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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1896
Page
2
The Marble Hill Press column discusses who has time for rest, the appeal of a lucrative side, and the notion that those who criticize often recall past earnings, noting fatigue and compensation in human nature. The piece hints at wage debates and public sentiment without concrete events or dates.
Prince Hilkoff ordered 18 000 American watches for Russian railroad employees. A Somerville lawyer bought a cord of hardwood for his crate fire this winter but has not burned any yet. He finds it warm enough as he saws it.
A Macon County Missouri resident paid back a $20 loan taken 46 years ago at 10 percent interest. Total interest paid amounted to $116.25. In Manitoba wheat output was revised lower by the government to just under 45 million bushels, with nearly 1 million bushels of wheat displaced. Export availability capped at 10 million bushels.
The text details experiments with four steel cables along a range causing lateral bullet deflection up to 70 feet at short range and 14 degrees over 9000 feet. It also reports on a California Missouri post office robbery and reward disputes, then shifts to agricultural export figures, convict farm guards with bloodhounds, and finally Olympic opening ceremonies with royalty and chorus, plus fashion dieting tips.
Texas relies on bloodhounds to capture and prevent escapes from Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries. About 1,500 convicts are leased under a contract system, with 500 to railroads and others to farms. Convict camps feature guard stations, barred housing, and organized work, viewed as profitable state investments despite harsh conditions.
The piece notes that pursuing thinness harms health and skin. It cites famous women of history who were generously proportioned, including Cleopatra Marie Antoinette Victoria Queen Margherita and Queen Isabella. It also highlights strong interpreters of song as often stout. A separate report covers a manganese alloyed cast iron that becomes extremely hard yet bends without breaking.
The iron crown of Lombardy derives its name from a strip of iron believed to be from the cross wall. It gained renown as Napoleon wore it during his coronation as King of Italy.
A fiery oration rallies supporters under the line Better Said Differently as the speaker accuses the enemy of boasting they can nominate a yellow dog. He calls allies to unite and work together to elect a yellow dog, prompting voriferous applause from the crowd in the Indianapolis Journal excerpt.
A wry scene set in a park where a policeman greets a passerby with a morning question, while the tame humor of a Chicago Tribune glimpse hints at casual urban life. The fragment preserves a local tone amid mistimed dialogue and partial names.
The writer condemns indiscriminate laxatives as barbaric and painful. They advocate Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a gentler remedy for constipation. Western Indians reportedly embrace the bicycle trend with ardor, with a concise note praising the machine's benefits.
Very low rates will be offered by Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway on December 1 and 15 to the South for particulars contact local agents or H A Cherrier II P A. 316 Marquette Bldg Chicago. Grand Restaurant Co Mam moth Dining Room 109 111 North Sixth St St Louis offers regular meals 15 cents breakfast and supper include soup meat vegetables bread and drinks. One Mississippi tug can haul six days from St Louis to New Orleans with barges carrying ten thousand tons of grain requiring seven railway trains of fifteen cars. Suez Canal tugs tow a vessel from sea to sea in 44 hours.
A thorough business education is the best investment for a young man or woman. Barnes' Business College at 418 Olive Street in St. Louis Missouri provides instruction in bookkeeping shorthand and typewriting. Catalogues and circulars are free.
The coming penmanship trends show an up and down method gaining ground as more offices require it and more schools teach it each year.
A newspaper slice notes a quack remedy claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with money back guarantee. It also reports a Newark brewer planning a $100000 mausoleum as a morbid death precaution. A joke about oleomargarine pronunciation ends with a waiter calling butter to keep his job.
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