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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
12
An old newspaper notice promotes a bundled one year offer at $2.50. Existing Times subscribers paying a year in advance can add Daily Republic for $1.50, while new cash subscribers may receive Daily Republic and Butler Times for a year.
An advertisement promotes a combined daily issue of The Times and The Republic for rural free delivery areas. It notes the Regular Edition of ten pages mirrors the Fast Mail Edition with Sporting News omitted, while Telegraphic, Market and Financial pages are complete. Daily except Sunday, 312 copies annually, subscriptions through The Times.
In Washington a group of congressmen in Speaker Cannon's room discussed dodging their vote on prohibition for the District of Columbia. Cannon declared, No one on earth is more cowardly than a congressman unless it is two congressmen.
Gavin Paddock of Liberty Prairie Illinois formerly of Paddock Hawley St Louis walked into a St Louis insurance office to claim indemnity for a missing finger after a corn cutting machine blade severed it. He arrived at 11 40 p m the policy expired at noon while he waited and was assured payment.
Austin, Texas. The appellate court affirmed a district court judgment against Waters-Pierce Oil Co for 1,623,000 dollars and canceled the defendant’s Texas business permit. It overruled a rehearing motion in the receivership case. the decision gives the appellate court final jurisdiction in such cases.
Castoria reports conflicting population counts for Pleasant Hill, with 1,979 from local option census and 2,559 from a city council order. The council kept the list private, filed a certified declaration with Harrisonville’s county clerk, and hopes the court will exempt the town from a Casas county local option vote, though this is likely to be ignored.
A Toledo publication quotes travelers alleging Russians devalue women, citing proverbs and anecdotes from weddings and daily life. The piece also contains a 1886 affidavit from Frank J. Cheney of I J Cheney Co offering $100 per case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with promotional lines for Hall's products and a general drugstore note.
In Carthage the circuit judge ruled the public utility act constitutional and that cities may regulate rates charged by public utilities if reasonable. The Home Telephone Co sought higher rates than a 1895 city contract, while Carthage passed an 1903 ordinance setting rates. The company filed an injunction. the case awaits next term to test reasonableness of the ordinance.
Judge Jno Armstrong of Osage County reports a cattle shortage due to ongoing sales and light feeding. Farmers rely on light corn rations and rough feed through winter, hoping pasture improves in spring as weather remains unusually fine. Blue grass pastures and stock fields still provide feed, while DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are advertised by Clay's drug store.
A moral note on speech links character to language as Samuel Carleton travels from St. Joseph to Humansville and reunites with Walter Carleton, discovering his mother and a brother after learning their father had died. The Carletons had moved from Kansas thirteen years earlier, with a long search before the chance encounter in Humansville.
A farmer rejects home merchants and buys via wall order. A note in a suit pocket prompts a reply from a mail order firm. The tale leads to a sharp letter from a husband accusing mistaken identity and ends with an ad for DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills sold by Frank Clay druggist.
Jefferson City Mo December 16 The State Board of Prison Inspectors adopted a resolution asking the State Board of Health to come here and inquire into the smallpox situation to decide if it should assume control The inspectors aim to protect the big prison where more than 2000 people are confined The malady is severe here with several cases but no fear of an epidemic
Silver comes from Missouri lead ore in the southeast, where ore carries 1 to 1.75 ounces per ton. United States Geological Survey data in Mineral Resources of the United States 1906 shows 31,808 ounces of silver produced from this source in 1906.
Virol no one wants an old fashioned cod liver oil preparation or emulsion because Vinol is a much better body builder and size creator for old people children and for soaps 75 colds bronchitis etc If it does no good we will return your money FRANK T. CLAY Druggist BUTLER MISSOURI
Horace Ware in New York on November 19 writes to the Evening Post criticizing Treasury issue of three percent indebtedness certificates and Panama canal bonds. He argues such borrowing funds banks at interest, noting public relief motives misstate and urging clarity on government actions in Washington.
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup as a free gentle bowel action remedy for colds. It claims to contain no opiates or paregotics and notes availability at Clay's Drug Store.
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