Missouri Highway Engineers Form State Association
Jefferson City hosts a Friday afternoon convention of county highway engineers and road advocates from Missouri. The gathering, led by state highway engineer Cuttle Elm, aimed to share ideas on road building and organize a permanent group called The Highway Engineers Association of Missouri with officers Wattowe Boone County president and Matlock Randolph vice president. Five districts were set, with annual meetings in January at Columbia.
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Jeffrson City
Feb
High Way
Iiley
Missouri
Cuttle Elm
Perfects
Highway Engineere’ Association of Missouri
Ife
Abate
Bia
Cvil
Offi Wattowe
Jivnn
Boone County
N. A. Matlock
Randolph
Curtis Hill
Columbia
James M. Clark
Vernon County
Miasouri River
Missing $61,500 scandal rocks Missouri Republicans
The Missouri Republican state committee met in St. Louis to debate relief for Akins and his bondmen over a $61,500 disappearance from the sub-treasury. A party split surfaced as a resolution to relieve them was defeated 20 to 10, with opposition emphasizing accountability while some members pressed for congressional relief. Jackson Cash Book reports.
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Republican State Committee
St. Louis
Akins
Congress
Aking
Akine
Toeir
Auctioneer Promises Big Purchases Across Counties
C E Robbins promotes auction sales boasting 87028 dollars in four months. He touts honest work and high dollar results. A graduate of two auction schools, he is a member of national and state associations and invites terms and dates at Amoret Missouri.
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International Auctioneers’ Association
State Auctioneers’ Association
Amoret, Mo
Auctioneer Lyman Hensley Seeks Livestock Terms in Amsterdam
Lyman Hensley, with four years as an auctioneer and ten years as a livestock trader and shipper, offers sales services for sales run time and adjoining counties. He highlights pedigrees and values, and guarantees satisfaction. Based at Amsterdam with rural route 8 and telephone Line No. 2.
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Lyman Hensley
Amsterdam
Vitrified brick sale announced by factory manager
H. M. Booth, manager, states vitrified hard build ing brick will be available soon at factory prices.
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H. M. Booth
Mgr
Who Owns Ten Million Washington Kelo
The United States treasury holds 10,025,551.88 dollars believed to be Civil War era captured and abandoned property. The funds were paid in cash and have remained unclaimed for decades due to restrictive legal conditions. A proposed law would allow those entitled to recover part of the amount still in the treasury.
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Washington
Kelo
United States
Treasury
Ils
The Rabbit Industry in Garden City Missouri
Garden City firms show a large rabbit market with Hammond & Co and James Houdyshell & Sons buying 18 427 rabbits for 1 197 75 in three months. Sublett and Price purchase 10 470 rabbits costing 649 30, and Sublett & Son 7 894 rabbits for 461 37. Total purchases by three firms reach 86 721 rabbits totaling 2 308 42.
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Garden City
Herald
Gardenity
Hammond & Co
James Houdyshell & Sons
Sublett
Price
J. K.sublett & Son
Historic Kentucky Cabin Carded From Old Log House
The Old Log House, a historic Kentucky cabin, is highlighted as the source of a noted regional landmark. Details describe its age and significance in local heritage, emphasizing preservation and its role in early settlement history.
Northwest Pioneers' Log House Linked to Lewis and Clark
From Louisville area, a century old log house known as Mulberry Hill sits near Newberg road and Bardstown pike. Built by General Jonathan Clark, it housed the Clark family and became the starting point for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804 as they opened the Northwest to the Pacific. The historic homestead, now encircled by modern development, preserves slave quarters and original logs, with repairs only to the roof.
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Louisaville
Louisville
Newberg Road
Bardstown Pike
Great Northwest
Lewis and Clark
Pacific Coast
United States
Jonathan Clark
William Clark
George Rogers Clark
Northwest Territory
St. Louis
Northwest
Pacific
Leute
Wise
Meriwether Lewis
Menare
Clark
St Loui
Mulberry Hill
Biggest Democratic Banquet Planned in Kansas City
The Monster Democratic Banquet in Convention Hall Kansas City is set for March 30 with William J Bryan and a dozen national Democratic figures as guests of honor. Senator A L Cooper and Senator Fr M McDavid coordinated arrangements for the Young Men's Democratic Club of Missouri. Bryan agreed to attend on March 30 and Cooper secured the venue.
