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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1907
Page
5
An ad copy touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a regular aid for liver and bowels, praising daily routine. Crenshaw & Young, druggists, offer the product for 26 cents with guaranteed efficacy.
Leroy Farmer left Friday for Washington City and the Tamestown Exposition. Mimes Mary and Alna Green, Margaret Smith, and Ruth Yourng returned from Warrensburg Tuesday evening where they attended Mira summer school. Servins Gonday with her two children Aneta and Sevelus Jr left Thursday for home in St Louis after visiting Mrs Onday's sisters for months.
An overview notes there are just under six million postal workers nationwide, a force as large as some of Europe’s early mobilizations. The piece compares the postal service workforce to historical military mobilizations to illustrate scale.
Dan Hoefer, former mayor and long time Bank of Higginsville cashier, was appointed state bank examiner last week and began duties Monday. He is praised as a careful banker and will oversee the Missouri Pacific line, Chicago and Alton, and Rock Island routes through Kansas City to St. Louis with expansion into Cedar City and Higginsville area. The $2,000 yearly pay plus expenses covers a wide territory in the state and he accepted the post after友 friends urged him.
The article argues that life can extend beyond current limits with advanced knowledge and proper care between ages fifty and sixty. It credits Eletric Bitters as Nature's best helper after 50s, touting the tonic for revitalizing every organ. Crenshaw & Young, Druggist, sell it for 60 cents.
C J Pitzgerald won the 85 chair for the largest family at the fair. He lives ten miles south of Higginsville and attended with nine children J C Minnie L Anna B Geo C Sr Roy Marion Dewey Dora M. Mrs Gree won the go cart for the prettiest baby Ridge’s baby. 5.1M spectacles by Tucker Jewelry Co awarded to oldest man Jas Schooling aged 88 at the fair.
Wm M Dites editor of the Otsego Journal Gilbertsville NY endorses Dr King’s New Discovery as the most popular remedy for coughs and colds. He claims it cures lung and throat diseases and guarantees satisfaction. Cren shaw Young Drug Store offers bottles at 0.0 and 1.00 with a trial bottle free.
Post office at Lexington Missouri lists uncalled letters for August 17 1907. Names include Mrs. Georgia Anderson Virgil Brace Misa Daisy Brown John Bard L V Bray Frank H Corman E G Chaphan Chas Douglaw Miss Frankie Flowers Marious Guerrea Mina Sophia King Miss Harvie Mere hind Miss Katherine Neale Edna Nalley Mrs Bird Staffer Frank Toomb Italian Trio Charney Wyle Madge Wilson Ed Warde Wheatley and a notice says letters were advertised when called for Postmaster.
Prominent Blum Missouri businessman C G Hays touts Bucklen s Arnica Salve as the quickest healing salve for sores burns wounds and piles. The druggist Certnan & Young backs the claim with a guarantee. Also notes on escaping public scrutiny and Democratic reservations about Col Blakeley.
A six year old boy dancing beside his mother at a ball game boldly proclaims “watch pop strike out.” He correctly announces two strikes and then the final strike while the crowd roars with laughter. The mother blushes as the boy reveals he is the father’s son.
The Romanian king Carol and Queen Carmen Sylva resisted regal honors after a 19th or 20th century assassination forced them onto the throne Pressured by Bucharest’s chamber and senate they accepted a crown but refused traditional regalia The crown was melted from a captured cannon and made from Turkish booty to memorialize liberty Carmen Sylva called the makeshift crown a thunderous symbol from Romania’s past.
A St. Louis Bartlesville and Pacific surveyor, working 15 to 16 miles northeast of Pawhuska in Osage land, glimpsed a large panther through his transit glass as the flagman stood nearby. The beast watched intently then vanished into the timber.
Creed Wilson and A T Smith, attorneys in Cumberland Maryland, spotted a shaggy dog swept by a swollen stream into a hole in a retaining wall. The next day the dog appeared again. They rowed across and the dog jumped into their skiff, then to the office. They decide to keep him, calling him Client because they got him out of a hole.
A German professor claims to read a man’s character from the angle of his hat on the head, a claim likened to the difficulty of reading a woman’s character from seasonal headgear. The German student also faces similar scrutiny, as footgear is sometimes cited to reveal character.
Patrice explains the German opera puzzles him as he does not understand German yet claims no need to speak it to enjoy the performance.
After screening more than 40 applicants the Missouri Historical Society elects Miss Idresa Head, history teacher in Cape Girardeau normal school, as librarian to succeed the late Miss Dalton. Head, born in Randolph County, plans to leave a higher salary role but may boost income through magazine contributions. She aided Louis Houck on a Missouri history project slated for publication. Also notes German settlement plans near Battlefield and Siegel, a legal elephant puzzle, death of Dr. G Y Salmon in Clinton, and his banking and medical career.
The state board of equalization reports an increase of 45,978,987 in unseased valuation for taxation. Real estate is set at 985,454,850 and personal property at 294,992,981, totaling 1,296,747,781 for the current year's tax base, a higher jump than in the previous decade.
The fifth annual Missouri State Association of Rural Carriers meeting at Brookfield drew the largest attendance in its history. I T Sanger was elected president with H D Owens as vice president C J Dray secretary treasurer and F Ray Stanley assistant secretary Delegates to the Atlanta national convention were chosen including Jacobs L T Sanger J M Hook and F D Burrell Springfeld was picked for the next meeting site The group voted to alternate annual meetings north of the river. A St Louis girl 19 confessed to stealing 60 plus 35 her own to buy her father a wooden leg, noting the motive was love for her crippled father. Leaders did not pursue prosecution. Capt M T Moore president of the State geseeration of Mexican war veterans announced the 11th annual reunion set for Holden September 11 and 22 All veterans with spouses daughters and widows urged to attend. Information available from Major W Boons secretary at 2206 Gott Avenue St Joseph.
In Oak Ridge a struggling carpenter Frank McKinney vanished leaving his wife and infant in poverty. He later returned wealthy, prompting local talk that he will aid his former spouse but has announced no contact with her since. A separate case reports E L Taylor suing St Louis and San Francisco Railway for 1000 after alleged insults by a passenger conductor in August Brookline. State education appointments assign clerical and examiner roles across Joplin Clinton and rural areas.
The Louisville Courier Journal reports a quirky rural tale from Mexico about a local band contest where the most cigar bands collected supposedly signals popularity. Amid garbled measurements a cow named Josephine in Columbia delivers milk in odd fractions, allegedly averaging unusually high daily yields over three months.
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