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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1891
Page
2
An essay extols higher education and public schools as patriotic safeguards. It argues rich donors support colleges for more than prestige and highlights the role of debate training in shaping capable citizens, contrasting vigorous university life with smaller colleges and the value of free discussion.
The article lauds wealthy benefactors from Stanford to Chicago and Beloit for aiding higher education, notes how society work and domestic labor roles evolve with women stepping back into duties, and observes water quality factors and dietary concerns tied to public health.
Fragmentary verse describes witches confronting a young maid in a windy cave. The scene mixes romance and dark motif as the witches threaten to imprison or transform the girl for love. The tone echoes gothic folklore with bats, brooms, and a looming peril.
A whaling crew aboard the Emma Davis endures relentless Arctic hell. After months of gear failure and mutiny risks, they abandon ship during a crushing ice event and discover the Endurance abandoned nearby. They crew salvage the Bristol vessel, endure homesickness, and survive through blizzard, night, and dwindling daylight as they drift toward open water and rescue.
The text recounts a saga on a tri-signed vessel where pirates or strangers boarded a whale ship Endurance, seized control, and later departed. a myth abroad, pursued across seas, both ships returning to Nuwak and resuming whaling duty with altered crews, settling accounts as neither debtor nor creditor.
Colonel Winter chats with Uncle Stephen about teaching his son, who aims to learn rapidly. The father describes the boy’s progression from writing twenty miles in spirit to someday managing a fifty mile letter, determined to strengthen his pen before trying harder tasks. The tale highlights perseverance and education against hardship.
A nervous visitor to a local photographer asks for a photo of a man who resembles him but is more handsome. He explains Tam is engaged to be married and the fiancée, out West, wants a good looking picture to take home. The tale ends with expectations of a possible sequel.
A trio of men in New York compared their chewing to Mr Gladstone chewing every mouthful. They found themselves outdoing him, counting 35 to 40 chews per bite of meat, 20 to 30 on dry bread, and 15 to 20 on juicy fruit.
The article notes Sara Orne Jewett linking the word Hurrah to the Norman era. In Duke Rolf's time a cry Ha Rou invoked justice, forcing instant pursuit of offenders. Those failing to heed the cry faced punishment, shaping the hue and cry custom and the modern shout Hurrah.
The fragment describes Sir Thomas Wyatt’s private notes on Anne Boleyn from 1817 prints and Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey. It cites a curious detail about Anne Boleyn’s finger nail, noted as unusually small yet graceful, with observers remarking on its appearance.
A Boulogne based French engineering firm begins using an efficient non conducting piping made from a starch paste mixture. The new material aims to replace traditional conductors and reduces heat loss in industrial piping systems.
In Amsden Vermont a woman aged 101 is highlighted in a fragmentary local notice. The text references the Black River tributary area and notes lineage related to Hon. Charles Amsden and Nancy Amsden, hinting at a historic or genealogical snippet.
Nancy Amsden, daughter of David and Lydia Child, is noted as the youngest in the Child family of Westminster. She married Jonas Ward, had three children, and after widowhood remarried America Amsden in Cavendish, Vermont, adding two more sons Rollin and Charles. America Amsden drowned in the flood of October 1369. Her son John Wari (by the first husband) pursued law and became a state attorney and attorney in Windham county before moving to Detroit. Rollin Amsden rose to prominence in Windsor and held multiple offices, later becoming United States marshal for Vermont. Charles Amsden, born in 1832, served as representative and bank director. Nancy’s daily life includes early rising, education, and homemaking, with memories of Young’s Night Thoughts and Paradise Lost. Her wartime memories include soldiers singing across lines, a vivid recollection of Loyalist and Confederate songs amid bombardment.
Sanborn residents recall a quixotic saga of Thomas Tisdale once presumed dead after leaving a fishing party in Geoman Bay. Mrs. Tisdale remarried twice and in a dramatic twist she later identified a long-missing husband. Present signs suggest the third husband may relinquish his claim as Tisdale’s reappearance reshapes the family.
Reports from Sierra Leone claim renewed slaughter along the coast as suppression efforts fail to curb the slave trade. Accounts mention Coomassie and Dagomilly raids, with hundreds killed in a day and captives held, including children, in ongoing violence and bloodshed.
A battered report describes the ocean tug Britanoia abandoning a valuable cargo of 820,000 pounds off Hatteras last March after a storm. The vessel, owned by Willces, drifted over 2,000 miles while three streams were crossed. A rescue at sea occurred June 10, with a bonus cargo aboard.
A fragmentary reminiscence from Spotsylvania Virginia on May 12 1564 recalls a farm battle site and the Bloody Angle. The storyteller details Federal troops on the farmer grandson Brown’s land, the search for arms, cannons, and cartridge boxes, and the brutal scene with fallen soldiers, rough shoe repairs, and a haunting pursuit by a spectral rider.
Five miles long marching column fights fatigue through mud and music. Soldiers, drenched and exhausted, lift spirits with songs like Tramp Tramp Tramp and John Brown's Body as the line extends far ahead.
J D Graham of Bellwood Nebraska recalls dodging a bullets during a Civil War march with the Seventh Minnesota and Sixteenth Corps under General Dodge. He describes skirmish lines near the Ormulugee and a rail fence near Johnstons forces, noting how a shot narrowly missed him after he dodged.
William Graham Green recalls Abraham Lincoln as a young man and friend. Lincoln, reluctant to be written about, warns that Green “knows what not to tell you.” Dennison of Ohio sought a life sketch for a 1862 presidential campaign effort, and Lincoln provided names to source details.
A movement in Kangas City Missouri plans a novel unit for the Worlds Fair. Co A First Regiment United States Blue and Gray will include fifty ex-Union and fifty ex-Confederate veterans. Officers elected include Chen W F Wilkins Captain ex-Union 124th Infantry John Ebbs First Lieutenant ex-Confederate member of Joe Shelby's Brigade John Vigeon Second Lieutenant ex-Union 12th Michigan J M Hagzett Orderly Sergeant Confederate Secret Service.
An amusing tale recalls a commanding officer ordering guards to protect grass around quarters from any passage except a cow. A general's wife attempts a shortcut and is halted by a sentry who cannot recognize her, stating only that she is not the general's cow. The piece also praises Mrs Editor Geeslona Tupper, a prolific newspaper woman active with Billy Florence while pursuing her ambitious duties.
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