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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
3
An early 20th century ad extols Price Baking Powder as most economical with greater leavening strength. It asserts a spoonful raises more dough, yields light bread and cake, and minimizes waste of flour sugar butter and eggs. The copy argues lower batch costs and healthier food versus cheap alum powders from other firms.
Local briefs list visitors and departures across several towns including Pueblo Colorado, Norborne Missouri, Sedalia and Kansas City. Mentions include Robert Benedict, Miss Jessie Smock, Joe Gratz, Mrs YW Burnett, Cornelia Ryland, and many others visiting relatives or returning home. Advertisements for dyes and a medicine follow, with notes on paving Main Street and railings on local businesses.
Census Bureau bulletin reports healthy growth in the U S glass industry despite foreign competition. It notes more tank furnaces and mechanization, oil gas fuel drives factory placement, and a rise in capital investment from 1890 to 1900 with expanded output in plate and cathedral glass. 355 active establishments in 1900 with idle sites count 60.
Conservator Leopoldo Latres returns from Zapotean ruins in Oaxaca. He reports an ancient Monte Alban city with signs of submergence about 3,000 years ago and an Egyptlike obelisk at a tomb entrance. Batres will prepare a detailed report for the government. Prof Comes of the Smithsonian had earlier visited Alhan Bay area near Oaxaca City.
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