Towns at risk from trade diversion and debt culture
A 1907 tract warns that shifting trade to mail orders could bankrupt small towns, depress property values, strain churches and schools, and erase local centers of commerce. It urges simple living, avoiding credit, and investing in community stability over distant catalogs. The piece includes notes on local land transfers and a quip about cork legs.
Notice on funds for Pleasant Hill Chapel removal appeal
Parties who subscribed money for moving Pleasant Hill Chapel to Kaifong Grove Cemetery and remodeling are notified the funds are payable to Farmers Exchange Bank or J I Harmon. Payment due by June 1. Ladies invited to shop for summer hats, stock complete, prices and service promised by Mrs E Kimber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plesant Hill Chapel
Kaifong Grove
Farmers Exchange Bank
J. 1. Harmon
Property transfers in Milan Missouri week ending May 11 1907
Abstracts from Miller Higgins Milan Missouri record transfers including J A Clem and wife to Georgia A Myers for tract in Milan priced at 400 dollars WLM Witter and wife to Virgil E Harmon 2500 dollars for a Milan lot Anames W Moberly and wife to Wm A Meekins ten acres in section 3 town 62 range 21 priced 220 dollars Sion P Alexander and wife to Robert J Caldwell eighty acres in sections 12 and 18 town 2 range 21 valued at 2050 dollars George T Jones single to J W Pipes forty acres in sections 4 61 20 priced 1490 dollars and a fragment noting Igis A Myers single done K Russ Lots 25
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller & Higgins
Milan
Missouri
J A Clem
Georgia
Myers
Witter
Virgil E Harmon
Anames W Moberly
A Meekins
Sion P Alexader
Robert J Caldwell
George T Jones
J W Pipes
Hair Dressing Item Fragments Found in Unclear Text
A fragmentary OCR item mentions hair dressing with unclear wording and scattered letters. The readable part suggests reference to hair care but offers no full context or identifiable event, person, organization, or date.
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Brown- Cy BS
Adam
JJ Hoffman
Hadley & Wf
Geo
Samuel B Payne
Conley
Green‘castle
John Cork
Mrs. E. Kimber
Igis A Myers
J. W. Oxley
Kreso
Whaley&Son
Browning,Mo
Naneo
A. Hair Dressing
Lhair Dre
Teomer
Pronte
Browning