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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1914
Page
1
The upcoming January Farmers Week in Columbia marks the Golden Anniversary of the State Roan of Agriculture from 1885 to 1915. The event promises a full schedule with a short course and engaging programs, aiming to be the largest of its kind in Mississippi.
A local booster piece touts Missouri as the premier apple producer and urges residents to stock up for winter. It notes a booming alfalfa acreage driven by pioneer growers, publicity campaigns, and agricultural lectures. The missive ends with a public tax notice from the Office of Collector in St. Louis dated November 16, 1914, urging returns for social taxes in November for bankers and brokers.
A historical notice lists licensed trades including pool tables banking alleys commercial brokers tobacco manufacturers dealers in leaf tobacco pawn brokers and public exhibitions theatres. It warns of a fifty percent penalty for noncompliance and mentions special tax studies and requested returns to be submitted to authorities.
The Missouri University School of Journalism plans to ship ready written bank advertising to lenders statewide. An advertising series by advanced students aims to boost display appeal and savings use, with two column ads printed on separate sheets and coordinated with the school’s advertising department.
Fragmentary rural advice suggests painting a plow with axle grease or tallow to improve winter performance and deter profanity while urging Missourians to shelter farm machinery during winter. The text reads as a garbled historical notice with many unreadable phrases and nonsensical wording.
A fictional poem extols the virtues of an old fashioned mother in gentle prose. It also includes a quirky dictionary from an Exchange piece defining local slang terms such as Rube Jay Country Jake Hick Boob Simp and Wise Guy with small personal portraits and values.
The Youth's Companion issues its 1915 calendar as a yearly subscriber premium. Publishers again present a decorative, useful calendar for the new year, with a focus on practical utility for readers who have paid for 1915.
John Calvin Allen born in Indiana April 1844 and died in Missouri November 1 1914. He was the youngest son of Jesse and Anna Allen and left home early to seek his fortune.
The article coalesces historic death tallies from wars and earthquakes, noting Franco Prussian War deaths around 1.5 million over seven months, Russo-Japanese up to 2,000,000, the 1708 Japan quake near 200,000, and the 1755 Lisbon quake about 60,000. It contrasts these with ongoing world population growth and annual births of about 14,000,000 and deaths near 6,000,000, urging perspective on human losses amid natural and manmade calamities.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe fear of a despot gaining control and ordering mass slaughter. Mentions guillotines busy with beheadings at a rate of one per minute, suggesting an alarming impact on a death ray or scientific aversions in America.
A jumble of unreadable names appears in the OCR fragment, including Henry Ebfrath and Glen Allens among scattered terms. No coherent event or details are readable to establish a definite item.
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