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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
2
A. W. Allen, editor and publisher, issues weekly editions on Fridays. Official notice of entry as second class mail matter at the post office in Lexington. All communications to be printed in the Intelligencer.
Miss Naomi Van Meteor of Odessa visits Miss Bertha and Miss Florence Larkin. Many locals and visitors travel between Odessa Wellington Canton James City Monmouth and Springfield for visits, family gatherings, and brief trips.
Mrs Allie Bougher went to Kansas City Wednesday for a visit. Worth Bates arrived Tuesday from Chicago to spend a week it Disiness. Mrs Thos B Crenshaw and two children returned to their home in Kansas City Wednesday after a visit here with relatives. Misses Rena Ivie and Elma and Rath Ashurst who have been visiting in Blackburn returned home Tuesday evening.
The article notes few reminders of Dickens places and characters in London as familiar signs dissolve. Ten years erase Bill Sikes Nancy Oliver Twist and Pickwick from the streets replaced by modern flats and hotels. Dickensian scenes now appear only as rare echoes of bygone days.
A person asks about solving picture puzzles and admits average skill. They present forty or so loose automobile parts, hinting at assembling a dismantled vehicle.
Gold aged about 2500 years unearthed at Eberswalde, north of Berlin, in a small earthenware vessel. Seventy eight pieces of solid gold including bracelets cups and rings remain well preserved. Experts dispute origin, with theories proposing early Germanic makers or Phoenician traders reaching into central Germany from the Baltic over two millennia ago.
A doctor summoned to a police station examined an unconscious, muddy prisoner. The physician stated the man was drugged, not drunk, prompting a startled policeman to admit he had dragged him about a hundred yards to the cell.
A fragment from a humorous exchange shows a magistrate hearing a defendant named Johnson insist he can prove an albino. The dialogue, attributed to Puck, implies mock legal bravado without presenting factual case details.
A witty exchange contrasts Jones with the elite four hundred. Smith asserts he is one of the ciphers, illustrating social exclusion and class snobbery in the era.
The government dissolves a trust affecting Mantell-I and Dunlop. Banks is noted as worth more than ten million, a figure not previously realized. A household exchange questions a son’s age, then remarks he is now a cart driver.
A fragmentary exchange recalls a tense moment as a player struck a hard blow and another spectator noted a base hit. The brief lines capture a charged scene amid a baseball event.
Mrs William Hall and Miss Winnie Perry of Kansas City went to Higginsville yesterday after a visit, here with Mrs Leo Shinn. Mrs Edna Tucker returned to her home in Louisiana Mo yesterday after a visit here with her daughter Mrs I C Avdin ger. Mrs Mary Penn nee Miss Mary Roseen returned to her home in Panhuska Okla yesterday after relatives, Miss Cordelia Clemmons returned to her home in Marshall yesterday after no visit here with her brother A W Clemmons.
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