Wellington County News Highlights and Local Visits
Rev Selbold visits Kansas City. H C Brockman and J A Lockhart attend in Odessa and Lexington. Windsor, Jefferson and Clinton guests noted. Community events include ice cream supper, Ladies Aid meeting, church services, and schoolchildren entertainments. Weather and flood memories from 1844 appear in private letters.
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LF. Selbold Epent
Fursday
Kansas City
H.C. Brockman
Odessa
Local residents spend Thursday in Lexington and Dover
Dr. W. G. Harwood and Robt Webb with wife visited Lexington Inez Thorsday. Mrs. Ben Vaughn of Higginaville stayed several days last week. Miss Caltha Campbell visited Dover Inet Thursday. Minnie McGee and her little niece Thelma spent Saturday in Lexington. Mrs. Tom McDaniel and Mrs. Henry were also noted in town events.
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Robt, Webb
Corder
Ben Vaughn
Higginaville
Caltha Campbell
Dover
Minnie McGee
Thelma
Lexington
Tom McDaniel
Henry
Climate and Crop Bulletin for Columbia Missouri 1905
The week favored farm work and corn cultivation. Most crop now clean and color good but growth slow from cool nights. Eastern counties report uneven progress and unpromising outlook in some areas. Northwestern replanted overflow land. southeastern shows some cars laid by. Overall crop backward and smaller in some districts. Opal nights hurt cotton in New Madrid. crop generally well cultivated and progressing. Wheat harvest nearly done in extreme southeast, starting in central, soon general. wheat filling well in the north.
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Columbia Mo
New Madrid
German Syrup Promoted as Cure for Consumption
An advertisement extols Boschee's German Syrup as the universally known remedy for consumption and lung troubles. It claims superior effect for severe coughs, bronchitis, and croup, noting the 25 cent size introduced this year and available at Leroy Farmer's Drug Store.
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Boschee
Leroy Farmer's Drug Store
Uses of the Angora Goat in 1900s trade and farming
The Angora goat yields long hair for furniture and upholstery, fine underlayer for shawls, and meat sold as canned lamb to foreign markets. Milk is praised as tuberculosis-fighting and consumptives benefit from drinking it. The animal is portrayed as self-sufficient, independent, and low-maintenance for farmers.
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Torlegn
Wand
Cooper visit ends as family returns to Kansas City
Mr. George Cooper and his mother in law Mrs V Cooper, who had been visiting, returned to Kansas City on Tuesday evening after their stay.
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M. B. Noon
Oak Grove
J. L. Lorse
Odvesa
Wellington
J. L. Rider
Misa Mollie Wilson
Near
Sunshine
Kansas City
Jobo Larkie
Robin Edmonds Jr Ho
Lexington
Kansas
P. Cayton
M. E. Church
South
Thomas W. Hough
Edward Krome
Thomas C. Bailey
Intelligencer
George Cooper
Mother-Inlaw
Mra. V
Cooper
Fourth of July Festivities in Tigginsville Bring Free Events
Fourth of July in Tigginsville promises free admission and broad entertainment. Exciting training, pacing and running races, a toule race with large entries, two baseball games, fireworks, and other attractions will fill the day. The town opens wide with cannon at dawn and crowds are urged to come early and stay until the show ends. In Jefferson City, Winkler Furniture Company wins a cabinet refitting contract for the Governor’s mansion, including doors, windows, stairways, and interior finishes.
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Tigginsville
Fairurounds
Higeinsville
Mornue
Winkler Company
Winkler Fuurniture Company
Jefferson City
Winkler Furniture Company
Lexington
Lectures by Hoo W J Bryan at Odessa College Campus
Notices announce a July 10 lecture by Hoo W J Bryan at Odessa on the College Campus at 2 pm with admission 25 cents. Tickets available after 1 pm at the college. Also reports numerous births, marriages, a prize win, and local notices including Sweden’s death-rate claim and a local coal land sale affecting Waverly.
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Hoo. W. J. Bryan
Odessa
The Whistling Bullet Reveals War’s Hidden Danger
An elderly veteran explains windage and the unseen bite of bullets in combat. He notes the sound a bullet makes as it flies often fails to warn where the hit will land, while the unseen path holds the true peril. A raw recruit experiences fear as bullets hiss past, prompting cautious nerve in battle.
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J. A. Lockhoat
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Sucie Adair
Virginia Cartuz
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Blackwall
Smith
Ed, Mignery
Elmer Duethert
Wenderday
Flenry Renner
Ladies Aid Society
W. W. Corse
J. H. Western
Levasay
Nancy Huston
T. B. Ramsey
Larberg
Waterloo
Mise Hannah
Delian Westerhouse
Concordia
Flournoy
John W. Smith
Napoleon
Slade
Misa Bettle
Sonshine
Rebecca Mallory
Addie Hodges
R.L. Hitt
Walter Pollard
Middle Grove
L. W Cox
Wm. Beck
Mamie Kasey
Will Meng
Malinda Haggard
Jonette Redd
Menefee
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Philadelphia
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Miller
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Missouri
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Commonwealth
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Patterson
Boonville
Grost
Benton
Clay
Dunkin County
Vernon County
Dover Doings
Dr. W. G. Harwood
Inez Thorsday
Eastman’ Kodaks
Kodak
Ibe
Ek. G. Loomis
Rook Andar
Falcon
George S. Smith
J. Crouch & Son
Lafayette
Indiana
E. M. Taubman
Dr. Geo. J. Smith
August Marcks
Walter B. Waddell
Waverly
Geo. Pockett
Thos. Garrett
Adolph Gieske
Henry Stienmacn
Louis Therman
Aullville
Rollins
Agricultural Department of the State University
Chureh
Herman H. Wolters
Misa Clara Jease
Bride
Groon
Australia
Sweden
S. B. Elkins
West Virginia
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John W. Frazell
Lailne
N. P. Buck
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