12 Oct 1899
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1899
Page
1
A derailed, fragmentary editorial voice condemns trusts and celebrates competition while warning of a large military establishment at home. It references a new season of football, three deaths, and a looming war in the Philippines as part of capitalistic aims affecting Stephens and Reap Governor figures.
The text outlines a heated debate about adopting the primary system for nominating state officials. It discusses legality, costs, and potential party disarray, weighing conventions versus primaries, with focus on candidates, delegates, and anti rigging concerns.
Champ Clark spoke in Dallas Texas criticizing the silver standard and the Republican stance on currency. He warned against imperialism and urged support for a flexible money system while condemning efforts to impose gold as the sole basis of value. The address referenced financial policy shifts and political dynamics within the era’s national debates.
Fragmentary OCR shows a dry weather remark and inland social items. Mentions visits by Quileton and wife of Dream to J W Lard ine family, squirrel hunting last Sunday, Dean Luobaugh and Simpling in town on Monday, and baptisms at a local site. Several garbled names and dates but indicates routine community activity.
A fragmentary collection of maxims warns that too much help can ruin a man, cautioning about reputation, opportunism, and borrowed troubles. It reflects on folly, funds, and fortune, noting that prudent pennies may yield later wealth while arrogance invites hurt.
A young man offers a compliment on a dress and claims to be absorbed by one thought. He recalls wandering thoughts, forgets the proposal, then rings the doorbell. The scene ends with him fleeing after a failed attempt and the woman’s father asking the time.
The fragment discusses forged aims, popularity, jealousy, and the cost of questionable gains. It warns against debt, bankruptcy, and abandoning integrity for quick advancement, urging steady, honest progress one step at a time.
The text weaves a jumble of dialogue and musings on virtue, ordinary life, love, and ambition. It touches abstractly on effort, happiness, and the tension between lofty ideals and daily work, with snippets of conversations and stray anecdotes interspersed.
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