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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1900
Page
3
MISS EDNA ELLIS of Higginsport Ohio says her ten year ordeal with monthly agony and a wrecked nervous system ended after following Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advice from a reply to her letter. She had tried many physicians and faced surgery before finding relief and offers to answer letters about her case.
The so called original harp of Brian Boru sits in Trinity College Dublin. Its history is clearer now and undermines the popular tale of origin. Likely owned by the O Neill sept and perhaps crafted for two famous churchmen. It was last played by a member of that family when Arthur O Neill revived its music in Limerick in 1760.
The text notes nearly three rolling pounds sterling belonging to the Pope lay unclaimed in the Italian treasury. After the Tulhin government took Nome, an annual civil list of about £14,000 was set to the Pope as compensation for the loss of temporal power. Pius IX and Leo XIII did not claim the money, allowing the income to accumulate.
A recent suit in Louisville over a Kentucky coon dog drew a full day before a judge six attorneys the plaintiff and defendant the jury including two Baptist ministers and a crowd of witnesses. The dog slept under a table to the east edge of the sheriff during the proceedings.
Advertisement lists low rate round trips via Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain for trips to western and southern points. Dates span September 18, November 6 and December, with deadlines and regional pricing. Includes note to contact W. B. Townsend, Greet Agent, St. Louis, for folders and details.
Veronica reunites with Alan Mackensie after years apart in London, revealing their child and his hidden marriage. He declares hurt and fear, torn between Joyce and duty, while Veronica presses toward a grim plan as Hutchinson schemes to profit from their past. The moment tests loyalties, love, and a new threat to Alan’s fragile honesty.
A dramatic confession unfolds as a man explains to Veronica that after four years with no word he believed she had died in a supposed maritime disaster. He reveals he has since married another. The scene ends with lingering tension as their conversation continues.
War sparked a craze for grandiose names. Infants born near famous events or figures were christened after them, with examples from South Africa and Britain. Even in Wales parents chose heroic monikers, while many children bore multiple names merging historic personages, albeit with little lasting distinction.
F. Max Muller reflects in Nine teenth Century on memory feats by students and famous scholars, citing Macaulay Conington and a Winchester master H C Adams. He recalls pupils learning Cicero and Virgil by rote, with large standing-up recalls and accuracy in recalling English elites. He notes his own memory fatigue from daily Times readings and mentions Chenery, the late editor of the Times, who knew the Koran and Old Testament by heart.
Rhode Island's high court affirms the payment of a florist bill charged to a decedent's estate. It notes funeral flowers are nearly universal and, if not extravagant, express respect and affection for the deceased.
The text discusses leap year quirks for the coming century with February often having five occurrences in 1020 1964 and 1976. It notes the earliest possible Banter date to March 12 with last occurrence in 1818, and the Master date window to April 26 occurring once in the century in 1648. It mentions a midpoint of January 1 1001 and forecasts about 80 eclipses in the coming century.
An examination of Celtic origin in British place names notes prefixes like cum pen caer and the meanings behind hills forts and rivers. It details Cumwhitton Cumrangan Penrith Carlisle Durnock Penrydock Talliin Caer Leol Irthing Geit Helvellyn Rivelyn Blencathra and related topographic terms while listing common US city name counts such as Washingtons Williamsburgs and SpringfieldS by frequency.
Boston unique institution the Peabody Medical Institute at No 4 Bulfinch Street established shortly before the death of George Peabody enjoys wide recognition. Its medical publications reach millions and are esteemed. their latest work Know Thyself is offered free by mail with a small price for postage.
A shabby man accused of stealing a pair of oxen in Kentucky was replaced at trial by a clean-cut, well-dressed defendant. Witnesses who had seen the oxen with the accused failed to identify the defendant. The jury acquitted him amid questions of identification accuracy.
Old time patent medicine advertisement promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a natural laxative to restore health. It claims ailments from headaches to cancer will improve once bowels are right and markets the product at 10 cents to start. It warns against imitation and notes genuine tins with C. C. stamp.
A Chicago firm signed contracts in Los Angeles for ten automobile carriages to operate between Flagstaff Arizona and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The vehicles must reach sixteen miles per hour, and the trip from Flagstaff to the canyon is estimated at seven hours.
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot- Kase a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores. Send trial package free by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy N.Y.
Speaker Reed meets Representative Lacey in the house lobby and, after a cheerful handshake, jokes that Lacey resembles the secretary of war and should be whitewashed, delivering a lighthearted remark that astonishes the Iowa official.
In a light exchange at the breakfast table Mer Kmail Brother asks Maud whether Mr Jules used any umbrellas or hats from the hall last night. Maud replies he did not, while Bobby recalls hearing him say he planned to steal just one, prompting Tit-Bits chatter.
