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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1889
Page
2
The piece parades diverse topics from railway projects near Jerusalem and Labor Day voting ideas to satire about college life, taxation on glass, and a nickel slot device for fiction. It references Douglass travel obstructions, prize fighters, rock-dissolving chemicals, Chinese immigration and laundry labor, Browning and Swing criticisms, a Canton Wong-Lee feud, Newport financial disputes, Annie Kilburn reviews, and a new streetcar fare saver.
An intimate excerpt depicts a speaker describing a kiss as life changing and heavenly. The narrator savors the moment, imagining shelter and peace in the beloved's arms, wondering if a second kiss would come and whether such bliss could endure without temptation or death.
In a tense confrontation Hardman urges Bowley Marsh toward a deadly plan to settle a dispute, weapons ready and a grave dug. Mary and Aurelia witness the chilling scene as gunshots ring out, prompting a frantic escape from the murderous setting to seek shelter elsewhere.
After a riot at the dispensary and a fatal shooting at Bowley Marsh, Gordon Gray uncovers a confession by Seth Hardman. Aurelia, Mary, and Bevan endure tragedy and poverty before finding relief abroad with Aurelia set to wed another man. Hardman escapes to America, never captured, while Gray’s large East End practice prevails and old friends are cared for.
Dr Grace Peckham discusses queer health superstitions with a correspondent recalling a winter when a grand father ran a mill. A child was shaken in a wheat hopper over buns as a cure for the whooping cough, a method the writer now believes killed more than it healed during a harsh season.
In a Brookly n Tabernacle sermon Rev Talmage uses the Samson Delilah tale to warn how strong men lose power through coaxing and secret temptations Delilah’s wiles and Philistine traps illustrate moral collapse when virtue is tested by worldly temptations The speaker contrasts domestic virtue with public fame and cites historical women and men to emphasize the danger of seduction and compromise.
A speaker warns youths about the dangers of sin and immorality, recounting how temptations lure young men and the difficulty of reclaiming those who stray. He likens sin to a basilisk and urges readers to seek grace, self restraint, and a life of peace to avoid ruin.
A Summer correspondent recalls a large toad lounging beneath foliage, blinking at a buzzing bee. The creature awakens, swallows a fiery thought, ejects it, then resumes sleep as the bee vanishes and the toad rests contentedly in the grass.
A humorous Washington visit by Tim Campbell near the end of his congressional term features him guiding constituents through the Capitol. He laments struggling with allegorical paintings until the Fulton statue prompts a misremembered moment, then wittily cites the inventor of roller skates as the man behind the model.
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