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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
7
Angelina Anaclone, wife of Phillip Ferrec, was convicted of murder for killing Ferrec last August after claiming slander. In Chicago on December 16 she was sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. The court heard the unwritten law plea fail as a crowd watched a distraught mother with her baby.
In New York on December 16 Herman Henze renowned for counterfeiting high quality half dollars to fool experts was sentenced to six years in Sing Sing prison. His method involved expert craftsmanship and meticulous detailing to imitate mint coins.
A California man who melted Mexican dollars into counterfeit United States 50 cent pieces testified that his money was as good as the government's and that no one was defrauded. He planned to finance an airship and believed he had solved aerial navigation. Henze traveled from San Francisco and started a cottage business near Soffern, New York, drawing curiosity from local youths.
A brief note extols South Dakota as a wonderland with mines ranges and formations. It advertises Dr King’s New Discovery as a life saving cough and cold remedy tested on a boy with severe lung and throat trouble, praised by Mrs Clapp and Mrs Beannes. Available from F T Clay druggist at 50c and 1.00 with a free trial bottle.
An empty envelope mailed at Clinton on July 16 1907 addressed to J R Lowe Neosho Missouri and received next day is the sole clue to identify a dead body found in Charles Weatherly near Bentonville Arkansas last week. The envelope bore Siloam Springs Ark Descriptive envelope with return card of F W Bartell manager of Clinton Chautauqua, absent two weeks after mailing. A Bartell relative may have written and mailed the letter in Bartell's envelope. No marks of violence were found on the body.
LeRayeville, N.Y. merchant Woolever recommends Bucklen's Arnica Salve for piles and says it cured him 20 years ago. The salve claims to heal every sore, wound, burn, or abrasion and is sold for 25c at F. T. Clay's drug store.
A didactic fragment urges keeping sorrows private to avoid spreading trouble. It compares hidden hurts to covered wounds and warns publishing distress invites lasting trouble, ending with a quip about no one knowing until it passes.
A Scott county man ate his meal entirely with his knife and, discovering no fork, asked a traveling man how to pick his teeth. The traveler replied that a fork was unnecessary, provoking the man to exclaim his plans to pick his teeth without one.
In cooking meats a slow simmer yields tenderness and flavor. Begin with a brief surface set by a half hour boil, then return to barely simmer for hours, keeping water at gentle ebullition and the pot closed. Avoid rapid boiling to prevent dryness. use evaporation to form gravy. Try on tough cuts or old fowl.
In St Louis Prof Arthur D Langston corrected a misreported remark to Missouri Negro Republican league delegates. He said colored people and whites associate intimately on street cars and urged proper conduct, insisting a colored man should not occupy a seat when a white lady stands to teach a lesson and gain ladies support.
A brief drugstore advertisement touts Doctor King's New Life Pills as a quick remedy for fatal stoppage of liver and bowel functions. It promises absolute satisfaction or money back and lists F. T. Clay's drug store as the outlet, price 25 cents.
The Clinton Democrat jokes that Mississippi bears have humor and that General Emmett Newton, masquerading as a private citizen, fired the shot that put him in the Roosevelt class. Newton, hunting in Mississippi, wires back that he has killed a bear and notes the bear would be tickled by seeing him in full military regalia rather than using a rifle.
Des Moines reports Iowa corn production dropped by about 150 million bushels per Director J R Sage of the Iowa Climate and Crop Service Bureau with a net financial loss near 20 million dollars to farmers. Oats also disappointed while overall state yields remain near average.
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