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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
2
A collage of comical lines and witty exchanges from various papers. Bits include a breakfast mishap aboard an ark, a chauffeur’s excuse about habit, fashion musings on dresses and hats, and quips from Chicago Daily News, Cleveland Leader, Houston Poet, Houston Post, Washington Star, and a Senator Sorghum remark about truth and referees.
Post Office Department declares National Bond Company of St. Louis involved in a lottery and fraudulent business under postal law. Agencies spread through Missouri including Kansas City and Springfield. Directors listed include Lon V. Stephens and others. inspectors found unpaid capital stock of 150000 dollars.
Senate approves an agriculture appropriation bill totaling 7.8 million dollars and adds a general provision for fresh meat inspection. The plan delegates duties to the bureau of normal industry, requires labeling and condemnation, mandates sanitary packing houses, and empowers inspectors across departments. Violations carry up to 10,000 dollars fines and two years imprisonment, with costs of inspection borne by meat owners.
Mo Pac excursion rates outline one fare plus 2.00 for round trips with tickets on sale on specific Tuesdays and limited 21 days from sale. Special rates apply to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and Trinidad at 5.50. Separate listings include Kentuckians Homecoming in Louisville final June dates, Republican and Democratic state conventions in Missouri with defined sale days and return limits, a special weekly round trip to Kansas City, and a 1905 06 Colorado winter tour with 80 percent of double one way standard rate.
Wil ne T Morgen, retired Commissary Sergeant U.S.A. of Rural Route 1, Concord, New Hampshire, stresses health as the key concern during service in Cuba and the Philippines while discussing wartime duties and conditions.
Notice for several steel bridge projects in Bates County Missouri to be let by public outcry on a June Tuesday in 1906. Bonds of twenty percent required, certified funds of $1000 deposited, contract with engineer required, work to follow plan by Bell Bard March and Bates Smith. Bid opening at the courthouse East Front Door. Clerk Herrell seals the notice.
James E Kash and Aliee Kash are named in a May 21 1888 deed of trust recorded in Bates County Missouri. The notice warns of a foreclosure sale at the county courthouse between noon and 2 pm on a date to be set, due to default on the promissory note secured by the described property in section 34 township 41 range 29. The property includes the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter and the east one fourth of the west half of the northeast quarter.
A whimsical York Sun item describes Adam taking a job listing animals with odd naming. Miss Lacey and Miss Accum exchange comments about comfort and propriety while Adam begins the task of naming the creatures, reflecting playful newspaper voice.
A humorous fragment shows a woman pleading for help with kleptomania and asking what to seek. The judge responds with a peculiar directive to take sixty days, reflecting a playful misinterpretation of a legal confrontation.
A fragment from Caseell's Journal describes a young man making his fist and remarking to a young woman about meeting her father. The terse dialogue hints at tension or caution in a social scene. No clear event or names beyond the author are readable.
Reported in Chicago Daily News, a remark attributed to a major claims ten horses were killed under him. A companion quip about a sausage factory and fat over tea adds to the overheard wartime banter.
In a Tit-Bita quip Gunner and Guyer joke about a cigar so costly it comes in a celluloid case. One asks if the item being smoked is the celluloid vase or the cigar, delivering a playful exchange on luxury tobacco.
A fragment references Wade Parker and a dispute over cleanliness, noting a late claim regarding Mrs. Wade Parker and two girls ago, with Ohio city Cleveland Lead on implied.
A collage of era jokes and wordplay snippets including a doctor patient gag about blowing the nose and light quips about waiting and walters. The text reads like a damaged clipping with mis-spellings and partial phrases.
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