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Kansas City
United States
Convention Hall
William J. Bryan
A L Cooper
Young Men's Democratic Club of
Missouri
Bryan
Cooper
Fr. M. McDavid
Springfield
Mr. Bryan
Senator McDavid
Senator Cooper
Young Men’s Democratic Club
Prohibition Court Fines Man for Whisky Sale in Missouri
Squire Irwin of Shelbina fines Tom Byrd for selling a half pint of whisky in a prohibition county. Byrd receives a 900 dollar fine and a 270 day sentence on the stone pile at Shelbyville. The judge offered no temperance lecture, and the community remarks on the harsh punishment.
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Shelbyville
Squire Irwin
Shelbina
Tom Byrd
Squire
Byrd
Real Estate Transfers and Warranty Deeds Summary
A series of real estate transfers list warranty deeds and transfers of parcels across multiple townships. Names include J P Edwards, Ellott F Edwards, W H Malsble, F A Strickland, M Doyle, R E Evans, J D Angell, Chas Wooleey, CN Bennett, Asa W Towers, WN Thompson, Frank W McElroy, Peter Jundy, B A Depew, Alice B Phillipa, L8 Radford, Geo W Burton, B F Pontius, N A Case, Rosalie Hubert, W M Hockaday, James L Wyatt, J K Dickinson, John App, C P Sylvester, CF Coppersmith, WE Hough, Logan E Reynolds, HL Couchman, Mra EC Reedy, Lucinda M Patchin, Clara F Suwith, and others. Parcels span Mt Pleasant, Prairie, Rockville, Charlotte, Deepwater, Osage, Alban, and Elkhart areas with prices ranging from 1500 to 3600 plus several larger sums and one 83500 drafted, reflecting transfers of tracts and lots.
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J P Edwards
Ellott
Edwards
Mt Pleasant
Butler
W H Malsble
Strickland
Prairie
Doyle
R E Evans
Rockville
Lester
J D Angell
Charlotte
Sasin J Charlton
Chas Wooleey
Osage
OC Woods
CN Bennett
Alban
Asa W Towers
WN Thompson
Frank W McElroy
Peter Jundy
Depew
Alice
Phillipa
Bik
Radford
Geo W Burton
Asec
Deepwater
B F Pontius
Pleasant’ Gap
Rosalie Hubert
W M
Hockaday
James L Wyatt
J K Dickinson Lote
Roeses Ad Hume
Franclsco
LS Radford
Logan E Reynolds
WE Compton
Couchman Et al
Mra
EC Reedy
Elkhart
NM Lester
Government buys Michigan City river front for port project
William Harrigan Smith, on behalf of United States Steel Corp and Henry C. Frick, offers to sell to Secretary Taft for one dollar a Lake Michigan City front area the steel trust spent over 3 million to develop including a canal, plaza, docks and related works. The Rivers and Harbors Committee will draft the bill for a port of entry and lighthouse focusing on extending navigation laws.
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Washington
United States Steel Corporation
Henry C. Frick
William Harrigan Smith
Taft
Steel Trust
Lake Michigan City
Michigan City
Ind
Supreme Court bars political committee rule on seats
Jefferson City March 2 The supreme court ruled in a case involving thirteen ousted members of the Democratic committee of St. Louis that a political committee cannot expel a member from a seat elected by the people. The ruling holds such rules would thwart the voters' will.
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Jefferson City
Supreme Court
Democratic Committeee
St. Louis City
Miss Maud Morgan Rescue After School Boiler Explosion
Miss Maud Morgan, primary teacher at Adrian School, faced a boiler explosion that sank the room into the basement. John Dowell pulled victims from the wreckage and Morgan urged him to save the children first. She was rescued with severe burns but not life threatening.
