Sensational Affair A Methodist preacher and wife face a staged public mock wedding
Sheriff arrests Rev and Mrs Davenport at their Lexington home. Trial held at the Methodist church with Dr Eckle accusing the groom of stealing his wife twenty years earlier. Jury convicts and the couple are remarried in a china wedding gesture, with gifts and celebratory proceedings following amid public spectacle.
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16Th
Franklin Streets
Sheriff Peacock
Davenport
Dogg
Hig
Messrs. Dewees
Coleman Eckle
F. Lee Wallace
Annie Laurie
4. M. Williams
Capt. Rankin
Williams
Mrs. Davenport
Higginsville Obituary Correction and Local Notices
A Higginsville paper calls down to the Lexington Intelligencer over an obituary notice of Uncle Billy Jackson of Odessa. The writer corrects a misstatement on survivors from Doniphan’s Missouri and Kentucky volunteers who fought in the Mexican War, naming several aged veterans and forwarding a list of corrected survivors and current postal delivery notes. Also mentions sixteenth-century style letters awaiting pickup and local tidbits of returning residents and a pastor’s illness.
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Lexington Intelligencer
Higginsville
Jeffersonian i
Billy”’ Jackson
Odessa
Jackson
Alexander Doniphan
Missouri
Kentucky
Mexico
Doniphan
Higville
Richard Cave Rice
Kansas City
Jackson County
John
Story of Liberty
Clay County
John R. Shouse Kearney
A. James Burch
Plattsburg
Clinton County
James Burch
Thomas EH. Benton
James Peacock
James Howlin
Independence
100 Degrees and Summer Travel In Population Notes
The 100 degree heat marks a sizzling day as residents travel and visit relatives. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Reubel in St. Louis, Win. Weber in Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn of Butte, Mrs. J. C. Shelton’s family, Miss Eva and Catherine Worthington heading to Fayetteville Arkansas, and many others visiting or returning from Kansas City, Fulton, Lynchburg, and Belmond.
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Daniel Reubel
St. Louis
Reubel
Win. Weber
Kansas City
Glenn
Buttetin
J. C. Shelton
John BE. Ryland
I. N. Griswold
Eva
Catherine Worthington
Fayetteville
Arkansas
E. M. Taubman
J. E. Ryland
James R. Moorehead
Fulton
Henry Chiles
Liberty
Annie Wood Eggleston
Lynchburg
EB. B. Coffey
B. R. Treland
Salina
Kansas
M. Taubman
Milton
Pauline Sellers
Chicago
M. C. McFadi
C. A. Rex
Fowler
John Skinner
California
Fayette
Town
Oscar Andreen
Sedalia
Henrietta Morath
Cornelia Ludwig
Irving Tevis
M. J. Patterson
Elizbeth
Belmont
H. G. Schmidt
Pittsburg
Minnie Anderson
Wellsville
James Cheatham
F. N. Willis
Higginsville
Bima Roberts
Stockholders Meeting Notice at Lexington Water Co
The annual meeting of the Lexington Water Company stockholders will elect directors and conduct other business. It will be held at the company office in Lexington Missouri on Saturday June 17 at 10 oclock in the forenoon. Gustav Haerle president and Jno Chamberlain secretary. Lexington Missouri June 1 1911.
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Lexington Water Company
Lexington
Gustav Haerle
Jno
Chamberlain
Bravest Man in England Awarded to Frank Fraser
At the Royal Humane Society meeting the Stanhope medal for 1910 was given to Frank Fraser chief engineer of the Aberdeen steam trawler Donside for rescuing deck hand John Trager his own brother who fell overboard amid rough seas near the Viking bank after a midnight trawl Fraser dived overboard grasped a rope and after 15 minutes of strenuous effort they were brought aboard despite oily slippery hands.
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Royal Humane Society of England
Frank Fraser
Donside
Aberdeen
John Trager
Waldo Dreams Of Missing Lacing Shoes
In a playful dialogue Waldo recalls an odd dream about his valet leaving without tying his shoes. Argy quips about the unusual consequence, adding comic whimsy to the domestic mishap depicted in the exchange.
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Waldo
Argy
Wallie
Fishhawk’s Warning Signals Shad Run Start
A Gloucester fisherman explains that the fishhawk signals when shad begin ascending the river. He notes nets are less effective before the bird’s arrival, usually before April 12, and that fishhawks travel north from Florida in March following herring. Shad follow the herring, marking the start of fishing season.
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Gloucester
Fishhawk
Jersey
Florida
Mountain Claim Sparks Irish Quips in Jaunting Tale
A jaunting car driver boasts that Ireland holds the tallest mountains in the world and teases a skeptical tourist. The exchange, with broad local humor, pivots on a misspoken dialect line and ends with the driver insisting the claim is true except for foreigners.
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Oireland
What He Wanted in a Dandy Limousine Chair
A dealer shows Billups a stylish limousing chair centerpiece in a furniture corner. Billups resists sounding like a resident of a home, insisting on discreetly knowing he is inside and rejecting the idea of a loosely described rocking chair while seeking a sturdy, familiar piece.
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Billup
Billups
Acre
Tlarper's Weekly
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William Holmes
Henry Clover
Alvin J. Johnson
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R. E. Lee
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Marie Jordan
Henry Lloyd
A. Massingle
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Edward Pyle
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Clay Simmons
Mak Vaughan
Alice Washington
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Pistuiaster
A. Hi. Shulte
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Stockholders Meeting
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Rock Island Lines
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J. G. Corfin
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G. & C. Merriam Co
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