In northern England superstition holds that coins placed over the eyes of the dead are treasured. The practice persists despite infection risks, as the living, especially peasants, avoid discarding coins tied to deceased relatives. A German journalist notes Chinese people as unusually free from nervousness, remaining phlegmatic in any environment or disturbance.
A historical note links the term potter's field to Matthew's account of strangers buried in a field purchased with Judas's thirty pieces. The piece discusses origins, religious context, and a dubious advertisement for an improved tonle product priced at six conts.
English poets have mixed ancestry with Danish French English Danish Scottish Italian and German blood cited for Tennyson Browning Rossetti Swinburne Dobyn French Patmore. a humorous aside follows urging use of Adam’s Pepula Tuttl Pruttt to aid digestion.
A unique Maori mat woven from Ō kiwi feathers sold recently in a London auction. It includes two panels of white variety feathers likely unseen in England, tied to a tribe led by a chief who reportedly gathered them over ten years for a prayer mat. The piece drew thirty guineas, said to be bought for the Natural History Museum.
A widower ordered a tombstone inscription reading Lord, she was thine but the mason warned of space limits. The finished stone allegedly showed Lord, she was thin. Deep sea records note Penguin sonar to 4,478 fathoms, revealing Paleon island’s submersion. other items mock medical tonics and a quip about a lawyer and a gold brick.
The W L Douglas Shoe Co of Brockton Mass offers a $4.50 shoe rivaling $5 brands with no middleman profit. They sell direct from factory to wearer, have stores in 60 top cities, employ 1100 hands, and use union labor with high wages. The Brockton factory payroll is about $17 485 weekly and over one million men wear these shoes.
A country widow near Lowell, Massachusetts, heard an attempted entry at her front door in the night and fired through the door. In the morning neighbors found a man on her porch, killed by a bullet through his forehead.
A mid summer notice urges parents to use Extract of Benne Plant to guard children from summer complaints. The ad from Maguire Medicine Co of St Louis promotes this remedy as a preventive measure and invites care for well being during hot days.
The article notes the black Kamchatkan fox fur yields blue when dressed, with a single skin valued around $1,000 and a Emperor Nicholas lined coat costing about $10,000. It also mentions the White Star liner Ocedale capacity, American coal shipments to Buenos Ayres, a patent tonic Yucatan Chill Yooto priced at 60 cents, and a humorous jail escape exchange from the Philadelphia Record.
In a brief note the piece claims the healthiest place is Aumone a tiny French hamlet with 40 inhabitants of whom 25 are 80 years old and one over 100. The dialogue hints at a romance and secrecy amid the unusual health claim.
A proposal aims to establish reservations for the dwindling Aboriginal population in Australia. The plan would place survivors in managed areas to learn agricultural work and receive care, reflecting a period view of assimilation and welfare.
A dialogue notes that a woman has the right to change her mind while a man who changes his mind may face damages. The piece references varying effects of frost on produce and how frost causes fruit to swell and potatoes to turn black, illustrating environmental impact on crops.
In Japan, some inu women tattoo their faces to resemble men with whiskers. The practice aims to alter appearance for cultural or social reasons, presenting a striking masculine facial trait through permanent ink.
A light domestic vignette captures Mrs. Torkins near tears as her husband Char ley returns home. She protests fault over the pigeon and explains the bird swallowed a tack and developed a puncture, a comic mischance at home reported in the Washington Star.
Africa ranks as the most elevated continent, famed as the continent of plateaus. The southern table-land rises with no mean altitude above 3 500 feet, while the northern table-land averages around 1 000 feet, shaping a high, varied landscape across the continent.
A fragment discusses Beanie Hicks asking why Eulxon left his job at the Comet. Blicks questions whether termination is explicit while Hicka notes severed relations with the paper. The source cites Boston Transcript and W. O'Mitten Minneapolis.
The Floyd Memorial association based in Sioux City requests May 14 be set aside by public schools in the Missouri river valley for special services and addresses honoring Sergeant Charles Floyd, the first US soldier to die in the Louisiana Purchase expedition.
A magazine-era vignette describes a fashionable Chicago office with a provocative sign promising exclusivity. The piece contrasts the era's attitudes with an ironic sting about race and power, hinting at social tension and disruptive marketing. The fragmentary text blends cultural critique with garbled phrases to paint a provocative scene.
In a Windsor Magazine sketch the Windsor writer cites Canterbury municipal records from 1945 listing the costs of burning a heretic: 14 pounds 4? shillings? Wait. (Note: OCR fragment lacks full clarity.)
The port of Gibraltar will receive a full electric system for government and private use. To protect it from military threats, the power station will be placed in the King's Bastion, a rock-cut, former artillery barracks on the rock.
Advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swollen smarting burning sweating feet and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores with free sample by mailing to Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy NY. Includes odd lines about prigefighters and Uncle George in a decorative, fragmented note.
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