Higginsville County News Highlights
A string of Higginsville items reports travel by Wesley DeBult and John Ringe, visits by Mrs. Mary Lary and Mrs. Joseph Prewitt, and numerous social notes. Daniel Day opens a new barber shop near the Hotel Arcade. Miss Nettie Barksdale and Miss Maud Hagood visit. Miss Dora Meyer attends a funeral in Concordia. Miss Stella Peppitt travels to Omaha. Ed Knopp dies after being shot by Officer Prewitt. The piece also notes local business moves, bicycle enthusiasm, marriage news of Miss Sallie Suggott and Panchal Conner, and a late wedding of Cotab Prewitt and Arnold Vermillion in secrecy.
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Ralph Vaughan Sames
Kansasay
Kenneth Hancock
Corder
Daniel
Tacle Lake
Mortimer Lake
Marshall
Stella Peppitt
Omaha
Arnold Vermillion
Fritz Niemann
Lafayette
Fann Hanson
Kate
Arthur Bradford
Brainbridge
Maud Mitchell
Lexington
Quetta
Jane Howe
Ed Knopp
Joseph Prewitt
Howard
Boston
Farris Campbell
Farris
Kate Howe
C. A. Mitchell
Henry McNeel
Videssa
Higginsville
Jeffersonian
Colored Baptist Church
H. Tucker
Lucy Graham
Buckner
J. E. Tucker
Lais Tucker
Catherine Kuehl
Broexting
Leadville
Col
Wellington and Vicinity News Summary
Wellington and vicinity items include social notes on residents such as Wright Gruwke from Jackson county and Mra J L Corse, church announcements about no services June 29, and various visits by Prof S B Nunn, J A Schultz, and Miss Jennie Neidig. Local business mentions cover drillers, harness makers, a plan to remodel the Central hotel, and a street lighting debate. A 72 year old resident, Stephen Jeude, dies after years of service to the town. burial at the German church cemetery. Community notices detail visitors, marriages, and a bicycle of local events with names and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Jeude
Jeude
Warren County
Clay Township
Wellington
German Evangelical Church
Mesdames H. H. Limberg
Chris Bishop
Pesce
Obituary and local notes from Waverly area 1902
Obituary honors Mrs. Mary J. Larkin of near Waverly Lafayette county Missouri who died May 19 1902 after a long life of religious devotion and family leadership. The piece recalls her Virginia birth in 1821, Methodist lineage, marriage to James F. Larkin, and ten children. Additional items note a Glenwood social, a tour of Countess Letitia de Kucheinski, local sidewalk concerns, a child’s arm injury, weeds, a teachers special train, and various social notices from Waverly and surrounding towns.
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Waverly
Lafayette County
Israel
Mary J. Larkin
Page County
Virginia
Missouri
Methodist Church
Sebastian Pois
John Poisal
Baltimore
United States
Baltimore Methodist
Con
Jer
Freeman
James F. Larkin
Missouri Overland
Concordia
Christ
God
Glenwood
Claude Bland
Earl Sod
Walter Wallace
Homer and
Lee Young
Louis Smith
Julian Wyatt
Ervin Amor
Oscar Samuelson
Glenwood School House
Kansas City
Odessa
Letitia de Kucheinski
Academy of Music
Arthur Robertson
Earth Day Length Changes Since Ancient Times
The piece explains the earth’s rotation slowed from about five hours per day in ancient ages to current 24 hours, while the moon receded as tidal forces lengthen days. It notes the moon’s past proximity at five hours per day and how the day lengthens as the moon moves outward.
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Earth
London
The Growth of Golf in Society
A humorous appraisal argues golf has inflated social habit with 1000 listed clubs and an average 100 members each, totaling about 100000 enthusiasts in the United States. The piece notes how such figures suggest widespread, persistent interest and possible public nuisance perceptions among nonplayers.
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United States
The Fool Speculator in Chicago Daily News
A concise note from the Chicago Daily News notes the folly of greed and overreach in a speculator’s tale. It contrasts imprudent ambition with restraint and wit, framing wisdom as knowing what not to say.
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Chicago Daily News
Wise
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County News
Wesley DeBult
Odasas
John Ringe
Mary Lary
Lewis Scource
St. Louia
Minolo Hickman
J. W. Browning
Blackburn
Wiley
Richard Downing
Loos Wiley
Casale Johnson
Everest
Kansas
Georgia Tlapson
Henry Schwabe
Columbia
Ed Major
Conn
Aliss Lind Johnen
Sallie Suggott
Pythian Lodge
L. Beoch
L. H. Oto
Merchants Hotel
Bison
Hitter Bros
Tom Fowler
Edgar Johneos
Ess
Jack Johinson
Frank Lamboley
David Pfleger
Bloomer Girls
Bar of Justice
Hiawatha
Mass Cotab Prewitt
Wellington and Vicinity
Lealma
I. M. Wright
Gruwke
Jackson County
Mra
J. L. Corse
J. K. Moorehead
Loxington
Merry Boddemeyer
Oto Kach
Charles Garth
Napoleon
G. H. Schaberg
J. A. Schultz
Alex Denton
Jennie Neidig
A. M. Lockhart
Oak Grove
H. D. Kitt
Texas Prairie
J. Frye
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Kansans
Mildred McFadden
Chaperone Magazine
Josiah Mann
J. H. Bedford
F. W. Mann
Old Central Hotel
Messrs. H. Buddemeyer
Otto Koch
Jobo HH. Gramke
Lafayette County Telephone Company
J. A. Mann
Morrison- Wentworth Bank
Blackburn Record
Buck Steele
Nadine
Masters Will and
Corder Steele
L. B. Chappell
South Corder
Norman
Laura Dashler
Halley Pelot
West Point
Fannie Coates
Gertrude Hering
Nancy Catron
Mesars
Halley
Carl Pelot
Stanley Field
George Winkelmeyer
Maud Marquis
Odeses
Ed. Uorley
Sanford Slusther
H Wigulesville
Scott
Atte
Ausland
Ateon Foolard
Brussels
Eeath
Ceeeea
Pee Eppes
Rita
Ull
Wse
Balt Pric
Jose
Perry Davis
Cote
Marshall Medicine Co
Kansas City, Mo
Burlington Passenger Department
Minneapolis
Burlington
Minneapola
J. M. Greenwood
F. U. Sharon
Art the Re Ldence
Theride
Nb Dover
June Lei
Riley Freeman
Hattheb Vaughan
Hospital
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