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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1895
Page
5
Dramatist Ruthven attends a crowded magistrates court as a hungry 13 year old girl Peg O Reilly is charged with stealing three onions. The case exposes urban poverty, lack of parents, and bleak streets of Little Peccadillo Street with Ruthven’s keen, compassionate gaze amid the crowd.
An excerpt includes the tale A Namagoa Witchcraft Story Would Be a Boy Again and commentary on Arnie Crockett the one legged athlete. It details his birth in Thetford Vermont, childhood rail accident, recovery through gymnastic training, and remarkable feats on stage including skating on a single leg and one handed bars.
A Namaqua tale follows a Boschwoman with a child traveling when a troop of wild horses appears. The man implores her to turn into a lion to catch a horse for food. She transforms, hunts a horse, returns, then reverts. The man, frightened, vows never to tempt her again as the lion fades and they resume their journey.
Magistrate Harrison laughs as an old man admits to throwing bricks at a bottling wagon’s mineral water jugs. The driver’s jugs were being passed to a colored youth when the brick smasher struck, smashing about a dozen jugs before arrest. The man said he only wanted to feel like a boy again, offering to pay for damages.
Henry Bauer aged years, living on Front street, was found dead in bed by his father at 8 pm. The New York Tribune calls the death pathetic. His mother died four months ago. he cared for two younger sisters. He spoke of illness and worry about his sisters before dying, with death attributed to brain trouble.
A boarding school exam yields a girl's humorous essay contrasting boys and girls. It notes boys as loud and roaming, while girls stay silent until spoken to, and observes adulthood shifting roles from husband to a wading man at night, to a widow who keeps house, with stray reference to a factory plan at Natehos.
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