Missouri News Nuggets Mixed Local Events
Purcell Daisy B Rowe longtime postmistress of Purcell dies after major operation. Kansas City Robert Reuben Smith longtime Modern Woodmen of America director dies of heart attack at his office. Fulton Robbers steal 2500 dollars in clothing from Neukomm store. Steele Cotton gins report 11793 bales this season. Fulton Three injured in Highway 40 crash near Fulton including James A Van Loon Edward Mueller and John Keithley. Laclede Birthplace of Gen John J Pershing plans Pershing National Park costing about 560000. Kansas City Secret Service uncovers counterfeit ten dollar gold coins source arrest in St Joseph. Springfield Greene County farmer Curtis Lee Johnson dies by suicide. Tipton Francis Hartmann dies of heart attack while farming. Brookfield Freak cyclone injures Mrs Kehr and daughter near Meadville. Columbia Prof Howard Jensen resigns Missouri for Duke. St Charles Robbery of truck driver B L Dudley on Highway 40. truck recovered later. Columbia Dr Thomas G Orr elected president Missouri Medical Alumni. Flat River Major power line project Rivermines Osage River dam to hire 300 workers starting January. Excelsior Springs City set to host nine conventions in 1951. Jefferson City Gov Caulfield appoints Berryman Henwood to Missouri Supreme Court. Smithville James C Peters 89 Quantrill raid veteran dies. last Quantrill follower in Clay County.
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Fulton
Fred K. Malkin
Arlington
van Loon
Callaway Hospital
Mueller
Keithley
Laclede
Missouri
John J. Tershing
Tipton
Francis Hartmann
Tie
Brookfield
C. B. Kehr
Meadville
Rivermines
Osage River
Excelsior Springs
Middlewest Advertising Managers’ Association
The
Western Baseball League
Sinclair Oil Company
Advertising Golfers’ Association of Chicago
Missouri Electric Golfers’ Association
Missouri Association of Public Utilities
Missouri Bankers’ Association
National Electric Light Association
Missouri Pharmaceutical Association
Christmas gifts: bunny cushions and stagecoach book ends
A reader notes charming crafts for holiday gifts including bunny cushions for highchairs in pink or blue with hand embroidered features. The piece also highlights decorative stagecoach book ends as a popular home accent this Christmas season.
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Baby
Santa
Stagecoach
Christmas Pillow Toys for Nursery Use
Christmas gift idea for children featuring washable pillows made of sateen or percale with gingham animal appliques. Santa Claus endorses their use in pillow fights, highlighting practical nursery appeal for mothers.
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Santa Claus
Stephen the Deacon and Martyr in Acts Seven
The lesson covers Stephen chosen as a deacon, his speech before the Council defending God's progressive revelation, his martyrdom by stoning, and his vision of Jesus at God’s right hand. It notes Saul’s later impact and links to Christian courage and faithfulness.
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Stephen
Moses
Christ
God
Stifler
Temple
Israel
Stephen Stoned
Jesus
Saul
Faith Faith and the Lord in Brief Bible Verse
A reflective note cites Jesus wept as a brief Bible verse whose meaning is amplified by surrounding accounts of the crucifixion. The passage links sorrow to salvation and invites readers to contemplate faith amid suffering.
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Jesus
John Andrew Holmes
Notable Quote by Sir George White on Duty
Before God I stand at attention before God every morning before I go to my day's work and receive from him my marching orders. Sir George White articulated a solemn routine of daily duty and obedience as guiding principles for leadership and service.
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Sir George White
Hunter Uses Airplane to Run Down Coyotes
Montana stockman Charles McGuire of Highwood turned to aviation to hunt coyotes during heavy snows. He fitted his plane with six foot skis to glide over the range and land on open terrain if needed, avoiding snow clearing on his field and protecting his herd.
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Montana
Charles McGuire
Highwood
McGuire
Adobe house of Henry Wickenburg joins Bar F X guest ranch
At Wickenburg Arizona the adobe home where Henry Wickenburg lived and died fifty years ago will become a curio of a guest ranch. The house will be part of the Bar F X ranch. Wickenburg discovered the Vulture gold mine.
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Wickenburg
Ariz
Henry Wickenburg
Likable Chap Delivers One Liner on Theater Etiquette
A humorous exchange notes that theater crowds rise to greet a late arrival. The quip suggests workplace quarrels and daily housekeeping troubles spill into home life, spoiling the evening.
