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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1899
Page
2
A collage of humorous maxims and observational tidbits from Marble Hill Missouri. It weds social quips, political reflections, and excerpts about public life, money, manners, and religion, with references to figures in Africa and the Civil War era.
A Manchester correspondent reports American deterioration of English trade, with firms expanding agency bases across Europe. A Cleveland firm now receives more orders from England than Germany, France, or Russia, signaling deepening cross-continental competition and distribution. Horses remain valued with strong sales, while universities open for fall terms amid busy football season. Santo Domingo sees government overthrow with President Miguerte deposed and a provisional government formed. an allotment vote to be held later.
A garbled fragment references Sherard of Pittsburgh and a wall hanging painting in Bou Cityto, Wis. The text mentions a duel, an American beauty, and an octane metaphor, but the passage is incomplete and unclear.
A lengthy critique argues labor must have the right to work free from monopolies and fixed-price constraints. It discusses monetary stability, value measures, and government roles to prevent wage suppression, inflation, and unemployment while condemning entrenched interests. The piece warns against rigid wage standards and endorses adaptable wage growth tied to productivity and price levels.
In the Philippines MacArthur and Lawton conducted slow marches and captured Porac near San Fernando, but the insurgents eluded a trap. American tactics are faulted as ill suited against swift Filipinos while civil military rule shows rapid, odd progress. Accusations of a $100,000 payoff to suspend a policy and enable opium inflows surface amid church looting, private property robbery, and mistreatment of women. Otis ordered curbs as Dewey warned navy officers not to jeopardize sea control, amid accusations of imperialism shaping a controversial occupation.
The piece argues Admiral Dewey seeks retirement after a long service career while President McKinley and allies fear Dewey could shake renomination prospects. It accuses the administration of undermining Dewey’s legacy and paints Dewey as a potential political threat to the Republican ticket, though Democrats are unsure of his viability.
A garbled notice critiques a local financial matter, alleging mismanagement of funds and unlawful handling of certificates. It references authority and power without clear names or dates, leaving the main point as a contested decision about money and title.
The piece accuses Gane of hostility to silver and violating laws by delaying currency reform. It alleges he advanced October bond interest without royal authority to ease Wall Street strain while denying smaller denomination notes to avoid deflating money market values pushed by trust magnates, signaling an imminent crash.
The piece attacks Theodore Roosevelt, accusing him of opportunism and violence, recounting 1884 politics, alleged canal-ring corruption, packed commissions, and subservience to Senator Platt. It claims trusts seek a pliant leader in the White House and alleges Roosevelt fits that role for forceful suppression of dissent.
The text outlines table figures where advanced prices under the trust reach 100 percent for iron pipe and 80 percent for tin plate while wages rise modestly in some sectors and not at all in others. It argues workers and non-union producers bear the bulk of the cost, highlighting inequality and the burden on producers.
A stream of questions on revolutionary labels and what constitutes a rebel, contrasting Aguinaldo’s forces, Greek battles, Russian uprisings, and hypothetical land sales to probe how terms of rebellion are defined and who decides the labels.
In western Pennsylvania organized action pushed prices up with no coal scarcity or wage hikes to justify it. The Philadelphia Record calls it organized plundering, urging action against the robber dens and promising cleanup by the public guard.
An Ohio firm premanufactured a traction locomotive for Cuba. It weighs twenty five tons and has 12 000 soums of tractive power. The design features a 12 square foot grate area and 18 psi cylinder pressure. The engine is triple cylindered with a unique dry throat and reflects early railway engineering discussion.
Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt described as young and strikingly handsome, always stylishly dressed, travels to Topeka for state convention. She conversed with two Kansas men, a county judge and a local newspaper editor, while a plain spectacled woman nearby drew observational notice.
The article describes a steam locomotive with three cylinders and a single forging crank shaft set 120 degrees apart. It uses eight foot diameter four ton wheels with cleats and direct boiler feed to central steam chests. It claims 120 horsepower at 380 feet per minute and hauling 20 tons up a 5 percent grade, plus 30 miles per day on level ground.
A fragmented passage extols broad knowledge spanning navigation sentiment railroading war maneuvers and distant crime industries. It claims railroading men praise accuracy in depicting the iron horse of transportation while sailors revere the author as their own and British soldiers once nominated him as laureate, with engineers doubting his formal training.
In spite of his extreme deamega George Merediths remains an ardent admirer of women conversationalists. Notable names include Mrs Barry Pain and Mrs J M Harrie praised as the cleverest woman and best of women talkers.Mrs Meynel also inspires his keen admiration after her visit he reportedly said we waltzed together on celestial heights.
In a brief exchange the speakers discuss a newspaper copy published inside Sing Sing prison. Miss Keene notes improvements while Freshleih and Freshdelgi ponder the piece, with Misa Keene agreeing it’s a pity the editor is absent from the room.
A brief dialogue scene portrays two speakers debating memory versus keeping things in the head. One argues personal storage is sufficient, the other notes practical limits of mental filing in a crowded room. The exchange hints at differing attitudes toward organization.
The piece discusses a hypothetical letter to Athens’ papers about selling Stonehenge to the highest bidder, noting Sir Edmund Antrobus’ offer and a potential government pre emptive price. It details Stonehenge’sAge, construction, and the anger in Antiquarian England at private ownership, plus the monument’s remote, heritage value and the public access reality.
A quotation on wisdom contrasts speaking little with the need for advertising. The fragment notes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as the best blood medicine, implying readers could miss the product without the ad. The tone mirrors a Victorian era promotional voice urging reliance on advertised cures.
A compilation of short vignettes about figures including Daniel P. Emmett the writer of Dixie, Fighting Bob Evans from Gonzaga College, James Jerome the vacationing laborer, Prince Henry of Prussia studying Chinese, and Lloyd Mifflin the retiring Columbian poet. The piece blends playful anecdotes with mistaken assumptions and local lore.
A garbled collection of literary excerpts features lines attributed to Churchill George Eliot and others. The text blends ideas about forgiveness freedom compunction and the human soul seen through plain speech, with varied references to peoples and roles.
A fragmented 19th century style note critiques gender roles and social norms. It questions heroism, blame assigned to women, and the idea of fashionable behavior in romantic contexts, contrasting contemporary attitudes with a light sarcastic tone about dining culture and appearances.
The Anglo-Saxon Review reports 12,000 subscribers for its first year. Aldrich’s Ste of a Bad Boy is now in its fourth French edition. Frau Magdalene Thomsen, on her 80th birthday, receives Denmark’s golden medal of merit and the Norwegian medal of recompense. Le Queux announces Secrets of Monte Carlo, promising insider banking fraud details, with the author’s Monte Carlo residence cited.
A collage of quips and exchanges from early press including a bathhouse line, marriage remark, doomed old maid remark, family banter on discipline, a probate joke, and a Dallas murder trial detail. Voices reference parents, a bathing master, a mama, Tommy, Mrs Banks, and a court case with veniceman carding qualifications.
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