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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
7
An editorial pitch extols The Twice a Week Republic as both affordable and high quality printing. It promises comprehensive news coverage and reliability for a family readership, inviting subscriptions at $1 a year through dealers, postmasters, or direct mail.
An advertising notice urges readers to subscribe to the Globe-Democrat to follow preparations and news of the 1903 St Louis World’s Fair. It claims wide circulation across states, Canada, and worldwide, promising timely updates for every reading household.
In Tit Bits a debt collector recounts chasing a painter who owes £3 for a restaurant bill. The artist cites a pressing liability installing shoes on the installment plan, keeps painting, and refuses social dealings with tradespeople, then resumes work as the collector departs.
Miss Grace McComas of Manito, Illinois, aged unknown, hanged herself at Maplewood sanitarium in Jacksonville by tying two braided hair lengths to the door hinge and jumping from a chair. She was the daughter of Mason County Judge J. McComas, taught school locally last winter, and suffered melancholia and periods of hysteria before the act after previous hospital treatment.
Mina Lena Werner, a teen, files assault and battery charges against her stepmother Mia Frederick Werner in Hammonton New Jersey. Lena says she faced belted punishment after a late night dispute with a suitor from Nesco. The stepmother, described as weighing 250 pounds, spanked Lena across the knee before the young man fled.
This old time advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by a constitutional internal dose. It asserts the remedy treats blood and mucous surfaces, builds up constitution, and offers $100 if it fails. Includes testimonials request and Toledo Ohio address.
Miss Addie Little aged 15, daughter of William Little, a prosperous farmer five miles north of Wathena Kansas, elopes with George Meidinger a 28 year old farmhand. They marry in Wathena after a late night ladder escape. Father William Little pursues but arrives too late to intervene.
Fifteen hundred employees at the Chesapeake & Ohio railway shops walk out in Huntington West Virginia after the company refuses to discharge William R. Davis a carpenter and member of the city council Second Ward Davis allied with the council against Mayor Buck over authority to appoint standing committees, a move that strained relations between labor and city leadership and tied to the city police force.
An advertisement for McCFARLAND Harness and Baddlery offering spring wagons road wagons lurries and buggies along with related gear and accessories. Includes product categories and shop focus for horse drawn vehicles and equipment.
A farm oriented newspaper ad promotes a limited time offer combining the Live Stock Indicator The Poultry Farmer and Special Farmers Institute Editions with the host paper for 1.25 a year. It touts these titles as the best in the west and urges readers to act quickly while samples are available at the office. Tim
DN Carnes and Florence Carnes defaulted on a trust note dated June 24. The trustee will sell the described lands totaling thirty acres in section 20 town 30 range 29 at the west front door of the courthouse in Howler on Saturday July 5 between 9 and 10 a.m. to satisfy the debt and costs. Smith acting trustee.
By authority of a special execution in favor of Monroe Saakey against Andrew J Clem, I levy on all rights and interest of the defendant in a described parcel of land in Bates County Missouri, forty acres south part of the northwest quarter of section thirty nine in township thirty nine, to be sold at public vendue at the west front door of the court house in Butler on Thursday July 2 between nine in the morning and three in the afternoon to satisfy said execution and costs.
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