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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
6
Entered at the post office at Jackson Missouri an encotholies matter November 4 1997. Advertising rates locally per line each insertion professional card 60 per year legal advertisements facial rates. Mioplay ad state noted made known on application.
Market report notes prevailing conditions in grain trading with focus on supply demand and price movement. Highlights include price directions for corn wheat and oats, with observations on storage conditions, regional demand, and seasonal influences affecting futures and spot values.
A June 30 rally at Cooper Union by the Republican Club of New York features John M. Thurston praising the party's record on industry, wages, and national finances. He argues Democrats cannot surpass Republican achievements and frames the 1904 campaign around tariff policy and economic strength under McKinley.
A Globe Democrat column champions Republican success under tariffs and protective policies. It argues the party has created factory jobs for Americans, restricted cheap foreign labor, and linked unions of labor and farm interests. It notes Democrats risk opposing tariffs and aiding Republican candidates, including Roosevelt.
Missouri case in Jefferson City shows Edward J Gildersleeve granted a writ of habeas corpus by Judge James H Gantt for 3000 bond to await Supreme Court October term. He faced contempt for disobeying a St Louis circuit court order to halt nontransferable transportation sales by Chicago Burlington Quincey railroad.
A Missouri doctor, William Frye of Kansas City, said a burglar robbed him of about 1020 dollars from his home between midnight and 2 am. The thief turned on gas jets in an apparent attempt to suffocate Frye and his wife. Frye had stored years of savings in a chamois bag inside a physician’s satchel, hidden to avoid banking. He described various details of the stolen money and the failed recovery, while the remainder of the report notes county old-settlers events, prizes, and public notices including a $200 reward for John Granger in a separate Jefferson City case and a county administrator appointment.
In Chillicothe Missouri a masked robber woke night agent Roy Sheaman of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway at 3 am. The assailant demanded cash, shot Sheaman in the face, and fled with 105 dollars. Police have no trace of the culprit.
Jefferson City Missouri reports the July total capitalization of newly incorporated firms at 5,000,256 with prior incorporations adding 62,100 and foreign firms setting aside 60,011 for Missouri business, totaling 4,945,960 for June. Bank listings include several named institutions and capitalization changes, plus a legal note on juvenile sentencing law and training school transfers.
Oran Missouri residents push to relocate county seat from Benton to Oran. A petition with 1,900 taxpayers from Stott county asks for a general election vote. Benton citizens vow to oppose, hiring lawyers as the dispute divides the town.
Congressman Wichard Partholdt and Engineer C C De Witt toured the Min sour river mouth and found hundreds of acres of rich arable land washed away as the stream cuts a new channel. De Witt urged closing the new channel with a dike at an estimated cost of $16,000, following a War Department instigation.
Excitement grows in Labelle Missouri over a three foot coal vein found two miles northeast of town. Another thick strike near Monticello, fourteen miles east, fuels belief Lewis County may join Missouri’s coal producing counties.
City council discussion introduces a measure from Abi Bt Louie for the relief of Fair Grounds Realty Company with a proposed appropriation of 3422 dollars, 2600 dollars less than a defeated prior measure. A House bill allocating 6000 dollars to maintain a playground at Tenth and Mullanphy passed. The salary regulation for Street Department garbage division workers was laid over for one week.
Advice urges careful, balanced exercise to avoid obesity. It lists activities like skipping, lawn tennis, stair climbs, and washing floors for women, and baseball, cricket, football, and golf for men. It notes all exercises help if not fatigued and mentions light dumbbell or Indian club work and a brisk pre breakfast walk.
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The Alabama House of Representatives renamed a newly formed party in Houston’s honor, praising him as a leader who redeemed the state from perceived tyranny and distinguished the state in war and peace. The Montgomery Advertiser notes the honor surpassed suggestions of Gen. Robert E. Rodes and Raphael Semmes.
Rev. J. J. Wicker pastor of First Baptist Church in Trenton New Jersey administered a severe thrashing to a Princeton student who insulted several young women. He chased the offender a block, pummeled him in the style of prize fighting, then handed him to police. The next day in police court Wicker testified and the student was fined ten dollars plus costs.
In Kushequa Pennsylvania a local belief grows that Dodd's Kidney Pills cure rheumatism and lame back. Mrs M L Davison touts relief after thirty years of rheumatism and two boxes of the pills. The town sees reports of similar results daily amid the claim of a single sure cure. The Duke of Parma reportedly has eighteen children from two marriages, with seventeen surviving.
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