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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1893
Page
4
A collage of scattered clippings and jokes from newspapers dated 1898 includes tirades on editors, tariffs, and rural press issues. It references Post Office changes, editorial voices, and snippets from Boston, New York, and Memphis papers, with brief quips about marriage, kings, and a child’s letter.
A rash of incidents across Wayne, Shannon and surrounding counties includes James O Niel losing 45000 feet of lumber to a brush fire insured, John Mosely spared from execution by reprieve, and Elgin Dunigan losing sawmill stock at Granite Bend. Fraud, jail escapes, a breach of promise suit, and a baby found alive in a water closet mark a wide span of events.
Nine acres of land near the Marble Hill court house and additional plots in Marble Hill, including town laws in ranges B and F. Also 140 acres near Glen A, 200 acres southwest of Glen len, 160 acres four miles south of Utesville on Bollinger Mall road. Unimproved parcels to be sold at a Mergain auction for ap.
Patent list shows Missouri residents receiving last week’s grants. Names include BR Albert of Carrollton for a clothes line. J H Brady of Kansas City for heating cooling and ventilating system. W B Roughs of St Louis for a calculating machine. C A Fleming of Hantsville for a hay rake and loader. Y W Frioux of Perryville for a gate. C O Mook of Kansas City for an adjustable tuber for woodworking machines. A L Plasters of Tarkio for a reversible draft brick kiln. B E W Settle of Kansas City for a car coupling. J H Stevenson of Alliance for a steering mechanism for traction engines. J W Taylor of Cape Girardeau for a gate. T Tucker of Sareno for a packing box lid.
The contract to deliver the brick for Rosemount hall to the ground, awarded to D. H. Bartels near Gordonville, is completed by Willi Kinder, Bartels’s employee. Mr. Kinder will assume charge of a school at Tilsit, Missouri, in a few days.
Fragmentary OCR notes claim honesty experience and skill were used to produce a perfect pill at DeWitt's Little Bar. Details unclear with garbled text but suggests a claim of superior pharmaceutical preparation.
Fragmentary report describes a man and a woman traveling with a gentleman, one not returning at night. A Friday search near Bollinger County located the couple. they moved north then reportedly turned back upon learning they were pursued. W. E. Rockwell was in St. Louis last week.
T. L. McGraw, a Commercial hotel porter in Lutesville, received an unexpected letter from his son in Naukeen, Wisconsin. The engineer on the Wisconsin Central railway had been killed in a Milwaukee & St. Paul wreck between La Crosse and Minneapolis two years earlier, and the son plans to visit his father soon.
Willie Statler, former compositor, resigns his post this past summer and enrolls at Oak Ridge High School. Prof W A Leoffler praises his diligence and bright prospects, noting he proved apt and energetic in printing. The editor recommends him for favorable opportunities.
Mrs Wells wife of F M Wells and mother of J T Wells died at their Marble Hill home at 1 yesterday afternoon aged 80 years leaving two sons. The obituary notes her noble race faith and eternal hope and peaceful passing. The piece also reviews magazines from The Cosmopolitan and Demorest's with illustrations and fashion content.
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