City to Have Ex Press Delivery
The Chamber of Commerce and citizens pressed for free city delivery of express mail. A plan outlines two daily deliveries within a defined downtown route from the Frisco station to Jefferson and Madison streets. The service, supported by parcel post competition concerns, is expected to start soon.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kohn
Frisco
Lee and
Fist Street
Michell Hotel
Jefferson Street
Third Street
Madison Street
Fourth Street
Broadway
Herald
East Arkansas Lumber Co
Monroe
Second Street
First Street
Express
Negro Murders White Man at Caruthersville
In Caruthersville last Sunday Nath Reed shot and killed Barney Fox age 26 after a dispute in a riverfront gambling joint. Fox, a World War veteran, died on scene. A coroner’s jury bound two unnamed Negroes over for preliminary hearing, then to the next circuit term.
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Caruthersville
Nath Reed
Barney Fox
H. Fox
Fox
Tom Reed
LaForge
Squire Slingingsmith
Homey philosophy and indignation over jailed patriots
A 1922 column laments that Debs is pardoned while other patriotic figures like Comrade Bill Smith and Comrade Hill Smith remain imprisoned. The piece questions discrimination between traitors and heroes and wonders how long this bias will last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Debs
Bill Smith
Bill
Mrs Finnegan and son Visit Springfield Friend
Mrs Chas Finnegan and her young son spent last week in Springfield visiting her friend Mrs Helton and were due to return home on Tuesday.
Shepard son transfers to Chicago office of Caverse Cooperage
W G Shepard son of Mr and Mrs W T Shepard of this place has been transferred to the Chicago office of the Caverse Cooperage and Stave Co where he will be located. He passed through here Sunday bringing Mrs Shepard and Billie who will remain until suitable arrangements are made. Dr LeGear stock and poultry powder at Buckleys. Travis and Howard Steele merchants closed doors filing bankruptcy petition. John Faust of St Louis visiting friends here over the holidays returned Monday. After a week’s vacation school opened again Monday with usual attendance. Miss Sadie Mitchell was on the sick list a few days this week.
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W.G. Shepard
W. T. Shepard
Memphis
Caverse Cooperage and Stave Co
Chicago
Travis & Howard
Steele
John Faust
St. Louis
Lucretia Medley
Campbell
Patsy Banner
Caruthersville
Supt. Hilton
F. C. Faulkner
Chaffee
Frisco
Freight Rates To Take A Drop In New Year
Agent O N Watts reports a ten percent reduction in Frisco freight rates on all grain grain products livestock fruits dried vegetables cotton cotton linters cotton seed butter eggs and poultry effective January 1. The move, voluntary by the railroad, aims to stimulate grain movement and boost agricultural profits while offsetting war taxes and easing overall freight costs across the division.
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N. Watts
Ex Gov Lowden Signs Arkansas Cotton Contract
Ex Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois signs a five year contract to market all cotton from his 3206 acre Lincoln county and 10000 acre Mississippi county plantations through the Arkansas Farm Bureau Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. He praises cooperative marketing as essential for farmer prosperity and urges all Arkansas cotton farmers to join. He notes his experience with Illinois and California farm groups and calls the Farm Bureau the best farmers organization in the United States.
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Frank ©. Lowden
Illinois
Arkansas
Arkansas Farm Bureau Cotton Growers’ Co- Operative Association
Lawden
Lincoln County
Mississippi County
Lowden
California
Denmark
Farm Bureau
United States
Ogle County Farm Bureau
The
Illinois Agricultural Association
American Farm Bureau Association
Pemiscot County Farm Bureau Hosts Cotton Meeting
The Pemiscot County Farm Bureau held a cotton meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms last Friday. Mr Coleman, tied to Arkansas, addressed local farmers who approved the movement. The plan envisions a four state pool of about three million bales this year, growing with signups to sell through a directors board to mills and exporters. The bureau aims to sign up members countywide and run a campaign to boost cotton growers’ gains.
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Pemiscot County
Farm Bureau
Miss Etta Sanders Visits Mrs Powell in Concord
Miss Etta Sanders of Concord has been spending the week with Mrs. E Powell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etta Sanders
Buckley
Concord
Also Mentioned on This Page
Homey Philosophy
Sadie Mitchell
Drof
Charles J. Bullock
Electric Railway Journal
D. E. Dorris
Hayt
Albert Greenwell
Wilson
Arkatt
Buckleys
C. H. Wallis
C B Martin
Cape Girardeau
G. W. Whitaker
Limar Thompson
L. J. Benner
Mrs. (. Or. Slaughter
Nellie Schmidt
Haiti
A. G. Pickens
Hocomb
W. J. Oates
W. H. O'Connor
Mrs. Wade Crecelius of
Ark
Pascola
Hayti
A. F
Missouri
Pemiscot Farm Bureau News
South
Cotton Mareting Meeting
E. Powell
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