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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
6
In Nevada Missouri on June 13 Mrs John Clack found a folded ten dollar bill beneath a second label after removing a label from a jar of grape juice used in a church service. The bottle carried a whisky label from a company and appears to be a prize intended to boost sales. The whisky date lines suggest the bottle was bottled in 19.
Dear Sir and Friend Albert Jenkins writes from Stillwater Oklahoma on June 5 asking for his paper to be sent there for six weeks while his family attends the University and A and M College summer session. He praises the city and its College Grounds and asks the paper be mailed to Stillwater until further notice.
The New York World reports Uncle Sam supports suffrage with a boost from the Department of Agriculture banning shellac and any gum in coating chocolates. Matinee girls may taste bonbons with tongs due to the health case against shellac. Gum benzoin used by top makers may still carry impurity and alcohol traces.
Ed Steinhoff and section crew put a two box car depot into commission on Monday. The paper hopes this arrangement is temporary and that a new depot will be built at least as good as the one destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
A farmer discusses persistent weeds and farm life, warns about fencing and grounding, reflects on changes from dugouts to modern houses, and notes seasonal shifts. He jokes about arbors, clothing lines, and the value of practical outbuildings, tools, and seed testing, ending with a promotion for Dr King’s New Discovery.
A Hudson Ohio reader extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for teenage girls, claiming it eased irregular and painful periods and related symptoms. The testimonial from Mrs George Strickler notes improvement and urges others to seek relief from the remedy.
Washington dispatches trace a woman signing as Mrs W H Taft distributing souvenir post cards between Ashtabula and Duluth aboard the James Laughlin with Mrs Thomas Laughlin. White House says Mrs Taft, her secretary Norton and Secret Service chief Wilkie seek identity of the impostor and note Mrs Laughlin may be in Cincinnati with her father Judge Herring.
A Missouri physician endorses Oil of Wintergreen in liquid D. D. D. Prescription, arguing eczema is in the inner skin and needs penetrating treatment. A trial bottle is offered at 25 cents, claimed to relieve itch with long-standing success cited by the author.
Evansville Ind June 8 a strange beast in the Providence Kentucky area has killed and eaten livestock and attacked cattle. Hunters fired but the animal remains at large in twilight. Farmers fear leaving homes at night and report enormous crop and livestock losses. Some residents suspect a Bengal tiger escaped from a Norris and Rowe circus recently at Princeton Kentucky.
A public notice advertises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a quick, sure healer for wounds burns boils sores skin eruptions eczema chapped hands and piles. It claims to prevent blood poison or gangrene and lists 25 cents price at F T Clay’s.
J. M. Proctor, a wealthy North Missouri resident and Monroe City native, died at 73 after a morning illness. He was father to Alma Proctor Vaughn, wife of accuser in the Vaughn Hull poisoning case involving Professor John Thomas Vaughn of Kirksville State Normal School. The indictment against Alma Vaughn is tied to the poisoning death.
Trade note indicates Good Co presents "Horse Show" House Paint exclusive. W. H. 3.
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