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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1904
Page
6
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Advertising rates listed for second class mail at Jackoon Missouri include display and legal notices. Local rate per insertion is shown with a professional card rate of 65 per year and rates apply by line or space. Display ad rates are available on application and not yet published.
The report outlines current grain market conditions with emphasis on price trends, supply expectations, and demand signals. It highlights weekly price movement, regional crop prospects, and notes from traders on factors influencing futures and cash markets.
The piece argues the Democratic platform deems protection to be robbery while the Republican platform defends protection as essential to American prosperity. It contrasts past tariff actions by both parties, linking Republican reforms to growth and employment and Democratic opposition to protective tariffs, warning voters to choose protection via the GOP.
The speaker denounces protection as robbery while noting the Democratic platform pledges a gradual revision of the tariff. They compare gradual reform to a thief half punished, arguing protection has uplifted homes and national standing, urging voters to distrust the Democrats.
Hannibal Missouri detectives in the Dr Jones Watson murder case report evidence that he and his wife ate a light lunch in a Salt River thicket near the bridge where the body was found. A witness says they dined about 6 20 PM July and within an hour and a half the doctor was connected to the bridge death. Officers note two diamond rings connected to Mrs Watson interest them and say Watson claimed rings in a bank package the day he left for St Louis. He refuses to discuss the case beyond telling deputies to limit access to relatives and a few close friends. The doctor is said to be sleeping more and more as the inquiry continues.
An elderly Chillicothe resident was lured by a man posing as a real estate agent to view a cottage. After driving to the suburbs and extracting cash from the bank, two accomplices robbed him of 650 dollars and detained him in an abandoned Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul roundhouse for most of the day, threatening to “blow his brain out” if he spoke.
Jefferson City Missouri Eluate Auditor Albert O Allen has registered school district building bonds listing New Madrid county fourteen bonds of 60 each Dallas county one bond of 510 Putnam county seven bonds of 51 Newton county four bonds of 150 Lawrence county three bonds of 100 St Francois county forty bonds of 500 each at stated interest rates per cent each bond.
A Frisco combination passenger and freight train leaving Rich Hill at 6:26 AM Thursday for Plestanton derailed two and a half miles west of town after a washout. All aboard were shaken and bruised, the express messenger was thrown from his car, but no one was seriously injured.
The Montgomery county Christian churches session adjourned after electing J. W. Juans as president J. A. Wilson as vice president John W. Jackson as secretary and F. P. Clark as treasurer The next meeting date and location are to be decided by the officers. A Missouri River Barge Line initiative in Kansas City Missouri revived by W P Trickett aims to move freight on the Missouri River with a forthcoming company announcement. Freight by water between Kansas City and St Louis could cut costs 30 to 60 percent versus rail.
In St. Louis John J. Lavin member of the Democratic City Central Committee from the 28th ward was acquitted in the court of criminal correction on Thursday of a charge of interfering with voters during the Democratic primaries held March 12. The state’s witnesses claimed Lavin was near the polling place at Delmar and Taylor avenues but Judge Moore directed the jury to return a not guilty verdict. Prosecutor Williams then moved to continue cases against Deputy Marshal John McAuliffe and Officers Frank Nalle and HL Wood with similar futures, and the remaining election cases were postponed to March 19.
Missouri Governor Dockery issues a Labor Day proclamation urging statewide observance on the first Monday in September. He calls for celebration and participation across communities, urging citizens to honor the toiling majority and join in the ceremonial events in Jefferson City and across the state.
Charlee F. Loomis of Kansas City attorney for the Missouri Central Railway Company and Col. W. H. Chase of New York promoter arrived from Columbia to urge the road. They claim construction will start at once with work to begin before winter and a citizen committee is soliciting funds.
Gov. Shookery announced the appointment of delegates to represent Missouri at the national conference of the State Heard of Law Examiners to be held in St. Louis in connection with the American Bar Association. Named are Perry and Rader of Jefferson City, Fred W. Lehmann of St. Louis, Gardiner Lathrop of Kansas City, G. A. Finkkeln berg of St. Louis, William M. Williams of Boonville, and Samuel Davis of Marshall.
The Missouri Jurisdiction colored Masons gathered with hundreds of delegates. C. G. Williams of Boonville was chosen grand master, J. W. Pelham of Hannibal grand secretary, and K. H. Cole of Kansas City grand treasurer. The session closed Thursday afternoon after a picnic and barbecue at the Fair Grounds.
A steady rain began Wednesday night in Clinton Missouri and continued much of Thursday soaking the fields. The wet spell revived parched corn and halted potential damage from continued dryness, breaking the drought just in time for crops.
Kansas City to Chicago passenger train No 12 wrecked near Altamont Missouri while descending an embankment. Twelve people were hurt two fatally with two coaches toppled from the embankment after departure from Kansas City at 6 30 Wednesday evening.
Gov Dockery approved a plan for a new school for the blind to be built in St Louis. The 120000 appropriation from the last legislature funds 100000 for construction and 20000 for equipment. The old building sold to the St Louis school board for 75000, with 25000 paid to the state treasury and the balance to be paid when possession passes to the purchaser.
A bitter cold morning ended a close friendship as Mrs Smith accused Miss Brown of stealing her shoes. Brown realized the mistake too late, revealing the host’s husband’s shoes were used. The quarrel exposes tension over a simple household item and a moral lapse.
Cleveland Arkansas August 16 special report quotes Mr A B Carlile praising Dodd's Kidney Pills after 23 years of kidney trouble. He says they are the best remedy for sick kidneys and rescued him from a life of suffering. The note claims the pills cure kidney ills from back ache to Bright's disease.
A Century magazine excerpt from Barelra in Portuguese East Africa describes zinc construction from hospital to railway cars, with funerary coffins of zinc. It notes a farmer claim about cow kicking cures and a joke about a Kansas husband searching for a keyhole as his healing wife watches, from the Atchison Globe.
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