Women Registration Adopts Noncompulsory Civic Service
Missouri women will register July 28 to list those ready to help win the war under the Women's Committee Missouri Division and the National Council of Defense. Registration is voluntary and nonage-limited, detailing preferred service, experience, and skills for future assignments. A Hoover pledge registration for housewives will also occur, while tax collections show total internal revenue reaching about 809.2 million. Missouri’s share is 22.31 million with four-year income tax totals listed.
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Missouri
Women’s Defensive Council
United States
Woman’s Committee
State Council of Defense
Hoover
Missouri Ambulance Unit Arrives in France
The University of Missouri ambulance unit of the American Ambulance Field Service reached a French port after sailing from New York on June 25. It is the largest ambulance unit sent to France, with 28 students and graduates from the university. William K. Gardner, son of the governor, is among its members.
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University of Missouri Unite
American Ambulance Field Service
New York
Sanitary Corps
France
Wm. K. Gardner
Threshing price schedule set by Higginsville committee
A Lafayette county joint committee of Threshermen and Farmers adopted 1917 threshing rates on June 15. With crew, threshing from shock costs Wheat 18 cents and oats 10 1/4 cents, farmers supply feed and fuel but threshermen pay for fuel. Threshing from shock without crew costs Wheat 6 cents and oats 4 cents, farmer furnishes crew and fuel. Threshing from stock with crew costs Wheat 10 cents and oats 6 cents, farmer furnishes feed. from stock without crew, farmer furnishes crew.
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Higginsville
Lafayette County
Do you get up at night Sanol ad recalls kidney relief
An old newspaper notice promotes Sanol as a guaranteed remedy for kidney and bladder troubles with relief promised within 24 hours. It lists 35 cents or $1.00 bottles at the drug store and mentions local social notes about Marjorie Chiles Grace Comstock Lillian Wooden and visits among Kansas City Dover and Dover residents.
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Sanol
Ady
Walter RB Waddell Heads to Kansas City Sunday
Walter RB Waddell traveled to Kansas City on Sunday morning as part of personal or professional plans.
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Walter
Waddell
Kansas City
We Can Save You Money on Two Items Price Promise
Price for both is six dollars sixty cents. Our price for both is four dollars seventy cents.
Miners Riot at Flat River Sparks Military Response
Rioting in Flat River and nearby mining towns led to hundreds of armed men deporting over six hundred foreigners. Missouri militiamen from St. Louis restored order after Governor Gardner sent cavalry and infantry. Injuries reported include thirty-plus beatings and three nonfatal gunshot wounds. property damage runs to thousands. Refugees received food and clothing support as leaders urged evacuation of foreigners.
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Lead
Missouri
St. Louis
United States
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Newton D. Baker
New York
Federal
Gardner
Desloge
Elvins
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Diseases Costly to State in Indiana Health Bulletin
The Indiana board of health bulletin cites staggering health costs and asks if Missouri is wiser. It notes Indiana spends about 10 million yearly on disease and 4.5 million boarding rats, with millions on consumption typhoid pneumonia insanity feeble mindedness epilepsy and venereal disease. It contrasts Missouri’s lower spending and higher infant mortality figures and urges greater investment in prevention to save lives.
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Indiana State Board of Health
Indiana
Missouri
Big Butler Fire Destroys Two Blocks on South Main
A fire at a corner in the Newlin Bros Garage spread to the McFarland baggy Salesroom and an adjacent business block on South Main just off the square, causing heavy losses. Montgomery County plans a modern infirmary to replace the poor farm, with the court asking rail towns for input as over a thousand taxpayers petition to end the poor farm and fund a new institution.
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Butler
South Main Street
Newlin Bros
McFarland Baggy
Montgomery County
Farmer Dead In Creek Near Boonville
George Grissom, a well known Cooper County farmer, was found dead in a creek south of Boonville. It is thought he died after stopping to water his horse and suffering a heart attack. The Lexington ferry boat, owned by Lafayette County Ferry Company, was destroyed by fire. Insurance partially covers the loss. Seizure of booze in a hay car reports 210 gallons of whisky and 100 gallons of stam alcohol taken from a Camden freight car by Ray County sheriff. Claude C. Upton was arrested in connection with the case.
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Recorder's Office
Lexington
Lafayette Co
Lafayette County Abstract Company
Ike H. Noyes
W. L. Boner
Wm. P
Leslia Nichols
Bates City
Charles Lee McFadin
R. E. Rogers
Pomeroy, Houx
John Abdoler
Frank Mautino
Taubman
Myrtle L. McNeel
Earle McNeele
Smith & Patterson
Odessa
Lena McIntee
Martin Evert
George Grissom
Cooper County
Boonville
Lafayette County Ferry Company
Camden
Ray County
Claude C. Upton
August Woman's Home Companion expands with service dept
The August Woman's Home Companion launches a new department for patriotic service edited by Anna Steele Richardson inviting war service ideas and questions. A new serial The White Towers by Juliet Wilbur Tompkins starts, with other notable stories by Mary Hastings Bradley Gertrude MacNulty Stevens and Alice Chapin. Special articles on economy and home life accompany the issue.
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Woman's Home Companion
Anna Steele Richardson
the White Towers
Juliet Wilbur Tompkins
Jane
Mary Hastings Bradley
Gertrude MacNulty Stevens
Alice Chapin
Miss Oro Mosley Returns Home After Stay
Miss Oro Mosley, a guest at the home of Frank Stewart, returned Sunday evening to her home in Independence.
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Oro Mosley
Frank Stewart
Independence
Missouri Seed Wheat Certification Aids 1918 Crop
University of Missouri College of Agriculture deploys five men to inspect and certify seed wheat in South Missouri as harvest nears. Fields are checked for purity, disease, weeds, appearance, and yield to guide buyers in Missouri and other winter wheat belt states.
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Missouri
University of Missouri College of Agriculture
South Missouri
College of Agriculture
Mrs J M Stelle Visits With Local Hosts In Kansas City T
Mrs J M Stelle of Kansas City spent Sunday here with Mr and Mrs B R Young. Mr and Mrs Ike H Noyes spent Sunday in Higginsville.
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J. M. Stelle
Kansas City
B. R. Young
Ike H. Noyes
Higginsville
Todhunters Visit In Kansas City And Rev Curry In St Marys
Misses Katherine and Emory Todhunter traveled to Kansas City on Monday for a visit. Reverend G B Curry went to St Marys Kansas on Monday for a week long visit.
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Katherine
Emory Todhunter
Kansas City
Rev
G. B. Curry
St. Mary's
Kansas
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