Changed Hands at White Star Meat Market
The White Star Meat Market has changed owners from St L Popham to Joe Metall and Posey Chilton. McFall brings extensive experience from city meat markets. old customers and standbys are expected to follow. Chilton is a strong financier, and the new partnership aims for business success and service. Subscribe for THE HERALD.
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White Star Meat Market
St L. Popham
Joe Metall
Posey Chilton
McFall
Olip
Chilton
General Gordon's Enigmatic Influence in Early Tales
A fragmentary, archaic prose piece describes General Gordon as a near-mage figure whose influence rises from vague origins. The text, inspired by legends and fictive libraries, hints at leadership during tumultuous times and blends mythic diction with scattered names and imagery.
Franklin’s Early Posts Highlight Ballooning and Electricity
A garbled note on Benjamin Franklin recalls his role in early American science and public interest in balloons and electricity. It hints at his influence across ages and the enduring curiosity sparked by experimental progress.
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Benjamin Pranklin
Americas
Tiare Pranklin
Havanas Noise World Championship and Havana Silence
A travel vignette contrasts Havana’s deafening bustle with New York’s quiet. The author notes perpetual clamor from cars venders and churches to pensions in Vedado, while Cuban hospitality thrives on noise. A late journey across the harbor reveals an unusual sense of eerie, unaccustomed silence near Century Marazine.
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Bavani
New York
Tran
Tomer
Vedado
Havana
Caballa Fortress
Dishwasher Wanted Necklace of Dishes and Denials
A restaurant owner repeatedly harassed a waitress over three years, pressing for a relationship and making crude offers. He joked about tying her to work and mocked her by asking to wash dishes, cook, sweep, and keep house, while she planned to quit. Indianapolis News.
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Unity
Fadalk
Gentorad
Indianapolis News
New device tests milk purity in minutes
A new instrument called the oryoscope, devised by Ulis Tarver of the Minneapolis dairy and food commission, promises to reveal milk adulteration in minutes. It uses freezing point differences between water and milk to detect watered milk or pure water mixed with milk, ensuring consumers get genuine dairy products.
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Oon HP Hirtis
Ulias Tarver
Minnneapolis Dairy and Food Commission
James Anderson
Selentifie American
Chlorine Gas May Prevent Influenza, Says Popular Mechanics
During a recent influenza epidemic at the University of Arkansas, 154 volunteers underwent more than 500 chlorine chamber treatments. Subjects included children and a nurse assisting flu patients, with only one new case noted, likely a prior infection. The regimen involved five minutes daily in a chlorine room with gas levels from 45 to 273 parts per million.
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University of Arkansas
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Giraffes in the Country Elect With 12 In New York and Philadelphia
A report notes 12 giraffes in the country with four of them in New York and Philadelphia. Belgian Andrew raised four, and a former Africa humbler now with a circus keeps them as pets. Mary, nearly nineteen feet tall, responds to the trainer and eats sugar from his land.
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Eirenses
New York
Philadelphia
Andrew
Cirens
Africa
Mary
Public Benefactor Dead Inventor of Ice Cream Soda
Robert McCay Green, prominent Philadelphia inventor, died recently. At the Franklin Institute exposition in Philadelphia two years before the centennial he conceived mixing ice cream with soda to outpace a rival, and by the exposition’s end his receipts topped $700 daily.
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Robert McCay Green
Philadelphia
Mc Green
State Highway Project No 35 bids due September 1929
Sealed proposals for State Road Project No 36 in Penmiscot County Missouri will be received by the State Highway Board until 1 PM on September 3, 1929, and publicly opened at the County Court House. Plans cover grading, culverts, bridges and 16 foot travel pavement with incidental work north and south from Hayti. Separate bids may be submitted for three steel bridges with total bridge bid as the comparison figure. Engineer estimates are $75,207.57 for the main work and $16,885 for the three bridges. Plans and specs may be inspected in Caruthersville, Sikeston, or Jefferson City offices. a set may be obtained for $40, refundable if plans are pre- opened in seed condition within ten days after letting. Bids must include a certified check for five percent of the bid. The State Highway Board reserves the right to reject all bids. 41-44 ALEXANDESI WO CHALAM State Highway Engineer Jefferson City Mo.
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Caruthersville
State Highway Board
Hayti
M.S. Murray
Siveston
State Highway Department
Jefferson City
Missouri
Mc Murray
Sheriff's Sale Under Special Execution on Mechanic's Lien
Sheriff of Pemiscot County Missouri announces a special execution sale of real estate to satisfy a mechanic's lien. The property includes one acre with a dwelling in Pemiscot County, described as the southeast quarter of section 15, township 18, range 11 east. Sale set for Friday August 20 1920 at Caruthersville courthouse, between 9 am and 5 pm, cash.
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Pemiscot County
Missour
Missouri
Caruthersville
Oud
Circuit Court
Sheriff’s Sale Under General Execution In Pemiscot MO 1920
A general execution from Pemiscot County Circuit Court directs a sheriff sale. Maggie McDowell sues Joe Mays. the sheriff has levied on all right, title, and interest of the defendant as of June 6, 1920, for the July term.
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Circuit Court
Pemiseot County
State of Missouri
Pemiscot County
Missouri
Percy Stovall
R. M. Garrett
Pemiscot
Towit
Maggie McDowell
Joe Mays
Pemiscot Sheriff Schedules Property Auction in Caruthersville
The notice details a land description in Pemiscot County Missouri and a public sale on Friday August 20 1920 at the courthouse front door in Caruthersville to cover costs. Sheriff Juen signs the posting.
Why People Buy Rat Snap in Preference to Rat Poison
Rat Snap kills rats and mice, does not scare, leaves no smell as bodies dry up. Made in cake form with no mixing with food, and cats or dogs will not touch it. Available in three sizes 25¢, 50¢, $1.00, sold and guaranteed by Lefler's Drug Store and Kohn Hardware Co.
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Lefler’s Drug Store
Kohn Hardware Co
First Upright Piano Invention Milestones
A brief survey traces the first genuine upright piano to 1780 with a patent. It notes early practitioners in Bougland and the United States and credits 1807 for a practical upright frame. The 1820 invention of the present frame type is attributed to Allen and Thom.
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Bougland
United States
John Tsane Hawkins
Unites States
Southwell
Allen and
Thom
Serpent Mound Tale Surfaces In Ohio Valley Archaeology
A puzzled report describes the Serpent Mound near Chillieside Ohio as a striking ancient creation by the Mound Builders. It details a multi coil serpent statue with jaws, a ground base up to four feet thick, and an inner altar of stones and copper remains, noting a late 19th to early 20th century witness recalling tribal rites and a spring moon sacrifice myth.
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Ool Tadian Tehter
Setate
Waril
Railroad Mystery Why trains stop at stations without warning
A cryptic note ponders why a train starting from four stations seems to head somewhere then halts early. The piece questions whether the train could anticipate every required stop and why it would proceed if it might have to stop near the origin. The author foresees that the true reason may remain unknowable.
Watermelon Composition Baffles Readers
A fragmented passage notes water content in watermelons with figures such as eight per cent water and two per cent something, illustrating a curious old style food writeup.
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