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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1894
Page
2
The article touches on Von Caprivi's surprising long tenure as a leader, a Chicago football player resigning for study, and a sweep of brief notes. It notes German affairs, Lloyd's ship speeds, Emperor William, John Jacob Astor's inspection run, and a contrast of waste management in rural and urban settings.
A bank teller’s crime was uncovered by accident after more than two years of ongoing thefts. The incident underscores the need for tighter supervision of banks and highlights a surge of similar cases recently observed in the industry.
A man who once proved he could outpace the best horse in a six day race now rides a wheel and narrowly tops the fastest horse mile time by one tenth of a second. As the trotter nears two minutes, the wheelman pulls ahead late in a race against the locomotive.
Fragmentary text discusses postal employees and a general claim of honesty, cites the London Lancet and Dr Holmes, notes a mix of medical and literary figures from Smollett to Goldsmith, and mentions Vanderbilt woes with vague references to dismissal and public reaction. The passage overall is garbled and debates virtue and professional crossovers.
An older bearded man, claiming unemployment, confesses to a kitchen knife murder after losing at poker to a man named Harvey. He describes entering Harvey’s hotel room, sitting to play solitaire, and plunging a knife into Harvey’s breast before surrendering. An officer notes the suspect’s motive was to preach in Lincoln Park.
The justices advise taking the matter to proper authorities and treating the involved individual with fatherly gentleness, emphasizing careful and humane handling.
A prominent surgeon debunks the appendix removal craze, noting high success rates but warning against overuse. He cites a fast eighteen minute operation, cautions about unnecessary surgery, and ridicules fears about grape seeds causing appendicitis.
A Massachusetts ex congressman’s young son attends Sunday school. At dinner he asks his father if he has the love of Jesus in his heart. The father replies he hopes so and asks his son the same. The boy answers yes and describes it as feeling like a lump of lead.
A humorousexchange on romance and social foibles aboard a train includes bets on marriage, fortunes told, and a joke about two bridesmaids. It features a distressed mother with a crying infant, a thoughtful bachelor offers to open a window, and a witty exchange about hats and wrinkles.
Feature on Miss Duval a 15 year old prairie girl who drums up respect as a capable horsewoman, rope artist, and handler of cattle. She rides alone up to twenty miles from home, wins contests, and impresses critics for modest nature despite fame. The piece also profiles Lois, a 12 year old who thwarts horse thieves by plowing a teacher’s land at midnight to secure rightful claim.
This passage outlines typical birth weights and growth milestones for babies. It notes boys average 6.5 to 7 pounds at birth, girls 6 to 6.5 pounds, and twins generally lighter. Birth length averages 18 to 19 inches for boys, about 17.5 inches for girls. First year adds about 8 inches in height and ~19 pounds in weight. second year adds ~4 inches and 5 pounds. It explains temporary thinning during walking development.
The passage notes innovations and urban developments of the period including glass coffins in Russia, fireproof paper in Paris, and printers using phonograph tubes. It cites a Boston inventor repurposing a street cleaning brush as a car fender, and compares 1874 rail equipment in New York with newer iron rail components and a German built railway in Asia Minor lacking wood, highlighting metal dominance in infrastructure.
A German scientist succeeds in propagating sponges artificially yielding 4 000 sponges after an initial cost of 320. The mud fish of Africa adapts to dry streams with lungs and gills. A San Francisco cat loves water and accompanies its fisherman owner. Red coral used in jewelry is mainly from the Mediterranean Barbary coast Sardinia and Italy with additional finds in the Red Sea. Upper Tonkin reports wood mines where a pine forest was swallowed by earth leaving trees some diameter and submerged.
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