A Proposed Heroes Statue on Governors Island
The Philadelphia North American advocates a heroic statue honoring the American Indian on Governors Island near New York Harbor. It argues the tribute would honor a vanishing race and symbolize a painful but essential part of the nation’s past, endorsed by officers such as Generals Porter Miles Wood.
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Philadelphia
Governor’s Island
New York Harbor
Horace Porter
Nelson Miles
Crook
Leonard Wood
Lawton
America
Doan's Kidney Pills Promise Kidney Cure
An old Butler Missouri advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a single remedy for disordered kidneys and backache. Mrs B F JohnsonTestimony claims good family results and urges use of Doan's, price 50 cents, FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY agents for the United States.
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Butler
Mra
B. F. Johnson
Main Bt
Butler, Mo
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Conventions This Year Across National Groups
National Educational Association meets in Denver from July 8 to 9 in 1900. Elks hold gathering in Los Angeles from July 11 to 18 in 1909. Grand Army reunion occurs in Salt Lake from August 9 to 14 in 1909.
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National Educational Association
Denver
Elks
Los Angeles
Grand Army
Salt Lake
Bribe case targets Shawnee judge and officials
Virgil Biggers testified as state witness in a bribery trial in Shawnee Oklahoma alleging a pact among circuit judge W N Maben county officials and bootleggers. He described a specific $800 payment with $400 to the judge and $100 to prosecutor Robert Hagar, with other witnesses confirming the conference and money passage.
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Shawnee
Okla
Virgil Bigners
Pottawame County
W. N. Maben
Maben
Bigwera
Bulgin
Biggers
Robert Hagar
Biegers
Judge Maben
Rogers
West
Weat
Caldwell
B. B. Blakeney
Blakeney
Illinois bans roast of veteran trustee Mrs Carrie Alexander
University of Illinois authorities stop a planned roast of Mrs Carrie T Alexander a veteran trustee by students at Urbana in May as part of an Interscholastic circus. officials also suppress references to the roast in the chivas newspaper after her Springfield stand on appropriations.
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Urbana
Ill
University of Illinois
Carrie T. Alexander
Alexander
Springfield
Chivas
Foolish Remark Costs Him a Fortune Story
In The Light Side of Finance, Harry Furniss recounts a rich aristocrat with no heirs who wills his fortune to a friend. A remark about sheep leads the benefactor to revoke and divert half the fortune to charity and servants, leaving the critic with his prior share. The tale ends with the caller losing a million and a half.
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Harry Furniss
Strand
Value of Missouri Corn Lands Boosts State's Stand
Missouri corn land yields far outperform the national average. Over 1890 to 1908 Missouri produced 285.8 bushels per acre vs 258 national, yielding $1.11 more per acre annually at 40 cents per bushel and $18 per acre higher value at 6 percent. Missouri also outproduced Kansas by 54.9 bushels per acre, offering $2.19 more annual rental per acre and 34 percent higher land value, confirming Missouri as a primary corn state.
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Missouri
Great Central States
United States
Kansas
United States Department of Agriculture
Great Drought Threatens Western Texas Pasture Lands
The May drought grips Western Texas, Big Springs area and beyond, with cattle and horse ranges depleted. Farmers fear rice weather and need rain soon to plant cotton and forage as grain crops fail and livestock losses rise.
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Big Springs
Tex
Texas
The Fine Town of Fulton in the Missouri Prene session
The St. Louis Times reports Fulton hosts the forty third annual Missouri Prene session. Mayor Bartley welcomes visiting editors as Fulton’s old slow boomless conserv ative town with schools colleges churches and happy homes. He boasts no poverty no slums and no sweatshops, praising contentment in a century old country town while noting discontent remains unseen.
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Missouri Prene Association
Fulton
Bartley
Count Boni Loses Custody Case In France
M Seligman of the justice department urged the court to uphold the lower court ruling granting custody of the three Castellane de Sagan children to Princess De Sagan, widow of Anna Gould. The decision, following an appeal by Count Boni de Castellane, is to be formalized on May 26.
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Princess de Sagan
True Bunce Strikes It Rich at Webb City Mine
C T Bunce cashier of Mineral Belt Bank Webb City becomes a mine operator by accident while drilling a waterworks well at Thomas Hill near Lake Side zinc ore strikes at 218 feet and continues at 230 feet. The find excites the neighborhood and leases are sought. Bunce will continue drilling to gauge ore extent on five acres. Bunce, nicknamed True, is an old Sheldon boy and former bank examiner under Sam B Cook.
