Penitentiary milestones mark Missouri history week
March 1 1836 marked the Jefferson City penitentiary cornerstone to modern Missouri corrections as readers review how the project evolved from a four acre facility with forty prisoners to a vast system. The piece traces legal acts Governor Miller Dunklin and later reforms ending in Algoa Farms and state rehabilitation efforts.
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Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Jefferson City
Miller
Dunklin
United States
Daniel Dunklin
Pennsylvania
Missouri Penitentiary
Auburn
Warden Hughes
Hells
Reynolds
Kansas State
National Society of Penal Information
Society of Penal Information
Algoa Farms
Oats Germination Tests Urged For Spring Plantings
Emergency County Agent Baugher urges tests on all oats intended for planting this spring due to low germination rates reported by the state seed testing laboratory. Free testing available by sending samples to the College of Agriculture or farmers may test themselves. Vocational Agriculture classes may assist. Several bins of fulghum seed oats are listed by the county Extension Office.
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Baugher
College of Agriculture
Administrator Notice for John Frank Smith Estate
Letters of administration granted by the Probate Court to the undersigned for the estate of John Frank Smith de jure. Notices reference the administration action and redistributed property details. Community events include visits and relocations among local residents and families.
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John Frank Smith
Saturday Visitors and Farewell Party in Roger
Saturday afternoon callers at Addie Dell home included Mrs. Wallace Lovell Mrs. Craig Dunlap Mrs. Pat Green Mrs. Ray Trumbo Almira Jaynes Lois Davis Robert Shipley Charles Davis and Mrs. Leone Woodall. A visit by Fritz Brinkley family at Leo Brinkley home followed by other local calls. Charles Lovell to leave for Chicago after a winter with grandmother Mrs. Lovell.
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Roger
Almira Jaynes
Shelby
Lois Davis
Schweppe
Humphreys
Robert Stephenson
Tom Ford
Little Opal Mae Brinkley
John DeWitt
C. J. DeWitt
Imogene Maggart
Ada McKinistray
Grant Smith
Ralph Collins
Edgar Pipes
St. Joseph
Tom Woodall
Emmett Spencer
Brownie Collins
Emmett
Addie Dell
Wallace Lovell
Craig Dunlap
Pat Green
Ray Trumbo
Robert Shipley
Charles Davis
Leone Woodall
Fritz Brinkley
Cleo Charlene
Leo Brinkley
Charles Lovell
Davis
Charles
Chicago
Mrs. Lovell
Bessie Bardon
Myron Williams
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U. S
R&w
B&w
Red & White
Linn County
Chester Bagley
Arthur L. Pratt
Maytag
Bailey Maytag Co
Browning, MO
Maytage Company
Newton
Iowa
Ae Lesrie
Baty Ens
Dbs Tile von
Browning Farm
Browning, Missouri
M. T. Scott
Mgr
Gooch
Browning Farm Club
Mr. and
Mrs
Clan Yardley
Melvin Stephenson
Mollie Ford
Maxine Woodall
Marjorie Crowdis
Moffitt
Salem
Gene Rogers
Elma Grindstaff
Missouri Association OF Public Utilities
West Highes
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