Local merchants warned of imagined town exodus
A Lyons and Weinstein era ad page portrays a fictional town losing all shops if merchants fail to meet mail order rivals. A cottage talk imagines buyers stranded without brick stores for shoes hardware groceries and clothing, urging support for local dealers like Lewis Humphreys Shoe Co Co-Operative Grocer Co HEX Bros Hinesleys Confectionery Seiter Meat Market and Geo Wittenberg Tailor to keep the community alive and thriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Alice Spencer
Alice
Crocerien Phone S88 Offers Daily Produce Deals
Hinaway Zhe advertises daily fruit and vegetable sales at 0 cents and 26 cents for 2 boxes. Items listed include new potatoes tomatoes rhubarb celery cabbage radishes eggplant strawberries and more. Mike Male and Co at 10th Street between Main and Frank promotes plantings of all kinds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinaway
Mike Male and Co
10Th St
Main
Frank
Santa Fe Trail Garage Ad Promises Guaran teed Service
Supplies of all kinds expert repair work. All material and work guaranteed. Goodrich Tires. Best in the long run. Phone 174 10th and Main.
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Goodrich
10Th & Main
Proffit Bros Meat Market and Gents Furnishings
Proffit Bros advertise meat market stock including Wread salt meats oysters fish in season and a complete line of flats caps shoes and clothing for men and boys at Lexington Missouri. Butler Williamson proprietor urges customers to compare prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Weinstein
Ladeson & Weinstein
Amily
Proffit Bros
Main St
Lexington
Gents Furnishings
Butler Williamson
Sanol endorsed for kidney and bladder troubles
Ady James L. Rice and Iris Page with Atlas Galladay travel to Kansas City for business and visits while Sanol claims relief for back ache and urinary issues. The ad touts a 35 cent to 1 dollar price and urges readers to try the remedy at local drug stores.
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Ady
James L. Rice
Kansas City
Frank Carr
Pennsylvania
Iris Page
Atlas Galladay
Leonard Goodloe
Grand Theatre Show At Lexing ton With The Cloud
Luther W Marshall promotes Cook's Paint in Lexing ton Missouri as warm weather approach. Westerman Barnett Drug Company lists details for Grand Theatre showing Jean Sothern and Walter Miller in The Cloud on Friday June 29 with local business mentions surrounding the event.
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Grand Theatre
Jean Sothern
Walter Miller
Uncle Sam at State Fair displays patriotic exhibit in Sedalia
The Missouri State Fair in Sedalia September 22 to 29 will feature Uncle Sam’s patriotic displays plus a joint showing from England and Prince and war relics. Visual war scenes include No Man's Land trenches tanks and bomb dropping aircraft with Red Cross units fields hospitals ration depots and munitions depots behind the Sam ories to honor Missouri’s fighting men under Black Jack Pershing.
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Uncle Sam
Missouri
Somme
England
Flanders
Ypres
No Man’s Land
Red Cross
Picking Cross State Road In Missouri Kans City Visit
State highway commission members visited Kansas City to pick between two cross state routes for federal aid, inspecting Johnson Cass and Jackson counties and seeking a center route near Jefferson City. Local counties raised funds amid budget limits. Veiled Prophet events canceled. storms hit southeast Missouri. J J Sheridan dies. Carrollton unit ships soldiers to Nevada. Real estate transfers listed for Lafayette County Missouri through August 18 1917. Weeks family note ends fragmentary.
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Kansas City
Johnson
Cass
Jackson
E. L. Sanford
Highway Commission
Jefferson City
Sanford
Missouri
Ouse
Harrisonville
Pleasant Hill
Recorder's Office
Lexington
Lafayette Co
Lafayette County Abstract Co. & Financial
Ike H. Noyes
Frank H
Robert L. Brown
W. D
Lexington B. & L. Ass'n
Willie Thorp
Samuel Gordon
Admi
H. G. Fehner
Corder
Miss Izola Frazer Visits Marshall on Sunday Morning
Miss Izola Frazer traveled to Marshall for a Sunday morning visit. The brief note records her trip and the timing as she visited the city.
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Izola Frazer
Marshall
Sand Eczema Cure Promoted For Skin Ailments
Mr. and Mrs. E. BE. Freeman returned Monday to Browningsville Missouri after a brief visit with Mr. Freeman's brother Earl Freeman. Miss Florence Dierking traveled to Kansas City Sunday for a visit.
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Mrs. E. BE. Freeman
Browningsville
Mr. Freeman
Earl Freeman
Florence Dierking
Kansas City
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Young's Book Store
Kodak
Coffin
Lexington, Mo
Lexington Savings Bank Capital
Franklin
J. FE. Winn
Greggs Coffee
T. A. Howard
United States
Broadway
Thomas J. Sullivan
Napoleon
Wiliam
Chicago
Charles
Allee
Willow
Ham
Lewis & Humphreys Shoe Co
the Co-Operative Grocer Co
Hart, Schaffner & Mara
Hinesley
Jewler
HEX Bros
12Th
Old Reliable Meat and Grocery Market
John M. Seiter
Prop
Phone
Frank P. Grieser
Geo. Wittenberg
J. A. Wittenberg
Crocerien
Santa FE Trail Garage
Crenshaw & Young
Store of Quality and Service
Gas Missouri Gas & Electric Service Co
Cook
Luther W. Marshall
Franklin St
Edison
Westerman & Barnett Drug Company
ARMY
A. A. Grimes
Sedalia
St. Louis
J. J. Sheridan
St. Joeph
Alvah P. Clayton
Weat
St. Joseph
Carrollton
Fourth
Minsouri Infantry
Nevada
J. W. McQueen
Carroll County
Elonra Palmer
George A
Julia A. Curry
Charles Kissell
Lee Scheetz
M. F. Kirtley
Frank R. Howe
Snna Bar Creek
John T. Lankford
Samuel M. Kroeck
Fred Bushmann
Ernest Bushmann
C. D
Swsw
SW & NW
Oles David Francia Weeks
Andistant
Maurice Weeks
Suuiue Weeks
Joe C. Graddy
C. W. Johnson
Hix
Fh. P. Cherry
Dover
Fletcher
C. B
Dermits
Falder
Colorado
Pullman Mountains
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