Why People Buy Rat Snap in Preference to Rat Poison
Rat Snap claims to kill rats and mice and to deter them with no smell as they dry up inside. It comes in cakes in three sizes, $0.02, $0.50, and $1.00, sold by Lefler's Drug Store and Kohn Hardware Co. Local notes mention Nat Buckley returning to the University of Missouri to continue ministry studies and social mentions of Mrs. Elmer Stephens and Mrs. Jas. Jackson shopping, with R. N. Brasher making a county seat trip.
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Lefler
Kohn Hardware Co
Southeast Missouri man is honored on national farm board
Xenophon Caverno of New Madrid County receives an excepted appointment on the American Farm Bureau Federation Economics Committee. He is a director of the federation and sits on Missouri Federation’s executive committee. Others named include Professor G F Warren of Cornell University, H A Wallace of Iowa, and Senator Capper of Kansas. Houston Buckley, returning from Detroit where he worked in an auto plant, came home Monday.
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Xenophon Caverno
New Madrid County
American Farm Bureau Federation
Caverno
American Federation
Missouri Federation
J. R. Howard
G. F. War Jren
Cornell University
H. A. Wallace
Iowa
Senator Capper
Kansas
Eastern Shore Maryland Story Told by Traveler
In Baltimore I spoke at a Methodist conference and met a tall man with a white beard who traced his ministry to Maryland’s eastern shore. He recalled a joke about Adam and Eve seeking air quality, saying their angels proposed the eastern shore but the Lord disagreed.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adam
Eve
Garden of Eden
Gabriel
Franklin K. Lane
National Geographic Magazine
Riggs
Diggs
Napkin Mix Up at Ward School Dinner Party
Parents at a large Trioitan ward school plan a surprise dinner for teachers. They forget napkins and enlist a department store worker husband to fetch pink and white napkins. The napkins arrive by mistake with stork motifs and babies, causing shock but teachers react with laughter and a threat to move out of the district.
Not Police Misread Runners in France Train Detail
In Vincennes gendarmes arrested runners described as wearing white vests and running shorts, mistaking a military school of sport group for improperly dressed athletes. A later haul revealed the leader to be an inspector of police with Paris officers behind him during training.
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France
Vincennes
Military School of Sport
Paris
London Mall
Side Whiskers Return to London Fashion
The London exquisite promotes side whiskers a revive of a prewar trend amid a fashion clash with the regulation military mustache. The Earl of Lonsdale and Hon. Lancelot Lowther are noted for their signature sideboards and for hinting at a sporting atmosphere in fashionable circles.
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London
Lord Rocksavage
Earl of Lonsdale
Lancelot Lowther
Beauty in Bells and Other Writings in Brooklyn Eagle
A mosaic of trivia and commentary notes on superstition, fashion, and literature. Mentions Misses Long and Pickens, the Ojowa Indian myth, car travel sentiment, and Buckleys silk skirts. Ends with a nod to Edgar Allan Poe and the poem The Bells in the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Mayme
Irma
Maud
Pickens
Devil
Caruthersville
Ofbowa
Edgar Allan Por
Brooklyn Eagle
Cannot Make Knife Handles Due to Camphor Shortage
In Sheffield England the cutlery trade suffers as camphor, essential for celluloid and knife handles, becomes scarce amid Japan’s control of supply. Riggs remarks on a bustling youth, while Diggs notes the breath of the situation.
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Japan
Sheffield
England
A Paradox Vote Speech Haunts Baltimore Surface
A Baltimore American quote reflects on the paradox of voting power with spoken claim and a silent vote. The piece hints at how discussion contrasts with unseen ballots shaping outcomes. The phrasing underscores tension between talk and action in civic participation.
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Baltimore American
Experience Teaches Teacher Jimmy Ruling Example
A Boys' Life item quotes a teacher asking for an example of a minority ruling. Jimmy responds with a line about a baby in the family, illustrating a classroom exchange and the magazine's light tone.
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Jimmy
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R. N. Brasher
Southeast Missouri
Houston Buckley
Detroit
Mich
Buckles’ Store
Eastern Shore
R’s
Buster Brown
Ajax
Missouri
Buckleys
Highfill-Neifind Furn. Co
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