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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
3
County clerk announces a Democratic and Republican primary on August 3 1920 in Lafayette County Missouri with polls from 6 am to sunset. The list names candidates for numerous state and local offices, including Governor, Attorney General, and various judges, with party affiliations and home addresses.
Fragmentary OCR lists Socialist Labor Party figures including Theodore Waker and Veal with street addresses Shaw Ave Missouri and Jefferson Ave. The garbled text references Attorner-General reverment and party designation, indicating a clipped item about party members or notices with multiple misread names and locations.
A guardian appointment is posted for Benjamin Pangborn in Lafayette County Missouri with a June 7 1920 hearing and one year claims period. Separately in Lafayette County Circuit Court October 1920 Mamie Parker sues Harry Parker for divorce alleging adultery and absent residence with publication after May 28 1920.
A notice in Lafayette County Court indicates Katie Butler has absented from her home. The plaintiff seeks a divorce on grounds of desertion since November 19, 1908, with judgment to follow if she does not answer by the next October term. Publication of the notice runs four weeks in the Lexington Satellite newspaper.
The Lafayette County Court orders Lexington Township four and one half percent refunding bonds dated July 1 1910 payable at Mercantile Trust Co St Louis called for payment July 1 1920. Clerk Geo W Bates to publish notice per law. Certification of accuracy follows.
The revised Turkish code, adopted about a year and a half ago, keeps four wives and grants adultery as a ground for wife’s divorce but not for husbands. It raises wedding costs with civil procedures, allows a wife to require no second husband without divorce, and blocks mother in law from joining the home without wife’s consent. Four guiding questions reveal the wife’s cautious stance toward rivals.
In the exchange Protteer asks about rental income for the year while Ditte replies she earned only a meager hundred percent profit, expressing discouragement at the small return.
A narrator recalls sending vigors to friends and gifts to a cigar merchant, while payments to a pastor and a minister tangled in transit. A transposed check led to a larger contribution to the church, prompting a correction to the pastor about a 10 percent difference.
A humorous quarrel unfolds as Walter orders chicken soup but a hotel porter quits with the chicken. The irate marshal questions the tie between the porter’s departure and the soup, while a curt reply explains the porter took the chicken, leaving the dish in doubt.
A new Irish bight watchman at the observatory paused to view a man urinating through a telescope as a star fell, prompting amused exclamations about a fine shot in a surreal American Legion Weekly item.
A playful exchange unfolds as a diffident editor fears the puffing prose about a star, while the barbarian at the copy desk dismisses the beige prose as piffle and insists on a harsher critique.
A garbled historical OCR fragment describes people bending and moving through a scene with an object and a bagueue carl. The readable text is too incomplete to identify names places or a clear event.
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