25 to 30 cents. Ross runs a 12 by 180 foot hot house heated by a furnace, with one man tending the garden when not harvesting. Canadian agents promote Western Canada settlement to U S readers, noting fertile lands and nearby gold fields.
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