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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1890
Page
3
In Wells Maine a hundred years ago boys wore leather trousers that lasted too long. A matron recalls the stubborn garments and the boys’ scheme to grind the leather away. Their ruse failed when their father found them at the grindstone still wearing the tough clothing.
Several thousand families from Ene gan and Dearaark planned to settle in the San Joaquin valley this season. A large tract of land has been divided into twenty acre fruit farms and colonists are now en route.
A dated lampoon mocking a Maine senator and a Chicago white city image. It rails against social pretensions in a new restaurant scene and hints at 1830s politics and public spectacles.
A collage of ad like snippets and garbled text mentions a laxative described as gentle on kidneys and liver, a joke about rainfall measured by barrels, and scattered fragments about Greek excavations, railroad excursions, and a hospital parrot. The piece preserves oddities and curiosities with minimal coherent narrative.
Dr. Talmage delivers Easter sermon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music tracing Abraham and Sarah to Machpelah and praising cemeteries. He imagines Resurrection Day beautifying Greenwood and other burial places with rebuilt bodies, praising divine power to restore form from dust and promising a glorious, renewed mortal body for the departed.
A long reflective piece on the resurrection body and Easter, envisioning a day when the dead rise in a glorious procession. It blends biblical references, witness accounts of Christ, and vivid imagery of graves transforming into sacred, illuminated spaces. Also notes Stanley’s expedition report describing Africa’s Congo forest and a humorous miscellany of local notices and anecdotes.
Kabmarine Boat, backed by Prince Waldomon of Doenmari, debuts a submerged craft inspired by Jules Verne. It can dive under harbor chalnas, move freely, and outmaneuver wires while two crew members endure hours underwater with oxygen supply and muffled air. The inventor is AM, and the vessel bears his name.
A sensational ad claims a remedy labeled Gobl Mollet Discovery purports to purify blood, cure scrofula and skin diseases, aid digestion, and treat coughs, throat problems, and weak lungs. It lists Weker of New York as finder of money and promotes sale through a Buffalo, New York address with assurances of guaranteed results.
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