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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1904
Page
6
Advertising rates in the notice include per insertion charges, proseasonal card options six times yearly, and legal advertisement rates. Display ad prices are provided on application, with terms and conditions to consult for details.
A concise market report covers current conditions, noting overall trends, price movements, and notable shifts in supply and demand. It highlights key sectors, including commodities and equities, and references general economic factors influencing activity without sensational detail.
In Missouri a gas explosion and ensuing collapse at a two story brick building on Acad emy and Minerva avenues trapped eleven people. Firefighters freed William James after three hours under debris. several family members and workers escaped with injuries. The blast caused the structure to wreck beyond repair and investigators seek the explosion cause, with gas from a natural ledger theory noted.
Windsor Missouri reports two African American men dead after a Saturday night shooting quarrel. Roy Simone and George Watkins were wounded near Katy Stock Yards. Jim Potts fled. Passengers on a Katy passenger train found them and transported to Kansas City junction. Coroner from Pettis County took Watkins to Sedalia for cooperation. Potts was found with a head wound and the skull fractured.
Missouri State University exhibit traces the institution’s evolution through water color portraits. The series begins with the original small building on campus and progresses to later structures, ending with a Western-era campus view in Columbia. The exhibit also mentions incidents including a fatal shooting in St Joseph.
St Louis coroner Otto Koch led an inquest into the shooting death of Arthur Swift at the Irish Village south of the Worlds Fair Grounds in St Louis County. The jury verdict held Arthur Dorey of 1918 Tower Grove Avenue responsible. Ella Bossier and Anna Henecke, present at the scene, testified and initially matched Swift’s companions’ accounts. Swift’s body was later sent to Undertaker Parker of Kirkwood, and Dorey was moved from the Mounted District Station to the Cuyeton jail.
B Lewis Diea a longtime local leader in Eldorado and a civic figure for over a quarter of a century died suddenly at his home Saturday morning at 4 o clock. He attended the Weldon convention in recent days and seemed well until his wife awoke to find him dead, with a history of heart trouble worsened by recent political tensions.
An abstract of reports to the Comptroller of the Currency shows Missouri bank conditions excluding St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph. Loans and discounts total 16,095,979 with 98,400 in specie, legal tender notes 14 etc. Total resources around 9.0 million. Individual deposits not stated. Legal reserve ratio listed as 16.05. Also reports an accident in Armstrong where Lelio Weir, a young blacksmith, was badly burned trying to fuel an engine with gasoline.
The Douglas county veterans association executive committee set August 17 18 and 19 for the annual encampment in Ava Missouri with prominent speakers expected to address attendees.
Multiple dispatches report Japanese forces attacking Liao Yang while Russia reinforces the fortress at Port Arthur. Battles flare near Hai Ch’eng and Wafangow, with heavy casualties claimed by both sides as negotiations and war talk continue across Asia and Americas.
Grand Trunk Mailway System opens a City Ticket Office at 308 North Broadway St. Louis and offers daily car service to St. Louis Montreal and Toronto with Midwest Central RR connections. Low excursion fares to Ontario Quebec and Nova Scotia on sale from St. Louis and Kansas City.
The Rev Thomas P Norman testifies that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his diabetes and argues the remedy can cure all stages of kidney disease from backache to rheumatism. The piece also reports legislators debating a state funded hotel for lawmakers and other brief notes on adjourned hearings, theater opinions, and food health claims.
Popular author Jack London, age twenty eight at the front, rose from obscurity after harsh struggle. He advises writers to work hard, keep notes, travel with ideas, and write many words for pay while avoiding tragic endings. The Black Cat magazine helped him break through, paying for a 4000 word story after cutting it in half, and launched many new writers through its prizes and conditions.
Trained cats are the latest craze among Parisian society women. The fashion of educated felines has multiple elite observers spending an hour daily on training, with several well known Partian socialites leading the trend.
The piece notes a westward flow of eastern money for crops and grain while $25,000,000 in millinery travels west to bring eastern funds to the Philadelphia Inquirer. It frames the exchange as a counterbalance in economic activity between regions.
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