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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1889
Page
3
Tickets to all points in Kenans Colorado Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas and other States will be sold to Santa Fe. Write to John Burmie Agent General Posanese Agenta Ke Route Chicago Illinois for details.
A mathematical note estimates United States holdings of gold at 601 tons and silver at 8000 tons. If stacked like cord wood the gold would form a four by four foot barricade 335 feet long and the silver 4248 feet. If packed in carts the gold would require about 33 miles of carts, two and a half miles by road for the silver. The piece ends with a puzzled dialogue about driving and arms.
A garbled mix of product pitches and notices. It touts Dobuitus' Electric Soup at a Schuylkill Arsenal near Philadelphia and mentions ammunition production figures. There are medical cures advertised by Dr. Kline and eye water by Dr. James Papmos. Also referenced are a Blair County coroner candidate, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and a recipe for squash fried in bread crumbs.
The Rev. T DeWittge argues Christians lack worldly acumen in spiritual matters. He urges more church adaptiveness, light, ventilation, and focus in scripture reading, urging immediate repentance and Christ acceptance, likening spiritual pursuit to financial diligence. He cites a sailor’s faith, calls for concentrated effort to win souls, and invokes biblical imagery of light and salvation.
The New York World recalls Chauncey Depew’s wart time trick of discarding a six hour draft for a spur of the moment address at Delmonico’s St. Patrick’s day dinner. Grant’s opening line spurs Depew to improvise a new speech, leading to a famed clash of egos and a thaw in past frostiness before Grant’s death.
Medical Classics notes that hot weather causes meat to putrefy quickly and form poisonous akaloids, triggering vomiting and purging. Ripe fruit eaten at meals aids digestion if balanced. fruit between meals can hinder it. Avids prevent calcerous degeneration and keep bones elastic, but fractured avids are unsafe. Stewed fruit with cream or custard is wholesome. small amounts of carbonate of soda can improve palatability and digestion.
A Lewiston hotel clerk recalls a Rye Beach summer night when a porter sent a drunk guest to his room left a valise in bed next morning a valise check found around a sleeping man the crowd warned not to tell it too often or you’ll believe it yourself
The article describes legislative action creating a Soldiers Relief Commission and a Soldiers Relief Fund in each county. It details appointment by the Probate Judge, a three-member commission with two veterans, a property tax levy to fund the relief, and annual meetings by May to set payments to eligible veterans or sailors. The text also references township village and city boards contributing representatives.
A Sacramento Bee report details local winners from the Louisiana State Lottery drawing. George H Lavenson earned 7500 after buying five coupons. Samuel Gerson received 7500. George H Blevenson collected 2500. another city man won 2100 via DL Mills Bank. The winners describe receiving their prizes in cash and plans for generosity with the funds.
A new hop picking method uses frames and troughs to gather hops cleanly. Wages mirror other regions, with picker credit determined by the overseer, reducing waste and discomfort. A Philadelphia trader revisits his old home, lamenting a new house being too fancy.
A fragmented piece recalls a woodsman bragging he could travel a wild reach and return by a slender thread, a tale interwoven with a railroad scene and a public crowd. It also notes a period of hard times, advice from Johnson & Coy on work, and a Charleston painting distinction with a peach trade profit in New York.
Col Anson Mille of the United States army travels to May to discuss a plan for an international reservoir above El Paso to store wet season water for irrigation. Maj Powell supports a sixty-foot dam and a canal elevating seventy feet to deliver water for residential and industrial use on both sides of the river.
The article catalogues varied mourning colors worldwide, noting black, white, stripes, grays, pale browns, sky blues, deep blues, purples, violets, and yellows. It cites traditions from South Sea islands, Ethiopia, Persia, Syria, Cappadocia, Armenia, Bokhara, France, Turkey, China, and ancient Rome and Spain, mentioning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
The fragment shows Mina Travis and a Mr. Travis or Posoyboy in a terse exchange about puppies and favors. The dialogue hints at a quarrel over distribution or care of Foes Press puppies, with teasing and miscommunication evident between the unnamed speakers.
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