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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1909
Page
4
The notice from The Intelligencer highlights looming hay fever time with a call to stock handkerchiefs. It notes insurgent origins from Missouri and quips about Lexington not yet being a major baseball center until an umpire is mobbed. It also references Congress passing the tariff bill and adjourning, with foreshadowing of campaign statistics next summer.
The Intelligencer will send a representative to the Lafayette County fair next week to note all important events. Managers of the Lillan Marr and the Dubinsky Brothers stock companies concede Lexington holds strong interest in dramatic art amid criticism of John D Rockefeller’s oil pricing compared with water.
Residents urge Commission Marks to curb disruptive noise described as constant and intrusive. The critic likens the commissioner's behavior to a nightly insect’s persistent hum beginning at 4 30 a m, expressing frustration over ongoing disturbances and seeking relief.
J Kelley Pool of the Centralia Courier and M EL Pemberton of the Columbia Herald form a joint partnership acquiring interests in each other’s papers. The merger is described as strong and beneficial for both publications with editors likely to overlook no pun.
A Lexington boy fell from a tree and was cut by barbed wire. A farmer’s horse damaged its appearance after colliding with barbed wire. The piece argues barbed wire has drawbacks and praises plain wire and wire netting as safer, more effective fencing.
Last Tuesday, August 10, marks anniversaries of two Missouri milestones. Eight years before James Monroe signed the bill admitting Missouri to the union after a notable constitutional debate. Few Missourians recall the earlier event, though it stirs pride among many Missouri residents.
The piece recalls the 1861 Wilson Creek battle near Springfield as the first Civil War clash in Missouri. Capt. Jo Wilson recounts the fight in which Confederates won and Union General Nat Lyon died. Veterans from both sides reflect with pride on the engagement and its cost.
A collage of classified items listing FOR SALE fine Plymouth Rock chickens and a 30 acre farm with two houses two miles east of town. Also TAKEN UP stray gray mare blind in one eye. WANTED sales solicitors to sell stock in town with 600 pay and government bonds. Several land for sale near Lexington and Hardin Missouri with homes and cultivation details.
Return to JouN I. Ashurst, contractor, promising sidewalk improvements and reliable service. The notice emphasizes staying and delivering goods, listing office and residential phone hints.
People may apply to M J Patterson for winter work to board during high school. Mrs William Stonestreet returned from Kansas City. Advertisements promote coffee brands and delivery services. Calls for street fair concessions on August 16 17 at the Opera House. The Intelligencer offers advertising and messenger services. Gelzers announces prompt feed orders.
A yellow dog fainted after tumbling into a area as a maid stood nearby. A doctor explains fainting is common across animals from cats and dogs to horses and birds, noting fear and exhaustion trigger collapses in many creatures.
In Richmond England a widow testified her husband died suddenly after their pet dog barked and whined in the night. Medical evidence cited heart failure. The coroner noted dogs’ claimed powers and said the animal’s behavior was notably odd, suggesting dogs may have common sense.
John Driscoll of Aldershot England, an ex sailor who had been deaf and mute for eight years after a Sierra Leone fever, suddenly regained hearing and speech after a fall downstairs. He spoke "Oh, my God" when found, and a doctor attributed the recovery to the fall which also loosened his vocal cords, a case once deemed hopeless.
A farmer notes a spider taking down its web between fence rails as a sign of impending rain. He predicts a storm based on the spider’s actions and prepares to bring in the hay. The account preserves a rural weather superstition about spiders and forecasted wet wind.
An iron hooped Roman oil jar, circumf erence 13 feet, uncovered near La Batie Montsalien in Mons Seleneus. Stele fragments were found nearby and Abbey Guillaume, departmental archivist, is deciphering Latin inscriptions. The jar is now in the Gap museum to enrich its Roman antiquities collection.
A humorous exchange features a passerby who admits he has never owned a car, quipping that he has suffered from chronic pedestrianism all his life. The joke hinges on the contrast between car ownership expectations and daily mobility.
An excerpt from Harper's Bazaar asks about the crying need of the era, invoking a voice from the master’s realm and a sense of immediacy in literary reflection. The fragment hints at a broader cultural question without detailing concrete events or figures.
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