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Newspaper

Lexington Intelligencer

Location

Lexington, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1919

Page

5

Trusteess Sale Notice Dover Lot Kentucky Missouri

Trust deed dated July 1917 in Lafayette County Missouri secures promissory note. Trustee E N Hopkins given power to sell Dover original town lot Lot One excluding fifty feet from south and north ends to pay note costs. Sale set for June 28 1919 at Lexington Court House.

Ens Shehry Aisha Nasser Recorder of Deeds Dafayette County Missouri Igned Lexington Yette County Lafayette

Ministratrix's Notice for Talbott Estate in Lafayette County

Letters of administration were granted May 1919 by the Lafayette County Probate Court. All claimants must present their claims within six months to be allowed. claims not exhibited within one year may be barred from the estate. Witness signature by the administratrix, Stephen N. Wilson Judge of Probate.

H Oc Talbott Lafayette Stephen N. Wilson Lafayette County Securi Bal Edward V Missouri Margaret A. Williams Kson Arnold A. G. Phetzing Stephen N. Wilson Jude

Notice to creditors in Lafayette County estates

Admin administratrix Margaret A Williams announces probate actions for Edward V Williams estate and A Jackson Arnold estate. Creditors must file claims within six months after letters grant and within one year to avoid bar. Witnessed May 7 1910 and May 20 1919 by Stephen N Wilson Judge of Probate.

Administrator's Sale of Coal in Lafayette County Missouri

Christopher T. Garner administrator of Elvira S. Gorton estate sets July 8 1919 for public sale at the courthouse front door Lexington Missouri. Sale covers coal and beds under surface in Lot 42 acres more or less in Section Twelve Township Fifty one Range Twenty five. Proceeds for cash with deeds of record and reserve in deed dated October 15 1916.

Christopher T. Garner Elvira Meonday Court House Cit Lexington Lafayette County Souri Elvira S. Gorton Recorder's Office Lemayette County Missouri Rey

Fordson Tractor At Work Cutting Wheat On Knapheide Farm

Fordson Tractor operates cutting wheat four miles east of Lexington along Dover road. Dr J J Greer and daughter Elizabeth visited Kansas City for the day. Miss Ida Bell Walker returns from Columbia where she studied. Miss Pearl Hoffman travels to Kansas City for a short visit. Anne, unseen for three years, appeared yesterday morning. Wisler reports relief from indigestion after using Chamberlain's Tablets in 1909 and since.

Fordson Knapheide Lexington Dover Road J. J. Greer Elizabeth Kansas City Ida Bell Walker Columbia Mr. Wisler Chamberlain Wm. B. Wisler Douglassville

Stephens Visit Ties Shelton Family After 30 Years

Rev. and Mrs. H R Stephens of Louisburg Virginia arrived Wednesday evening to visit Capt. and Mrs. J C Shelton. Stephens is the brother of Mrs. Shelton and Mrs. Stephens is Shelton’s sister. Thirty years have intervened since their last meeting.

H. R. Stephens Louisburg, Va J. C. Shelton Rev. Stephens Mrs. Shelton Mrs. Stephens Capt. Shelton

Booze Not a Cure for Colic Says Ames Intelligencer

A 4 man arrives doubled up with pain and declares he will die unless given whiskey a doctor or Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhea Remedy. The Ames Intelligencer warns against relying on alcohol for stomach ailments noting many hold this misconception.

Ames Iowa Intelligencer Chamberlain

Gruber-Perch Wedding Attended by Kansas Visitors

Albert Hainkle of Kansas City arrived yesterday to attend the Gruber-Perch wedding held last evening. Lieut. and Mrs. Joseph R. Howe, married recently in Lanchester, S C, arrived in Lexington Wednesday evening to visit Lieut. Howe's mother Mrs. Sallie D. Howe and family. Mrs. L H McAdow drove from Kansas Wednesday night in her 1920 Davis Six.

John Morrison & Sona Fordson John Morrison & Sons Albert Hainkle Kansassas City Joseph R. Howe Lanchester S. C Lexington

Public Administrator Notice Lafayette County Missouri 1919

Public Administrator Tor Baltheston takes charge of the estate of Sarah Bourlier deceased. Creditors must exhibit claims within six months after the order of June 23 1919 or be barred. Attested by Judge Stephen N. W on June 27 1919.

