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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1904
Page
6
The Jackson Herald notes Republican alignment and provides historic postal and pricing information. It lists conservative political branding and advertising rates, including annual, semiannual, and quarterly terms, with publication details and office addresses. The fragment references November 4, 1897 and journal pricing.
Advertising rates listed for locals at a per line per insertion, professional cards priced at six dollars per year, and legal advertisements with rates available on application. The note mentions display rates in A4 and states rates are provided upon request.
The Market Report provides a condensed view of prevailing conditions in grain markets. It notes price trends, supply expectations, and demand factors influencing corn wheat and other grains for traders and investors.
In St Louis livestock notes, prices for cattle and cows, heifers, stockers and feeders, bulls, and veal valves are shown with varied weights and ranges. Mules and horses are listed by age, height, and range, plus bids for sale bulls and bull of sales across several weight classes.
Condensed telegrams note guahers reported at Beaumont Texas and Jennings Louisiana. The Wasted Mine Workers held a convention in Indianapolis on Monday. Col John D Oglesby private secretary to Gov Yates marries an engineer daughter. The Rice Trust miners vote to wage a determined fight against wage seduction.
Walter B. Tibbetts was convicted of first degree robbery in St. Louis and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Identified by James Moser as the man who dragged Moser into an alley near Walnut Street and robbed him of a gold watch and $104. The watch was recovered from a pawn shop. Two witnesses described the robbery. Tibbetts was said to be a deserter from the U S Army. A guard of soldiers attended the preliminary hearing.
Governor A M Dockery in Jefferson City communicated with St Louis police officials about a cabmen strike disturbance at a funeral. He praised swift police action, urged impartial enforcement, and warned disturbances will not be tolerated. He promised a reward if the offender is identified and convicted.
Ed Hardin, a farmer in Tipton, was mortally wounded in his yard by a shotgun blast. His hired hand Dewin was found dead in the house with the wounded employer. J. M. Boyd and W. L. McCotehens discovered the scene Wednesday. The two men who lived there were not known to have quarrelled, and suicide by shotgun was ruled out for the man found dead in the house.
The Sint Hoard of Health signals possible prosecution of medical students at Missouri University for practicing medicine among peers. President R H Jon urges enforcement, warning that some students have engaged in medical practice without proper authorization. The bulletin calls for upholding the law to curb unlicensed medical activity on campus.
A Maryville resident received a mysterious one dollar money order in a letter mailed from St Louis. The envelope bears unfamiliar handwriting and the sender is listed as C. B. Smith, a name unknown to the recipient. Officials suspect a hoax or misaddressed parcel with no clear claimant.
In Mexico Missouri on Wednesday Mrs E B D Graham was named a board member of the King’s Daughters State Home for Aged Women. Mrs J W Trimble was appointed secretary, replacing Mrs George A Roan who resigned. The institution will be located in the city and is to be completed in the spring.
James Jayne, a wealthy schemer from near Wallen, was a private patient at a marine hospital. He made no attempt at self destruction by throwing himself against a board used to drive nails. an eyelid was punctured and the eye severely lacerated, destroying sight. The attending physician says his condition is not critical.
In Columbia Mo students at Missouri University urged the faculty to limit meals to two daily, arguing dormitory experiments show health and spirits improve with reduced intake and that dinner is least essential. A noon meal would be cut to implement this plan. Jefferson City Mo Gov Dockery appointed D J Dean to Kansas City Police Board to run for mayor and J R Ranson as clerk of the Jackson County Criminal Court.
The McCail Manufacturing Company filed articles of incorporation on Wednesday in Macon Missouri. It will produce rakes blockers lawn owings and specialties in wood with a capital stock of $10,000 all paid. Incorporators are Goove Morria of Kansas City H J Vasee of Huntville Missouri and J G Sandison L J Hi of Macon. The building is nearly finished and operation is expected within a month.
Hinman, a longtime St. Charles attorney admitted in 1861 by Judge Wells, died last week at his daughter’s home on Third and Franklin. He served in many city and county posts and edited the St. Charles Reveille for several years. He leaves a wife and three grown children.
Jefferson City Massachusetts Governor Dockery announces George W. Noel will serve as Coal Oil Inspector for McDonald County following the resignation of T. R. Gibson.
