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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1920
Page
2
Weekly issue cadence stated as Friday publication with a subscription rate of 1.50 per year payable in advance. The notice notes second class mail matter status at Lexington Missouri Post Office and directs communications for print and guidance to the Intelligencer.
The notice introduces c L Kenney as a Democratic primary candidate for Lafayette County assessor and J B Hereford as a State Senator candidate from the Seventeenth District, both subject to August 3, 1920, Democratic votes. The piece weaves in social observations about prices, sugar, widows of 1812, and debates on national issues, including a senate housing inquiry, a czar rumor, and a proposed seven and eight cent coin bill. A Toronto reward for an hit-and-run automobilist ends the fragment.
A column wryly notes Canadians view homicide arrests as serious, Nevada fears over divorce threats to industry, and society lampoons fashion fads like cheap clothing. It criticizes Republican Congress incompetence in world affairs and Reconstruction, while Democratic chair Cummings blames leaders for catering to special interests.
The author recalls Phineas T. Barnum to argue Americans overreact to trends like the overalls craze. A congressman is noted for wearing overalls to gain publicity before reelection, while the piece questions why citizens would wear them to combat high living costs, calling it muddled and wasteful.
A political screed warns that personal abuse aimed at President Wilson by Republican and Democratic foes will rebound on those who directed it. The piece predicts a thorough, merciless reaction as the campaign of envy and hate mounts.
The country shows cold toward Republican candidates as money is spent to build a showing. Venders against Wilson reveal a motive to thwart his progress and undo his work for humanity. Citizens grow angry at tactics and anticipate a broad protest. Mrs. C. F. Wikoff ends visit with son Capt. L. B. Wikoff at Wentworth and departs to Chillicothe Missouri.
A health ad asserts a woman grows more beautiful with age through baths diet and exercise and warns that yellow eyes and pale flesh signal indigestion or sluggish liver. It promotes Cham berlain's Tablets as correcting these disorders.
Mr Elmer H White and Mrs White traveled to Jefferson City Monday for a five day gathering of Missouri county superintendents of schools.
Mrs Benjamin F Blakeney of Decatur Illinois writes Chamberlains Cough Remedy is by far the best medicine for colds and coughs we have ever used in our family. It has helped her children when small for croup and she has used it herself.
Garden guidance outlines two groups of garden pests biting and sucking insects. It advises arsenate of lead spray for potato beetles and cabbage worms, soap or tobacco dust deterrents, and bordeaux mixture for fungi with a lead additive for combined problems and potatoes.
J J Woodruff offers 100 acres for sale 74 miles south of Lexington 100 acres in one block plus 20 acres detached. Sold together or separately. Describes land as cheapest quality in country Write to 1001 Fifth Ave Worth Texas or contact tenant W H Stevenson 4-2-2tw.
J C Mendenhall of Evansville Indiana spent forty years in the drug business and helped compound over one hundred thousand prescriptions before Number 40 For The Blood was discovered. The medicine is claimed to cure blood troubles rheumatism catarrh constipation stomach trouble indigestion and other ailments. A Winston Salem man Thomas Anderson writes of his relief after taking Number 40 describing stomach trouble improvement weight gain and renewed health after four bottles.
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