Monument to Roland at Blaye May Lose Historic Status
Paris reports a danger that the Blaye citadel in southwestern France could be delisted as a historic monument and its ruins destroyed. The piece recounts Roland the hero of the Song of Roland, his ivory horn, his sword at Nuremberg, and notes the Blaye fortress built in the seventeenth century by Sebastien Vauban.
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Paris
Blaye
France
Charlemagne
Roland
Roncesvalles
Nuremburg
Pyrenees
Sebastien Vauban
Unkind Reflection on One Highbrow Novelist
Harold Bell Wright, a leading American novelist, remarked in New York that highbrow writers receive praise but sell only modestly. A Fifth Avenue encounter with a manuscript protruding from a frock coat leads a publisher to mock the author and warn of potential theft.
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Harold Bell Wright
America
New York
Fifth Avenue
Morals and collectors tale quoted by Dr. D H Kress
Cleveland dinner hears Dr D H Kress warn that leagues rely on collectors and must select carefully. A deacon recounts three church collectors who resigned for self‑benefit, then a one‑armed replacement quit, saying he could not make it pay.
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D. H. Kress
National Anti-Cigarette League
Cleveland
Veterans Hospitals Run by United States Veterans Bureau
The bureau oversees 96 government owned or controlled hospitals with 49 under direct bureau control. Through July 1, 1929, 429000 ex service men had been admitted and 27784 patients remained, including 6547 tuberculosis, 12781 neuro psychiatric, and 7456 general and surgical cases.
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United States Veterans’ Bureau
Bureau
Cycle of Hard Luck for Gouverneur Boy Leland Luenberger
A yearlong sequence of misfortune befalls ten year old Leland Luenberger of Gouverneur starting with a misstep and ending in continued hardship. Neighbors and family rally for the child as doctors and teachers seek solutions to his fragile health and schooling challenges.
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Leland Luenberger
Gouverneur
Family health woes and smallpox quarantine halt honeymoon
A man sustained a severe knee cut from football and endured two weeks in hospital after a car crash, then faced a sequence of illnesses including measles mumps and scarlet fever. He recovered but later cut his foot on vacation and now sits in an easy chair to heal. In Emporia Kansas a honeymoon party of five was quarantined after one member fell ill with smallpox.
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Emporia
Kan
Weight guidelines for men by height with Kruschen plan
An old ad outlines normal weights for men aged 40 to 44 by height from 5 ft 6 in to 6 ft 2 in and invites readers to weigh themselves. It promotes the Kruschen Method for fat loss with a four week plan and a daily dose of Kruschen Salts, lasting four weeks, available at drug stores.
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Leonard Williams
By Request She Will Marry As Relatives Prompt
A fragment shows a woman saying she was asked to marry many times and names her parents as the ones who arranged the life question. The brief indicates family pressure over marriage decisions.
That's a Zinger from Capper's Weekly
A Capper's Weekly cartoon caption plays on wit and maternal judgment in a brief exchange. The joke hinges on a quip about intelligence and social banter.
Farm Woman Benefited From Pinkham's Compound
Mrs Curve J Suerman of Lickdale Pennsylvania recalls farming life with mother and sister, then husband and children toiling on a 64 acre farm. After a doctor advised Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she says she became a new woman and values health over riches.
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Lickdale
Lydia E. Pinkham
Curve J. Suerman
Lickdale, Pa
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Purcell
Daisy B. Rowe
Kansas City
Robert Reuben Smith
Modern Woodmen of America
Neukomm Clothing
Jefferson City
Berryman Henwood
Hannibal
Caulfield
Missouri Supreme Court
Robert I. Walker
Henwood
University of Missouri
Smithville
James C. Peters
Quantrill
Lawrence
Clay County
P. B. Fitzwater
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Holy Ghost
Philip
Prochorus
Nicanor
Timon
Parmenas
Nicolas
Antioch
I. Stephen
Acts
Betty Crsaher
Betty Crocker
All-Star
Hunter
Likable
West
Cree & Chaffey
Palm Springs
California
Ninth Ave
New York City
Armstrong Investment CO
Guthrie, Okla
Florida
G. C. Myers
Dundee
Fla
P. O
Joe Latkowski
Providence
RK. I
Veterans’ Hospitals
Capper
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