The World at Large and Local News Digest
A mosaic of items from Missouri newspapers notes the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows creating a new secret work office with a grand instructor earning 82400 annually. Cape Girardeau reports R. Smith consolidating two Morley livery barns and relocating his family. Campbell dies in Macon and services are planned. Camel sightings surface in the Arizona desert linked to government experiments, with broader rural notices on stock laws and local opinions.
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Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
Missouri
Cape Girardeau
R. Smith
Morley
IE. P. Eves & Son
BB. FP. Bayles
Fragmentary 16th century style business screed
The text depicts a lazy dealer who hides in his shop at sunrise, sleeping while others desert him. He shuns advertising, sits idle like castor oil, and attracts no customers or attention as he remains unseen. It reads as a fragmented antiquated lament on neglect and commerce.
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Macon Times-Democrat
Shekels
Flood Overflows River Reach In Mississippi County
From the end of the government levee protecting the county, the Mississippi River overflows to the high lands at New Madrid. Sloughs and ditches back up to the Cottonell railroad between Farrenburg and East Prairie, destroying thirty thousand acres of corn in that fertile region.
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Mississippi County
New Madrid
Farrenburg
East Prairie
Crop ruined by levee breach doubles total acres
Report says the rock levee below Commerce was broken this afternoon. The breach doubles the earlier loss to corn, bringing total ruined acres to 60,000 valued at ROO UNN.
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Roo
Unn
Deputy U S Marshal Arrests Man For Malt Tax Stamp Violation
Deputy United States Marshal Wildes arrived by Frisco from Pemiscot county with D. E. Forsyth whom he arrested at Cottonwood Point for selling malt without a special tax stamp. Forsyth was heard before United States Commissioner Kage and bound over to await action by the federal grand jury meeting the second Monday in October. In default of $200 bond, he was jailed.
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Cape Girardeau News
United States
Wildes
Frisco
Pemiscot County
D. E. Forsyth
Cottonwood Point
Kage
Pederal Grand Jury
Fleas Bite Sparks and Frustrations Describe Noisy Nuisance
A humorous lament describes the maddening annoyance of fleas biting unseen spots at night and skeeters buzzing around beds, provoking exasperation and scattered oaths as a household battles persistent pests.
Noahs Bark Sparks Ark Saving Two Fleas Tale
A whimsical note recalls Noah challenging Dame Nature as the ark faced an odd dilemma with two fleas aboard. The light verse imagines a clash of fate and humor, turning a biblical scene into a playful fable about tiny travelers.
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Noah
Dame Nature
Ark
Civic League Play fundraiser set for July 22
Civic League announces comic and patriotic entertainment on Thursday July 22. Proceeds go to a good cause and community members are urged to attend and support the event.
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Civic League
Watches from Chas. Goodrich in Caruthersville
A line of Waltham Eigin Ham den Springfield and South Bend watches offered for sale. We handle no seconds and claim that all pieces passed factory inspection. Chas Goodrich in Caruthersville. 20
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Waltham, Eigin
Hamden
Springfield
South Bend
Chas. Goodrich
Caruthersville
1000 Watches Free Weekly Commercial Offer
The Weekly Commercial advertises a trial subscription offer for a 12 size nickel finish watch. Only twenty new trials at 10 cents each for three months, 82.00 total, with 20 names needed and remittance. Each subscription must be new, one per family, watch guaranteed and wearable.
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Memphis
Tenn
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Thomas C
Campbell
Lizzie Fitzhugh
Little Prairie
Arizona Desert
Military Department
Sanborn Herald
Skeeter
Kodaks
Hygeno
Mange
Castor Machine
Farmers Delight Harvester Oi
B. A. Thomas
Lowe Bros. and
Sherwin Willvins
Zonophone Records
Guitars
Edison Phonographs
Letter
Keen-Kutter
Centaur
Gillet
Keen-butter
Jorden
Letler’s
Republic
Ansonia Repeating
Ingersall
Yankew
Uncle Sam
Ingersoll -Duamor
Baseball Goods
Cateher
Lefler
Hayti
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