Tobacco Hazards and Corn Show Invite in Missouri
An early 20th century notice warns tobacco use harms health, citing nicotine toxicity and effects on heart and nerves, while promoting abstinence. It also highlights the Fourteenth Annual Missouri Corn Show at the University of Missouri Columbia during Farmers Week January 1-5, 1917, detailing exhibits, lectures, and entries closing December 25, 1916 along with related seed and agricultural guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
Amherst
Ford, Edison
Cadillac Company
Bill Smith
Missouri
University of Missouri, Columbia
Columbia
J. C. Hackleman
Missouri Corn Growers’ Associationton
Missouri Farmers Discuss Rural Credits Week at Columbia
Missouri farmers and farm loan authorities from the United States and abroad will discuss the Federal Farm Loan Act during Farm ers Week January 1 to 5 in Columbia. Speakers include Sir Horace Plunkett and Duncan A. Fletcher with Frederick D. Gardner among others. S. D. Gromer will lecture on the act. The piece ends with an ad noting a Lexington jeweler on Franklin Street offering bargains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
United States
College of Agriculture
State Board of Agriculture
Columbia
Sir Horace Plunkett
Ireland
Duncan A. Fletcher
Florida
Senator Figtcher
Southern Commercial Congress
Europe
Frederick D. Gardner
S. D. Gromer
Local visits and trips noted this week
Mrs. H. Catron traveled to Kansas City Friday for a visit. Miss Virginia Brannock, lingered with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cannaday, returned Wednesday to Pleasant Hill. Miss Nellie Shire went to Kansas City Friday for a few days. Reuben Slade spent Sunday in Wellington. Mrs. Fred Minch visited Kansas City Wednesday briefly. Also Crenshaw and Young advertise leading cigar brands in Christmas boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. H. Catron
Kansas City
Virginia Brannock
Ciyde Cannaday
Pleasant Hill
Nellie Shire
Reuben Slade
Wellington
Fred Minch
Crenshaw & Young’s
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P. Ravenel
Wallace Ashurst
The
Corn Growers’ Association
Illinois
Indiana
Lexington
R. C
Main St
the Traders Bank
Begins
Boyday
Traders Bank
IL the
Nirdor
Milo Bila le
Vall
Palace of Sweets
Main Street
Westerman & Barnett Drug Co
Lesueur
Site Traders Bank
Davenport Times
J. F. Walsh
Jexington
J. Q Plattenburg
Franklin St
Telephone Exchange
GEO. P! Venable
Nerwona
Peyton Nurseries
Boonville, Mo
S. B. Vaughan & Son
Calla
Dover
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