A requisition from Governor Bailey of Kansas has honored the request to return James Henderson, who is in custody at St. Joseph. Henderson is wanted in Goff Kansas for the offense of safe blowing.
Judge and Mrs. B A Belknap celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at home in Bonne Terre Missouri on a Wednesday. Six of their seven children attended with families and relatives. Four guests had attended the original wedding fifty years ago. It also marked the eighth anniversary of one daughter's marriage. The couple were both born in 1830.
In Hannibal Missouri the late Rev M J McLoughlin Catholic church will leaves about fifteen thousand dollars in bequests. Many bequests go to St Loula people and institutions among others.
Columbia Missouri Dr C W Greene of the medical department at Missouri University has been offered the position of pharmacologist in the United States Department of Agriculture He has not yet decided whether to accept.
Jefferson City Mo Great Northern Fuel Company of St Louis secured a certificate from the Secretary of State to raise its capital stock from 100000 to 1000000 dollars, expanding its corporate status and financial capacity.
Des Moines Capital notes Joseph Chamberlain argues that prosperity rests on a nation’s home market. The piece critiques reciprocity with Canada and warns that trading away the American home market to foreign goods undermines domestic industry and wages. It cites tin plate trade losses, McKinley tariff impacts, and American views on reciprocity versus free trade.
In a contribution to the American Economist Olive Milne explains she was driven from England not for crime or fraud, but solely because she was a woman unable to support a household or public life.
A portrait of Misa Milne contrasts her free trade origin with the protected American economy. She argues that industrial safeguards empower women to work and excel, praising U S opportunities and self reliance made possible by protection. Her rhetoric frames protection as a key factor in advancing women's roles in society.
A critical view argues Mr McKinley could not accept any trade deal that would hurt American industry. The piece dismisses Chamberlain’s push for protection as misguided and predicts colonies will resist subjection to British preferential tariffs. It warns that the world moves too fast for old colonial dependency.
Reciproc ity is framed as a covert surrender of the home market as talk of closer trade with Canada resurfaces. Border towns push for cheaper family staples and campers seek cross border bargains, arguing higher U S demand makes Canada cheaper. The piece notes tariff laws and a potential mult i million impact on Americans.
Senator Cullom as committee chair misstates ad valorem rates on sugar arguing they are 102 and 97. The letter argues sugar values under McKinley are higher, rates are about 7 percent, and warns Republicans against using ad valorem rates to claim protection for sugar harming home industry and farmers.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt argues a British food tax could lower demand for U S agricultural exports by raising British prices. It notes some believe consumers bear the tax, but contends any price effect would come from reduced British consumption, not tax shifting to American producers.
John T. Kruger of Wabash Nebraska bet a friend five hundred dollars he would ask the first girl he met after leaving his hotel to marry him. That girl was Mamie Grant who promptly accepted and they were wed within an hour.
The lesson portrays Jesus by the sea teaching from a boat after fishermen Simon Peter Andrew James and John respond to his call They launch into deep water and nets catch a miraculous haul revealing Peter as the rock and foreshadowing the apostles becoming fishers of men The text emphasizes following Jesus forsaking all and training for higher duties leading to the Pentecost revival.
A fragmentary meditation on prayer as peace for spirit and mind. The text links prayer to charity and meekness, noting the stillness of thoughts and the seat of meditation as central to alleviating inner turmoil. The passage blends spiritual reflection with moral virtues.
A brief Exchange editorial argues some Christians seek life by sheer bulk of deeds, challenging the notion that good works alone prove belonging to the Way of Life.
A writer contrasts the transformation of dull metal into currency with the spiritual work on people. Money gains value after trials, tests, refinings, hardenings, poundings, and cuttings, while Christians expect instant perfection. God, however, conducts a long, tedious minting of souls through persistent effort.
Poetic meditation on death as a gentle hush for weary children. Death is described as taking souls briefly to rest in the Father’s bosom, then laying them to final rest. Matthew Russell’s lines frame mortality as a comforting, maternal passage rather than an ending.
A brief reflective note compares Bible promises to sunbeams that freely pass through the windows of the poor man's cabin as they do in the rich man's palace. It emphasizes universal hope regardless of wealth.
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