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C. T. Bunce
Mineral Belt Bank
Webb City
Thomas Hill
Lakeaide
Bunce
Joplin Globe
Mr. Bunce
Sam B. Cook
Mine Reopens and Coal Output Rises at Lowe Mine
The Lowe mine, recently abandoned, was reopened by the Jones Coal Co. and is now running at full blast. Yesterday 12 cars were loaded, each carrying 60 to 80 thousand pounds of coal. The miners are expected to be fairly reimbursed for losses caused by the former owner. Fry and Frank Corbin, fishing in the Osage river near the city, caught a large catfish on a trotline weighing 194½ pounds, likely the region’s largest in months. The fish was sold in Schell City to A. L. Albright for $20.
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Lowe
Jones Coal Co
Am's
Fry
Frank Corbin
Osage
Schell City
A. L. Albright
Horse Thieves Plague County. New Theft Reported
Persistent horse thefts hit the region with no trace of the Parish horses from Everett. A second incident reported by H. L. Pitt, 24 miles northeast of Freeman, involved a bay mare with white hind feet and a sorrel horse with a white face, both around ten years old.
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Chas Parish
Everett
H. L. Pitt
Freeman
FARM FURROWS RECOUNTED BY A PRACTICAL FARRIER
A writer recalls farm life and odd tales from history. He recounts New York egg prices, the idea of dirt in milk, and a slice of legendary sportsmanship featuring Captain Barclay who fends off a powerful intruder with wit and strength.
May Corn Belt Sees Record Small Grain Seeding
The article notes an acreage rise for small grain sown in May in the corn belt. It forecasts harvest uncertainty, praises new gasoline engines as potential hired help, and mentions potato equipment gaps. It urges planting pump kins for feed and stresses good relations with cows as key to successful dairying.
Difficult Apple Trees Planting Causes Poor Yields
The farmer notes that many growers cannot supply apple trees in spring and harvest, as planting in spring is impractical and leads to a weak crop of apples. The observation appears in the Farmer and Stockman.
School Fund Mortgage Sale In Butler Bates County Mo
The sale of real estate in Butler Bates County Missouri proceeds from a school fund mortgage recorded May 7 1907 to secure payment of the debt. The property located in W m Home addition to Butler is to be sold at public auction at the courthouse door on Tuesday June 6 between 9 am and 2 pm to satisfy the mortgage interest and costs. The sheriff of Bates County is directing the sale under an April term order.
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J. McAninch
Odie B. McAninch
Bates County
Butler
Court House
vButer
Bates
Minour
Sherff's Sale of Bates County Real Estate Notice
Levy executed under a special order of the Bates County Missouri circuit court directs the sheriff to sell at public auction the real estate of R L Preseler described as Lot A and 118 feet and the west 42 feet of Lot B in Tum City Town Company, at the east front door of the Court in Butler on June 4 between 9 am and 5 pm for cash to satisfy a claim by Yancy C Comba collector.
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Bates County
Missouri
Yancy C. Comba
Hates County
R. L. Preaster
R. L. Preseler
Tum
M Court
Sheriff's Sale Notice in Bates County Missouri
By virtue of a special writ from the Bates county circuit court clerk the State of Missouri ex rel Y C Combs Collector Bates County and Henry Walter hold a claim to Lots 4 and 5 in Block 26 in Rich Hill Town Company Addition Bates County Missouri. The Sheriff will auction the property Friday June 4 1900 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the court house front door to satisfy the writ and costs. W J Khullock Sheriff Bates County Missouri.
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Circuit Court
Bates County
Missouri
Rich
Rich Hill
Bate
Sheriff Sale Notice in Bates County Missouri
By authority of the Bates County Circuit Court, the State of Missouri ex rel Y C Combs, Collector, and Charles H Dunham, I levied on his interest in land described as the middle part of the south half of the northwest quarter of section five, township five, range three. The sale is set for Friday June 4, at 9 to 1, at the east front door of the Butler courthouse, to the highest bidder for cash to cover costs. William J B Wtd Sheriff Bates County Missouri.
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Bates County
Missouri
Misouri
Y. C. Combs
Hates County
Charles H. Dunham
Charles H Dunham
Aeotion
Mae
Sald
Bates
Atate
Notice of Sheriffs Sale in Bates County Missouri
By authority of a special writ from Bates County Circuit Court clerk I levy and will sell at the west front door of Butler court house a described real estate in Rich Hill tied to blocks 1901 four and five. Sale to occur between nine and two with bidder hand to bid as required.
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Circuit Court
Bates County
of Missouri
Comba
A. Melvin
A. A
Rich Hill
Missouri
Ality of Butler
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