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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
6
The ad promotes a full line of McCormick and Milwaukee Binders and McCormick Daisy Reapers. It highlights sales of binders and mowers with emphasis on quality and right prices, noting McCormick and Dain mower options and headquarters for McCormick products.
Twine and Rakes advertises a full McCormick line including hay rakes and sisal twine sold cheaper than McCormick. Also promotes Dain Sweep Rakes and claims the best harvesting machinery lineup in Bates County with competitive prices.
Local dealer promotes Velie buggies and spring wagons in Butler. Claims top selection of vehicles and harness, offers highest trade value, and asserts prices rival the market. Encourages customers to visit to compare.
An analysis of piano trade shows dealers recycle old pianos by trading in new ones, then repairing and exporting them to distant regions. Old instruments are sold for small down payments with long monthly charges, ultimately returning price, repair, boxing, shipping costs and interest to the dealer.
A fragmented glossary defines voting terms and party notions with satirical tone. It lists terms such as Democrat Republican Socialist Independent and Caucus with brief pop culture style explanations. The piece comments on ballots polls franchise value and government as a politician’s tool.
All master Masons are requested to attend the St John’s day services at the Presbyterian church in Butler next Sunday afternoon. Public invited. We have too many iron and brass beds. The eee must move them. G. W. Dixon. 33
Testimony at the Pujo committee hearing showed the government supplied about 29 million dollars to New York banks on October 24 1907 the day Morgan announced a 25 million loan to exchange brokers. Records from the New York Subtreasury and Charles Steele of J P Morgan indicated fourteen banks agreed to loan to the stock exchange totaling roughly 24.55 million though actual loans reached 18.95 million, with banks previously holding government deposits totaling about 42 million during the panic.
James Edwards, longtime Democratic door keeper in the Senate, claims Col. Roosevelt suffers from the bite of an African moon fly. He says the insect either kills or drives mad those it bites and that Roosevelt shows unusual stunts with every moon change. Edwards notes the moon changed yesterday as Roosevelt headed for Chicago.
Chicago reports five hundred police officers including 160 plainclothes detectives will be on hand to guard the opening of the Republican National Convention. The force will boost to 500 with 50 patrolling the building at night. Chief McWeeney directs instruction through the sergeant-at-arms, with Mayor Harrison backing the administration’s full police support.
Taft managers claim slim doubt of Taft nomination while Roosevelt backers insist on delegates secured. Gov McGovern warns no living man can predict the outcome before the pow wow ends. Police chief says riot readiness and fire chief notes preparedness for a conflagration. An advertisement touts Hess Stock Dip for livestock health with a government sheep scab test and price deal.
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