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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
9
M. & N. Evans promote Easter bonnets and trimming staff with Miss Taylor in charge. Dem voters urged to attend county primary with a strong party ticket. Bruce Ludwick and Judge Boxley named for local offices. Catholic services announced, and Deacon Bros. & Co advertise harness, hosiery, route plants, and farm goods.
Flax seed for sale or loan on contract. Choice seed corn and kaffir corn for sale by Power & Bro. The Warnock family and Wilmuth orphans express thanks for late bereavement. Newcomers to Bates county urged to visit McFarlane Bros Southside Square Butler Mo to learn stock and prices. Death notices for Mrs Emma Newberry and funeral of Joseph F Wilmoth. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as healer with price at H L Tuckers.
Notice to taxpayers states the county Board of Equalization will meet at the county clerk's office in Butler on Monday April 7 to hear taxpayers challenging high assessments. A music teacher Miss E Appy announces relocation stay, teaching instrumental and vocal music with plans for a permanent presence and future choral class, offering demonstrations and terms at the Cottage Hotel and phone 162.
The passage speaks of spring humors causing pimples boils eruptions loss of appetite fatigue biliousness indigestion and headache. It advises timely relief and rebuilding the system with a remedy to be taken.
Over southwest Kansas three days of rain lift farmers hopes for wheat after drought. Other items note repeated Richards Vernon county store thefts, a boy’s accidental gun wound, Roy Warden’s severe gun injury, a huge Merwin Missouri draft bull at six feet one inch tall and five thousand pounds to be shown at the world fair, and Bates county families moving to Sheridan Wyoming seeking ranches and water rights while Miss Lukie Bradley finds a school near Marshall Wolfe's.
A vintage ad-style piece claims Electric Bitters calm a nervous home, aid melancholy and loss of appetite, and relieve headaches sleeplessness constipation and dizziness. It cites thousands of female troubles and nervous issues, promising health and happiness with a 5 cent price and satisfaction guarantee.
Harry Hartman, five year burglary convict released from a Kansas penitentiary, was arrested in Joplin after allegedly breaking into three houses in Pittsburg Kansas the second night after his release and stealing four valuable gold watches. Three watches were found with him at arrest and the fourth had been pawned at a local jewelry store.
Hay Fever Association members tout Dr 8 New Discovery for consumption and related lung troubles. Claims it cures asthma and pneumonia, saves children from whooping cough, and guarantees health with trial bottles available at HB L.
Williams Bros advertise a full line of farming tools including Hummer Sulky Plow Janesville Disc Cultivator Eagle Walking Plows and Avery Planter They claim top brands and long performance histories and urge customers to compare prices They tout price cutting as a benefit while promoting groceries hardware and seeds at slashed rates to aid a “good cause” and invite customers to visit the store.
Sedalia Missouri March 28 A 13 year old boy named Wid Martin was shot in East Sedalia by Edgar Allen a playmate acting as Jesse James during a children’s reenactment in a barn audience of about 50 boys Allen who played Jesse James fired a 38 caliber revolver at Martin who played a Pinkerton detective the bullet entered near the right ear and exited the other side The wounded boy is alive but surgeons have little hope for recovery
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