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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1901
Page
3
A fragmented 1900s newspaper snippet discusses Bessie Kellog and a women’s health narrative urging Peruna for catarrh and stomach ailments. It includes patient testimonials, advisories from Dr. Hartman, and unrelated notes on agricultural visuals and a quaint ventriloquist anecdote.
Fragmentary ad style text promotes a tonic claiming honest medicine with strong properties from Yucatan. It contrasts bitter and sweet tonics and notes no shaking required. The snippet implies superior dosage but lacks complete product or company details.
The advertisement touts Yucatan Chill Tonic as a remedy that cures malaria symptoms including chills fever and ague and claims it can prevent disease if taken before season. It asserts one bottle cures in many cases where six to eight tasteless tonics failed and promotes the product as a general family tonic sold by dealers at 50 cents per bottle.
Regional miscellany notes discuss Ceylon elephants and government controls to maintain a herd of 2000, the plane detested by animals, castor beans as a repellent, and a recipe for pineapple omelet. Also recounted is a medical anecdote from Oldenburg about Dodd's Kidney Pills curing rheumatism in a 13 year old, sparking local chatter.
A survey of fragments notes 497858 tons of coal, a G Stacy venture, and a sale at 10200 dollars. Plans for a girls dormitory at the state university, legal quarrels over pennies, demand for servants in Jefferson City, and local schemes in Perryville, Chillicothe, Hannibal, and Sedalia illustrate early 20th century Missouri life with farms, rail, and politics.
A fragmentary scanned page describes solitary wasps that sting caterpillars and spiders to feed their larvae, a curious burrow operation, and a laundry starch ad pitch. It also notes a missionary wife’s tale on cantives goods, then shifts to 1902 Antarctic expedition plans and a Chicago accident where Peter McGann survived a 100-pound bale fall, with injuries minimal.
A garbled passage traces the origin of knots and writing to ancient China with mentions of Emperor Tachang Ki and a long knotted cord as an early memory device. It then shifts to a note about handkerchief memory knots surviving as a curious custom and ends with a stray line about whooping cough in New York Sun text.
An advertising notice touts Devoe paint as longer lasting than lead and oil based options. It urges readers to ask local dealers for Devoe and to send for a free pamphlet on painting and paint safety from Devoe Chicago.
Fragmentary OCR describes a tall structure tied to a great height and a 500 year history. It notes an elevation gain of EY feet and hints at a final completion after long effort, mentioning an ancient start and later finishing by Hide.
Special to New York World details Vietor Adams a Little Falls manufacturer honored for Civil War service. Adams ran away to enlist in the One Hundred Twenty-First New York, was recalled by his father, then joined the Two Hundred Fifteenth Pennsylvania as Richard Andrews. He was discharged under a different name and decades pass before discharge papers arrive.
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