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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1891
Page
2
The piece argues that language grows with diverse influences from many lands, while distinguishing gender and national honor. It critiques deaf education progress, notes speech can be articulate for many deaf individuals, and comments on policing, women’s independence, widowhood, and the evolving independence of unmarried women as society modernizes.
A reflective piece on the restraint in athletics and the value of simple competition, contrasting ancient laurels with modern prestige. It extols farm life’s endurance shaping athletes and notes the power of silence over the noisy, wordy mêlée of public life.
A satirical look at how women learn banking by example, with cautions on checks and deposits, indorsements, and the cashier’s habits. California’s coyote bounty law draws ire for costs, fraud, and a rise in coyote farming amid fears for fruit growers. Also recounted is a social anecdote about an Earl and a hostelry misunderstanding aboard a carriage.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution depicts Vorca demanding three dollars from a couple. The bailiff laments they have no money, and an editorial urges the ordinary to order a license so a marriage may proceed to the first man with funds. The court must have money to function.
A party trekking in Josephine county near the California line entered Holden's Bluff, delved a limestone ridge cave vault with wide galleries and alabaster walls. A week later explorers crossed a lake by torch and ladder to find a twenty foot waterfall, gypsum marked halls, bones, and a cave river about fifteen hundred feet below the summit.
A fragmented obituary style sketch reviews three prominent men. It covers Father Kerpard, Capuchin superior-general born 1837 in Switzerland, his travels, and planned Detroit chapter in September. It also details Opobo chiefs Janis and Jadu, deportations, and the era’s shifting Christian missions in Africa and Nigeria. It references Prince Santo and Prince Sanjo, noting Tokio funerals and Japanese reformist leaders reliant on Perry era treaties.
The article notes the commander of the Imperial Guard nearing retirement and mentions a premier role or appointment tied to the transition. It focuses on leadership, ceremony, and the shift in command within the guard.
A narrative recounts a duel described as near-mesmerism where a famed French fencer battles a rival believed to wield a devilish power. The account shifts to a string of curiosities and oddities including an Amager farmer’s arrest, a giant Portuguese grapevine, a Salton Sea vindication, a Hamburg hospital legacy, Vergennes Vermont’s charter, and a stuffed Cincinnati elephant hide and towering calf.
A parrot in St Louis loudly proclaims a man is drunk as he enters a room. The gag ends up exposing a guest’s admission of possible overindulgence, sent via a servant and prompting a humorous, blushworthy miscommunication.
The buttermilk fiend appears again in a eulogy praising its health benefits. The text argues lactic acid aids digestion and supports the digestive system while reducing semi-digestion in the pharynx. It claims physicians increasingly prescribe it for liver and kidney disease and Bright's disease.
A historical tale recounts brutal acts around volcanic lava and eruptions. It chronicles Chabrol’s alleged wife and guide murder by pushing into Etna’s crater, Naples’ brutal tribunals, and legends of criminals tossed into Vesuvius. It notes prior self destruction by lovers and brigands amid volcanic violence and cultural beliefs.
The piece notes Africa's vast colonial holdings with figures for France England Germany and others. It includes a comic gag about a disrespectful editor being tarred and feathered by citizens, with a prompt to call out the editor in Atlanta Constitution.
A scientific observer issues a pamphlet arguing that the Nevepenn jaw is narrowing due to lower severity of Ite labors. The author claims connections to ancient Britons or even Australians, presenting a cross-cultural perspective on human jaw evolution.
A fragmentary tale unfolds with a doctor, grandma, and others debating swearing and its social utility. The old woman likens blasphemy to a moth drawn to lamps, while the doctor argues mild profanity can avert disaster. A young man defends forthright speech, praising manliness without excess, urging balanced strength over cruelty.
A note on royal and noble decapitations preserves how Margaret Roper allegedly claimed her father Sir Thomas More’s head after it sat on London Bridge for fourteen days. Her leaden casket housed the head until death and a niche in St Dunstan’s Canterbury tomb marks the fate. The piece also recounts Sir Walter Raleigh’s head kept by his wife in a red bag and later by his son Carew, now believed housed in West Horsley church, Surrey.
A Victorian style collage reports wages rising for Chinese workers under a restriction act, a New York monkey snatches whisky and refuses to hand over pennies, a Brooklyn horse visits a candy store and the owner explains its habit, and an Indiana cow damages farmland with various crops and fruit trees listed in court as damages.
Fragmented notes report Prussian inventors as rare birds and Belgium’s population at year end 1891 near 147041. Brussels is cited with about 500000 residents. A New York barber notes beards are out of style as smooth faces dominate. A Hemimere salt treatment is claimed effective for insect bites. A mystified linguist asserts eel ern has a three consonant two vowel language. A secretary of state is mentioned in an unclear context.
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