Farm work offer aims to move city jobseekers to Missouri farms
Labor Commissioner J. C. A. Hiller urges city residents in St. Louis Kansas City St. Joseph Springfield Joplin Sedalia and other cities to contact him for farm work paying 20 to 40 dollars a month with room and board. The Free Employment Department will connect applicants with farmers needing help and highlight life on rural farms over crowded city tenements.
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Missouri
J. C. A. Hiller
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Springfield
Joplin
Sedalia
Hiller
Free Employment Department
Farma
Burea
Jefferson City
Brothers Reunite After Sixty Years in Helena Meeting
George W. Carter of Helena and B. F. Carter of Browning Missouri, separated since boyhood, met Monday night in Helena. George, 77, born in Ohio, spent 30 years in California before settling in Helena as a restaurant operator and Bon Ton cafe cashier. B. F. Carter, 73, remained in Missouri, visiting Montana with two sons Se enacourt of Renee county and C. F. Carter in Belgrade. The brothers traced a 60 year gap, possibly the longest civil war era reunion, both Grand Army members. They plan further visits to Butte and beyond.
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B. F. Carter
George W.carter
Helena
Browning
Linn County
Missouri
Geo. Carter
California
Great Plains
Golden West
George Carter
Bon Ton Cafe
Old
West
Montana
Seenacourt
Renee County
Stafford Company
Kendall
C. F. Carter
Power Company
Belgrade
Butte
W. Carter
Grand Army of the Republic
George W. 8. F. Carter
Ohio
Save the Humus in Missouri Soils
A Missouri agriculture note stresses humus loss from grain farming and the need to maintain soil fertility through crop rotation with legumes like clover and cowpeas. It suggests turning under occasional legume crops to rebuild humus and sustain productivity. M F Miller from University of Missouri and Payne Reed of Linneus News are cited.
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Missouri
Prohibited sale of adulterated rotten eggs and drugs
The notice bans selling rotten or disease ridden eggs and adulterated or misbranded drugs. It outlines misdemeanor penalties including fines from ten dollars to five hundred dollars or up to six months, plus costs. It directs state inspectors and police to enforce these provisions. W P Cutler M D State Food and Drug Commissioner. Columbia Missouri July 1, 1910.
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W. P. Cutler
M. D
State Food and Drug Commmissioner
Columbia, Mo
Fourth Quarterly Conference at Mt Zion Church Update
The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the First M. E. Church Browning Circuit met at Mt Zion 6 miles east of Cora with representatives from four of five points. Reports were encouraging. Inst Supt. Chas. E. Petree led sermons at 11 A. M. and 1:30 P. M. A basket dinner followed. One person was baptized at the start and two converts came forward. Rev. Warner baptized one and received all into the church. The other convert will be baptized on the fourth Sunday by Rev. Nichell. A death notice followed detailing a long illness and funeral at Morris Chapel cemetery.
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M. E. Church
Browning
Mt. Zion M. E
Cora
Chas. E. Petree
Warner
Nichell
Young Ice Cream Supper Planned by First M. E. Church
The young people of the First M. E. Church announce an ice cream supper on the church lawn Saturday evening July 16. Proceeds support church activities.
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M. E
Sloan Sells High Grade Pianos to Notable Buyers
Sloan delivered high grade pianos to J. L. Sharp J. A. Mundell and S. P. Carr and promised a four year price terms. The fragment suggests a local merchant transaction with named purchasers and installment terms.
Harvest Time Bumper Wheat and Oat Crops Reported
Report from the county notes unusually large yields with wheat possibly forty bushels per acre in a 20 acre field requiring ninety six pounds of twine. Oats are also exceptionally strong with some fields near town yielding seventy five bushels per acre. Farmers finish harvests and shift to plowing corn and hay while a coal car appears on track for Wm Harvey.
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J. C. A. Hifier
M. F. Miller
Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Misouri
Lumbia, Mo
Payne Reed
The
Linneus News
Colo
Morris Chapel
J. S. Smith
Revie. M. Capp
Wm. Harvey
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