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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
3
In a humorous scene from Indianapolis News, a strict seventh grade teacher refuses a group of boys asking for a Weiner roast. The Irish student flirts with flattery, praising the teacher’s head tilt and calling her a genius, but she remains firm and proceeds with her plan.
The remark questions Atlas for bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders and suggests he should have organized the Globe Trust company to bear it. The quote frames Atlas as a fool for not structuring the trust to manage immense responsibility.
An English woman in Korn describes glo-American parlor games entering Athuanis. English and American guests joined in Blind Man's Bluff and Musical Chairs. Lathionian hosts amused and shocked as her husband and an American officer argued and cheated over the last chair, provoking remarks about Americans.
An onboard radio mishap sequence shows a narrator guiding a friend through a radio set on an army transport. The friend learns his discharge is postponed for a trip, prompting a scramble of vocabulary and explanations amid the captain's office.
The Medical Press and Circular warns against overreacting to epidemic warnings. It notes that fear can spur a recurrence, arguing vigilance without panic. The piece urges calm, measured responses to influenza reports and cites the idea that dread, not the disease itself, drives social response.
A Bristol Fighter shows exceptional durability with over two years in continuous service on the fighting front and in Holland, without any expenditure on renewal or repairs.
The excerpt jokes about choosing a writer who can handle flood flow with style and rhyme. It hints at a playful line about selecting a writer with a good deal of flow and perhaps irony about diction. No concrete events or dates are provided.
A veteran prospector nicknamed the desert rat wandered into a Victorville California film site. He found a ranch house set with sagebrush and tin cans staged as a desert town. At first surprised by the production he admitted he had never seen a real movie crew or authentic sets.
In wartime medicine advances, surgeons at Fort McHenry Baltimore repaired shattered optic nerves to restore sight in four blinded soldiers. Techniques patched skin tissue bone muscle and vessels, with nerve repair marking a hopeful breakthrough for future humanity.
England’s push for democracy challenges old snobbery in sport. Critics rally against the phrase Gentlemen versus Players used for amateur versus professional cricket, arguing it clings to aristocratic distinctions that wartime change aims to erase.
A suburban promoter Sellers jokes about sermons and contentment while planning to send a scout for fifty bucks. Mrs Sellers returns from church and Mr Sellers expresses enthusiasm. A brief encounter reveals a photoplay star nearly ran him over in a sport car in Los Angeles.
Transfers filed in the Recorder’s Office at Lexington Missouri compiled by Lafayette County Abstract Co show multiple deeds with warranty and quitclaim designs. Names include R Earl Wagoner Irving Withers Wm P Tyree Emil G Deke Otto J Stuerke Eugene Cleveland Sandford Sellers Henry Colley Thomas M Davidson Claudius Vedel Henry Mellenkamp Sam J Downing Harriett Bennette Wm N Davis and others with properties in Lexington Higginsville Odessa Wellington and Concordia. Also notes the Articles of Association of Alma Partners Elevator Co with capital stock.
A fragmentary ad urges readers to cut this notice and carry it to buy Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation and indigestion, promising satisfactory relief and accuracy in selecting the product.
Roscoe Galladay of Marshall attended the celebration here on Monday, joining local residents in the event and taking part in the community gathering observed by attendees.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Grandorff of Kansas City visited relatives in town spending Sunday and Monday observed in local chatter.
An old Growcher admonishes his nephew amid a humorous reminiscence about the cow jumping over the moon. The exchange playfully satirizes rising beef and dairy prices and the public’s fixation on cost.
In a brisk exchange two speakers note the rapid pace of modern life as fall crowds push summer aside. The dialogue captures a local sense of seasonal shift and the impatience of change. No further context is provided but the mood reflects a brisk, urban pace.
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