Meriwether Jeff Thompson a Northwest Missouri figure
Meriwether Jeff Thompson born January 22 1826 in Harper's Ferry rose from dry goods clerk to railroad president and St. Joseph mayor. He spearheaded street works and river improvements before Civil War service as a brigadier general of State troops and Confederate commander, dying in 1876 in St. Joseph and buried at Mt. Mora.
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M. Jeff Thompson
St. Joseph
Northwest
Missouri
Harper's Ferry
Virginia
Meriwether
Jeff
West Point
Lexington Military Academy
Hannibal and St. Joseph
Breckenridge
Caldwell County
Hannibal
Kansas
Thompson
Nebraska
West
Washington
Denver
San Francisco
Jefferson City
Jackson
Arkansas
Uipmees & Ubanne
Price
Board of Public Works
Louisiana
Mt. Mora
Missouri Farmers Prepare For Defense
Missouri farmers describe defense era agriculture with limestone soil building and grain reserves. They note 1940 limestone use, soil-building payments, and limited export demand while highlighting counties with top limestone purchases and the Surplus Marketing Administration food stamp program boosting pork fruit vegetables butter and poultry consumption.
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Missouri
Clark, Lewis, Nodaway
Macon
Knox
Linn
Audrain
Cooper
Sullivan
Butler
Saline
Shelby
Webster
Pike, Callaway
Harrison
Linn County
Missouri Melange and Rural Electrification Progress
A Missouri miscellany notes Richmond banks merge forming a two million dollar institution approved by the FDIC. Rural electrification expands with 325 miles of new lines planned in Crawford Dent Franklin Laclede and Washington counties and 55 more miles in Marion. Plans to improve Washington school grounds in Caruthersville and a clothing drive by Palmyra Ladies Auxiliary are reported.
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Richmond
The
Missourian
William F. Yates
Exchange Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Missouri
Crawford, Dent
Franklin
Laclede
Washington Counties
Marion County
Washington School
Caruthersville
Democrat-News
Church Sunday School Schedules Listed
At The Churches Church of Christ Sunday School and Communion each Sunday morning at 10 00 Edward F. Williams Supt Baptist Church Sunday School at 10 00 a m Herbert C Bailey Supt Everyone cordially invited to attend.
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Church of Christ
Edward F. Williams
Baptist Church
Herbert C. Bailey
Sunday Church School and Services Schedule
Rev. C. O. Hall presides at Sunday Church School at 10 a.m. H. L. Schrock is superintendent with C. B. Carr as assistant. Preaching services occur the first and third Sundays each month, both morning and evening. All are invited.
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C. O. Hall
H. L. Schrock
C. B. Carr
Farm stamp boosted prices aid Sullivan County goods
Farm products in Sullivan County such as eggs butter pork and lard see price support through food stamp use. Shoppers exchange stamps for cash purchases and grocers receive payments from the surplus Marketing Administration, boosting farm prices during peak harvesting periods.
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Sullivan County
Surplus Marketing Administration
Walking to pay taxes Gus Lux walks seven miles for taxes in Scott County
The Benton Democrat notes Gus Lux a 74 year old man near Kelso in Scott County walked seven miles in two hours and thirty five minutes to pay his taxes His motor car was being repaired yet he cited the exercise as motivation Early spring contrasts include Robins a sign of spring and icy North winds with snow blankets, catalogs arrive hinting at spring gardening challenges
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Gus Lux
Kelso
Scott County
Benton Democrat
Lux
Robins
Dried Eggs And Streamlined Army Rations Discussed
Frank Priebe explains how the Surplus Marketing Administration bought 124 million dollars of eggs for school lunches and how the Army plans to use dried eggs on maneuvers to simplify transport. He notes the Defense Commission’s push to support parity in egg markets and mentions potential use of ready to cook poultry.
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Washington
SMA
Army
Navy
Florida
National Defense Commission
Logan
Quartermaster’s Department
Frank Priebe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rinossin
Jeff) Thompson
Palmyra
Linneus Bulletin
J. H. Sandknop
Edina
Sandknop
Sentinel
Ozark
Sarcoxie
Ozarks
Tennessee
Kentucky
the Methodist Church
Rebecca Prather
Linneus, Missouri
M.F.A
Browning Farm Club
Children’s Union
BLISS
Zenith
Farmers Store
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