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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
2
The column from Marble Hill Missouri blends social skewering with satire on topics like divorce actions, rising food prices, Klondike jokes, lynching, wheat crops, and a fictional Swede’s wealth, while mocking grand civic monuments and Yale legends in a curio of early 20th century rural journalism.
The French government investigates fashionable names linked to a dangerous trend at tributes. A cigarette brand shielded by a metallic lens is allegedly silvered lip paper, with analysis showing base tin attached by lead chromate. Youths may seek a silver tongue via a prescription mixing nicotine white lead and mercurial salts.
The Uganda people’s assimilation of civilization is praised as missionaries report. A Lusoga primer was published by Tomish Swabidungo of the Church Missionary Society press. The Milesuda boy printer, recently distracted, completed layout and printing of two thousand copies.
A provocative historical reflection links labor struggles in a western state to broader social reforms. It cites a boss who paid what he could, praise for workers treated as men, and the impact of cooperative charity. The piece recalls a New York Children's Aid Society case sending a boy to Indiana and ends with Alaska's Gov. John Brady appointing him territory executive, posing a question about social mobility.
An English society lady stirs debate by saying dancing has degenerated. Ballet is nearly to the point where dancers must be regenerated or risk failing to impersonate Father Time's mother. A New York wife who sold her husband for 25 dollars seeks to retrieve him, possibly without success for that amount. Husbands appear cheap in New York at present. A professor chosen for a ship in one college is noted as a specialist in child study.
A historic speech warns bankers seek to expand bank note issued power, urging Republicans and Democrats to unite behind a hard money platform. It recalls Bland of Missouri’s 1894 95 protest against gold standard easing and rail monopolies, urging Jefferson and Jackson era principles. The piece traces Democratic reform, Grover Cleveland, and the push for a constitutional money regime with government issued currency.
Former Congressman Towne argues against gold standard defenders and for silver in the 1898 campaign. He cites world wheat demand and U S production to show price rises stem from policy, not famine, urging American farmers to avoid policies harming producers abroad. He dismisses bimetallist triumphalism as premature and warns against pandering to famine fears.
A truncated OCR line cites a policy statement about the country’s direction. The readable fragment references guiding principles and constitutional governance without specifying actors, dates, or events.
John M. Garman, state chairman, calls for William F P Harrity to resign as national committeeman after a Reading meeting where the Pennsylvania Democratic committee declared the seat vacant by Harritys absence and perceived disloyalty. Garman demands an active, loyal successor and cites Harritys retirement from politics.
A Missouri professor in the state university faces critique as Brown University trustees, favoring free trade and bimetallism, are pressed to respond. The piece mocks gold standard supporters and predicts a rift among “gold clique” papers if a professor is dismissed.
A period editorial laments foreign demand boosting wheat prices while silver falters. It argues national banks and paper money oppose government money issuance, condemns national bank currency as unconstitutional, and portrays Mark Hanna's influence in Ohio mining districts amid calls to end national banks and redefine money.
In a harsh critique the Gold Democrats at Louisville are branded lacking charity and burdened with denigration. The piece argues their self view as holy is misjudged and mocks the idea that Bryan voters are villains while Melkinley backers are puppets of radicals. It condemns Carlisle and associates for shifting from anti‑gold to pro‑gold and likens the Gold Democrats to religious fanatics burying themselves in National Bimetallist rhetoric.
The Indian rebellion is linked to money issues as Hindus hoarded gold and silver in jewelry to weather hard times. Mints closing devalued these ornaments, forcing many to pawn for food, illustrating widespread distress and contributing to unrest against England.
Barbra Roeschlau, a flaxen haired girl from near Kufs in Upper Franconia, displays electrical powers that emerged six weeks ago and recur irregularly. Doctors will study the case as it challenges explanations, while she fears possession by a malignant spirit and has left her home to work as a domestic.
The text describes a powerful display by an Italian woman named Barbara whose force is strong enough to move a 200 to 300 pound water barrel in open air. Experts in Berlin may study her to uncover the mystery behind her strength and its source.
