Missouri News and Disasters Across The State
Reports from Missouri City to Doniphan detail revenue concerns, prison incidents, livestock markets, fishing rights, and a wave of local accidents. Highlights include Congressman Champ Clark warning of a revenue shortfall, a prison break and flood of convicts, a record rabbit drive, price drops in rail fares, insurance claims, and multiple local crime and fires across towns like Hannibal and Rich Hill.
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Fack
City
Missouri
900 Flu Cases Reported to Health Service
Washington dispatches report over 900 influenza cases last week to the public health service, up from the prior week. Officials urge preparedness, germicide use, and preventive actions, promoting Turpo as an effective preventive remedy.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Boards of Health
United States Health Service
How He Came
A brief humorous exchange on heredity and talent. The joke suggests a poet emerges from birth rather than effort, with a light banter between Brown and Yale about their son becoming a poet.
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Brown
Yale
Boschee's Syrup Promoted For Colds And Coughs
An old advertisement extols Boschee's Syrup as a remedy for coughs bronchitis colds and throat irritation. It claims it aids sleep and easy morning expectoration and notes the product is made in America and used by thousands of families worldwide.
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America
Quiet speakers dominate chatter in crowded rooms
In social settings those with little to contribute speak less, while more vocal individuals fill the conversation space and shape group dynamics.
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
The notice touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for colds. A dose every two hours for up to three doses clears nasal congestion and headache and costs only a few cents at drug stores. It claims no quinine and pleasant taste with no assistance needed.
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Pape
Revenue Cutter Coupon Clip Parody
A nautical exchange humorously misdefines a revenue cutter as a coupon clipper. The brief dialogue uses a father son cadence to frame a light wordplay about maritime terms.
Can I Be Cured Suffering Victim Urges Hope
An earnest appeal questions cure for an illness stressing early kidney and bladder troubles. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as relief and warns to buy only the genuine product. The ad closes with a blunt social aside about a girl and her first kiss.
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Haarlem
Adv
Deafness Cure Claim By Catarrhal Medicine
Advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and forces the reader to seek Hall's Catarrah Medicine. It describes catarrhal deafness as inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous membranes with a promised remedy from J Chenay & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
J. Chenay & Co
Toledo
Ohio
It Is Easier To Break A Promise Than A Pie Crust
A witty line contrasts promises with the fragile crust of the typical boarding house pie, suggesting reliability is harder to keep than pastry integrity in everyday life.
Not Much Credit Coming to Them
Jud Tunkins says he knows two men, and maybe three, who bragged about not being profiteers, simply because they never had a good chance. Fortunate is the girl who loses her temper and never finds it again. It takes three to make a pair counting the clergyman.
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Jud Tunkins
Fortunate
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R. H. Fowler
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John Ficklin, Jr
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Winona
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Roy W. Sutton
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China
H. 8. Dickerson
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Jesse Taylor
Tom Wilson
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Mr. Hifs
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