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Lexington Intelligencer in Lexington, Missouri
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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR Note Shows Partial Speech Marks
The readable fragments show stray letters and garbled words. No clear names dates or locations emerge to identify a person event or organization. The text lacks coherent facts for a substantive summary.
Battleship Contracts Let Maryland and West Virginia Rise
Secretary Daniels announced a satisfactory Navy Dept agreement with Newport News Shipbuilding Co for electric propulsion on the Maryland and West Virginia, to be built at Newport News. Contracts signed with Homer R. Ferguson for these two battleships and similar understandings with New York Shipbuilding Co for Colorado and Washington. Total project cost about 22.47 million dollars, with armor and guns totaling 40 million. The ships, first private-yard electric drive vessels, will displace 32,600 tons, mount eight 16 inch guns, reach 21 knots, burn oil, and be designed to resist mines and torpedoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
West Virginia
Newport News
Daniels
Navy Department
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Homer R. Ferguson
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Colorado
Washington
Cngress
Camden Company
M A Graduate Will Drive French Ambulance
Vernon Nash a 1914 Missouri School of Journalism graduate and Rhodes scholar at Oxford will receive a commission as a driver of an American Red Cross motor ambulance in France during his six weeks Christmas vacation. He earlier edited the Maryville Democrat-Forum before going to Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Nash
School of Journalism
University of Missouri
Oxford University
American Red Cross
France
Oxford
Maryville
Democrat-Forum
Germany and the Belgians outlined war cost to Germany
The piece argues two late fall events show Germany’s manpower strain the Polish reconstitution and Belgian expulsion. It notes forced Belgian labor harms neutral opinion and risks widening anti German sentiment, potentially influencing pacification and war duration as much as troop gains. It criticizes coercive deportations as a violation of modern justice and decency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Poland
Belgium
Many Like This In Lexington Case Published In Each Issue
Lexington readers hear a testimonial from Mrs. Julia Jaques about chronic kidney distress and dropsy. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills from Crenshaw Young's Drug Store with relief after ten years of ineffective treatment. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo New York, price 5 cents at dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Julia Jaques
S. Twenty-third St
Dean
Crenshaw & Young
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfgra
Buffalo
N. Y
Season for Potted Flowers and Shrubs Is Here
Horace F Major of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture offers gardening guidance for pot plants. He stresses four essentials sunlight air soil and water and notes plants need breathing space and careful watering. Bloomers should be repotted thrice yearly and ferns every three years with pots kept appropriately sized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace F. Major
College of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Proper Winter Dairy Feeding Balances Milk and Body
Advice from C H Eckles of the Missouri College of Agriculture stresses individualized rationing for dairy cows. Maintain body weight with maintenance feed, provide grain proportional to milk output, and prioritize roughage for all cattle, with dry cows needing only roughage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Eckles
Missouri College of Agriculture
Jersey
Westerman Spends Sunday in Wellington with Locals
HL Westerman was in Wellington on Sunday visiting home folks and catching up with local friends amid a quiet weekend in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westerman
Wellington
Fattening Poultry for Marketing
University of Missouri expert H L Kempster explains fattening chickens from range with expensive feed boosts gain by about 28 percent in 12 to 14 days. Grain needed per pound of gain runs about 3.5 pounds, cost around eight cents. Chickens kept in two by two and a half foot coops with wire floors, fed wet mix of corn meal shorts bran and sour milk twice daily. Slats allow feeding from outside trough. meat becomes tender and tasty due to limited exercise. Domestic notices advertise home baked cakes and Christmas cards at local merchants Crenshaw and Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Kempster
College of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Garder Favors Revenue for Schools
Governor-elect Gard ner supports higher collateral inheritance tax to fund the University of Missouri and the School of Mines at Rolla. He backs a general inheritance tax of two to three percent aiming for about one million dollars annually, plus a tax on corporate capital stock and surplus estimated to add another million yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner
University of Missouri
School of ‘Mines
Rolla
Livery stables offer carriages for churches and public events
Schaberg Bros successors to J C Young Sr announce ready access to carriages at reasonable prices for churches and other public gatherings, along with buggies and other livery accommodations for the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schaberg Bros
J. C. Young, Sr
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Liyevi
Paris
Boston
Scarlett Shoe Company
Main St. Stalling Shoe Store
M. A
Traders Bank
Traders Bane
Lexington, Mo
Joe C. Graddy
Rton
Missouri
Crenshaw & Young's
Waterman’s Ideal
Liggett’s
Tale Gard
Bnubeists
Morrison
Toyl and
John Morrison & Sons
Main St
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