Fresh butter and creamery ads fill local notices
Numerous items note fresh butter, butter milk at the creamery, and Poultry and eggs cash offers. Local residents including R. C. Bailey, Wm. Smith, John Gibson, and Allen Lee visited on business. Peters Produce Co. and Browning firms advertise goods and services. social calls, guests, and tours appear throughout with multiple mentions of Milan, Brookfield, Humphreys, Kahoka, and other nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Bailey
Milan
If Peters Produce Co
Wm. Smith
Purdin
Carter & Fields
St. Louis
Humphreys
Mairs
Browning
J. D. Sevier
Uncle Reuben's Letter on Congressional Commissions
A satirical critique of congressional payoffs and sinecures recounts how inactive members receive commissions drawing high salaries, with examples like Jim Tawney and Nelson Aldrich. The piece criticizes gerrymandering in Ohio and mocks party editors, ending with a spoof about allocations to Republicans in Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic House
Haven
Washington
Congress
Europe
Immigration Commission
Alps
Uncle Sam
Jim Tawney
Minnesota
Hemenway
Indiana
Nelson _ Aldrich
Spanish Claims Commission
Post Office Commission
House
Senate
Ohio
Statesman
Gerry
Ana Unch
Reuben
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Healy
John Gibson
Brookfield
Allen Lee
F. M. Haymaker
W. C. Bartlett
Browning, Mo
Lena West
Mollie Crawley
Bertha Neely
Laredo
Robert Glaze
Adrian Glaze
Frances
Mary Holmes
Norman B. Harris
New York City
Matt Harris
John Sargent
Myrick Bros
Haseville
Edgar Schrock of
Linneus
F.L. Biswell
J. D. Burwell
E. Hit Stewart
Kahoka
A. B. Stewart
John Harris
Hobert
Okla
W. S. Langdon and Wife
Mr. Harmon
Hig Farm
Mr. Langdon
Dr. Mairs
Dr. Hess
C. W. Northcott
Sumner
T. W. Vanseggan
Browning Concrete Co
Nettie Fuller
Peters Produce Company
Roy Taylor
Poultry House
Duncan Township
James Pipes
Edward Myers
George Morelock
Dan Havens
Harvey
H. B. Johnson
Hummel’s
E. L. Kane
B. W. Lane
C. G. Cutberth of
Ethel Pratt
Joplin
Florence Westlake
Jacob Sampsell
H. A. Tomlin
Chillicothe
John C. Calhoun
Seymore
Iowa
John Mairs
Herman Scott
Colorado
Clarence
H. W. Scott
Charles Taylor
Valerius
General Kruger
Romeo, Jr
Sen
E. B. Fields
Haggard & _Godsey
Uncle Reubens
Pet
Erson & Moore
L. ©. Lantz
Milt Moore
Dell Wilkes
Wing Wilkes
Meacham
Woodford Wilkes
George Wilkes
Cassity
Bill Stone
Tom Tripp
Riley’s Barr
Cassity & Crookshanks
J. P. Bolling
Harmon & Bolling
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