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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
8
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as the best remedy before illness deepens. It claims the product nourishes and builds the body when ordinary foods fail and urges immediate action at the first signs of flesh loss.
Omaha news reports the president summarily removes Irving F. Baxter from the U S district attorney post over the fencing prosecutions of cattlemen Bartlett Richards and W E Comstock. Baxter cites duty but declines to resign. his firing follows dissatisfaction with the prosecutions and related events.
Nearly 100 club rooms were raided by St Louis police under direct orders from Gov Folk. Those found selling liquor were arrested for violating the Sunday closing law. Clubs had proliferated since prior enforcement. Prosecutions continued as owners were released on bonds and reopened. Multiple arrests occurred at the same club in rapid succession.
The shaft building of the Marquette Third Vein Coal company near Spring Valley, Illinois burned Sunday morning. Estimated loss is 250000 with no insurance. The 500 miners will be reassigned by Spring Valley Coal. One hundred mules suffocated. The owner, Charles J. Devlin of Topeka, Kansas, had recently died.
Judge C A Denton granted changes of venue for Major Harvey W Salmon and Frank M Salmon and manager Thomas M Casey in bank failure indictments. Doctor George Y Salmon withdrew, trial set locally. Venues spread to Polk Bates Benton Pettis Cass counties. new bonds posted. several forged notes canceled totaling 72 043. The signers are local business figures.
An old advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with laxative bromide compounds. It credits E W gnatoreis on each box and offers a refund if six doses fail. The copy uses bold claims and a simple price of 25.
An eye witness reports severe famine in the Seek east provinces with many areas near starvation. Relief efforts will be vigorously organized and aid from allied nations will be welcomed.
Fragments describe severe burns and leg injuries with reference to Rivenbatk Jr of Norfolk Virginia. The note mentions pain and healing, plus wounds and sores. Advertisement lists 25 cents at Frank T. Clays druggist.
Manila December 25 W J Bryan cabled from Hongkong his decline of Acting Governor Ide s invitation to stay as guest describing himself as a newspaper reporter not a citizen He says accepting hospitality would place him under obligations he might later write about He will be greeted by officials on arrival and has toured Japan Korea and China on his world trip with wide interest in the Far East.
A notice warns the public about imitators selling fake Dr King s New Discovery for consumption and remedies like Bucklen s as genuine. It urges checking the wrapper for the true name and identifies Bucklen & Co of Chicago and Windsor as the authentic source guarding 40 years of cure success.
The Missouri Pacific offers a $215 special round trip to Kansas City with weekly Saturday sale and Sunday departures from Butler, returnable any train leaving Keason City before noon the following Monday. Denver and Colorado Springs tours priced at 80 percent of the double one way rate, final return May 41, 1906. Home visitors excursion November 27, 1905, five and one third for round trip. Tickets valid to Illinois Indiana Ohio Kentucky West Virginia Pennsylvania New York Michigan and Ontario regions with 21 day return limit from international live stock exhibition Chicago. Tickets on sale December 16–20 and return by December 24, 1905.
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