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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1896
Page
4
A Sherman Texas report notes a Cronoxe accident last Friday killing about seventy people and causing massive property loss. The piece also covers St Louis convention ambitions, McKinley era finance debates, and a bank robbery by two wheel thieves.
Reports from Canton Ohio say Maj McKinley remains in a calm mood as he holds the joker and ace and king of trumps. The piece mocks a freshman prank and notes years of higher education failing to curb the sophomore’s habit of humor through teasing and green paint.
In Cape Girardeau May 14 and 15 the Southeast Missouri Press Association conducted its annual business meeting with members including Ed P. Caruthers President Mondklin County Democrat Wil B. Crow Secretary and others from Desoto Madison County and Enterprise Herald.
The report covers remarks by Dr. Holmes and others at a Cape Girardeau association event, including tours to mills, college facilities, and the Missouri State Normal school. It notes the Normal’s 326 enrollment, a strong faculty of twelve, and an excursion by steamer Idlewild to Commerce. It also discusses Ed P. Caruthers’ critique of candidate Snider and potential contenders for Congress and state offices, with a call to drainage projects for New Madrid Pemiscot Dunklin.
Franklin Shanks Post No 100 G A B Department of Missouri to hold memorial and decoration day services on May 26 and May 30. Services at Marble Hill Baptist Church memorializing Henry Bidewell and Wm E Carrollton with Rev W A Davault preaching. Widows, veterans, and families invited. graves to be decorated at Marble Hill cemetery. Children and teachers from Lutesville and Marble Hill invited to march with the post. Post officers extend cordial invitations to all churches and citizens.
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