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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
7
A reader describes using Peruna for years as an ideal tonic for old age, noting its benefits and the habit of taking a spoonful nightly. The message mentions Peruna tablets as an alternative for those who object to liquid medicine and invites readers to request a free Peruna almanac for 1910.
Flora Quick of Holden, Missouri, later known as Tom King, married George Mundis and pursued a wandering horse trader life in Indian Territory. A local recollection from J. E. Van Matre ties her girlhood in Jolinson County Maryland to a dramatic, lawless phase amid the territory’s rough lawmen and rustlers.
Cuppings from the December Farmer and Breeds of Columbia Missouri offer practical advice for poultry and livestock. Feed sweet skim milk hot to chickens, apply crude oil to the hen house interior to deter mites, and ensure dry natural ventilation to prevent colds. Provide warm drinking water in extreme cold, discard scrub livestock, and encourage the best for maximum profit. Protect feed from rooting by using barbed wire under woven fencing, avoid forced roosting trees, and maintain clean, sanitary meat handling and storage. Emphasizes humane farm hands, fencing choices, and the value of clean barns, vermin control, and sun exposure. Recommends timely cleaning, scalding, and ample sunshine to keep poultry healthy, and proper winter housing with vented bedrooms and open windows. Advocates keeping corn fodder harvested when ground is frozen and storing near feed lots. Encourages pasture for a small flock of sheep as money makers with intelligent management. Stresses silos for balanced winter rations and urges study of the silo.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica as a skin salve to treat pimples sores cracked lips and chapped hands. It promises a soft velvety skin and a face glorified. Sold for 25 cents at F T Clay's.
Five thousand miners in the Coalgate district were left unemployed after eleven mines were shut last week by State Mine Inspector Peter Hanratty for operators failing to comply with his demand to reopen. The closures impact workers across the region as authorities review compliance.
A Winfield Kansas man named Apple sat at Kansas City Union Station with face and ear frozen from a Nebraska blizzard. He refused medical help, trusting prayers from Christian Science healers hundreds of miles away to cure him. Authorities urged a doctor, but he insisted faith would heal him and boarded a Santa Fe train to Winfield.
W J vain worked alone at Banner Springs Tennessee amid dampness storms and cold. He caught a severe cold that worsened to inflamed throat and lung issues. After trying many remedies he used Dr New Discovery and reports relief and cure for $1.00 with a guarantee by F T Clay.
Webb City Missouri December 19 a music teacher Mrs Patti Devan Rose files suit for twenty thousand dollars actual and punitive against Postmaster Walter Thorburn for alleged remarks harming her reputation. She also sues Walter H Tholburn son of the postmaster for five thousand dollars actual and punitive damages based on four conversations with different persons. Rose recently arrived from Georgia and is well known socially. Thorburn is a Webb City pioneer resident.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions dyes and cotton coloring with unclear names and phrases. The readable bits imply a textile color topic possibly involving Latin terms, but key entities, dates, or events are indiscernible. No concrete person, organization, place, or outcome can be confirmed from the fragments.
Freight trains do not carry passengers. All freight for forwarding must be at depot by eleven o clock am or be held for the following day. Interstate Division freight must be delivered before two pm. No morning freight billed for this train. Missouri Pacific offers through pac car service with merchandise from New York and other cities arriving on successive mornings from Cincinnati Cleveland Indianapolis Chicago St Louis.
University of Missouri students in Columbia will stop shouting the word hell at football games and concerts. The policy prohibits the expression across campus events to reduce profanity and maintain decorum.
Burlington Iowa farmers and neighbors in Illinois and Missouri are urged to feed Bob Whites during deep snow to prevent mass starvation. The plan calls for each farm to allocate grain for the birds and to reduce farm cats, which hunt birds, to protect the flock for the coming summer when quail help control pests.
Wil liam Hedsome, a hermit and old soldier in Parkersburg West Virginia, was buried with a shroud sewn with two large wings. The wings went missing at the grave and the interment was delayed until they were replated.
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