Local Briefs Ur N 8 Payne in Kansas City
Payne was in Kansas City Monday. Miss Mary Marquis returned to Corder Sunday morning. Miss Rachel Andreen returned from Higginsville Sunday evening.
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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1909
Page
7
Payne was in Kansas City Monday. Miss Mary Marquis returned to Corder Sunday morning. Miss Rachel Andreen returned from Higginsville Sunday evening.
A western judge grants divorce citing ill temper and bad breath. Advertisements tout King’s New Life Pills for cures from constipation to headaches and chills. Crenshaw & Young sell 25c bottles of remedies including Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for burns and wounds. Various local residents travel to Kansas City and Warrensburg.
The President of the Industrial and Orphans Home in Macon Georgia praises Electric Bitters after nine years of use. He states it aids stomach liver and kidney troubles and strengthens weak children and run-down people, calling it one of the best family medicines on earth. Crenshaw Young sells it for 50 cents.
Officer W A Gaffin arrested Ed Nave on a Sunday closing law violation after a man reported attempts to buy whisky. Nave allegedly hid several whiskey bottles on his person and, after pleading guilty, was fined the maximum of $25 in Judge Hicklin's court.
Thomas Pollard, a respected Lexington resident born in Ireland in 1840, died at his home Sunday at 12 30 from heart disease. A former stage driver between Lexington and Warrensburg and later a farmer thirty miles south, he is survived by his wife and three sons, including Ward of San Leandro, California, William, and John. Funeral services by Father Curry were held Tuesday at 10 AM at the Catholic church.
J M Poage and company have moved to a new site and opened for business with an elegant room in a fine location. Their trade has grown continually, now benefiting from courteous service, up to date goods, and strict attention to business.
Joel Throggs, a towpath mule driver, courted widow Mrs. Mahuldy Wiggins with chalked love notes on sections of a chicken coop and a canal boat. After repeated letters and practical obstacles, they wed when he resigns his job to become her husband, the ceremony a county surprise.
A Boston Herald meditation on education and reconciliation in China as a path to strengthen national consciousness. It argues that training viceroys and Manchu princes alongside the vast populace will take time but yield beneficent results once harmony between throne and people is achieved ahead of a new constitution.
Autoing through Furkey notes active road construction and a nerve field opening as imperial trade opens motoring in the Ottoman empire. Americana automobilists and motorcyclists show desire to tour from Europe into Asiatic Turkey across the Bosphorus. Forage stretches of good roads exist on the Asiatic side.
The article quotes John H. Redmond describing an unnamed Irish leader as awkward in his efforts to aid the country. He likens the man to a well-meaning but thoughtless person who killed a fly on a friend's bald head with a hammer.
In a short vignette from a Delineator piece, Little Paul, aged four, is asked by his father what constitutes the first meal of the day. The boy quickly answers oatmeal, illustrating a child’s practical grasp of routine.
A Houston Post item quotes a domestic dispute where a wife asks John not to move in his sleep and he agrees to try to reduce snoring if awake. The brief captures a quiet marital exchange centered on disruptive sleep behavior.
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