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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1916
Page
7
A vintage ad style paragraph touts Prince Albert tobacco for fast satisfaction and steady smoke appetite. It emphasizes patented packaging that prevents tie and parch, no coupons or premiums, and mentions red bags and tins with moistener tops for keeping tobacco fresh.
A Missouri College of Agriculture class trains 500 chickens a day by dry picking methods. Students feed fifty-seven parts of ration daily, gain up to 26 percent in weight and claim improved flavor. Adults note accompanying local visits and a magazine column mentions science and arts topics.
A 1910s style notice explains three insect disease carriers per Dr M P Ravenel. It describes mechanical transmission by houseflies, syringe-like bites from fleas spreading bubonic plague, and the cycle of malaria and yellow fever by mosquitoes with single-disease limits. It urges cleanliness and garbage disposal to curb breeding during summer peaks, concluding with a local social note about James Dillard and Mrs Owens.
Enrollment tops 1200 with 1236 currently in courses for the summer as MU’s program, now mainly for teachers, marks the largest in the region between Chicago and California. The session, begun about 25 years ago, gained university rank in 1904 and features special courses for teachers and county superintendents with noted lecturers and a public exhibit on rural school equipment.
Miss Bob Bell of the Missouri College of Agriculture urges lighter meals for hot days to avoid excess heat. She cites a summer table including beef soup and roast beef as winter fare and recommends vegetables salads and ices, along with eggs and simple sandwiches, for relief. Local notes include Lynn Welch visiting Marshall and Mrs. Robert Hoeflicker visiting Dover.
East bound service schedule announced by WILLE MO Passenger and Ticket Agent Higginsville Missouri. The timetable updates reflect new departure and arrival times effective mid April for travelers in the region served by the Chicago and Alton line.
Zach W. Wright offers a five room brick home close in with a 50 by 142 foot lot. Real estate ad notes good condition and reasonable price. Also mentions Jost receiving poultry feed including oyster shells chick feed hen feed laying mesh and meat scraps. Mrs Annie Fristoe returned to Sedalia Sunday after visiting Mrs H A Barron. Warder Connor contact 158.
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