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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1896
Page
5
Marble Hill reports a religious and community page with preaching, Sunday school, and union meeting details. It notes local visitors, salve endorsements, medicine ads, clothing and cape sales, a school principal’s return, Christmas finery, and Thanksgiving preparations plus updates on births and illnesses.
A brief item notes the purchase of six pounds of good coffee at Dram and Kinder's for G1. The short record records a domestic purchase with no further context or outcomes.
A varied Atlanta column features a poetic thanks by Frank L. Stanton, local ads for hats, medicines, and farm supplies, and brief notices about Harriet Whybark visiting, One Minute Cough Cure praise, and Rudolph Hunziker’s town visit. The piece includes ads for Magete Hunt Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch and George Ki. Clark & Son farm equipment offerings.
The column lists local notices and social snippets. J. H. Masters of Sedgewickville thanks supporters, Drum and Kinder from the city offer a stock of fall and winter goods, Dr. J. C. Cubbage of Zalma visits, health improvement noted after returning to Bollinger County. Fine candies at Dr. Biggs drug store Lutesville. Marshall Lessley near Gravel Hill drives hogs through town. Humorous quip about liver location and Early Risers attributed to a local exchange. Hicks almanac promoted as a premium. Moses Whybark travels to St. Louis for professional business and returns.
Damp, gloomy weather keeps farmers away while DeWit’s Witch Hazel Salve is promoted as a quick cure for eruptions on the head, chapped skin, cuts, bruises, scalds, and burns and as a remedy for piles. Witmer’s drugstore advertises. Johnny Collins brings a 28 pound Thanksgiving turkey. Services planned at M. E. church. Robert Hahn ill but improving. DeWit’s Litt Rssert pills advertised as soothing and strengthening.
Community updates include DeWitts Witch Hazel salve ads at Witmers drugstore and quick cough relief claims. Local official Charles Chronister attends Fillmore township affairs. Corn husking at Possum Creek. Drum and Kinder advertise bacon 5¢ and lard 6¢ per lb. Castor river visit by George B Myers family. Ed Jaques’ eye injury improving after a bat contact. Lutes family returns from Little River fisheries. Melvin Lutes builds a two story house two miles west. Post office aspirants dwindle. telephones replace old post-boy messages. One Minute Cough Cure promoted as lung health aid by Witmer’s.
Unpleasant weather noted as stock buyers gather. J. Long a Crooked Creek Democrat visited nearby. F. M. Cole and son James are ill this week. D. M. Newel traveled from Fredericktown to visit family. Leo Vole and Jeff Brown near Jackson spent days here. A marriage took place November 22 between Howry Jenkins and Polly Welker at Squire Lincoln’s. L. Page and W. Lattee returned Sunday from the asheries.
Five Mary Limbaugh remains in critical condition after scrofula illness. Garrett Stovall dies at sister’s home near Jackson aged 27 years. Remains sent to Chestner graveyard for interment Tuesday. Dee, 27 years old, Baptist church member, died, leaving a wife and two children amid mourning friends. A Damocgat.
Fragmentary note extols Rev A B Flicks paper and 1807 Almanac with 108 pages, colors, star maps and cheap price. promotes education at Harvard Yale and other US institutions. mentions Dr Witmer and concerns about mother’s health and fears.
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