Missouri Catalog Ad Promotes Shoes and Dress Goods
A midwestern ad extols a Missouri battleship style shoe with good looks and wear, praises Walkover and Pingree brands, and notes young women buying dress patterns in Grey Suitings and Silk Organdies. It touts Mayflower Coffee and furker Flour, and invites exchanges of produce at drugstores offering 10 percent discounts. The notice also advertises a wide range of goods from knitting needles to threshing machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walkover
Pingree
Furker
Law Enforcement League mobilizes voters in Jasper County
Jasper County Law Enforcement League held a Friday meeting at the Y M C A in Joplin. Prominent lawyers and preachers urged enforcement of laws and distribution of pledge cards pledging support for law enforcement and anti Sunday closing law candidates. A circular urged citizens to sign and return pledge cards to support candidates with clean character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Lock
T. E. Pratt
Lynn Monroe
Jasper County Law Enforcement League
Y. M
Joplin
Secstor
Btste
Law Enforcement League
Jasper County
Webb City
Senate
Former Jasper Girl Dies in Ordway Colorado
Kata Lorene Ries, born Shawnee Mound Missouri May 11 1878, daughter of Chas Rice, moved to Jasper County as a child, joined the Presbyterian church at 13, and was a steadfast Christian worker. She married Robert Ketchum in 1901 at age 23 in Jasper County then lived with her parents in Ordway, Colorado, where she died last Wednesday.
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Etta Ketchem
Etta Rice
Chas. Rice
Ordway
Colo
Ordway New Era
C B Stewart
Kata Lorene Ries
Shawney Mound
Henry Co
Jasper Co
Presbyterian Church
Robert Ketchum
Afton Indian Territory
Roy Webb Breaks Arm Again After Playful Fall
Roy Webb, son of Omer Webb, fractured both bones in his left arm between the wrist and elbow last Monday after stepping from a wire fence onto a box. He was treated at Dr Kendricks office. This marks the fourth break to the same arm in his young life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Webb
Omer Webb
Geeslin to Treat at St James Hotel This Week
Dr F M Geeslin osteopath from Lamar will treat at St James Hotel this week and next with sessions on Monday Wednesday and Friday thereafter. Local notice indicates ongoing weekly visits beginning this week into the next period.
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F M Geeslin
Lamar
St James Hotel
Pool Room Knocked Out by City Council Action
City council passes an ordinance prohibiting pool rooms and related venues including dance halls pistol galleries ten pin alleys boxing and sparring exhibitions and tipping houses. Legal counsel from Carthage ensures the measure is enacted properly, with a repeal of existing ordinances and a new comprehensive rule. The existing pool room may operate until its license expires June 8.
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H. L. Bright
Carthage
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Missouri Battleship
Missouri
Webb Bros. Mercantile CO
League
Sandifur
M. B. Durlt
Lake View
Jasper
Etta
Colorado
Chandler
Star Brand
Chandler & Son
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