Local items from Milan and nearby towns in 1903
Milan residents visit relatives in Kansas City, buy Buxton's potatoes, Imperial Flour, and other goods. Local trades include poultry shipments, subscriptions to the home paper, and medical remedies from Dr Shoop. Benches of community chatter cover travels, sales, and small-town commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Turner
Milan
Red River Valley
Buxton
S. J. H. Dunkin
Gibson & Pulliam's
Lee Tomlin
Vera
Kansas City
Public Sale At Browning Farm Auction Nov 14 1906
Nova Mundell offers 40 acres corn in shock 20 acres fodder kitchen and household furniture at public auction on Browning area farm 2 1 2 miles south and west of Browning. Items include mares drivers mules hackney stock cattle pigs carriage harness and farming gear plus a dehorning outfit and a phone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning
Nova Mundell
Electric Bitters Cures Child Vitus Dance Says School Officer
S C Blair, superintendent at St Albans Virginia, reports his daughter recovered from St Vitus dance after three bottles of Electric Bitters. The remedy is praised for nervous complaints, debility, female weaknesses, impoverished blood and malaria. Guaranteed by H E Epperson drug store. Sheriff Buckley delivered ballots and poll books to election judges last Friday. The note ends with a mention of Dr Kings new Whea liver and bow…
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. C. Blair
St. Albans
H. E. Epperson
Sedts
Buckley
Ballards Snow Liniment Claims Pain Cure for Man and Beast
A Bakersfield Missouri user testimonial praises Ballards Snow Liniment as a universal remedy. The note claims it cures all pain for both people and horses and cites a decade of personal use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Roberts
Bakersfield
Local Social and Church Notes From Green City Area
Ray Morris on the sick list. Rev Royston to preach at Zion next Sunday. Ira Porter spent weekend at home near Green City. George Blackman and family visited Charles Morris. Mrs Charles Spencer visited St Loe to see her husband. Box supper planned at Fairview school house Friday. Henry Blackman returned from Trenton after five weeks away. Milas Johnson building a new barn. Will Kenley of Kirksville Normal visiting home. Effie Opel and Lillian Mairs visited Ben Purdin’s last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royston
Zion
Ira Porter
Green City
George Blackman
Charles Morris
Charles Spencer
St. Loe
Fairview School House
Henry Blackman
Trenton
Will Kenley
Kirksville Normal
Effie Opel
Lillian Mairs
Ben Purdin
Dairy and Food Commission Report Warns of Poison in Laxative Honey
The Minnesota Daily and Food Tar and Bee’s laxative honey allegedly contained opiates and croton oil. Opiates are poisons and croton oil is a violent poisonous purgative, prompting warnings against consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Eny
Purdin Items Highlight Local Visits and Travel
Meadville residents Mrs J M Pound visited Purdi friends Friday and Saturday. Linneus folks attended services Sunday. J M Black and Urra Smith and wife returned from Texas Wednesday. Miss Artie Dickinson stayed with Mrs Berth McClanahan. C S Hale came back from Vernon Texas. Denis family left Tuesday for Omaha to establish a new home. Aunt Julia Hoskins has been quite sick. Try sack of Impe per sack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Pound
Meadville
Purdi Friends
C. Jenkins
S.S. Hale
Browning
C. S. Hale
Vernon
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Veda Schrock
Linneus
Wester Downing
Columbus Mitchell Jr
Ben Gooch
Cordie Bowyer
Tulsa
J. T
J. Lay
West Office
Buxton’s
N. C. Guinn
Moulton
Iowa
Love
H. Clay Jones
J. F. Reynolds
Mrs
C. F. Turner
Flora Smith
Siloam Springs
Arkansas
Josie Pratt
Watson, I. T
Bertha Jones
Pink Gooch
J.a.mairs
A. P. Rose
Spokane
Hollister
Fred
Rocky Mountain
Bailey
Whaley & Son
Rose
Washington
Chester
Browning, Mo
F. M. Haymaker
Tallula
G. D. Palm
Effie Carter
Young Fields
Pur
Ed Slack
J. J. Smith
Z.ashby
California
Wm. Criss and
C. Jerome
Dr. Shoop
J A Mairs
W. Whaley
Winsley & Sons
Ney
Quarey & Sons
Imperial
J A.mairs
J. Mairs
Arthur Gibson
F. N. Tacket
Alliance
Mr. Tacket
Dr. Kings
Focsa
Linn County
L. W. Hummel
Browing
Missouri
Dr. Kings’ New ‘Whea
Wellsville
Ke Oak Chief
E. B. Fields
Jas. Brassfield
H. £. Epperson
LC. Lantz
W. J. Ford
Jas
McGee
Se Charitable
Opel
Ray Morris
Milas Johnson
Purdin
Ily of
J. M. Black
Urra Smith
H. A. McClanal
St. Joe Wednesi
Artie Dickinson
Berth McClanahan
Julia Hoskins
Gusos
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