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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
6
The article discusses Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and other remedies, praising their alleged digestive and liver benefits. It claims long-standing popularity due to superior curative qualities, noting trial results, and mentions related products like Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as well as Little Liver Pills.
Glasscock visited Waverly on a May day. Burris spent Sunday in Kansas City. Briggs was in Kansas City on business. Englehard also checked Kansas City. P. Chinn of Higginsville traveled to town on Monday.
Advertisements praise New Life tonic and Kodol for digestion and biliousness. Local residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Baskett and W. Hays, visit or travel to Kansas City. Others plan business trips to Boonville while relatives visit from Kansas City and Napoleon.
Fragmentary note describes concern for starving children and mentions White's Cream for complexion and Crenshaw & Young. Mentions Howard of East Lynne Missouri visiting family, and Besse Prige traveling to Kansas for a visit with relatives.
A Silver City North Carolina resident praises Eledtrie Hitters claiming it treats stomach issues and nervous pains. The letter, signed by M Harden, notes the product’s efficacy and endorses Susie Young's drug store where it is sold under a guarantee.
Miss Rath and Hattie Barron left Sunday for Excelsior Springs. Mrs W A Hill left Friday for Holden Mo. Miss Helen Patten of Fulton arrived Friday for several days with friends. Many think heart trouble means heart failure but it lies in the stomach. Pains near the heart may be stomach related. start with the stomach and note any nausea and depressions. Take Kodol until you are right again, Crenshaw Youn advertise. Mrs Ryland Todhunter and daughter and Mise Elliott returned from Kansas City Friday. Misses May and Alice Peak back from Excelsior Springs. Rev R T Mansfield was called to Kansas City Sunday evening by his brother Charles’s illness.
Mrs E R Pierson of Auburn Centre Pa praises Dr Kings New Discovery as a remedy that beats other treatments, curing long standing lung trouble and throat ailments. She reports significant improvement and confidence in full recovery with continued use. Crenshaw and Young’s drug store offers 50 cent and 81 00 bottles with a trial bottle free.
Miss Winifred Vion returns home after visiting Sedalia for weeks. B W Little of Sedalia arrives as next term's Asst Superintendent. Mrs Frank Kriehn and Arthur visit Kansas City. Arthur returns. DeWitts Witch HazelSalve advertised by Crenshaw Young. Mrs Horace Ardinger and Mrs W G Murgrove visit from Louisiana and Kansas City. Miss Annie Dooley and Miss Margaret Chamberlain travel home. John Riba of Vining Indiana touts DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills. Edna Nagle leaves for Butte Montana. Minnie accompanies to Kansas City. A Bullard returns to Concordia. Mrs A Wade and Mrs S A Schooling go home after visiting.
An advertisement touts A Contented Woman in the same house as Batlard’s Snow Liniment promising relief for aches pains and muscle stiffness with 25c and $1.00 bottle prices. Sold by Crenshaw Young. Several local social notes report Miss Ethel Rose returning to her home in Kansas City after visiting Miss Nancy Wilson. Mr and Mrs Philip Voigt and Rosa Kunts returning from Manitowoc and Whitelaw Wisconsin. Miss Mary Glasscock and William Brovestreet Jr returning from Richards Missouri after a house party.
Willie Sing, brother of victim Frank Moy, claims Moy’s death resulted from wrath of heathen gods after propitiation with a candle under his bed. Sing, owner of a chop suey restaurant attacked by fire, criticizes police finding accidental ignition. He questions Moy’s Shanghai candle blessing and suggests superstition and devils caused the fatal blaze.
The Swiss villager Johann Schmid, 55, proclaims his happiness while a painted sign on his cottage reads Here lives the happiest man on earth. He says he has never worked, never married, never been ill, and never worried about the future, living on a small weekly stipend and a piece of land.
Over 8000 Dutch doctors led by Heymans and Weitsma publish results on heredity. They find coordination abilities mostly from the father, with 44 percent of sons of mathematicians inheriting scientific interests versus 14 percent of daughters. Traits like clever speech and self-criticism come from the father. Good nature and sensitivity also trace to the father, while tendencies to crime, dementia, and melancholia are attributed to the father. Interest in sports generally comes from the mother.
The piece notes the shift from the Gibson girl to Sargent week as the ultrafashionable standard. It credits Mr. Sargent's portraiture with creating a long slender neck that elevates head carriage and regal bearing, signaling a new era in beauty ideals.
A California inventor introduces a shelter tent with a can vas cover that can be sectioned and worn as a garment or uniform by day. The poncho like uniform, adapted for troops hunters and campers, resembles sailors’ attire in some oriental countries.
A clipped reading shows a dialogue where a moralist notes the danger of saying the wrong thing and Senator Sorghum agrees. The exchange hints at regret over utterances as the exchange of views unfolds in a terse, antiquated style.
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