Missouri University marks seventy fifth anniversary in Columbia
The University of Missouri celebrates its seventy fifth founding anniversary in Columbia on June 6 with alumni and state residents as guests. Activities include talks by alumni a state representative and the Secretary of the U S Department of Aptical motor car ride campus singing by the glee club illuminations and a later musical. New summer session departments added include agriculture rural sociology rural economics and courses for ministers. Short courses in bookkeeping penmanship stenography and typewriting are offered for the first time. The average summer study cost about 70 dollars excluding railway fare.
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University of Missouri
Columbia
United States Department of Aptical
Glee Club
Missouri Farm Labor Surplus Noted in State Report
The Missouri State Board of Agriculture reports little need for extra farm labor with under 15 percent responding as needing more help. An open winter boosted plowing and farm work while fewer miners shifted to agriculture. Separate items note an electric shock death of Ralph Human and a fatal motor car accident near Boonville involving Fred Becker.
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Missouri
State Board of Agriculture
Southsail
Fred Becker
Boonville
Santa Fe Trail
Ota Ins Ie Mototome
Farm Wages Higher Cost of Living Tied to 1894 1914 Data
A Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics bulletin links higher farm wages shorter hours and increased board costs to rising living costs from 1894 to 1914. It compares Missouri with other states and Europe to show a common trend and suggests wage increases could lure unemployed city residents to rural work. It also records local obituaries and incidents, including a fatal fall and a broken arson suspicion in Macon, plus a notes section on constructing a DIY shelter tent and doll house from sticks and cloth.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics of
Missouri
John T. Fitzpatrick
Adversity as a School of Greatness and Instruction
The text argues that adversity reveals potential, training the Christian to rise above handicaps. It cites necessity as the mother of invention, notes that difficult tools test workers, and claims hardship yields sweetness and glory through overcoming foes and earthly grief.
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Samson
Riddie
Accused County Officials Face Salary Law Charges
Prosecuting attorney C. C. Ferrell auditor J. H. Curtis circuit clerk Ross C. Cox and county clerk Joseph Hunt are accused of applying the new salary law before the 1911 election. They allegedly retained old fees and drew salaries under the new basis, receiving more money than entitled after the law passed.
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C. C. Ferrell
Curtis
Ross C. Cox
Joseph
Hunt
Sphere of Women and the Value of Virtues in Speech
A fragment discusses the briefness and tone of speech among women, contrasting brevity with other virtues. It notes the need for authentic expression and mentions a comparison to traditional expectations of women’s conduct.
Ready to Meet Them All Lain
A fragment reads as a cryptic note about desire to encounter individuals named Lain and a sense of delusion. The text is incomplete and lacks clear date, place, or event details. No identifiable organizations or persons beyond the name Lain are confirmed.
Rich Relatives as Objects in Old World Outcasts
A fragmented report notes rich relatives used by the poor as social fixtures while a deeper voice underpins shallow remarks. The piece hints at class tension and performative status within crowded social scenes.
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State University
Howeton
State Board. of Agriculture
Modern Wood of America
Toledo
Ralph Human
Roy Vorden
HumapPhreys
Padgett
Callaway County
van Court
Yantis
Joplin
Venus
John S. Marmaduke
Carthage
J. M. White
Schools of
White
J. L. Jones
Macon
Dunwoody
Jasepr
William B. Weeks
Awe
Aaron BT
Cnet
Raeper
Gern Sevie
St. Joseph
Sphere of Women
Se Ae
Post
Grocere
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