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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1905
Page
2
A fragmentary page from Marble Hill Missouris Marble Hill Press Alll & Chandler publishers features a stream of witty observations and satirical quips. It comments on fashion corsets privacy and social trends with mock aphorisms and topical jests referencing figures like Commodore Peary and Rojestvensky while joking about Niagara Falls seals and glass houses.
A Kansas pastor declines charging fees for a wedding, saying it is wrong to profit from others mistakes, as reported by the Kansas City Star.
A Virginia young man fined $20 for kissing a girl against her will contemplates the sum as a fair price. He argues the incident was worth the penalty, while local peers weigh the implications of the court action and social norms.
Yachtsman Lipton describes the incident as his horse jerks, the saddle tilts to starboard, and Lipton is thrown overboard during the voyage. The account emphasizes the suddenness of the mishap and Lipton’s account of events aboard.
In a striking alliance, New York physician backs Uncle Russell Sage in opposing what he calls the deadly vacation typhoid spread. The warning pairs public health concern with urging restraint during holiday travel and leisure.
A woman at Camilen deserted her husband the other day after drawing his monthly pay in advance. The incident sparks reflection as some people still view the Inquisition as cruel.
An able correspondent reports a New York man and his wife living happily together in Paris under dramatic headlines and sensational framing. The piece implies an unexpected domestic arrangement as a notable story from the Atlantic to Paris.
A controversial incident in California ends with a robber posing briefly for a photo taken by a Philadelphia girl after the theft. The scene drew attention as witnesses described the surprising calmness and unusual behavior during the crime.
An unreadable clipping notes a Minnesota man faced with marriage chose death over wedlock. The snippet suggests society warned against matrimony and hints at social pressures around union.
A fragment from a Nashville scene hints at a man with notably long hands, drawing a sigh of envy from a lithe pianist as she practices and aims for higher octaves.
It took twenty-five expert money counters sixty-seven days to count the treasury funds with a peak daily haul of 120 tons of silver, illustrating the US government's substantial reserves and paying capacity.
A San Francisco iis patch reports Mrs Pernnin Sarras, an elderly Mexican woman, received 9000 dollars from a syndicate for a mine she owned. The syndicate plans to press the sale to a buyer for 1000 dollars, aiming to push the deal forward.
In St Louis a young mother sues a girl for 20000 claiming she refused to be his wife. The case highlights social tensions as the plaintiff doubts fairness but notes friends believe she received a proposal.
A garbled report tells of a snide desertion two days after marriage. The rumor names TL as the sixth husband who vanished. Her consolation is she may live to be rescued another day.
A writer of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch supposedly launches a bank venture, with the author-and-a-half figure starting a bank-and-a-half in a year and a half. If so, ten banks could be started by the publisher in about six and two thirds years, assuming linear scaling.
A Russian resident in New York sent passage money to the old country for his wife but the mother in law arrived instead. The ensuing scene was described as unwrittenable, suggesting that even mother in law jokes cannot capture the worst yet to come.
A library edition of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin is announced for publication in ten volumes. The author of the Autobiography and Poor Richard’s Almanack maintained a busy pen in compiling the work.
In a tense scene at the Summer Palace, Princess Margaret taunts Maurice von Lynar as Father Clement maneuvers the bridal conspiracy. The trio schemes on who will marry whom as high officials plot to keep secrets, while Maurice and Margaret exchange guarded affections amid looming danger and a royal wedding.
A priest questions the disguised Duchess Joan of Courtland’s secretary Maurice von Lynar about how the Princess Margaret grew to favor him. He reveals the tangled web of mistaken identities, loyalties, and schemes among Courtland factions as floods stir Baltic counsel.
Dr. Donald Sage Mackay of New York preached at Memorial chapel on Character, the Supreme Attainment of Life. He contrasted character with reputation, calling character the priestly vestments of the soul and a product of line, faith, prayer, and conscience shaping souls through experience. He likened life to a world shop and people as sculptors using tools from God.
The Reverend explains the nursery rhyme as a folk lore allegory. He interprets the four and twenty blackbirds as the hours in a day, the world as the pie, the sky as the crust, the sun as the king, moonlight as the queen, the day dawn as the industrious maid, and sunset as the bird that ends the tale.
The Wilkes-Barre banquet tale from H A Fuller recounts a wealthy middle aged depositor who overdrew by 50 dollars and balked at repayment. He argued that since he trusts the bank with his funds there is no need for formal notification or pressure. The anecdote underscores depositor confidence and bank duty in handling overdrafts.
W M Kennedy, a longtime lumberman, recounts a MaCalloway River incident where a bear grabbed a live deer by the head and clung with claws. The deer swam to shore dragging the bear but fell into a log boom trap. the bear struggled to reach land and was dispatched by Kennedy.
Editor applauds the article explaining the financial solution and determination behind it. Contributor begs for an advance payment, citing poverty and hunger while awaiting the magazine’s next issue.
In a light exchange Crimsonbeak jokes about his wife taking money from Johnnie to buy a new hat. Yeast remarks on the act, and Crimsonbeak laments the money was meant for a fishing trip, highlighting a domestic misdeed in a humorous turn.
Alexander Dowie of Zion suffers a sudden paralysis and travels toward Mexico. He attributes illness to overwork and declares intent to appoint a successor as head of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion. Dowie writes farewell words amid fading strength and hopes to recover to address followers with certainty of mind. The voyage and message were kept secret until now.
