Daniel Webster Visits St Louis In 1837 Barbecue
In June 1837 Daniel Webster toured St Louis as a leading U S Senate figure and presidential prospect. A large barbecue on June 13 drew about five thousand people at Judge Lucas’s ground near Market Street. Webster spoke eighty minutes, generating mixed reviews from local papers while St Louis historians praised the public display of admiration.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
General Lafayette
Daniel Webster
Massachusetts
United States Senate
United States
Webster
Masonic Hall
H. L. Kenney
Robert Morris
Ohio
Committee of Welcome
Jefferson Barracks
Market Street
Statesman
National Hotel
Charles Keemle
1. C. Lucas
William H. Ashley
Elihu H. Shepherd
St. Vis
Aimid
Thonous
Missouri Argus
Argus
Grove
J. Thomas Scharf
St. Louis University
Alton
Illinois
Congress
Senate
Do You Know Do Private Utilities Withstand Depression
Do you know that electric and gas utilities were among the most stable during depression. Their wages employment and tax payments stayed high while other industries lagged. They invested millions in new developments that improved service even as revenue declined.
Changes in Poultry Marketing and Eggs Progress
A letter discusses century long shifts in poultry and egg marketing, noting refrigeration's role from ice-packed barrels to boxed and frozen shipments. It recalls a 1900 Paris Exposition prize for dressed fowl, and laments losses from poor egg quality in Iowa, urging cooler storage and twice-weekly market runs.
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United States
Paris
Iowa
W. F. Priebe
Local residents active around Kirksville and Purdin
Clarence Becker of Kirksville visited on business Monday. Mr and Mrs Loyal Bisby returned home Sunday with nieces Mary Ellen and Lois Watson and Mildred Bradshaw. Mrs Leon Gooch and daughter Juanita Fuller and her daughter from near Purdin shopped in the city Monday afternoon.
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Clarence Becker
Kirksville
Loyal Bisby
Mary Ellen
Lois Watson
Mildred Bradshaw
Leon Gooch
Juanita Fuller
Purdin
4-H Leaders Hold County Conference at Linneus Park
Fourty members from twenty of thirty five local 4-H clubs gathered at Linneus Park on a Saturday for a Leaders Conference led by Miss Jane Hinote of Columbia. Agent Hall presided and noted the year’s large club activity. A noon covered dish lunch fed 102 attendees. The afternoon opened with a bread making demonstration.
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Pauline Matson
Luteniaj
Linneus Park
Jane Hinote
Columbia
Agent Hall
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E. L. Richmond
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