Missouri Conventions and the State's Early History
The article traces Missouri's constitutional development from the 1820 charter through 1846 and the Drake era to the 1875 plan still in force, noting the 1865 constitution and the 1924 amendments. It also includes a light diarist section reflecting daily life and local humor across a week.
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Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
St. Louis
Third and Vine Streets
Congress
Monroe
Jefferson City
General Assembly
Mercantile Library
Humorous Snippets on Morality and Affair Folly
A collage of wry maxims and anecdotes on love faith and social behavior. Jests about the clever spouse the aged reforming character and church life mingle with quips on peacemaking and music leading to a lighthearted reflection on conduct and hypocrisy.
Remembering the days of old time services and costs
The excerpt notes a bygone era with linen dusters for automobilists, tin milk cans, six cents a quart for milk, widespread livery stables, and no horseless carriages. It mentions pins, a submarine romance by Jules Verne, a kitchen girl earning three dollars weekly, distant conversations with Europe, and orchestra seats priced at fifteen dollars each in Boston Globe style.
Timber bamboos shoot rapidly in moist soil
Notes describe how bamboo in moist fertile soil can produce shoots up to twenty feet or more within three or four weeks. The passage also notes a comparison of motor weights over time and mentions the Dead Sea in Palestine and historic wealth of a former German ruler.
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Dead Sea of Palestine
GrandmA Wayback Says Happiness and a Wife
A quoted Pathfinder Magazine passage contrasts women and men, noting a woman who learns to do things better than a man, and that the ideal husband treats his wife freshly, with old-timer remarks about stockings and marriage enduring vseen.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Sayings Fragments Reflect Hidden Moral Threads
A garbled collection of proverbs and aphorisms surfaces as a fragmentary meditation on discipline wealth marriage and work. The pieces hint at caution against excess desire and the quirks of human behavior amid faded proverbial echoes.
My Lady's Mare Was Roguish Romance in Park Ride
In a park tale set among aristocracy and police, Lady Whitlock’s act of kindness lets her maid Marie ride daily with Simpkins. Marie and Officer Gillow share glances as they ride My Lady’s mare and a chestnut mare, culminating in a dramatic park race where Marie faints and Gillow rescues her, revealing Marie’s true identity.
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Cipriinne
Florida
Whitlock
Marie
Simpkins
Maflett
John Gillow
Whit- Jock
Gillow
Murle
Iceman Gillow
Riverside Drive
Gulow
Otheman Gillow
Glilow
Missouri Game News Highlights Conservation Efforts
A Missouri sportsmen notice urges careful driving to save game birds and wildlife. Reports on "New Deal" fish provisions, CCC projects, Montauk Park improvements, and wildlife protection actions from the American Game Association are summarized with local notes on licensing, trespass, and deer population estimates.
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Preston Bradley
Izaak Walton League
American Game Association
Dr. Bradley
League
Misso
State Board of Fisheries
T |American Game Association
Connecticut
Federal Conservation Corps
Tiber
Sam A. Baker
Remains of Roman Boat Found Near London County Hall
Remains of a Roman boat, believed from the Carausian era 287 to 298, were unearthed thirty feet deep on the site of the county hall and are now in the London museum. The find links to Britain under Carausius.
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London Museum
Carausius
Britain
County Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ford
Ant Emmy
Mr. Lakes
India
Alex
Pearly Gates
Jules Verne
California
Europe
Boston Globe
Sae
Exkaiser
German Republic
Wayback
HSH News
South
W. E. Rogers
C.C.C
Indian, Trask State Park
Salem
Game and Fish Department
Blue Sky
E. E. Leach
E. K. Leach
St. Louis County
E. A. Lowall
Reynolds County
Lost Trail, Inc
Gilbert Lam
John A. Eversole
Potosi
Montauk Park
Dent County
No 32
Montauk State Park
Montauk
George E. Barnes
Spring Branch
Santuary
Thomas Young
Ball
Barnes
Texas County
Ture
Souern
Ozark
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