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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1907
Page
5
Report summarizes Lexington Public Graded School details including enrollment building conditions salaries and tax levy. Notes address superintendent or principal term data and a levy in cents for school purposes.
A dated 1907 July notice states policy on attendance and holidays. It specifies cost per pupil per day as 9 4-5 cents, and that holidays count as school days with all pupils counted as present.
A sudden death story was rushed after a prominent citizen died on the street. The reporter, asked for the story, said the man clasped his heart and exclaimed I am going to die before instinctively leaning on a fence and collapsing.
David T. Watson, initially failing in his first year at law in Pittsburg, retrained as a teacher before resuming practice after his preceptor's death left him a library. He swiftly advanced, earning large fees from corporations, including a $250,000 case, while rarely appearing in court himself as others argue the cases he prepares.
Two men discuss the legal requirement to list all ingredients on whisky labels. One argues it cannot be done and the other suggests personal findings would yield a long, similar list. The dialogue hints at broader questions of labeling and chemistry without detailing specifics.
A Harper's Weekly quip features a guest remarking about bad water at a hotel and a host insisting animals could not survive in such water. A separate gag line recalls a court run by Wyss and Acher about an automobile sale and an inability to control it, with the police court appearing as a punchline. The dialogue satirizes misfortune and misdirection in a humorous scene.
A child Wilfrid rushes to his father exclaiming to look at the sky and pointing toward a factory scene, where Deainit dolore its Easter eggs. The fragment hints at a domestic moment and a vivid outdoor sighting.
A magazine writer urges Thanksgiving and Christmas reunions and regular letters or visits to maintain family bonds. It emphasizes the mother’s central role, the need for cousins to know each other, and the obligation of distant children to repay a debt of love to their mother through visits, gifts, or notes.
A vast Essen facility uses two shifts of 70 workers and heavy machinery to produce up to 20 000 kilograms of bread daily. A giant screw feeds ten 100 kilogram sacks of flour plus water into four kneading troughs, with wheat cleaned ground and piped automatically to kneading. Thirty six double ovens bake the bread as workers monitor the process.
The report of the special master in chancery details a petition by Ellen Smith of New York City asking for a divorce from Frederick J. Smith on grounds of willful desertion. The couple married April 15, 1909, and separated September 8, 1903. A pet dog was used as a messenger to try to reconcile them, with a letter tied to the dog’s collar, but the tactic failed and the suit proceeds.
Clovis Hughes a French novelist poet and duelist died at 45 his life marked by a fatal duel with another man his tempestuous love life and a suspension from the chamber of deputies for insulting the president. He wrote socialist propaganda novels and plays including Le Sommeil de Danten performed at the Opera Comique his wife killed a public official over an insult and then wrote La Vegeance de Mine. Clovis Hughes. The trial followed as predicted according to the Springfield Republican.
In a melodramatic scene the heroine Julia Livingstone pleads for papers as wolves howl and Roycroft Rollingston looms. The villain smirks and mocks her hair story, while the heroine collapses, trusting a fleeting mercy from the villains.
A fragmentary exchange shows Bridget arguing over waking earlier for breakfast, with a frustrated “Unbeliever” remark and a reference to being in forvordination. The snippet hints at domestic friction and scheduling tensions.
In a Philadelphia Times piece, Walker of London questions local chemists selling soda water. Smith of Gotham counters that any doctor warns that sody Witter is bad for you. The exchange reflects early concerns over soda water trends in shops.
A historical sketch recounts Pocahontas born in 1595 as Powhatan’s daughter ruling allied tribes in Virginia. It notes her reception in England, mingling courtly life with a longing for forest freedom, and her death at Gravesend while bridging two hemispheres and civilizations.
A Chicago Tribune contributor describes tracing a spider release from a mill basement onto a wood chip and watching it drift across a pond to shore. The observer notes other spiders using the same method, tying the web as a line to reach land while avoiding water.
The London Hospital argues nurse training should focus on obedience and teamwork rather than individual case experience. A nurse need not have personally nursed every condition, but must understand both surgeon and physician perspectives to be well prepared for future duties.
London Science Progress argues that there is no standard for good wheat. It states that strength, defined as water absorption and stickiness, merely measures bread-making capacity. The article contends that the strongest flour yields more and larger loaves but is weakest as a food material.
A terse note details how one person quizzes others on how they caught their colds, reflecting a curious but invasive approach that backfires in a social setting.
Names of residents and visitors frequent Higginsville last week with dozens of brief mentions. Births, travels to Kansas City and Concordia, band concert attendance, and Fourth of July activities anchor the town’s social page. A fireworks mishap injures Dr. Nickell. a horse incident ends with a long walk back to town.
The article notes a display by Mrs Mills at the telephone exchange and announces Dr J Perrie, longtime local physician, will relocate to Lexington this week. It recalls his early life near Ed McGrew’s home, two story brick home then torn down, Masonic College education, medical study under Dr Wm Bull, and Confederate service during the war.
An old advertising claim extols Doan's Kidney Pills for rheumatic pains tied to uric acid. The copy urges kidney function, warns against uric acid solvents, and cites a farmer from Carrollton Missouri praising reduced rheumatism after use. Buffalo New York agents listed with price 50 cents.
A sequence of transfers across towns including Odessa Lexington Higwinsville and Concordia with varied prices from 1 to 22500 and properties ranging from single lots to multi acre parcels. Names appearing include Christ Buesing Lucy Brown Jos Genuelis Anna Walkenhorst HG Jones Wesley Johnson BE Ayres Anna Higgins and Annie Campbell among others.
The list of uncalled letters remaining at the Lexington Missouri post office dated July 13 1907 includes W A Bruse Farnel Bates Mrs Georgie Calliway Edward Dunsing Miss Gertrude Ferlsoo Rev D J Gordon A P Huttate Bettie Haw kines L O Knapp Morman Church Mrs F D Miller Lillian Merideth Miss Lula Moore Neela Wenton jote Pappleroee Mra Bessie Powell Mis E H Stettmund Miss Alberta Scbrater Mrs J Tompson Mrs A Washington Miss Bell Winn RK L Wooden and other names. Add that mail recipients should mention advertised status when calling.
The Retail Merchants of Lexington at City Hall Friday elected N. E. Basket as president Jot Long as vice president John Seiter treasurer Tr Stalling secretary E B Campbell as “S” Mike J Wino Paulunkin and Ben Grate as directors BR Stalling J Seiter J Long and V u Bour were chosen as delegates to the State Retail Merchants Association convention to be held in Setalix July 10 and 1. Have you visited the Nickle Open every evening Tite
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