The Chesapeake was captured in 1812, sent to Halifax and Southampton, then broken up in 1820. John Prior built a mill in Wickham using deck timbers thirty-two feet long and eighteen inches square, still bearing shot marks. A life of Captain Broke notes the mill’s outside quiet while memories of the battle and fallen officers weigh on the observer.
The article explains two mile types, a statute or land mile and a nautical sea mile. It notes a statute mile equals 6,280 feet in length.
The New York University dormitory, funded by Miss Helen Miller Gould in memory of her parents, was formally opened last Thanksgiving. Chancellor MacCracken praised the building, noting its near perfection and no superior features. The four story dorm holds 112 students with 48 studies, 64 bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and ample storage, including built in closets and oak window seats.
A kitchen scene ends with flying utensils striking Barbara and Mrs Hoffmann. Dr Wolfram attributes the events to a peculiar force in the girl. The article then discusses Paladino’s trance exploits and explains nautical versus statute miles, detailing definitions and exact lengths.
Hindoo jugglers astonish European shows with a 15 foot bamboo pole act. The performer wears a girdle around the waist, rests on a cushioned jog, and dances while pantomiming. He balances a needle on his nose and another on his chin, rotating them in opposite directions for a startling display.
The article claims Gaelic is spoken as a full language by many in the United Kingdom and Ireland, listing Ireland, Wales, Hertland, Gorawal, Yorkshire, and a remark about a heartbreak scene with a mythical elf. It reads as a fragmentary OCR passage with nonsensical place names and errors.
The building is described as fireproof with marble concrete halls. It offers varied room layouts including sixteen corner suites, sixteen smaller suites, sixteen large suites with two bedrooms, forty-eight single rooms, and sixteen large studios with interior bedrooms, all catering to one to three occupants per suite.
Hon Charley P Cochrane of St Joseph represents the fourth Missouri district in Congress. Born September 27, 1848 in Kirkeville Mo he lived in Atchison Kas 1860 1885. A printer newspaper man lawyer he served as prosecuting attorney of Atchison county and as Missouri state senator. Elected to the Fifty fifth Congress as a Democrat winning 21512 votes to 17083 for the Republican and 148 for the Prohibition candidate.
In Drittuny theatre lore a curlows marriage rite is shown on coronation days with young women dressed in red garments bordered in white or yellow. The number of borders signals the portion the father offers his daughter, with each white band equating to silver hundred francs yearly and each yellow band to a substantial sum in francs.
France, population 20,000,000, plans a Meld effort by a 2,000,000 force to appear quickly. The proposal seeks rapid deployment and coordination across regions to meet near term demands, signaling a major mobilization and governance test.
A collection of short humorous quips and comments featuring characters such as Old Sonic Moss Fern Benedict Rounder and others. The bits touch on sobriety politics civil service reform examinations and reactions to women in public spaces, with light banter and playful jabs.
A quirky note from The Californian News on language usage between sitting and setting. It argues the hen owner sets the hen while the hen sits, and a spelling quirk leads to a feathered bip ed refusing to sit on her eggs.
Ask your grocer today to chew you a package of GRALIN- the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try like it and looks like coffee but is made from pure grains. Sold at cents and 25 cents per package by all process. Tastes like coffee, Looks like coffee.
Figures show 6 per 1,000 dying of old age while gout and measles claim 1,200 and 13,400 deaths respectively. Apoplexy, erysipelas, consumption, scarlet fever, whooping cough, typhoid, typhus, and rheumatism also contribute, with averages varying by locality but reflecting overall population mortality.
A New York postage stamp dealer devised a scheme to forward letters to a community by concealing them in wrappings protecting stamps sent from Cuba. Several important letters have recently arrived in New York by this method, escaping the strict censorship on outgoing mails.
A jumble of ad slogans and quirky phrases appears in a杂 page. It includes a dubious claim about insuring prompt service with tips, a fake medicine line up with Cancarets and Candy Cathartin, a note about refunds, and a Hawaii price fix. Separate bits touch on civics, mind cultivation, and a humorous bingo exchange about trading a tandem for wheels.
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