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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1899
Page
2
In Marble Hill Missouri a local fragmentary column presents wit and scraps about promises forgiveness, politics, war talk, and hints of notable figures. The piece mentions Nat Godwin, Admiral Dewey, and Harvard museum benefactor Dr. Alexander Agassiz, with remarks on wandering ideas and public sentiment.
A fragmentary report blends talk of a surgical triumph with a global Zionist debate in Basel, detailing progress in medical methods, shorthand systems, and a controversial plan for Palestine. Simultaneously, a hotel scene unfolds with Evelyn and Lady Howard debating Major Brown as Falkland stirs tension over trust, visibility, and social status amid unsettled loyalties.
An American naval officer in Manila reports Lieut. Gilmore and 16 American captives in pitiable condition with clothing and footwear lacking and only four cents per day for sustenance. Spanish accounts claim 15 soldiers and the lieutenant are guarded by 290 Filipinos, a force that could cripple insurgents if captured. A New York girl starts an endless chain letter to Admiral Schley, which supporters view as unstoppable unless severe action is taken.
A garbled historical OCR line shows an author pressed by creditors writing to an editor he knew. The text reads as an informal plea or note, but the exact names and details are unclear, rendering a partial glimpse of a debt dispute and outreach to a press contact.
Major Brown's timely aid to Evelyn and Lady Howard triggers a wary affection. In a hotel garden he meets Miss Luttrell while pondering a cryptic blotting sheet, hinting at hidden notes and a potential connection to a forthcoming golf project. The scene blends social tension with a mysterious clue.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece describes a Russian tea craze among the poor who drink enormous amounts of brick tea mixed with stems. It explains the “stokan” measure, the samovar method, and how tea intoxication is said to cause physical and moral degeneration while the leisure classes savor stronger brews.
From Fay-away Ceylon a humorous tale describes a tea planter with a glass eye who plans a day off for shooting. He tells workers he will leave one eye to watch over them, places the eye on a tree stump, and the natives work only until someone covers the eye with a food vessel and they all sleep until sunset.
A city librarian in a river town tells of a young patron eager to read Tom Grogan by F Hopkinson Smith. The book is called, the librarian phones to announce its return, and the father answers angrily asking who Tom Grogan is and what he has to do with his daughter. The librarian ends the call abruptly.
A fragmented account blends two topics: in Cuba fetishism among Afro Cubans, tied to centuries of superstition, and a reminiscence of Robert Southey as remembered by lake country inhabitants. The Cuba passage links fanaticism to colonial history and plantation dynamics, while the Southey section recalls his kindness and reserve among local villagers.
A long narrative recounts a hidden temple in Pinar del Rio used by enslaved people and guarded by a mystic. An affair of two brothers, one rich in cane fields the other in tobacco, leads to a curse, plague and war as revealed to a governor. The tale ends with reflections on memory of Robart Southey as a kindly local figure.
A gallant cock from the Marlborough’s coop supposedly lifted morale during the Battle of St Vincent. When the ship lay dismasted and under heavy fire, the rooster escaped its cage, crowed from the mast stump, and elicited three cheers that renewed the ship’s spirits and helped sustain the fight.
An amusement syndicate in New York organized a race with Sid the largest elephant ridden by Bernard Dowley and Ben Aji the camel driven by William Green. The field included a bicycle and a car chasing the leaders, with Sid and the camel starting together then the car and bicycle following as the camel and elephant raced amid excitement and restiveness. Sid, two years old, finished first ahead of the unnamed automobile and the camel Bon All Add horeé, Australian Bon, who also ran.
A brief, unclear notice mentions the well known Englishman Nawaay Senior and a slater wife connected to the author of Tom Brown. The fragment evokes a social or familial reference but lacks complete details or context.
An old advertisement urges readers to feed their nerves with Hood's Sarsaparilla to strengthen the body and calm nervousness, claiming pure blood nourishes the nerves. The copy presents a product claim linking nerve health to blood quality and vitality.
A Boston Post correspondent recalls a Riggs house guest asking for a dentist. De Witte laughs over a childhood superstition tale where a physician uncle used violin string, a post, gunpowder, and a glowing coal to pull Buck’s aching tooth in a humorous, if risky, old-time remedy.
A West End feeing master argues fencing trains women for quick eye and bone, notes women drink and smoke less, and claims female pupils generally outrun men in skill. He cites wrist suppleness and posture as gains, and says some women would beat males in the sport.
The article describes steady wage patterns and weekly earnings at the W T Dough Shop factory, noting the number of weeks worked and overall prosperity. It mentions a planned 100 by 6 feet addition, increasing capacity by 25 percent, with the firm claiming to be the largest factory of its kind, producing a wide range of goods and improving collections in Brockton.
The article cites J Holt Schooling on female longevity from age 20 onward. Among 1000 women at 20, about 940 reach age 30, and 960 reach 30?. the odds are 16 to 1 in favor of living to 30. At 30, around 806 reach 50, giving roughly 0.0? in 100 living to 50, with 20 not. At 60, 200 reach 80, so 25 in 100 live to 80 and 75 do not, implying a 1 in 3 chance of reaching 80.
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