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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1900
Page
2
The Marble Hill Press quotes varied topics from jury duty pleas, bee weights, and manufacturing growth to Parisian art purchases and bicycle decline. A Nebraska township forms a nightly citizen guard to protect its town from mob rule while upholding civic duty with chivalrous zeal.
The report lists United States awards at the Paris Exposition with 1 981 prizes including 220 grand prizes and 214 gold medals. It notes moving stairways in New York’s elevated rail and urges Missouri voters to support Constitutional Amendments 4 and 4 for a large St Louis exposition. It also profiles child prodigy Pepite Rodrigues Arriola and Hawaii water resources boosting irrigation for Olas plantation.
A caterer notes diners tire of unfamiliar dishes and predicts a return to fried potatoes and buckwheat cakes while a northern region reports odd incidents where dogs of a peculiar breed are railed for their eating and killed in a weird event.
A Sara correspondent recounts the tale of Senor Perdigon a Spanish merchant from Mojlo who travels to Capiz and Formosa to woo Senorita Conellacion de Ruiz aka Asuang. The piece details witchcraft rumors the demon Tletle and a realm of infernal pact tales within Panay island.
In Capiz a sorceress named Concilacion de Ritz drips a demon’s spirit into Perdigon after a sleeping ritual. He awakens torn by evil thoughts while the woman laughs. Children die, servants whisper of vampiric acts, and an alligator image haunts Perdigon as his astral form travels. Spaniards rise, Perdigon is slain, and the woman is punished.
A fragmented piece profiles a Los Angeles based eccentric, nicknamed Prince Charley, linking him to Freemasonry and several Southern California groups while praising his Civil War record. The text shifts to a timber anecdote about a colossal Karri tree, noting its immense trunk size, limb spread, and potential timber yield and loading implications for Australian ships.
A fragmented OCR snippet hints at a discussion of Marr tree and paving in London streets. The text references Western Australia and an Arctic term, with unclear names and specifics due to damaged handwriting. The readable elements suggest a historical note on street paving and possibly a named tree.
Description of traditional Turkish dining in which families sit around a central frame with a large tray and a shared bowl. Guests use spoons to serve themselves from successive dishes, with emphasis on hospitality and etiquette.
A civic engineer in Alaska contends that rails on the Chilkat Pass railway expand with cold rather than contract. He notes that temperatures from 12 to 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit would not noticeably change rail length, but harsher cold could cause expansion, an exception to common expectations tied to water's behavior.
Porter Ashe a San Pran dleco lawyer represented a client seeking a divorce from his wife. The husband claimed the wife abused a dog during quarrels causing injury to him. Ashe disputed that act as grounds for divorce.
The money order system did not start until 1864 and began as a crude operation. A private agency, founded in Bucland in 1892 by three postal officials, built a fortune through fraud and gold flow to the government.
A Gloucester ship tale recounts a young cook, a month aboard, tasked with preparing sausages for the crew. The sailors waited for dinner as the cook served a mass of dough instead, treating the sausage like herring and leaving the captain puzzled by the improvised meal.
A Manchester merchant saw a mummy cloth in Bayl and seized a large portion. A buyer at a major Manchester warehouse asked where it was woven. After examining it with care he claimed he could locate its origin if given a sample. He later reported it came from the place he suspected, Oldham, identified as No. 86 by the manufacturer.
A garbled entry discusses a diet involving sulfur and leaves as a defense against mosquitoes. It claims the method creates a steady or perfect protein tone protecting against bites by altering the surrounding atmosphere.
A Chicago speaker Pierce Dowle claims a 600-strong grain dealer network across Wisconsin Minnesota North and South Dakota Iowa Nebraska Kansas is forming a monopoly to buy grain below cash price and store for profit. Contracts authorize price fixing and penalties. elevators can be blocked if a member leaves. He alleges Republican promotion, with inspectors and fines to enforce the pact, and warns farmers face lost markets and higher risks.
Mark Hanna’s role as party spellbinder ends by order of President McKinley after a Chicago speech repudiating trusts drew national protest. Hanna’s dates are canceled and he shifts to managing the campaign fund, amid Democratic backlash and calls for accountability. Roosevelt and Brownlow remain as remaining campaign figures.
A damaged OCR note accuses the Republican national committee of boosting a party newspaper by quoting factory costs and boosting circulation. It references a Bryan pamphlet with names from Math, Minnesota, and Death, Maine, noting the error as accidental and claiming votes would help Mr. Bryan.
The New York World argues Democrats gain from Bryan's cross-party support including Schurz Cochran Olney and other gold Democrats. It cites anti imperialist backers like Boutwell Higginson and GOP reformers, notes uneven prosperity, rising living costs, monopolies, and the looming coal strike as potential electoral issues. The piece ends with a veteran saying the Democrats have just begun to fight.
A dialogue-like critique questions U.S. policy on slavery in territories, focusing on Hawaii and Sulu. It presses how annexation, payments to the sultan, and uses of taxpayer funds align with Republican conduct and abolitionist ideals, contrasting public professed values with action. The excerpt implies scandal and partisan blame.
The piece notes Roosevelt’s rapid rise from civilian life to a key war role in the Spanish American War. It highlights his minimal formal experience, leadership at San Juan Hill, and his input to General Shafter and the Secretary of War, portraying him as remarkably impactful and decisive despite limited official credentials.
Mark Hanna fears New York tipping to the Democrats as Maine and Vermont shift 10 to 20 percent toward Democracy. States without concerted GOP effort saw larger changes, while New York could swing with under 1 percent. Organized statewide effort may propel a Democratic victory, a prospect Hanna struggles to deny.
Hahed offers a general overview of Methodism across the globe. It mentions Wesleyan Methodists Primitive Methodists the Methodist New Connection the Bible Christian Methodists the United Methodist Church the Wesleyan Reform Union and other groups.
William Jennings Bryan replies to Hanna’s charge that he has promised cabinet posts or other positions. He states he has made no such promises and will not authorize anyone to promise positions. If elected, he will discharge duties per his platform and personal judgment on matters not covered by the platform.
A Binghamton leader criticizes the Republican party for a lack of decisive action on imperialism. The piece argues many Republicans disapprove the Philippine scheme and that internal divisions and indifference threaten the party's coherence and effectiveness.
A Birmingham woman, Maeny Relatives, and her eight family members volunteered for service. The group included two brothers, four first cousins, forty-three second cousins, and an uncle, totaling fifty four. They all enlisted while Maeny’s husband, a nurse, served in a Maryland hospital.
A writer for the Monthly Weather Review claims birds mute their songs long before great storms, evidence echoed by a recent Illinois observation of quiet skies two days before severe weather. The Chicago Record notes German naval officers grumble as Kaiser Wilhelm’s mustache order reshapes facial hair standards aboard ships. A patent corn husking machine boast prompts a farmer’s quip about efficiency and novelty, illustrating rural humor fragment.
Somerville Journal notes a divorcee from a single town who remains convinced the next marriage can reform her former husband. The quirky item reflects small town humor on romance and resilience despite repeated divorces.
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