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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
3
A promotional boast extols ClothCraft Clothes with prices from ten to twenty five dollars. The copy urges buyers to judge fit and quality by sight, claiming ClothCraft garments are real, well-made, and superior in comfort and style.
The Rich Alll Modern Woodmen started a movement at their meeting to aid I M Crane, a nearly incapacitated lodge member near Car 4ee Canter. They formed a committee to decide the best aid and plan to help with farm tasks while his illness progresses, with members to wear overalls and boots to plant corn, weed, and harvest potatoes.
Fred D. Warren editor of the Girard Appeal to Reason in Fort Scott Kansas says he will decide after sentence whether to appeal. Judge Pollock may impose a fine up to 5000 dollars, or a maximum five years in prison, or both. Warren and attorney Darrow expect a motion for a new trial and a likely light sentence. Warren criticizes courts as protecting the capitalist class and cites Taylor pardon as context.
Editor Bock of the Ladies' Home Journal proclaims bridge whist improper and says the elite will abandon it while clubs adapt. The piece mocks etiquette policing by social leaders and suggests alternatives like seven-up or craps may emerge to replace the game amid a temporary upheaval.
Washington May. A recent report from the Bureau of Soils shows over 200000 square miles surveyed in fifteen years with plans to survey 40000 more this year. Panhandle Texas receives 17000 of that total. The work has led to 715 soil kinds named and classified.
Thad Windsor of Milford, Del, buys 300 muskrat skins from James P. Jones farm on Cave Neck. Mrs. Jones, home alone, states she trapped the muskrats and sells skins for about 150 dollars toward building a new house. She traps daily in rubber gear and plans to finish the house by summer.
Warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments warns that mercury damages tissues and systems. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio as a remedy taken internally. Claims testimonials free and offers Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Missouri voters will decide in 1910 whether to fund a new state Capitol at a cost of 5 million dollars. The House concurred with the Senate to submit the amendment to the Constitution. Governor Hadley urged adoption as Representative R D Silver pushed for passage. The tally reached 99 to 22.
The Rosenberger bill to ban selling cigarettes to anyone under 18 clears the House 1 vote and goes to Gov Hadley for signature. It imposes fines from 10 to 100 dollars for first offenses and 50 to 500 dollars for second offenses, with half the fine awarded to the complainant. The bill bans cigarettes and related papers or wrappers for minors, while allowing pillar production if papers are bought elsewhere.
Mrs. John J. Clements of Indianapolis is near death from hydrophobia nine or ten months after being bitten by a small dog in August. The wound appeared minor, a slight abrasion, and was cauterized after the dog was killed with a hatchet. Contractions and convulsions followed when she asked for water.
In Youngstown on May a fourteen year old girl, Misa Elizabeth Farragher, found a bullet lodged in her foot that previously had rested in her head since a revolver discharge at a 1895 Fourth of July celebration. Doctors will perform surgery to remove the foot bones and the projectile.
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