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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1902
Page
2
A garbled, era-spanning collage of obscure names and quotes. The piece references figures like Grand Duke Boris and William, remarks on American girls and Russian Turk relations, plus scattered notes on weddings, prices, and fashion in a whiplash of misread OCR.
The speaker defends Missouri’s school fund policy and attacks Republican claims. He cites record of statewide education improvements, constitutional amendments, and the administration’s financial stewardship. He argues for continued School Fund obligations and outlines tax implications under proposed changes.
The item surveys astonishing claims from science and nature era lore. Notes include Niagara’s vast flow per hour, shifts in average female height over 25 years, Sweden’s capital punishment policy, Spain’s bullfighting toll, birds’ speed, a secretive rapid substance change at Edison’s lab, global money value vs railways, the Greenland birch’s tiny height, vast ocean steamship tube lengths, unique West Stockbridge tree growth, and color rules in flowering plants.
A terse, dated line of provocative prose notes women as lovers and men as a trade, citing money as root of evil and experience as costly dissipation. The speaker jests about vast knowledge and pretense to wisdom from a widow, in a noir flavored monologue.
A compact collection of old aphorisms on marriage wealth honesty and gender norms. The speaker jabbers about waking records breaking wills and the corking of bottles by Irishwomen while contrasting riches wings and noisy gifts with human folly.
A garbled passage discusses a woman's readiness for a proposal and a push to curb railroad rate cuts. It notes some men join aid groups voluntarily while others are compelled, emphasizing tone over words and suggesting dropping a stance if unclear.
A fragmented article discusses a proposed constitutional amendment in St. Louis related to waterworks bonds. It references voter thresholds, debt authorization, and renewal, with procedural notes about legislative approval and the dates around the document's preparation and publication by the Secretary of State.
A garbled OCR fragment compiles many old sayings and proverbs with altered words and errors. It sketches a collage of familiar lines about error, forgiveness, money, time, and judgment, mixed with misspellings and nonsensical twists.
The text explains how hair type signals personality. Crisp curly hair suggests hurry and rashness. Coarse black hair implies power with sensual leanings. Upright hair hints at stubbornness and harsh traits. Straight stiff hair and beard reflect rigidity and strength. Fine hair signals refined sensibilities and melancholy habit. Auburn hair denotes intense sentiment and high moral purity with capacity for pain or pleasure.
A fragmented verse discusses reliance on promises versus action, the Bible as guiding text, and the paradox of wealth breeding meanness. It laments learning to read Providence and warns that great names are earned without sacrificing virtue, while warning against hurried waste.
A fragmentary Missouri page highlights quirky local tales and public notes. Stories include bean bolling social events, a woman leading bean shelling parties, a Chicago marci matter, county officials' actions, suspects detained in St. Louis and Kansas City, and oddities such as a hypnotist and windstorm fruit losses.
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