24 Feb 1921
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Newspaper
Democrat Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1921
Page
1
The Dallas News quotes Hardy Bird remarking that a bride's vow to love honor and obey mirrors earnestness in kissing the bridegroom s kin. The note adds the English sparrow is said to be forty years old and that after a winter he is tough as a gun.
Personal updates list C E Baldwin returning to California and Miss Lavina Frazier ill while C S Fisk of St Louis visits. Announcement of Dr Knight's An Evening in the Orient at Presbyterian church Friday 7 30. R S Robertson heads to Sedalia and Miss Anne Oetting ill in Cedar City. Judge Henry Dulle resting better. Forty hour devotions begin at St Peters tomorrow. Miss G Evans to Toledo. Coal donation at St Peters Hall noted. Easter eggs orders urged via Kings Daughters class or Mrs Jos Osgood. Mrs McCluney improving after illness.
Full line wallpaper now in stock with first class paper hanger offered by Schell Music Co located at 100 E High St. Also advertised is the 222nd Try a Goodform Human Hair Net a large roomy cap shaped net that lasts sold by A Brandenberger The Rexall Druggist 130 KE High St where they save you money
Inventory sale lists Columbia and Emerson records by size and price. The shop offers 10 inch and 12 inch records, 50 to 75 cents, plus Talking Book Children’s Records at 25 cents. Located at 100 East High Street.
An event titled An Evening in the Orient will be presented at the Presbyterian church on Friday at 7 30 pm with Dr Knight. Tickets are available at Brandenberger’s Drug Store and proceeds aid the Junior Department and C E Orchestra. Also notices about job leads and local ads appear in this brief.
February 22, 1879 notes lookouts for spring next April, Tipton now a clerk in Sco vern and Wagner's store, offering 9 lbs coffee for $1.00. The town shows busy streets and happy merchants. Death of James M. McClanahan, printer, at South Dardanelle Ark from typhoid pneumonia. John Walde, binder and wallpaperer, back on his feet after a broken arm.
In the Osage Valley Banner, Uncle Abe seeks the wood promised by subscribers. The appeal notes a subscription basis and urges fulfillment of the pledge to provide timber for his needs.
George W. Ferrer of the Boonville Topic, a rising poet, messages to the paper. The editor welcomes the fellow journalist as a brother of the press and expresses gladness at the visit.
J Gilmore fell from a moving truck at Broadway and High street and sustained a fractured shoulder. The injured arm was reset by Dr. Jose. The incident was described as peculiar as Gilmore was seated beside the driver and fell when the truck turned the corner. He claimed to be sober.
The old McCarty House stands as the standby and top in the region. B. H. McCarty heads the property as landlord and is universally popular among residents and tenants.
The Jefferson City Building and Loan Association announces the authorization of its 38rd Series of Stock with first payment due March 1, 1921. Interested buyers should contact L. J. Franz, Secretary, Exchange Realty Blog, Office No. 202 East High Street.
The world’s largest ship, built by Germany as the Bismarck and sold to White Star, is set to begin service from New York to English channel ports in early 1922. It will receive a White Star name ending in ic and pair with the Olympic, already the fleet’s largest British-built vessel. The Bismarck, launched 1914, has waited at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg. In war years engines were installed and fitting out pressed for quick peace. The Egyptian king Rameses II mummy rests in Cairo after a long removal journey from BibanET Maluk and Deir-el-Bebri to the Cairo museum.
The Island of Guam, ceded to the United States by Spain in 1898, lies 5,044 miles from San Francisco and 1,506 miles from Manila. It measures 30 miles in length and 100 around with a population of 13,000.
A compact aphorism on flaws as divine appointments shaping effort and mercy in human life and judgment, attributed to Ruskin. The fragment reflects Victorian moralizing tone stressing constructive value of imperfection.
A freshman asks for a leave of absence over the weekend to visit his sister in New York. The dean questions the length of time known, noting the student has known her for about two weeks. The brief exchange highlights campus conduct norms.
An Irish member of parliament, worn by the long debate, quips that if the issue were left to them for three years they would settle it tomorrow morning. The wry remark captures parliamentary fatigue and impatience with the slow pace of deliberations.
A palm can be grown cheaply from one or two seeds of a common dried date. Use rich soil and keep the plant well watered for best growth.
A reflective note on anger and control. It contrasts men who lash out by striking a tree with those who lack a tree nearby, implying temper management is needed when a physical outlet is unavailable.
An attributed aphorism notes that if we accept the good we encounter without inquiry we gain plentiful returns. It frames virtue as practical navigation, suggesting value lies in seizing beneficial outcomes encountered along life’s path. The quote reflects a pragmatic, hopeful outlook.
Doctor Jose informs friends and patrons that from March 1, 1921 he will be located in his offices at the Walter-Wymore building opposite the courthouse.
The term heckle or hackie for badgering a candidate originated in the fax trade. The hackler drew a flag through hackle pins to straighten and split the fiber, explaining the word’s origin in this niche craft.
A Baltimore Sun quote notes men complain when wives read newspapers but few men read fashion notes themselves. The remark contrasts domestic expectations with reading habits and suggests social irony about attention to public affairs versus style.
The licensee of a West Ham public house has bought four parrots trained to imitate bagpipes. The birds’ lives will be insured.
A clipped dialogue features a wry exchange about old friends. Sentimental Smith questions the value of longtime companionship while War ret Hardfax counters that friends keep strict memories of age and family secrets, exposing tension between loyalty and truth.
The article estimates world population absent wars and epidemics since 188 A D. Would have descended from a single couple to about 1.782 billion by the present era, implying population growth would have followed a far steadier path without conflict or disease.
In a sharp remark Shinbone muses that contentment is a mighty fine thing yet warns it can be mistaken for plain laziness, a quip noted by the Boston Transcript.
Uncle Ab quips that a chronic fault finder with the weather will lack real zeal when facing a cause he can act on, noting people often complain without taking action to help themselves or others.
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