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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1920
Page
3
An analysis notes 8 million registered autos and rising gasoline costs. Experts foresee kerosene engines boosting mileage and cheaper hydrogen use via a chemist’s method. Alcohol from saccharine sources emerges as a strong substitute, with wartime production by Germany and France cited for context.
George Wallace of Kansas City and Mr. Charles Wallace visited his mother. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Noyes and Harriet left Saturday for a Summers outing in Summers ville Texas County Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Glish of Waverly spent Sunday here with relatives.
Advertisements list mixed items for rent and sale including a barn garage, tomatoes for canning, a fresh cow, second hand furniture, an ice chest, and several dwellings. Also requests for a cook and a miner, a lost Ingersol watch with chain and K of P charm, with contact details and a reward offer.
For Sale: 1918 Model 5 passenger Crow Elkhart car in first class condition. Valve in head motor. Will take wood Ford runabout. John J. Price. Lost: A pocket book with a sum of money between Warder and Connor's and my farm on Dover road. Reward offered. Lost: An automobile screwdriver and wrench in a small box between Crenshaw and Young's and Dr Ryland's residence. Please return to Dr Ryland or this office for reward.
Notices are given that Letters testamentary on the estate of John n y Plattenburg deceased were granted August 17 1920 by the Probate Court of Lafayette County Missouri. All persons having claims against the estate must exhibit them for allowance within six months after the grant or be barred from benefiting. Witness dated August 17 1920 Harvey Watson Plattenburg Henry C Wallace Attested by Stephen N OTE AW of Probate for Lafayette County Missouri August 20 1920.
A Louisville traveling salesman recounts a severe cholera morbus attack in summer 1888. He paid a hotel porter fifty cents to buy Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy and took a double dose as directed. He slept, awoke early, and resumed travel a well man.
H. T. Phillips of Warrensburg spent Tuesday in Lexington while Monroe Butler of Kansas City visited Sunday with home folks in the area.
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