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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1891
Page
3
A collage of gibes and quips on marriage gender roles and social norms. Snippets include a wife seeking cremation, a veteran doctor mispractice, seven hundred Depew baby names, and playful dialogs about bridesmaids and colorfully dated attitudes. Strong names and places appear in rapid, humorous vignettes.
Sermon by Mer. De. Talmage on The Plague of Infidelity argues faith over doubt, defending the Bible’s truth and monogamy, praising women in scripture, and contrasting Christian charity with infidel opposition. He cites historic figures, urges resistance to skepticism, and foresees nations embracing scripture.
A fragment from the York Ledger moralizes on childhood behavior. It praises boys who whistle and sing, condemns shameless youngsters, and muses that a boy who never learned to whistle may carry cowardice and poor digestion into adulthood.
A fragmented morning scene shows a thirsty young man in a cafe seeking water and beer while friends offer drinks. The text shifts to a dealer remarking on a horse’s soundness and hints at buyer doubt about cheating, balking, and the seller’s attempts to justify the horse’s behavior.
Dialogic fragment shows a late night chat with Dopkins Electric Soap sales pitch woven into casual talk. References to breakfast excuse notes, pocket permits, and a hotel porter exchange hint at a colonial-era ad style.
A garbled notice advertises a large bargain sale at Throw and Noodles. Names such as Wemberton and Welld a slipper bow to descendants appear in the fragment, suggesting a local sales pitch or greeting card style promo for a city paper.
Frontier land offered for homesteads with 110 acres minimum, capacity up to 4,000 farms. Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway markets access. apply via Gro H. Irarrant. Also includes unrelated domestic remedies and advertisements for tonics and cleaners.
A rural advice piece describes using appetite as a guide to diet and warns against untrustworthy tonics. It lists simple remedies from fruit and milk to soda for relief, cautions about patent medicines, advocates reliable preparations like Dr. Pierce’s products, and urges readers to consider proven results and money-back guarantees.
A dialogue-ready fragment shows a critic mockingly accusing a painter of depicting Father Time with a mowing machine instead of a scythe. The artist defends the modern school as keeping pace with inventive progress.
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