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Newspaper
Hayti Herald
Location
Hayti, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1920
Page
14
The Stanley debate on navigation versus railroads concluded with a two to one decision for the negatives. Participants included Dave Crevoisier and Miss Pearl Henry for the affirmatives, and Mrs Lula Henry and Miss Moran for the negatives.
The town halts school this week due to rising water and an inability to place a building on the west levee side. Mr and Mrs Hedges welcome a girl born Sunday night March 21. Mr and Mrs Robert Marley have a son born Saturday March 20. Warmer weather plus rising water threaten the school building as water approaches, while fishermen report good luck in the back water.
A newspaper snippet touts Mr. R. C. King claiming a rat problem at his place was solved by RAT SNAP. He asserts early failures gave way to rapid results, with dead and gone rats and no live ones afterward. The ad segment mentions merchants and a housing tease about spuds in a yard for funds.
A proposal from Popular Mechanics Magazine describes a trolley dirigible using an electric motor driven system to carry mails over sparsely settled areas. It envisions a pipe from car to gas bag carrying heated air to regulate buoyancy and a trolley cable wound on a drum for altitude adjustment.
Dodson's Liver Tone is promoted as a safe alternative to calomel, which is described as toxic and related to nausea cramps and sickness. The ad claims quick relief for sluggish liver and constipation, promising a money back guarantee if it fails to improve health and vigor.
Helgian hares, guinea pigs and white mice are listed along with eyes for hatching from Barred Plymouth Rock Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn. Contact phone 122 Rh. 5 Hart.
Scattered notices mention Mrs. T L McCutchen and child visiting in Caruthersville and her sister Mrs Dile D Perkins. Also an ad for fur bearing rabbits and hides by The Pur and Specialty Farming Co Fargo South Dakota. Other items list Miss Josie Smart in Drake City Circuit, a jewelry ad for Turnbaughs, a laundry motto, Victor records March selections, and Highfill Neifind Furniture Co in Caruthersville Missouri.
Wall paper as low as 71.2 renta per roll with higher grades. Highfill Neifind Furniture Co Ca ruthersville Mo. The horse has at least one advantage over the automobile. Daylo flashlights bright as day in all sizes. Elders Elders Drug Store offers Pratt's poultry and stock remedies. A speed maniac loses his hat during wild contortions. Ladies slippers at Buckleys.
Holland adopts a labor cost strategy by laying off workers and taking orders only for work they and their sons can handle. Farmers follow suit as wages rise, aiming to curb inflation and return to moderate costs. The piece questions what is wrong with America amid this shift to self employment.
Classified ad offers a 21 jewel South Bend wristwatch with a 20 year case and a maker’s note near the end urging offers and claiming the seller does not need it. The piece signed J. It. English invites offers.
Mrs. D L Sorrell of Foust visited her daughter Mrs Bil e Clark over the weekend returning home Monday.
Dawson Wells of Lefler's Drug Store spent the first of the week in St Louis attending a Rexall convention for clerks and pharmacists only. J 5 Larkey offered ten percent in exchange for old burned out light globes at 406 Ward Ave Caruthersville Mo. W R Sutton and family visited the Short home Sunday.
An editorial in the Globe-Democrat highlights Missouri's wetlands reclamation in eight Southeast counties. It notes a 90 mile main ditch and about 6 million dollars spent, yielding corn, alfalfa, cotton and livestock as proof that drainage improves fertility. The piece urges wider public and legislative interest and calls reclamation a model for the nation.
Henry A Boone of Brageadocio reports good prices from Bell City for two pure bred Holstein cattle totaling 175 dollars and two two month old pure bred Duroc Jersey pigs at 20 dollars each. He notes pure bred stock requires more care but brings higher receipts than scrub stock.
A large nine year old work mule fourteen to fifteen hands with harness is for cash in Hayti Missouri. Seller Mrs. Clara Teel invites inquiries. A note adds that some people remain untroubled by high living costs even as others suffer.
Disjointed lines mention names and places in broken form. No clear event or context emerges besides scattered personal references and quoted speech.
The Thigwhi caves in the Great Globe at Swanage were offered by Hon of Penrith Enelind but failed to find a purchaser. The Great Globe and Dharleston Tend Castle were bid for ten thousand pounds. The Durleston Mark estate, housing these landmarks, had previously been offered only as a whole but likewise failed to attract a buyer.
An advertisement touts Freezone as painless corn and callus removal. It claims a few drops on corns or hard skin at the bottom of the feet lift them off, leaving pink skin and no soreness or irritation.
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