Butter, loans, and drought news reach Bates county
Local items report banking loans and insurance pitches from Butler firms, drought impacts on crops, rising livestock prices likely for cattle and hogs, and farmer advisory from Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. Notable mentions include Elder Scott’s move to Pontiac Illinois, oil discovery at a Burdett farm, and landowner levee district meeting in Walnut Township Bates county.
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Bates County
Poster
Board of Trustees
Boonville items mix politics and fires in brief notes
The column notes C McKenna ill and hopes for recovery, a letter denying a political combine with Governor Dockery, a Holden girl’s humorous composition, James Dun jailed for malicious mischief after beer wagers, and Carter from the same regiment sought. Nevada Post praises M W Carrell’sLabor Bureau leadership, a northeast farm fireat Peter Alexander farm causes $6,000 loss, plus institute notices for Bates County teachers and a roundup of local happenings including rain, travels, and social events.
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James Dun
Fryer & Hutchins
Moore
Justice Pougze
Carter
Nevada
Missouri Boy Drowns While Bathing
Alonzo Davis a 20 year old of Mountain View Mo drowned while bathing in the Mississippi River six miles east of Palmyra on Saturday night. He and companions cried for help but could not be saved. The body was recovered and brought to Palmyra for the funeral.
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Missouri
Palmyra
Alonzo Davis
Mississippi River
Young Davin
Mountain View
Electric Bitters credited with wife’s recovery
Bennettsville editor A Brown recounts how his wife, worn down by dyspepsia, found instant relief with Electric Bitters. After four bottles she was entirely well, able to eat anything, hailed as a grand tonic with gentle laxative effect for liver issues. Sold for 60 cents at AL L. Tucker’s drug store.
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A. Brown
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AL L. Tucker
Chinese tellers tied to Singapore bank robbery arrested
In Tacoma on July 20 a woman's tip led to arrests of Chinese bank tellers long employed at a Shanghai bank in Singapore. About 200000 dollars in stolen notes were recovered after investigators traced portions passed through money changers and their wives.
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Tacoma
Wash
Shanghai
Singapore
Carpenter & Shafer Mfg Co Poultry Price Offer
Carpenter and Shafer Manufacturing Company advertises buying poultry and eggs at top cash prices and assures they will not be overbid, urging sellers to obtain their prices before selling.
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Carpenter & Shafer Mfg Co
Carpenter & Shafer M’f’e Co
Drilling Mishap at Amworet Well Promises Losss
The big oil well drill bit remains stuck 460 feet down, weighing 1600 pounds, with a 54 foot steel rod. Recovering the bit seems unlikely. a new drill and hole will be started, risking about six hundred dollars in loss plus no pay for the 460 feet already drilled. The Bates County OW and Mineral Co plans a fresh drill. the mishap hits profits but not the company. A Vernon county farmer recalls past hard times and grasshopper years, noting sparse crops and markets in Cass county before better times.
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Bates County OW and Mineral Co
Teething Powders Sold Widely by Lamar Rankin Co
Atlanta Georgia November 11. We have handled Dr Moffett's Teething Powders since its first introduction and our trade has steadily increased to two or three hundred gross per year. This strong evidence of merit shows the satisfaction it gives to mothers who say teething powder counteracts the effects of the summer heat and overcomes teething troubles quickly.
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Fia
Tue Lamar & Rankin Care Co
Race Trouble in Arkansas in Leake township
A white party warned Lige Seigler a negro they would whip him but returned shooting. Seigler and his son fired, killing Lewis Haynie brother of state senator Haynie, and Hop Halton brother of merchant John Halton from Stephens. Racial tensions rise as white groups move toward the scene while the black household remains surrounded.
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Ark
Leake Township
Nevada County
Lige Seigler
Seigler
Lewis Haynie
Haynie
Hop Halton
John Halton
Stephens
Waldo
International ties grow from Delta county shooting case
May Become International Denver July 28 William Radcliffe owner of the Grand Mesa lakes lease in Delta county has been summoned to Washington for talks with the state department. The move adds an international angle to the recent shooting of two men by a deputy game warden the burning of Radcliffees hotel and the mob threat to h imself. Radcliffe says he is a subject of King Edward and has asked his government to protest.
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Col
William Radcliffe
Grand Mesa Lakes
Delta County
Washington
State Department
Radcliffe
Radclffe
Edward
Local firm secures Dr. King's New Discovery agency
The community celebrated H. L. Tucker securing the agency for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Demand was enormous as the firm offered free trial bottles to sufferers and guaranteed cures for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, croup, and other throat and lung troubles. Trial proves merit. Price 30c and $1.00.
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H. L. Tucker
Dr. King
Tariff Lifted Marking Free Trade With Porto Rico
Washington July 25 The president issued a proclamation establishing free trade between the United States and Porto Rico and announcing the organization of a civil government. The move commemorates the anniversary of the American flag planting there.
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Washington
United States
Porto Rico
Quarreled Over Property Fatal Duel in Dodge City
E Kirby proprietor of the Park Hotel killed his wife then shot himself in a murder suicide in Dodge City Kansas on July 20. The couple quarreled over property. Kirby aged 40, the wife 46. The wife was shot in the forehead and the husband in the throat.
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Kas
the Park Hotel
Kirby
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