County News Notes From Lorimer Felton's Visit
Lorimer Felton was here on business Thursday. Mrs J L Corse has been sick but improving. Wellington, Missouri had a loud fourth with no serious accidents. Highlights include baseball in Wellington with a 24 to 15 score for Wellington and prize announcements from the Missouri Commission on crop prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lraulma
Lorimer Felton
J. L. Corse
Higetteville
Wellington
W. 5. Griffin
R. M. Wriatt
Sunshine
Lve Favor of
Real Estate Transfers From July 1903 to July 1968
A fragmented notice lists multiple real estate transfers with dates ranging June 30 1903 to July 1968. Items include conveyances in Lexington Odessa Napoleon Hig gineville coal land and read lands with various sums from 840 to 66729 dollars. Named parties include Sarah E Graves Lelia Shack lite Jack Cobb George B Thacher Catherine E Davis Nancy E Jones Edna G Piper Stephen Gates Thos W Hancock Gro W Liter Geo L Muller August Abka Jobo Ritter JL Tram well Sallie M Vivion Fred Freymiller Wm Wehrman Dora E Bates Jack Seiter NP Book Neilie P Corder and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E Graves
Lelia B Shacklite
Lexington
Jack Cobb
George B Thacher
Catherine E Davis
Nancy E Jones
Odessa
Edna G Piper
Stephen Gates
Napoleon
Thos W Hancock
Gro W Liter
Geo L Muller
August Abka
Higgineville
Jobo
Ritter
JL. Tramwell
Sallie M Vivion
Fred Freymiller
Read
Wm Wehrman
Missouri World’s Fair Commission corn show plan
The Missouri World’s Fair Commission proposes a preliminary county corn show in every county with cash prizes and a final State show at a central point. J C Allison is named chairman of the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Missouri World's Fair Commission
Missouri
Commonwealth
J. C. Allison
Comminsion
Matinee Horse Races at Higgins Fair Grounds
Matinee races at Higgins We Fair Grounds on July 18 draw strong county horses and entrants from surrounding counties. Races start at 1 30 o'clock with admission at 10 and 1 cont.
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Higgins We Fair Grounds
Ringling Brothers Circus to Exhibit in Kanan City
Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Shows plan a major exhibition in Kanan City with an expanded season. The caravan now uses eighty seventy four rail cars and includes Jerusalem and the Crescenta as part of a spectacular production with 1200 sectors and 800 horses. Special excursion rates are offered for travel to Kansas City on Monday July 20, the only local stop this season. Rev and Mrs H A Wolters depart for Australia via St Louis and San Francisco to work for the Lord’s Kingdom.
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Ringling Brothers
Kanan
H Ringling Brothers
Jerusalem
Cresadea
Kansas City
Spring Carpet Sale Appeals to Home Makers
A local ad promotes a wide range of home goods with new stock for spring including carpets rugs mattings linoleums shades lace and portier curtains and accessories. It highlights room rugs 9 by 12 priced 10 to 25 dollars yard wide carpets from 25c to 75c and Bombay mattings up to 60c with window shades lace curtains and curtain poles also offered. The store claims the largest scope in the county and invites customers to visit and be pleased.
Cherokee clan law and murder punishment in early times
W G WCAUSLAND describes Cherokee governance and clan structure showing punishment by clan for injuries and murder. Early refuge towns Tellico Chola Gitowa offered flight protection, but revenge killings and executions followed crimes. After tribal courts formed, executions matched the method of the crime with lashes for theft, and death on repeated horse theft.
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America
Tellico
Chola
Gitowa
Tennessee
Indian Territory
Vietlas
Rubber Cutters of Chiapas Face Jaguars with Machetes
The Chiapas rubber cutters of Central America endure months in jungle camps to hunt jaguars and other beasts with only machetes. Stories of Mendoza and others illustrate fierce encounters, fireside nights, and the craftsman pride of fighting wild cats without firearms.
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Central America
Roosevelt
Selous
Gordon Cumming
Chiapas
Chicago
New York
Luiz Mendoza
Honduras
Mendoza
A Hard Worker Lord Curzon Keeps Long Hours
Lord Curzon reportedly works fourteen hours daily in his present position. He begins early, pauses for lunch, entertains guests for an hour and a half, resumes work until dinner, then studies from ten thirty to two in the morning. He rarely spends more than ninety minutes outdoors and maintains this high pace whether at sea, on trains, or in temporary lodgings during tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Badmeyer
Otto Koch
Old Central Hotel
Henry Rocklage
Sunshine Vacinity
Thos W. Ridings
HB. Corse
Lexington
Arches
Wellington Ferry Company
Melasina En Rout
St. Joseph
Borges
Gasgonade City
Lord Curzon
Women at Work in the English Census Totals
The census shows women in varied trades including dock laborers and paviors. Five women are farm servants with horses, four bricklayers and boilermakers, two locksmiths, and one coppersmith. Women brewers approach a hundred and builders near 177, with many in lighterage and seafaring roles among hundreds.
A Substitute for Coal The Eucalyptus Tree May Some Day Furnish Fuel
The eucalyptus may store more solar energy than other trees and could rival coal as a fuel. Hutchings and Brandis report experiments showing tropical eucalypt forests yield up to 20 tons of dry wood per acre annually, with potential for 40 tons, offering vast coal-equivalent energy if forests are fully stocked and managed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. B Hutchings
Cape Colony
A. Brandis
Hutchins
Hutching
South Africa
Mr. Hutchins
Sir A. Brandis
Nilgiris
India
Germany
New Nickel Steel Varieties From France
Prof R H Thurston of Cornell highlights a French nickel steel alloy that resists temperature changes. It remains nondilatable, enabling precision pendulums, clocks, and watches that stay accurate across seasons. It may impact metrology and could replace carbon filaments in incandescent lamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Thurston
Cornell University
France
Monsieur Guillaume
Whales Decline in Oil Industry Over 25 Years
The article notes a dramatic drop in whale oil production from 400,000 barrels annually twenty five years ago to about a thousand barrels today, highlighting a sharp industry decline and shifts away from whaling.
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Perenne
Meirew Milling Co
Lexington Flouring Mills
County News
Wellington and Vicinity
Rogers Wryght Wis
H Bo Corse
Oklahoma
John Ritter
James Streetoran
Miss Pearl
Denver
Valoree
Eleanor Starziman
Blue Springs
Minnie Steinmeyer
Mins Slade
Commission
Missouri Comession
M. T. Davis
Springfeld
L. F. Parker
F. J. Moss
B. Hi. Benfoey
Unionville
D. P. Stroup
Lukaview
N. Gentry
Sedalia
New London
W. H. Marshall
Morehouse
J. H. Hawthorpe
Frank Gaiennie
B. K. Blair
Ti. J. Waters
L. A. Goodman
H. H. Greggs
Walter Williams
Dora E Bates
Jack Seiter
NP Book
Coss C Christie
Neilie P Corder
Husband
N P Book
Higginsville Fair Grounds
H. A. Wolters
San Francisco
California
Australia
Rey
Wolters
Concordian
W. G. Wcausland
Crenshaw
Young
Women At Work
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