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Maud Morgan
Adrian
Pam
Miss Morgan
John Dowell
John
Trio Charged in Patent Conspiracy Released on Bond
N W Barton John A Heany and Henry E Everding were arrested in Washington on a conspiracy to obtain a patent. They were released on $10,000 bonds each posted by the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Scranton Pa. Representative LaJean of Pennsylvania helped secure the bonds. Heany is an inventor Everding an attorney and Barton an assistant examiner in the Patent Office.
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Washington
N. W. Barton
John A. Heany
Henry E Everding
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Scranton
LaJean
Pennsylvania
Heany
Everding
Philadelphia
Barton
Patent
Sheriff Sale in Partition Bates County Missouri
The Bates County Circuit Court will sell the real estate of Harnett F Childers and Edith M Childers to their curator John C Hagee on March 31 at the east front door of the Bates County Courthouse Butler Missouri. The property includes the west half of the northwest quarter section 25 township 6 range 30 and related parcels totaling 40 acres subject to Alley Walnsto t homestead rights and other listed tracts. Cash only to the highest bidder at public vendue between 9 am and 5 pm.
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Harnett F. Childers
Edith May Childers
John C. Hagee
Pininiff
Alley Walnacott
Vion Ray
Rebecca Heys
Lew Walnecott
James Walnacott
Alice Mil
Wainscott
Circuit Court of
Hates Co
Missouri
Butler
Bates County
Notice of Adminsistration for Martha Halnes ed Estate
Bates County Probate Court, Missouri, declares letters of administration for the estate of Martha Haines ed dated February 1, 1908. All persons claiming against the estate must exhibit claims for allowance within one year, or be precluded from any benefit. Claims not exhibited within two years from publication will be forever barred. Mary K. Haines, Administratrix.
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Marth Halnes
Bates County
Missouri
Satan
Mary KE. Haines
Coxey's Panacea Bill Aimed at Public Employment
Washington March 2 Mr Brom of Pennsylvania introduced a Coxey bill by request of General Jacob Coxey to provide public improvement and employment, urging money for public utilities and redemption of issued notes. It allows states and municipalities to issue non interest bearing 25 year bonds up to half the assessed real estate value, deposited with the Treasury to back treasury notes. Funds would pay idle men and women at 1.50 a day, eight hours per day, with 4 percent retireable bonds.
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Washington
Brom
Pennsylvania
Jacob
Coxey
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Heat Wave Grips Ozarks With 76 Degree Day
Springfield Missouri reports a record heat wave as the temperature hits 76 degrees. The warmer weather extends into northern Arkansas and the entire Ozark fruit belt, causing fruit buds to swell and raising fears of damage from late frosts among growers.
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Springfield
Ozark County
Government Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Usark
Trustee's Sale Notice for Bates County Real Estate
Notice is given that on March 20, 1907, at the east front door of the Bates County courthouse in Butler, Missouri, the trustee CF Beard will sell to the highest bidder for cash the north half of lot 1, seventeen twenty of the west side of the south half of lot 1, and the south half of lot 2, in section 30, town 42, range 31, Bates County, Missouri, to satisfy the deed of trust securing a note of $800 plus interest.
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Flora M. Kelley
James P. Kelley
M. Chadd
D LL. Hoggard
Hates
Missouri
Cved
Butler
Bates County
Bates Co
C F. Beard
Auction Notice of Real Estate in Bates County Missouri
Charity E Ashby et al plaintiffs versus Teva Ashby Lena Ashby and others defendants. By decree of the circuit court Bates County Missouri the sale of the south half of the northwest quarter section seven township thirty eight range thirty two Bates County Missouri will be held at the front door of the court house Butler Missouri March day at nine in the forenoon to five in the afternoon to highest bidder for cash Inland. C P Beard Sheriff Bates County Missouri.
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Charity E. Ashby
Moilie P
W. Ashby
Eitad. Ashby
Marthe M. Ashby
Teva. Ashby
Lena E. Ashby
John C. Ashby
Silas Ashby
Circuit Court of
Hates Co
Missouri
Gale
Court House
Butler
Bates County
Publis Vendue
Township
C. P. Beard
Sherif
Missour
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