A New York City securities theft targets City National Bank with a forged Hanover National check for 2600000, tied to Pearl & Co. brokers at 27 William Street. Investigators trace a private loan scheme involving a stranger posing as a broker, with no suspect identified yet.
An inventor demonstrates a vineless potato method in a box eight feet square. Layers of potatoes are planted in soil and stacked with three inch and deeper layers. He claims the device could be built to any height, enabling harvests of new potatoes for market year round in any climate.
The shingle mills bureau organized in Seattle to control Washington red cedar shingles output. About fifty percent of the state's total output was represented. A resolution advised closing mills during December and January.
In Baltimore 312 draw workers on four haree youthtines were ordered out by a local union official. They had been paid 4.0 dollars for eight hours but demanded 4.50 dollars.
M Witte has been raised to the rank of count in St Petersburg amid reports that the peace treaty signing will be delayed until week’s end due to the emperor’s absence.
In Magnolia Mississippi Dessie Perkins a white woman was sentenced to years in the penitentiary for marrying and living with a Black man named Brown Judge Wilkinson lamented the punishment could not be heavier reflecting on the interracial marriage case and the sentence imposed.
Judge Lea grants change of venue from Little Rock to Perryville in the Capitol bill bribery indictment involving Senator Butt of Carroll county accused of offering 3100 to Senator Adams of Grant county. Perryville, Perry county, becomes the trial site.
In Mazatlan Nicaragua reports say the Santiago volcano erupts violently pouring water and hot rocks over a wide area. At the Corinth port officials state millions of coffee trees have been destroyed by boiling water striking them.
Posse fails to locate four men who dynamited a bank at Eldorado Louisiana, securing $3,000 and escaping after exchanging gunfire with citizens.
A dog overturned a lamp in a Thomas real estate office starting a fire that damaged multiple properties listed in the report. The blaze affected a Mayfield dive shop Turner Mercantile Company Jok Smith residence Clawson's barber shop Worley Bros real estate office Randall's photo factory and Mrs J K Moore's millinery store with losses totaling about FAO in unspecified currency.
At Wrenton Missouri a trial interruption in the railway station waiting room led witness Mrs D B F Wratt to strike a defense party member. The altercation sparked a melee among officers and bystanders, leaving five with black eyes and many more hurt as furniture was smashed.
The court held that the Supreme Council was within its rights to implement changes and that those changes were binding on the plaintiff W Barlow. The restraining action was denied and the defendants were affirmed in their legal authority.
The Franco Russian commercial convention was signed in St. Petersburg and becomes effective March 1, 1906. The agreement outlines trade terms between the two nations and marks a milestone in early 20th century diplomacy.
The official bulletin issued Friday reports nine new cholera cases and two deaths in the past day ending at noon. Total figures reach 183 cases and 66 deaths in the city.
The Echo de Paris prints a piece signed by Andrew Carnegie advocating a three nation alliance of the United States France and Great Britain to safeguard global peace and deter conflict.
New York reports the death of William R Travers a millionaire and son of the famed wit and Wall Street operator of the same name. He shot himself in his Madison Avenue apartment. The incident is described as inexplicable and shocking given his youth health and wealth.
James J. Hill calls the Panama Canal an expensive toy in a sweeping critique. Floods and winds devastate Missouri Valley crops, while Oral G. Thomas, a 3-year-old Kansas City boy, receives a preacher licensing amid unusual public notices. Federal drug policy takes effect in December, with Illinois health officials issuing ultimatums and Missouri inspectors tasked to enforce the new rules.
The article champions calcium carbide derived acetylene lighting for rural homes over candles and kerosene. It explains simple water–driven production, small portable generators, safe clean flame, and easy installation in cellars or outbuildings, urging every rural resident to adopt acetylene illumination for better, brighter light.
Lochinvar Net in It. A Jersey man eloped with a village belle in an automobile, and the sorrowful father, mounted on a horse, was hopelessly distances. They do things better now than in Lochinvar days. New York Herald. A sturgeon invents a loud whistle to aid soldiers when wounded and needing attention.
A New York man describes severe scalp trouble and hair loss, resolved after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He reports the humor vanished and hair restored to health, continuing to use the products as a scalp dressing. Signed by Fred Busche of New York City.
The flea records high agility with near ten miles per hour movement. It could keep leaping without fatigue, yet it lags behind the African desert jumping mouse which clears ten feet per jump at eight hundred feet per second.
A vorrel warte in Ros siten eastern Prussia will trap birds for observation and attach small rings to their feet. After marking, birds may be killed anywhere and their feet sent to the directors for study.
The period of the confederation saw troops retaining Revolutionary uniforms. Washington staff wore ruffed shirts red sashes and worsted gloves. Cavalry featured brass helmets with white horsehair. In 1792 infantry and artillery officers used saber formed swords.
The article notes an enormous annual cedar wood consumption for pencil making, about 4.00 acres cut yearly, with 2.00 acres in Florida. It mentions around forty pencil factories operating in Hawaria, illustrating the scale of the industry and its regional concentration.
A Missourian woman suffering from chronic stomach troubles credits Grape-Nuts with easing heart burn gas and digestion. After months of poor nutrition she used the product and reports weight gain from 98 to 116 pounds, stronger health, and renewed ability to perform housework. A ten days trial is suggested by Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan. There's a reason.
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