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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1904
Page
4
Train arrivals listed for Lutesville include North bound and South bound Passenger and Local services with several times. Entries show am and pm times such as 2:41 a.m and 12:05 p.m and 12:45 p.m 1:34 p.m 2:24 p.m reflecting daily schedule.
Local news briefs report sick resident Walter Hosen with measles and several births to Yount and Caldwell families. Subscriptions updated from Stroder, Sharrock, Robbins, and Wiececarver. Land sales drew people to town. Milburn wagons advertised at Taylor Mercantile Co. Visits by Taylor Mercantile figures, judges, and lawmakers noted. W. C. T. U. to meet. schoolhouse fire rumor from Greenbrier. lunch offerings by James Portis. millinery shopping by Mrs. Smith. former citizen A B Mayer in town.
J I Wiggins of near Buchanan and Noah Fish of near Zalma visited the Press last Friday. They were given stock bills for the season and Mr Wiggins renewed his subscription.
A lively local column reports on Judge A Austin's health improving after illness, Master John King arriving from Sturdivant, and a pricey display of Spring and Summer millinery at Staith's Marble Hill. It notes wet weather slowing farm work, revival meetings at the Baptist church, and no Presbyterian services Sunday. Also covered are seed oats bargains, school moves, intimate marriages approved by Recorder McMinn, corn seed sales by H W Winters, and Daisy Allen’s closing of her Gravel Hill school.
Local items report on trades at Smiths Store and various community happenings. Mentions business dealings, church society meetings, medical progress, court adjournment, travel between nearby towns, and school events. Includes personal notices of residents and local commentary.
Dr W A Reynolds of Grissom Reynolds Cape Girardeau will travel to Marble Hill April 4 and stay a week inviting locals to call on him. A private letter from Laflin mentions a request for a cromo. The local option election passed quietly as Loyal Temperance Legion children led a town parade with banners and songs through Lutesville and Marble Hill.
Properties description listing forty acres just north of W M College with a two room frame house cistern potato house bearing orchard acre strawberries and good soil for sweet potatoes and strawberries.
We offer readers a chance to obtain Colemans Rural World with The Press for one dollar and a half. The journal is praised as one of the best agricultural publications and is said to be well known for its home-paper focus from St. Louis. The offer is open to old and new subscribers.
Local residents travel for business and family matters. Revelle and Phelps move, Bollinger relocates to Desoto, and many attend church events and a Kansas City Republican convention. Court notes cover numerous cases with continuances, divorces granted, and venue changes. community figures attend meetings and temperance lectures.
Farmers are urged to bring their broom coins to W S Charlton the broom man at Hahn for settlement either on shares or at market price.
190 acres with 100 acres cultivated, good buildings and orchard, well watered. A bargain on easy terms. Contact W F Burcoam, Marble Hill, Missouri.
An old column mocks claims about diet and health elixirs, promoting Green's Aneust Flower as a dubious cure-all for digestion and vitality. The piece references Dr. S. M. McAnally and advertises a parlor organ for sale at $522 through Geo. F. Kurre in Lutesville.
A quaint verse portrait describes QO as a jolly, vain but friendly man who asks about family and horses, shows interest in children and dogs, and spends freely to help the needy though his churchgoing amid beer breaks. Tie is calm and pious, while QO is buoyant and energetic, with a patient wife noting repeated lies about infidelity.
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