Books of Missouri Open to Inspection
Gov Dockery issues a broad invitation to inspect all state books and records at the capital, inviting the Globe Democrat and any other party to examine books with free access. He cites decades of nonpartisan committee scrutiny confirming integrity, and offers open access across departments to prove or refute charges of fund misallocation.
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Missouri
Thurman A. Post
St. Louis
Janes C. McGinnis
City of
James C. McGinnis
Henry M Smith
Jackson County
Wm. Miller
James T Moore
Laclede County
J. F. Swanger
Sullivan County
W. H. Odneal
Mercer County
R. M. Mueller
St. Charles County
Joseph B. Lindsay
Dade County
Globe Democrat
Linvite
Alm. Dockery
The Old Man Pays for Piles and Politics in 1896 West
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls a 1896 western tour during political excitement. An old farmer defiantly paid a high price for a traveler’s meal with gold pieces and a gun, saying thirty five dollars and twenty five cents. The piece ends with an advertisement for Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment, priced 50 cents to 75 cents, sold by H. L. Tucker.
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Ponce
West
Detroit Free Press
H. L. Tucker
Meteorite Found Near Boyd Home After Night Emergence
A large meteorite reportedly streaked across the sky near Jefferson avenue and Boyd's bridge, crashed into an orchard, and left a barrell sized hole. The core was buried, then exposed. the rock is iron rich, gray brown, and friable with visible heat. Ballard's Snow Liniment ad follows.
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J. B.C. Boyd
Boyd
Jefferson Avenue
Boyd's Bridge
Mr. Boyd
John Bond
Made Their Promise Good Fire Destroys Saltillo Mill
Bedford Indiana August 1 The Houring mill owned by E Heise and Sons at Saltillo nine miles east of the city was burned last night A ransom note had warned to place money in a sack at a cross road or the plant would be destroyed One firm member carried a sack with buggy washers to the cross road and the others guarded it with shotguns The sack disappeared after they left and later the mill was destroyed by fire.
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Bedford
Ind
E. Heise & Sons
Saltillo
Cream Vermifuge sale for infants in heat
Advertisement notes extreme heat as burden on baby digestion and recommends White's Cream Vermifuge for puny infants. Price 25 cents. For sale by H. L. Tucker.
Baby farm scandal shocks Kansas City slums
A Kansas City report details multiple baby farming cases in low lying flats where three infants starved to death and others, tied to private hospitals, died after being boarded for small sums. Grand jury to investigate amid squalor and neglect.
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Kansas City
Stolen Akron Bank Purse Recovered in Indiana Raid
Private investigators from an Akron banking institution arrested two men in a Goshen gambling den. They recovered about 216000 in currency and gold relics from a vault theft ten days earlier. The pair led detectives to Elkhart outskirts where the loot was buried. every dollar was recovered.
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Goshen
Ind
Akron
Elkhart
State School Fund Apportionment Completed in Missouri
State superintendent W. T. Carringigan announced the fifty-fifth annual apportionment of state school funds. A total of 1,087,700.65 dollars was distributed across counties, equating to about 21.19 dollars per school child in the state.
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Jefferson City
W. T. Carringigan
How Are Your Kidneys Dr Hobbs Sparages Pliscore
In a brief health notice Dr Hobbs discusses kidney function with a sample free. The message mentions Sterling HemecrCo in Chicago or New York as possible sources or affiliations.
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Hobbs
Sterling HemecrCo
Chicago
N.Y
Catarrh Cure Claimed To Cure All Stages
The article touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh a constitutional disease and claims it cures by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. It notes a $100 reward for any case not cured and urges readers to send for testimonials offered by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cueney & Co
Toledo
O. Pep
Druggis Sc
Greek Fire invention claims by J Lovegrove
J Lovegrove announces a new Greek fire peacemaker able to squirt a liquid at up to 500 degrees with range from one to ten miles. He seeks to sell rights via Li Hung Chang and Wu Ting Fane in Washington. The device could be stationary or wheeled and described as a field artillery attachment. He has prior claims as an inventor of steam engine attachments and improved gunnery.
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Toms River
J. Lovegrove
Li Hung Chang
Wu Ting Fane
Washington
Lovegrove
Frisco Railway Files Refunding Mortgage in Recorder Gossett Office
The Frisco railroad filed a refunding mortgage for Morton Trust Company and William H. Thompson. A large amount in stamps secured the loan, intended to refinance existing debt. The mortgage, recorded in book form, specifies bonds payable July 1, 1951, and a filing cost of 22 cents.
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Frisco Railroad
Recorder Gossett
Morton Trust Company
William H. Thompson
Frisco
A Most Liberal Offer on Farm Publications
Apaper promotes a four-for-one club with our newspaper the Live Stock Indicator Poultry Farmer and Special Farmers Institute Editions all including local county and general news priced at 1.25 per year for all four titles. Claims the set is the best reading matter for farmers with samples available at the office for examination but notes the offer is for a short time only.
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Farmers’ Institute
Poultry Farmer
West
Kansas City
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