Lafayette Missouri Tor Baltheston Sarah FE. Bourlier Y C. Chiles Stephen N. W Lafayette County Misso

Nature's Remedy Tablets Offer Rheumatism Relief

A historical ad promotes Nature's Remedy Tablets for rheumatism claiming improved digestion elimination and nourishment. It asserts recovery from indigestion weakness and blood impoverishment, touts liver kidney and system cleansing benefits and guarantees satisfaction with a sold by Lexington Missouri merchant.

Pasureint Cyenddast & Young Lexington, Mo

Visitors depart after month in city from Knox Tenn and Canton Ohio

Dr and Mrs J G Cowan left yesterday for Knoxville Tenn after a month in the city with their son Rev Robt L Cowan and family Mrs John Shearer and two children and Miss Viola Hutchinson who have been here a month with relatives left yesterday for Canton Ohio Mrs N Horan and Mrs Catherine Miller left yesterday for their homes in Chicago after visiting their brother Robert Doran Mrs James Gannon of Kansas City arrived this morning called here by the illness of her sister Miss Kate McIntyre

Knoxville Tenn Rev Robt. L. Cowan John Shearer Viola Hutchinson Canton Ohio N. Horan Catherine Miller Chicago Robert Doran James Gannon Kansas City Kate McIntyre

Cut This Out and Take It With You

A man seeks to buy an article but forgets the exact name and ends up with something else. The advised safe method is to cut this out and take it to ensure getting Chamberlain's Tablets. They are recommended for constipation and indigestion. Judge 8. N. Wilson traveled to Kansas City Tuesday on business.

Chamberlain N. Wilson Kansas City

Linen to Be Remembered Square Den Award

A city square den's rationale honors a man who shed blood for his country with a pledge that such sacrifice warrants a medal and no less than a square named in his memory. The remark attributed to Theodore Roosevelt frames the entitlement as both due and exclusive.

Theoddre Roosevelt

It Doesn’t Faller Quote Sparks Debate on Hair Growth

A quoted line puzzles readers as one columnist muses that a prolific mind does not guarantee hair regeneration. The remark circulates amid discussions on science, aging, and celebrity notions of beauty.

Monster freight train alarms railway officials amid long novel cars

A historic report describes a mammoth freight train of over a hundred cars, with 110 loaded units and three empties, running 115 miles from Detroit Michigan to St Thomas Ontario in about 514 hours. Officials praise the records but engineers dislike the sheer length and visibility gaps, fearing tail cars lie far behind the locomotive.

Detroit Mich St. Thomas Ontario Trians

Peace Ends War Shifts Mouse Market Prices

A sudden war end triggers a panic in the mouse market. A large dealer holding fifty thousand white mice offers the lot at half a cent each, far below prior quotes of 10 cents for hundreds. White rats plunge to 2 cents as government demand for experiments ends, with sourcing still tied to India and the Philippines for monkeys in tests.

Tota India Philippines

Strange cures at Seale Hayne Hospital reported by London

W. S. London, secretary to the Middlesex war pensions committee, describes dramatic recoveries at Seale Hayne military hospital Newton Abbot Devon. A paralyzed man spoke after ten minutes and walked after an hour and a half. Other cases include a voice restored in seven minutes, a nephritic patient standing after 20 minutes, and a long‑standing squint cured after 20 years.

W. S. London Middlesex Eng.) War Pensions Committee Seale Hayne Military Hospital Newton Abbot Devon

Obedience Amid Trenches Shattered by War Heroism

Private C. C. Gook recounts Pat returning from the trenches with bandaged head and a proud admirer asking how he was wounded. The scene notes a chaotic moment as Roche and Ned mingle with trenches before the brave captain orders everyone to stay down and stand Pat.

Pat Roche C. C. Gook

Man recounts medal tale from war claim

A colored veteran explains an iron crag piece he wore, saying it was extra decoration sent by the Kaiser through a special messenger who died before delivering it, in a tone that hints at a boastful souvenir from distant conflict.

Tess de Kaiser Hisself New York

Something New in Clothing, A Summer Libel

A playful dialogue about fashion and libel terms, featuring a father and son. The father explains a mock libel joke tied to a garment described as an excellent example of the libel sult, implying a humorous misunderstanding of legal terms in lighthearted fashion talk.

