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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1902
Page
7
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It states the remedy affects blood and mucous surfaces, builds constitution and supports nature. A $100 reward is offered for any uncured case with testimonials available from F J Cumney & Co Toledo Ohio. Mentioned price is 75 cents.
The Great Rock Island Route offers excursion tickets from east of the Missouri river to Chicago from December 2 to 4 at one fare plus 2 dollars round trip with final return limit leaving Chicago. Tickets promote the exposition as a premier event with numerous exhibits and urge travelers to consult a Rock Island agent or Joan Sebastian, GPA, Chicago.
Charles L. Dickerson a Fort Worth real estate man was sandbagged and robbed of 360 dollars on Wednesday night in the city.
Albert Foster of Strasburg NL fatally burned when a gasoline lamp exploded Wednesday night. An unrelated advertisement promotes White's Cream Vermifuge claiming it destroys worms and strengthens digestion at work, priced 25 cents and sold by H. L. Tucker.
A local newspaper promotes a limited time price of $1.25 for four papers: Live Stock Indicator, Poultry Partner, Special Partners Institute Editions, and the paper itself. It touts these as top agricultural and farm-reading materials, available for a short period and for local county and general news readers.
The Democratic county committee selects F.M. Birdwell to succeed Judge Peden and vows to resist Federal Judge Philips over railroad bond levies. A petition seeks Gov Dockery to appoint Geo Vannice of Visita as a conservative. Vernon county elder Squire Milton Ewing dies at 73 near Walker. father of county recorder G. G. Ewing. born near Lexington.
Edward Morrison, a ground miner at the Marion mine on the Continental tract in western section of Joplin Missouri, was killed Thursday morning when he fell down an 185 foot shaft. Local authorities reported the incident as a fatal accident with no further details available.
A warrant of arrest was issued for Iola Bigger and W. Smith on charges of grand larceny. The note blends with unrelated ads on liver and kidney purification products and local political meeting notices, listing prices and providers.
The Vicksburg express on the Mississippi Valley collided with a freight train near New Orleans. Fireman was killed, engineers Campbell and Baldwin and Fireman Joseph Wilson, three brakemen, were injured.
Bloomington Illinois January 9 A Lexington Kentucky man George W Hurst applied for a pension after a pension board physical revealed his heart is on the right side. The board found no discomfort from the rare condition and the diagnosis did not bar his pension chances.
Sheriff Holcomb of Savannah plans an early trip to North Yakima to bring Jack Stewart Fife to answer murder charges regarding Frank W. Richardson's death on December 24, 100. Requisition papers were received. Prosecuting Attorney Booker may dismiss the murder in the first degree against Mrs Richardson and arrest her as an accessory with life. Also a public sales ad for Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment included.
John S Tower dives miles south of Nevada to kill a bull snake four feet long. Bowen recalls the snake near Raffety's lime road, wagon wheels, and Bradley's wagon wheel. George Hitelwork dies instantly Thursday in the Menwell coal mine Ulitois from over fifteen tons of slate collapse.
Wheat mills citywide and in twenty surrounding counties grind to a halt as farmers refuse to sell grain at current prices. Widespread idle mills in southern Kansas show no sale activity with offers at low rates rejected as growers await crop prospects.
James Lawrence, about 60, a resident of near Giraveis Mills in Morgan County, was killed in Versailles when Henry Ghyvems stabbed him in the neck after Lawrence handed a knife to Owens during a quarrel. Lawrence died without a word. Owens was arrested. Lawrence leaves a widow and several married children.
Representative Lovering of Massachusetts introduced a bill to pay ex presidents of the United States a $25000 annual pension starting at retirement. The measure applies to any ex president alive when enacted. Ardmore January 16. A Muskogee convention delegation heads to Washington to press for autonomy and single statehood for Oklahoma. The Senate Indian Affairs committee will hear them January 25.
Mayme Yoast, a 1 year old who vanished from Mesilla Park Agricultural College in broad daylight, has come home saying she was kidnapped and drugged. She awoke in a country location near an irrigation ditch, where a strange man was adjusting her earring. She escaped by sliding into the ditch as it grew dark, walking home foot sore and still affected by the drug.
Palmer Nobles, seven, of Nobles family in the morning station, is credited with rescuing Theresa Webber and Mattie Metarty after they fell through ice at Military Park pond. He heard screams, grabbed the girls, held on as the ice thinned, and kept them afloat until help came.
The Ninth Infantry is prepared at the War Department for return to the United States after service in the siege of Pekin and actions in the Philippines. Arrival arrangements are made, with travel likely to occur over several weeks.
The report details a railroad engineer accident in Peru Illinois where J E osible nearly died at the throttle of the limited at forty mph after a lamp appeared. A second account outlines local court actions in Henry County Wisconsin, including plans to enlarge the jail, discharge soldiers, and the impact on minority groups. The combined items reflect infrastructure strain and judicial actions impacting communities across states.
The St Louis Mirror is described as a twenty page weekly review edited by William Marion with a staff of contributors. It promises stories, plays, best books and art reviews, and topics of contemporary interest for professionals and homemakers. Subscriptions offered at ten weeks for 100 cents in silver or stamps.
Daniel Miller, a prominent farmer near Logic Grove Schoolhouse in Howanconnhy, narrowly escaped death when a lantern exploded or broke during a lamping accident in his barn. Horses toppled him, his clothes caught fire, and the straw ignited. he freed himself and fled as the barn and its contents burned completely.
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