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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
6
A piano moving dealer notes the craft is a distinct business with wagoners and skilled teams. He warns against unskilled expressmen who tackle piano moves, recounting a fourth-floor incident where a piano slipped and broke limbs, wrecking a rack frame and case. He emphasizes trained piano movers for safety and proper restoration.
A London Traveler describes Hamman-Meskintin in Nigeria as a spectacular hot spring complex. Water reaches about 208 degrees Fahrenheit with steam rising around a marblelike limestone encrusted rock face. A wooded glen holds a large waterfall and calcareous deposits create creamy pools and a petrified watercourse.
An English writer remembers a Natal nurse named Malia who accompanied him for a year. She adapts to London life and Christian mission culture, learns Zulu, and reads Genesis. After a trip home, Malia faces family feuds, property claims, and jealousy, ending in tribal return and ruin.
Readers recall Queen Wilhelmina in Hulland-N past times noting a four tone voice said to be unforgiving and firm. The description emphasizes its decisive character and the strong impression it left on listeners even as some hesitate to call it the loveliest voice.
The text sketches a jagged history of settlers from French Huguenots and Protestant Europeans moving into North America. It references Dutch East India connections, parliamentary settlement ideas, and the northward drift of pioneers across the prairies in search of independence, knowledge, and farmland. The word hoer or boeren hints at occupational identity among Dutch farmers.
A mangled OCR fragment presents as a poem note with garbled lines about thieves and cities. The text includes stray phrases like spribe eores sar and Water wares Tilet mick, and requests help prevent it, with unclear attribution and context.
Fragmentary OCR text references a Westine inquiry or event and a SAT Wik Sent, with unclear context and multiple garbled words. The readable pieces suggest a dated newspaper item focusing on a local or school matter, but essential details and names are missing.
A New York Commercial Advertiser summary notes De Wet slips away from British forces in South Africa. It contrasts Boer horse handling with British practices, arguing British saddles and extra gear slow cavalry movement. The piece likens hoof care, saddling, and overpacking to hindrances in pursuing De Wet.
The piece surveys claims that marriage lengthens life, citing demographic work and clergy mortality differences. It notes higher mortality among bachelors and widowers, with possible links to cardiovascular disease and marital stress, while acknowledging mixed evidence across religious groups.
A damaged Detroit Journal fragment mentions Smith, Wel, Jones, and a slow performance. The text includes garbled quotes about someone sleeping and a theoretical joke. Names and details are unclear, making precise reporting impossible.
Two people died in a Berlin area incident twenty miles from Weatherford Oklahoma after a feud between Doc Melee and Russell escalated. In a court matter Kassell and Olan Chattin faced indictments over horse killings. Metres and Husserl exchanged shots days earlier. Chattin later killed Metres and committed suicide nearby.
In Birmingham England May 30 a cellar beneath an undertaker's establishment yielded boxes containing thirty one infant corpses. The bodies lay huddled in soap boxes. The undertaking firm faced charges related to concealing the infants' deaths. The report notes the defendant was remanded.
An 1900s style advertisement extols womanly health as the great secret of beauty. It likens women to delicate flowers needing daily care, water, sun, and protection from "quarasites" to maintain health, vigor, and youth. It promotes a patent medicine regimen including Dr Pierce’s remedies and claims lasting relief from female weaknesses and related ailments.
Sizable ad extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female weakness and reproductive issues. It claims to regulate the uterus improve fertility ease childbirth and strengthen nerves and appetite. The notice offers a medical adviser book free upon mailing two one cent stamps for binding paper or three one stamps for the bound volume.
London dispatch cites a clash between strikers and authorities near Alexatchtovski on May 20 21 with police and soldiers firing three volleys. At least two killed and many wounded as two wagonloads of injured were moved to hospital.
Public notices detail sheriff sales for delinquent taxes in Bates County Missouri. Listings name John K Stone and J W Stone among buyers, with June sale dates at the Butler courthouse, plus a second tax sale for Joe Brock and an additional entry for John McElroy. Admin notices announce K V William estate letters and claim deadlines, followed by final settlement plans for Phila C Hil estate with executor J S Harper.
By virtue of a special execution for delinquent taxes issued by the clerk of the circuit court Bates County Missouri at the June term the tax lien is directed to be sold at public vendue at the front door of the courthouse Is Meter city of Bates County Missouri on Wednesday June 1 between nine and twelve oclock in the forenoon and four oclock in the afternoon to satisfy the execution against James Deepest the property described in the notice including a listed parcel in Bates County Missouri. Sheriff T Omitekah signs the notice.
Charlies A Losk and Minnie M Lua convey land in Hates County Missouri to secure a school fund mortgage. The property, 28 acres of the east side of part of the northwest quarter, is to be sold at public auction at the east front door of the courthouse in Buller County on Saturday June 15 between 9 AM and 5 PM to pay overdue bond principal interest and costs of executing the trust.
Notice reads that letters testamentary have been issued by the probate court for Hates County to the administrator for a deceased estate. Creditors must present claims within one year from the publication date or be barred.
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