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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1889
Page
4
A tarnished OCR fragment from Marble Hill Missouri dated Thursday October 10 1889 mentions Finney and a press related matter. The visible text offers little context beyond place and date with no clear event details or names beyond Finney.
Official notice outlines subscription costs including annual and three month rates for county residents and out of county copies. Advertising rates are provided for local and distant placements, with terms and options as printed in the county paper.
A long list of mixed articles notes a broad administration repeal affecting the San Antonio post office. The piece also mentions legal cases in Fredericktown, a New York slaughter house incident, and political shifts across several states with commentary on lawmakers pay and campaign themes. It closes with a note on the U. S. steamer Pensacola sailing for a solar eclipse viewing expedition.
Notes cite Professor Todd’s Amherst College eclipse expedition to St Paul de Loanda for four months with later scientific publication. The Cape Girardeau branch and Perryville to Cape routes advance, transforming a sleepy Mississippi town into a bustling city. Also reported are a North Carolina rape conviction with hanging slated, electoral college shifts, Douglass demand for Hayti transport, Mississippi political clashes, a circulating library scam, a deadly steamer explosion near Entoto Rogue, and Beecher’s critique of religious and social ambitions.
A heavily garbled period text criticizes religious hypocrisy while detailing public works funding. It cites a $24,000 grant for a Sikeston to Cape Girardeau road, notes county contributions, and accuses the federal administration of sectional bias against southern ports. The piece also references tax figures and political criticism of the Democratic and Republican methods, with scattered mentions of locales and individuals.
John Hahn heads to St Louis this week while Dr Marfield's son improves. Farmers finish sowing wheat as typhoid hits the area. John Williams mourns a loss. Frank Clippard buys George Buexner’s farm for 1900 dollars. Wheeler picnic draws about 1000 attendees. A long civic critique follows on editors and local funding.
The passage surveys historic and literary beliefs in an afterlife or ongoing existence for dumb animals. It cites ancient writers, early Christians, and figures like St. Francis and Dr. Johnson, plus poets Wordsworth Shelley and Coleridge, arguing such faith appeared across eras and cultures.
A weekly ad lists bar gain prices on boys wagons silk plush photo albums and leather pocketbooks wax dolls autograph albums and other items. Featured goods include an organ with monthly payments and reduced prices on jewelry clocks watches spectacles drugs and tobacco with a call to visit Vr ALR Jaques & Son's New Brick Drugstore in Lutesville Missouri.
A terse plea echoes in the dispute over promised timber. The neighbor asserts a handoff of firewood agreed last autumn, while the other party contends lack of a formal tally and questions delivery. Local mediation is requested to resolve the matter.
Notice to all persons conjoined that the undersigned trustee Walloon shall pay all claims allowed against the trust held by Geo by Statler. A dividend of not more than available means will be paid after reserving funds for costs taxes and expenses of the assignment. Given under my hand September 28 185. John W Revenue Assignee.
Joseph B. Baker trustee will sell at the Bollinger County courthouse Mayville Hill on Saturday November 2 1880 between nine in the morning and five in the afternoon the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter and other described lands in section 29 township 29 north range 9 east to satisfy a note secured by a deed of trust dated February 1 1847 and recorded May 8 1887 worth the debt plus interest. sale to highest bidder for cash with costs.
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