Local Notices and Personal Errands from Milan Missouri
A crowded list of locals and out of town visitors visiting elsewhere, with business calls and social visits. Mentions include Dr. Hanna the Optician, Timothy seed at Flemings, D S Smith of Purdin, M Pearle Adams in Laé¢lede, B F Cattey of Salem, A B Cattey of Winigan, Frank Smith of North Salem, Nolan Arnold and Dr. R W Whaley in Kansas City, and many others. Advertising for field fencing, enamel ware, roofing, cream separators, oils, and farm loans appears alongside these personal notes. Frequent travel between nearby towns and calls at local shops mark the community bulletin nature of the item.
Local notices and sales in Browning area events
Quincy and Hale business visits mixed with sales promotions and local notices. Multiple names, farms, and merchants appear with items like 14 qt alum dish pans, encoraging orders and farm sales across Browning and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey & Neets
Barbershop Change of Ownership Promises New Staff
Wallace Grice announces the Curt Sampsell barbershop has new ownership and two skilled barbers join. Dinnie Turner of Chillicothe and George Boehman of Unionville are praised as talented tensorial artists and men of good habits. The note invites customers to try the updated services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curt Sampsell
Dennie Turner
Chillicothe
George Boehman
Unionville
Wallace Grice
Peaceful Valley Play Draws American Legion Audience
The American Legion presented Peaceful Valley at the Electric Theatre last Friday before an appreciative crowd. Supt. Shipley supervised the production and praised all performers as first rate. A repeat show is planned for Tuesday night with proceeds benefiting the Claude Myers Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peaceful Valley
American Legion
Electric Theatre
Supt. Shipley
Claude Myers
Local greetings and farm for sale notice from Milan area
C W Reeves of Milan was here on business Tuesday afternoon. Dr and Mrs W Ingram went to Kirksville last week where Mrs Ingram had an operation and is improving. For Sale: a well improved 100 acre farm 4 miles from a good town on rural route near a public school. Priced right. Address P O Box 136.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.w.reeves
Milan
W.€.Ingram
Kirksville
Good Town
Mela Thurlo
Sleet, travel notes, and a tale of a singing wife
A local column records many residents traveling to St Louis on business and visiting relatives in Kirksville and Milan. It also features a tale from a Western Newspaper Union piece about Philip Langdon and Dollack encountering a singing wife in a desolate setting, leading to a hopeful romance with a schoolteacher in a cottage by a brook.
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Dr. Hanna
Optician
Timothy Seed
Flemings
D.s.smith of
Purdin
M. Pearle Adams
Laé¢lede
B.f.cattey
North
Salem
A.b.cattey of
Winigan
Frank, Smith
North Salem
Nolan Arnold
R.W. Whaley
Kansas City
Harvey & Neet
Bailey’s
K. M. Duncan Co
Wm. Hedges
Browning
J.m.bailey
K. M. Duncan Co’s
L.c.tomlin
Mechanicsburg
Arthur Bennett
Fayette
George Burkholder
Tina
Leo Morris
Brookfield
Harvey and
Neet
E.g.brookshier
Ottumwa, Iowa
Ed Garrett
Mr. Garrett
Clyde Warren
Near
Linneus
H.C. Warren
Harvey and Neet
Higgins & McDuff
Lelia Nickell
Sarah Bingham
Hiattville
Kaya
Mrs. Everett Lambert
Mr. Lambert
F.c.thurlo
Freeland Brothers
A.j.meade
E.w.mccomas
Grand Junction
Colo
D. G. Freeland
Frank B. Green
Potlatch
Idaho
Mr. Green
Cys
Bull Durham Tobacco
Guy Péters
Quincy
B. J. Lambert
Hale
George Jones of
Hugh Stewart
St. Joe
C.t.faudree
Bloomfield
Florence Wykoff
Bailey's Hardware
Emma Burns of
Florence Gable
Iowa
Roy Haley
L.m.dickinson
Route 3
Frank Tucker
Ganetum
Chula
Scott Brown
Route 2
J.H. Nickell
Presley Robinson
Joe Miller
Carl Gilmer
Miotaetast
Adams & Son Wholesale Grocery Co
J.h.taylor
Art Lambert
R. A. Thurlo
Stork
Babe
Fran Delzer
Frank Neff
Robert Purdin
East of Town
Hermin Adams
Vic Fields
Stansberry
S.w.correll
Tomlin Farm
Chester
W. M. Cassity
Dan Havens
Cora
J. W. Sevier
East of
Gladys Myers
Dr. E.S. Linhart’s
W.j.dodson
B. F. Northcott
Sumner
W.w.hatch
Harvey
C. P. Oaks
Walter Prather
Lowell Brantner
Harvey Dunkin
J. P. Gooch
Henry Hanman
Orlean Harris
Pleasant, Hill Township
C. E. Steele
Routes3
Glenn Bauswell
Route 4
Lillian Duncan
Alpha A. Whaley
Hume
Charley Brummett
W. P. Nickell
Hinda Rush
Melia Thurlo
Nelia Bundridge
R. A. Thaurlos
Cora Havens
Topeka
Kan
G. W. Morelock
Roberta Jenkins
G.w.morelock
J.w.smith
Hanna
Nevins Drug Store
J.b.stone
West of Town
W.H Stone
Stone
A. G. Bauswell
Legion
Humphreys
H.V. Hanna
Optometrist
Kansas City, MO
T. E. Bundridge
A.m.baker
St. Louis
W.n.ogle
Elder Spier
South
Missouri
Bruce Cunnard
Scott Browning
W.p.nickell
Francis Fanning
A. A. Healy
B. F. Owens
Kismet
Patrick Cokerham
Owens
Kansas
W.h.dickinson
Radio Free
Will Pulliam
Jesse Pulliam
J.e.steen
Near Purdin
Citizens Bank of
Roger
Peoples Bank
Mildred White
Orr Orr Ae
Western Newspaper Unies
Philip Langdon
Philip
Dollack
Jake
Phil
Lem Haskin
Linda
Lem Haskins
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