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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1889
Page
2
A bar keeper mixes logwood sulphuric acid water and more with his liquors. Customers drink, smack their lips, and pay. The article notes a scientist questioning why trees in the western states with lynchings deserve rest.
Citizens discuss using salt water to supply fresh water for drinking and cooking as New York’s enduring problem remains how to secure pure water. The note highlights public agitation over water supply and purification challenges facing the city.
The United States has more than six times as many miles of railroad as Great Britain, but construction cost was only twice as much. In 1877 US railroad earnings, with six times the track length, were about three times those of Britain.
The Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago Railway is chartered, but its actual route runs only from Marion North Carolina to Memphis Virginia. The article notes how a grand name can mislead about a line’s true extent in the railway system.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company plans a new policy establishing a pension system for superannuated members of its relief association. This move, the first of its kind in the United States, aims to provide lasting support to veteran employees and their families.
Hos Juremian Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture, explains his impartial choice of Chicago for the Fair. He notes the agricultural exhibit needs space and the Chicago committee offers a hundred acres or more, while New York cannot. He states, That is why I am for Chicago.
The Commissioner of Inland Revenue reports tax collection of 2,151,915,360 this year, up 289,789,200 from the previous year. Cigars taxed total 9,867,085,040, an increase of 22,058,000, indicating cigarettes are being consumed faster than cigars.
In 1844 the electric telegraph linked Baltimore and Washington, delivering the Democratic nomination of Mr. Polk from Baltimore. Rapid lines followed, driven by Henry O'Reilly, editor of the first daily newspaper between the Hudson River and the Pacific, showcasing rapid press and communication progress.
Serious apprehension grows in London as a universal wage rise drives a large strike. Hundreds join in the walkout across trades, choking port work, delaying cargoes, and lifting coal and foreign meat prices by 25 to 40 percent. Over 100,000 march through the streets amid fears of clashes with police and a hard battle ahead.
A Pittsburg Dispatch piece riffs on romance and reading aboard a train. The narrator watches a woman peruse a magazine, imagines dramatic scenes, then she closes the volume with a slam and leaves at Hackensack while a hairpin remains in place.
The piece surveys fall fashion with bodices from the Greeada and BulgarIan lines, open jackets, and decorative wears, plus cycling costumes and the era’s jewelry and table ornaments. It contrasts elegant styles with Saratoga society, critiquing romance and luxury in leisure settings.
A Talmage sermon in Omaha uses Nebuchadnezzar's palace and the hanging garden to probe judgment. It depicts weighing deeds against faith, warning that worldly wealth and forms cannot save, and urges personal acceptance of Christ for salvation.
The London Figaro reports a proposed honeymooners hotel for newly married couples on the South Devon coast. The fantasy resort promises romantic arbors and streamlets, moonlit nights, and fairylike surroundings with artistic decor and specialized attendants. Details remain to be announced after initial openings.
Senator M Edmond de Prensa warns that the Catholic party risks disgrace by allying with General Boulanger. He argues church leaders oppose formal party adhesion, but lay Catholics are eager to bargain with him for church gains, potentially mocking Catholicism and courting atheolatry.
Fragmented OCR style text presents a dialogue thread mentioning a young Indy Thad and a reception. The garbled lines reference Browning and a payment or involvement in an event, with unclear context and little concrete detail. No clear names or actions emerge beyond the conversational fragments.
An account from Naples Florida describes Col Bennett H Young rigging a shark trap across a narrow bay inlet. He stretched a cable between shores and set nine lines with wire snoods baited with mullet. By dawn, six sharks were hooked and battled along the line, performing aerial somersaults as the crowd watched.
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