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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
An extract from a writer's notebook mingles brief vignettes about breakfast of water and a sonnet, fear of neighbors' irritation over meals, and a weary search for work. The clipped quotes include phrases from St. Louis Ee public and Record-Herald, hinting at themes of poverty and resilience.
A veteran recounts the Solferino fight in Harpers with vivid scenes of fear, wounds, and carnage. He recalls comrades dying for a drink, the storm of gunfire, bayonets, and the random mingling of Italians and Austrians as night fell and exhaustion took hold.
The piece notes that from March 2 to September 22 the sun never sets on American flag areas including Alaska Porto Rico and the Philippines while the sun sets on the western Pacific territories during other periods. It cites the United States Naval Observatory calculations and mentions Porto Rico and Balebesian as extreme points with longitudes and latitudes.
A zoo keeper presents a yellowed tooth like a rattlesnake fang and explains its origin from shed snake teeth. The article notes the tooth’s needle sharp pulp and a tubular channel running its length, while cautioning handling and potential misinterpretation of such remains.
Quote cites Mrs Nurich urging widow to place her son in a job with only a pittance. Nurich retorts he did not promise a position, recounting the boy arrived with a note from the widow stating the need to find work, even for a mere pittance.
A collection of brief comic snippets features a dry joke about a drink, a trader’s ploy to elicit a natural expression, a misdirected shop conversation, and a pun turning a lumber yard into a butcher shop. The clipping includes wordy captions and stray letters.
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper with a long note on the artist seeking a suitable face for Jesus and Judas. He uses choir boy Pietro Bandinelli as the model for Jesus and later discovers Bandinelli’s face also became Judas after years of misbehavior and ruin.
Congressman Quarles recalls a dinner with a New York financier and guests where the fifth course features langue fumee and a fishing mishap. A waiter jerks the line as a salmon crosses the pole, snagging the fish.
A Neoga grower and other state apple producers blame scab from wet spring weather for a poor crop. H A Aldrich cites scab extending to stems and fruit drop while D D Doll disputes the view, predicting under five percent of normal yield. News notes also advertise Foley's Kidney Remedy and a six room modern cottage for rent.
A man buys shoes for $3 pays with a fake ten. The shoemaker changes the bill, gives $7 change, and later repays the grocer. He returns $5 in singles, a two, and $3 in change. Total loss equals the value of the counterfeit plus misused funds. The riddle asks how much the shoemaker loses in this counterfeit exchange.
A scribbled quarrel mentions a solid gold ring and an alleged finger mark, with lines referencing Hazel Nutt and a Chicago Tribune remark. The fragment hints at a misattributed stain claim and a playful dispute over the ring’s impression.
The Herald begins a weekly feature presenting a portrait and brief biographical sketch of each Illinois governor. One portrait will appear each week, offering readers a valuable reference to the state's leaders.
Shadrach Bond of St Clair the first Illinois governor was elected in September 1818 without opposition and served until December 1822 as a Democrat who favored making Illinois a slave state. He later ran for Congress in 1824 and was defeated, then served as register of the land office at Kaskaskia before dying there on April 12, 1832. The Bond County name honors him. Born November 24, 1778 in Fredericktown Maryland, he moved to Illinois in 1794 and was a farmer by trade. A monument marks his resting place at Chester.
Elijah Cosgrove of Quincy says ten years ago he dropped a ten dollar gold piece into an Indiana resort lake and watched a pickerel swallow it. He kept fishing for the fish and a week ago last Saturday caught it open and found the original ten dollars plus eight dollars and fifty cents of interest.
May 10 Grover and Minerva Davidson Marshall give birth to a girl. July 18 Shelton and Ada Davis Marshall welcome a boy. June 26 Edward and Cora Washburn Marshall greet a girl. June 24 Albert and P E Widmaier Marshall announce a girl. June 28 Arthur and Lucy Tarman Marshall announce a girl. July 19 C and Adaline Stepp Marshall welcome a girl.
Two Greenup boys Kenneth Fritts and Wayne Travis drilled a backyard well and attempted to shoot it with powder and a match. Fritts suffered severe burns though not life threatening, as they learned to imitate older oilmen.
Urio O advertised as a permanent cure for rheumatism, claiming it cleanses muscles and kidneys, neutralizes blood acids, and yields fast. It targets rheumatism, sciatica, and inflammatory forms, priced 75 cents to one dollar with trial bottles from The Smith Drug Co., Syracuse, NY.
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