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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1902
Page
2
A garbled miscellany from The Marble Hill Press mocks politicians like Russell Sage and Alfonso, notes on poetry by Alfred Austin, and quips about transit, crime, and society. It riffs on Morgent and Gates, with flaky asides on Kayoto and a joke about a factory making three million fans per year.
A historical note honors Haytien Admiral Killick as a flawed hero who chose suicide over surrender aboard Crete-a-Pierrot. He ordered the crew off, dragged the burning ship toward the German forces, then blew the magazine in a doomed effort to overwhelm the enemy, a controversial but praised sacrifice for his cause.
A. D. Jones, founder of Omaha’s early survey team and first Gettier of Great Western City, died in Omaha, Nebraska, marking the end of a life begun on a farm now within the city. His 1953 survey with Brown brothers helped define the land for the future city.
Bradford B. McGregor, heir of a Standard Oil magnate, died after surgery in Mamaroneck. He reportedly signed his will before death transferring most of a 4 million dollar estate to his wife Mme Clara Schlemmer of New York, now described as a deathbed beneficiary.
Alfred Davie English member of parliament faced curious inquiries from New York customs officers on arrival. When asked if he could read and write he wrote This is a specimen of my handwriting. He replied that no one paid his passage and he paid it himself. To have been in prison before he answered Yes.
Prof David Jones of Lancaster Missouri, a school teacher and long time spelling challenger, invites global participants to a spelling match. He recalls meeting a chef challenger thirty years ago and has since pursued similar contests. He claims correct spelling is essential to modern education and seeks more victims.
Bjorn stjerne Bjornaan critics Norwegian tourism, saying rising traveler numbers demoralize locals and provoke speculation risk, rapacity, and fraud amid growing foreign visits.
Field laborers in Spain rarely earn more than 10 cents a day. Their sustenance is a soup of oil, water, garlic and bread. They endure twelve to fourteen hours of hard labor in the sun and many faint in the fields. About 5 percent die annually.
Miss Mollie O Bryan of Cripple Creek Colorado rises as a notable mining woman of the west. An early Cripple Creek settler from the 1860s she built a successful business as an amanuensis and dealer in claims. Her prudent investments yielded wealth and she is now regarded as a top judge of gold ore in the region.
Judge Kennedy of San Francisco dismissed a case accusing a man of violating a city ordinance by driving a delivery wagon on the boulevard. The jurist condemned the offense as class legislation, petty and absurd, and urged replacing the wagon with a showy vehicle to avoid arrest.
The carbon pencils used in ordinary electric art light are made by a trust that supplies three quarters of world demand. One plant spans twenty five acres and has eighty acres of space. It employs six hundred men and can produce four million nine hundred thousand carbons weekly.
After a perilous night on ice and an ice floe bear shot, Paul Miller is rescued by the Metiakahila canoe people. He is taken to a coastal village within the Metiakahua territory and welcomed by a missionary patriarch who speaks of Alaska and the dangers ahead. The tale hints at gold and a grim gateway mountain looming over the region.
In a dramatic tale Laura Bush plans a brave trek to find her missing lover Paul after a rich bachelor uncle leaves her twelve thousand dollars. Lackland schemes to stop or manipulate her while plotting a desperate move of his own as Laura, aided by Ben Holton and Kate Williams, prepares for Seattle and a Klondike journey.
A nostalgic tour of Old Panama describes a once beautiful city with Moorish towers red tiled roofs and a bay view from the esplanade near a prison. The piece recalls Mount Ancon La Boca Rio Grande and distant Andes as sunset paints the coast, recounts 800 churches and royal treasure routes, then notes Morgan's buccaneers bringing ruin to the Spanish city.
In a reflective mood the piece cites Goethe on choice and character. It cautions against temptation, urges moral courage, warns against ridicule and sneer, and notes how often we encounter young men after inquiries yield little. The text emphasizes acting from principle and avoiding harm to others.
In a London anecdote, Mike O Hagan fails at several jobs before joining the fire brigade. A dramatic moment shows him throwing a rope to a climber on a burning building and then saving him by pulling him down, illustrating a risky yet decisive act amid a string of poor workfits.
A lawyer and his client told a tale of wary dealings. When asked to settle, the client refused to enter the office, standing in the doorway. The lawyer greeted him cordially with Come in, Ro replied, you’d charge me rent if I did.
In Missouri two Roach brothers from Excelsior Springs and Kearney, long separated since 1861, reunite after a chance inquiry by W B Arnold. One brother, William Roach, believed his father and two brothers killed by Indians, and moved west. A recent correspondence reveals the trio are indeed brothers living in the same county.
Professor Dewar told British audiences that England lags Germany in education, energy and enterprise and warned of large commercial losses as German universities train people to develop scientific principles for practical use. He is noted as the inventor of Liquid Air.
A youthful speculator at Saratoga sought advice from Whitney on horse racing. Whitney gave tips he deemed reasonable but the young man proved Whitney’s judgment poor. The tipster admitted mistakes as the youth revealed he profited around forty thousand dollars by betting against Whitney.
Ordnance officers report exhaustive tests on bullet-proof cloth shields. Weight for weight they are less effective than steel at dry weight and double in weight when wet. Tests show the cloth jacket blocks a 3rd caliber service revolver at short range but fails at seventy five feet.
A muddled OCR fragment mocks Sir Wilfrid Laurier and a London Express line, misquoting a United States description as a gigantic fur nace and a Canada as a gigantic refriger. No discernible event or reliable names beyond these garbled references.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at cost concerns within postal operations. The source mentions salaries, salaries and overhead, with references to officials assessing efficiency and nationwide dissemination of the issue. Specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
Diomede Falconio, a long time American priest and Franciscan order leader, has been appointed apostolic delegate to the United States with headquarters in Washington. Educated in New York and ordained in 1860, he previously served in Newfoundland and Rome, where he rose to high church offices. The move, announced from Rome last October, marks his ascent to a key Vatican role in the United States.
New York soprano Mise Edith Helena astonishes audiences with a high altissimo note surpassing rivals Patti Nilsson and Bench Yaw. She mimics a violinist in Cavalleria Rusticana with eerie accuracy, performing The Last Day of Sunrise with a sustained high F. Helena, often Mrs Raith Helena, has sung with American opera companies after living in Montana Texas, while Atlantic City’s famous boardwalk figure and a brief landscape of local life add bustle to her spotlight.
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