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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1893
Page
2
A New York lady bequeaths her fortune to her pet cats, with explicit provisions. Amid sweeping notes on imperial France Japan Spain and Alaska, the piece lampoons public figures and trends while touching on heirs on the Pacific coast and a high profile crime by a ten year old.
In a brisk luncheon mood a hedge of meddling elders watches Dolly Carnegie choose love over parental will. A Glen painter, Fleming, is revealed and Dolly defies control, leading to a rapid, decisive, and legally recognized marriage in a scene of mounting tension and quiet triumph.
An eyewitness recounts alligator hunting near Calcutta with a farm mill offal feeding a swarm. The largest caught measured about 25 feet 10 inches, with scars, teeth, and pig bone bait noted. He describes methods using rope, hooks, and pig parts to land over twenty alligators.
A Courier-Journal report recalls a Texas town where the hotel keeper doubles as a lawyer, dry goods clerk, and lamplighter. He runs the hotel, preaches in the church, rings the bell, and plays the organ, while also serving as the town’s leading poker player and marksman.
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