13 Jun 1888
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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1888
Page
1
A dramatic Georgia tale recounts a couple who wed and raised twins amid tragedy. After the father’s death and the mother’s flight, the separated children grew up apart, later reuniting in Georgia with a twin marriage reveal and a pauper’s fate for the mother.
Supreme court reverses sentences in Webster Jackson and Charles Tabe murders and fixes July 13 for the executions of Higph M Brooks Elias Maxwell and others. A June report from the Missouri State Board of Agriculture notes wheat and corn conditions and widespread crop issues from frost, rains, and pests across the state. In Sedalia a jury convicts Sallie E. Tesch of murder in the first degree. she faces two years in the penitentiary after appeal. A New York Times editorial excerpt denounces a pamphlet about White House occupants, traced to William H. Berry in St. Louis with Tribune connections.
A man recounts losing a brown silk umbrella with an ivory handle and offers ten dollars to recover it. One person remembers locking it in a wardrobe for safekeeping, then another remarks they would pay ten dollars to never have owned such an umbrella. The group ends with mutual thanks unspoken.
Jersey breeder J R Hargmayo offers a thoroughbred Jersey bull for service at a very low rate of two dollars for the season. Ad states the animal available to breeders seeking affordable stud service.
The liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs is promoted as a safe and pleasant medicine manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co. in San Francisco. It claims painless, prompt, thorough action and is sold by leading druggists in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles.
The Springfield Republican notes swift party unity behind a tariff revision and surplus reduction policy and predicts Democrats gain, aided by federal patronage. It argues only a candidacy like Judge Gresham with liberal tariff and tax cuts could salvage the Republicans.
In Bates County Missouri the sheriff will sell at public vendue the described real estate to satisfy a school fund mortgage debt. The sale is at the east front door of the Bates County Courthouse in Butler on Saturday July 7 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to repay principal interest and costs. GEO G GLAZEBROOK sheriff of Bates County will conduct the sale.
Between the hours of oclock a m and m m the east door of the courthouse in St Louis Missouri the property described is offered to the highest bidder for cash including the homestead rights and equity of Jay E Owen GEORGE W TOMS Trustee dated May 15 18sat
By virtue of an alias execution from the circuit court, John Gough garners against Leslie Borraes of Bates county Missouri. The northeast quarter of section 22 and west half of northwest quarter of section 23 in township 42 range 31. Sale set Friday June 15 1888 at the east front door of the Bates County courthouse to satisfy the execution and costs. G GLAZEBROOK Sheriff Bates County.
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