Belmont Boss Faces Sale Offer Over Franchises
Gloria Kerr, a daughter of Belmont's ruler, grows torn between love and loyalty as editor Joe Wright rejects offers to sell the Belmont News to Kerr and Kendall. Judge Gilbert probes a purchase while Wright vows to protect community trust and refuses to part with his paper.
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Joe Wright
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Belmont Conflicts Push Gloria and Wright Toward Secret Plans
In Chapter XIV Wright urges Gloria to leave Belmont for a hastily arranged future, promising to join her soon, while Gloria weighs loyalty to her father and her growing happiness with Wright amid a blocked wedding. Tread interrupts with new tension as discussions occur offstage and a judge's name surfaces.
Court Motions Fail As Farmer Faces Penalty In Mock Trial
An exchange in Shelbyville Missouri recounts a farmer missing court and a judge forfeiting the case. A lawyer recalls relentless motions to avert penitentiary, with the judge repeatedly overruling them before a final remark on the court’s willingness to mete out justice.
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Such is Life Dreamer Wakes to Realization
A terse exchange frames a paradox about ambition and waking from illusion. The dialogue suggests that while dreams are possible, truth may pull the dreamer back to reality. The tone hints at a humorous moral about perseverance versus escape.
Global Match Production Per Person Figures Scrutinized
Report notes that the match industry yields seven matches daily for every man woman and child worldwide interpreting production as a daily per capita figure.
Missouri Old Trails Meeting at Arrow Rock Tavern
Missouri road enthusiasts gathered at the historic Old Trail Tavern in Arrow Rock for a formal dedication as a museum and for talks by speakers including F W Butrum state highway commissioner. D A R members from Kansas City attended by train to Blackwater and then a prairie schooner to Arrow Rock.
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Arrow Rock
Missouri
Old Trails Association
Prairie Schooner
Kansas City
Phi Gamma Delta Dinner at William Jewell College
Alumni from Kansas City attended the Phi Gamma Delta supper at William Jewell College. Dr. Charles W. Moore of the Institutional Church of Kansas City responded to a toast titled A Fiji's Debt to Society. W. M. Finch, former assistant attorney general, was a speaker at the event.
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Phi Gamma
William Jewell
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity
Wiliam Jewell College
Kansas City
Charles W. Moore
Institutional Church of
Fiji
W. M. Finch
Springfield Tax Levy Ruling Upheld by Circuit Court
Judge Guy Kirby upheld a city tax increase by Springfield City Council raising the levy from 60 to 60 cents per $100 valuation without a popular vote. If sustained by the state supreme court the decision could let Missouri cities with populations around 30 000 impose current expense taxes up to 100 cents per $100 valuation.
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Springfield
Guy Kirby
Circuit
Supreme Court
Missouri
Jail Term for Illegal Operation in St Joseph Case
Dr. George W. Stranahan labeled guilty by jury in criminal court for performing an illegal operation. He received a nine month sentence to the county jail. The complainant testified as a 16 year old girl.
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George W. Stranahan
St. Joseph
Caldwell County to Establish First Rural High School
County Superintendent McClintock says western districts petitioned for a rural high school and he will lay out the boundaries within ten days. Caldwell currently has five approved high schools all located in towns.
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Caldwell County
McClintock
Smithville Boy Killed While Hunting
Malion Denny, 12, of Smithville, died from a single shotgun discharge received while hunting on Thanksgiving Day. He lived five hours after the injury. This marks the third accidental shooting death in the Denny family.
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Smithville
Malion
John Denny
Denny
Boy, 18, Killed by Engine Belt in Andrew County
Herman Hunter aged 18 son of farmer John Hunter of Avenue City Andrew county died after being thrown against an engine belt. He was reportedly working near the machinery when the accident occurred. Authorities described the fatal incident as a tragic workplace accident.
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Herman Hunter
John Hunter
Avenue City
Andrew County
Mathematical Prodigy Rube Fickd Dies on Missouri Farm
The notable mathematical prodigy known as Rube Fickd died on a Jackson county farm in Little Bime after an apoplectic attack. He was about 70, committed to the farm by the county court in 1907, with his health failing as his powers waned. Born in Bath.
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Missouri
Jackson County
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Trube
Bath
Westport Resident Philip Becker Dies at 81
Philip Becker a Kandys City resident and one of its oldest citizens died at his home after a monthlong illness from heart trouble. Born in Brensbach Germany February 27 1832 he immigrated to the United States as a youth and came to Kansas City in 1856. He worked as a boot and shoemaker and later in mercantile business retiring after his wife died two and a half years ago.
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Pierleér
Philip Becker
Kandys City
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Brensbach
Germany
United States
St. Louis
Kansas City
Five in Sedalia Motor Wreck injures five people
A motor car driven by G Vaughan struck a street gully in Sedalia, overturned, and pinned five occupants. Stewart of Pilot Grove sustained a skull fracture and broken arm. C G Vaughan suffered a right arm fracture. Daisy Vaughan had both arms broken. Kathryn Vaughan had cuts. Ira Warren and Mary Ellen Warren with bruises and injuries. Mary Ellen is 15 months old with a fractured arm.
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Sedalia
G. €. Vaughan
A Stewart
Pilot Grove
C. G. Vaughan
Daisy Vaughan
Kathryn Vaughan
Ira Warren
Mary Ellen Warren
Blown Up in a Tunnel at Liberty College
John Kingsolver and Robert Hamilton were severely injured in an underground tunnel at William Jewel College in Liberty when a hidden charge of dynamite exploded as Kingsolver threw his pick against the floor. A rescue party found the men minutes later. They were reported to have a chance for recovery.
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John Kingsolver
Robert Hamilton
Wiliam Jewel Cellege
Liberty
Aler Kingsolver
Kiel Presses Plan to Eliminate Grade Crossings
Mayor Henry W Kiel of St Louis will file formal proceedings with the State Public Service Commission within days demanding elimination of about twenty dangerous grade crossings in the city.
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Kiel
St. Louis
State Public ‘Service Commission
Henry W. ‘Kiel
Court Will Act on Ross Murder Appeal
The motion for appeal by Mrs. Haywood Ross after being found guilty of murdering her husband at Fulton will be acted upon in this term of court by Judge David Harris. Mrs. Ross is out of bond.
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On Ross
Haywood Ross
Fulton
David Harris
Injured in Lathrop Motor Crash
J M Bryant owned a Turney grocery store and was severely injured when his car overturned at Lathrop. His son, the driver, sustained slight injuries.
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Lathrop
J. M. Bryant
Turney
Miner William Kraft Dies After Mine Injury
William Kraft aged 25, a Huntsville miner, died after living three years with a broken back from a rock fall in a local mine. He had suffered the injury in Huntsville and passed away recently.
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William Kraft
Huntsville
Victim of Train Robbers Dead
Samuel A. Queen, shot by a desperado on a Missouri Pacific train at Rich Hill while escorting a handcuffed prisoner, died at his home in Hume.
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Samuel A. Queen
Missouri Pacific
Rich Hill
Hume
Watch recovered after five years in Denver pawnshop
Charles Sheppard a Springfield fuel company cashier received a Denver police chief letter saying his stolen watch was recovered in a pawnshop five years after a lone robber held up the coal firm and took cash from his office.
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Charles Sheppard
Springfield
Denver
Cal
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