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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1907
Page
4
The piece surveys campus politics with Taft era hints and Chancellor Day criticism while noting upcoming events. It also sketches football selections with Missouri pride, naming Wentworth, Missouri, and Rolla School of Mines and dismissing St. Louis and Medics as professionalized.
A Lexington businessman asked why the town does not mount a stronger defense against mail order traders. His wife and daughter bought winter clothes in Kansas City. He does not advertise and prints his stationery in St. Louis.
A Chicago judge held that a drunken man who enters a white girl's bedroom and assaults her commits no crime, sparking alarm over legal standards. The piece notes widespread judicial disagreement and cites several local movements and visits in Higginsville and Kansas City as it catalogues community notices and personal arrivals.
The piece argues that intoxication should not excuse criminal acts and warns that accepting such defenses would undermine justice. It notes community sentiment against this rationale and cites a Dover Notes column filled with local notices and movements, including visits and deaths, reflecting a small town newspaper’s mix of legal opinion and community news.
Miss Nannie Chinn attended the wedding of Miss Bernice Cromwell to Mr. Olle Foster in Kansas City. Col Ryland Todhunter, I G Neale and Geo B Gordon attended Hiram Jackson Groves's funeral there. Also noted: ongoing sale of Sanito Toilet Articles and various bulk goods at Silverstone's, plus a tonic claim about restoring vitality and nerves.
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