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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
5
Next Wednesday the world celebrates the one thousand nine hundred and seventh birthday of Jesus Christ and the Christmas season. The Times expresses appreciation for patrons and friends and notes the year has been prosperous and hopes readers are happy, contented, and hopeful for the future.
New England experiences grip epideroic with 150 deaths in Boston attributed to it. About 200 Wellesley girls under physician care and 94 Smith College students sent home. Harvard University reports 34 cases.
The 16 fleet class battleships and 14 000 officers and men left Hampton Roads on a long cruise to San Francisco. President Roosevelt aboard the Mayflower reviewed the fleet. The dispatch notes the nation's preparedness and hopes for peace, while senators Owen and Gore drew terms in the Senate. Bryan contrasted democracy with aristocracy through Lazarus and Dives.
Arkansas Senator Jeff Davis disrupted senatorial courtesy by delivering his maiden speech in the Senate. The move challenged the tradition of silence for new members while state interests are debated.
Secretary Bradbury suggests the next legislature could repeal the current law and require railroads to carry packages on express trains as now. He notes the present contract between railroads and express companies compels the latter to pay railroads 50 percent of their gross receipts.
In Kansas City last week the Missouri Bar Association session elected Col. Robert T Bailey as president for the ensuing year. Bailey, a Harrisonville attorney, is well known in Butler where he practiced before the circuit court for many years. The state circuit judges were elected vice presidents with Payton Parks of Clinton named to the ways and means committee to represent the 20th Judicial circuit.
A public sale note invites buyers to purchase corn offered by the Peoples Elevator Company. The brief item signals a local grain transaction and highlights the company as the seller in the exchange.
Tae Totes has been edited by five Butler merchants for months. The Times runs extra pages to fit their engaging and pecuniary valuable messages, ensuring buyers and good people in Bates County know the merchants advertise honestly.
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