Pop

Deadly peril faced by wartime divers at sea

Divers endure extreme risks during salvage operations as war demands more divers. They battle pressure effects and air-pipe damage from jagged surfaces and rapid ascent dangers. Attempts at rigid suits hinder movement, leaving no solution to combine mobility with pressure resistance.

Poetic Beauty Sparks Praise and Cautions

A dialogue praises Mr. Plunk's poetry for its refined craft while warning that reading it may spoil the effect. The exchange notes the care and beauty in the verse and cautions against spoiling the experience by full exposure.

Mr. Plunk

Native Hawaiians Sacrifice Animals Over Pearl Harbor Drydock Belief

Native Hawaiians offered a pig and a chicken to the shark god fearing the Pearl Harbor drydock construction would anger the deity. Rumors say the animals were rescued and served at a luau rather than thrown to sharks as ritual.

Pearl Harbor Naval Station Tthome Pearl Harbor

Artful Dodger Letter Mystery From France

A dialogue hints at a Paris connection where a seven-year-old girl supposedly dictates 16 page letters to a correspondent, with her grandmother acting as the scribe while Henry, a close friend, recalls the scene and billets.

Henry France

Local villagers discuss music and fight crowd

A village audience questions risqué Wrenermn tunes while a man doubts interest. He suggests many would rather watch the fight than hear the music, implying a clash between cultural offerings and popular spectacle.

Warlike chatter in clipped wartime cartoon prose

A fragmentary line reads C'EST LA GUERRE with assorted names and garbled phrasing about Guerilla activity and a visit to the war dine. The text appears as détourned caption style, mentioning G'Abley and Cartoone Muza in a garbled exchange about conflict.

G'Abley

Aircraft Boy Seeks Recovery For Flight Return

Ailing boy hopes doctors help him recover so he can resume aviation training. He struggles with illness while awaiting care and balance between health and his dream of flying.

Substitute Needed in Mistranscribed Quote

In a puzzled note, readers seek a correct substitute phrase after a garbled line about a straw showing wind direction and a wand draw after September 15. The unclear quote hints at seeking reliable wording and timing for a proper replacement.

Taboo word origins and Polynesian usage explained

A discussion on the term taboo its origins in a Polynesian and New Zealand institution and how it came to mean something forbidden or sacred. The piece outlines how the word was set apart, its prohibition, and the social significance attached to its use.

Polynesia New Zealand

Naturalizes Clock Bird In Indian Town Store

A jeweler in an Indians town altered a Chekoo clock bird to sound like a real native bird. After finishing, the clock bird whistled Bob White, giving the impression of naturalization for a previously German-made timepiece.

Germany Bob White

Transportation of the Future in electricity progress

A concise note argues that transportation is central to civilization and that energy can be transported without vehicles. It extols electricity as substance free power travel through copper wires, urging focus on electrical distribution to fuel future economic prosperity.

Munster

Storma Carry Birds to Far North

Weather note describes migratory birds driven toward the far north by cyclonic storms. It explains a counter clockwise wind pattern pushes birds offshore then outward, with eventual reentry toward shore as storms decay. Observers speculate the storm’s spin guides the birds toward land before returning to calmer areas.

Great Britain and Ireland in union history

The text outlines the evolution of the term Great Britain from its description of England Scotland and Wales to its official use after the 1707 union with Scotland, the 1800 union with Ireland, and the subsequent form Great Britain and Ireland.

Great Britain England Scotland Walen Brittany Bretagne Lesser Britain Ireland

Painting on Brass Care Instructions From Historic Note

Cleaning brass requires removing grease with a salt and vinegar wash. After scouring, rinse with hot suds, wipe dry, and apply paint promptly to prevent running or chipping once dry. This historic tip explains surface prep for durable painting on polished brass.

Windfall Origin Traced to Conqueror Era Forest Laws

A windfall phrase origin dates to William the Conqueror times when it was a crime to cut timber in royal forests. Only timber blown down by wind could be gathered, and a strong storm was viewed as luck, shaping the modern sense of windfall as good fortune.

Time as a perpetual present in The Double Garden

A fragment from Maurice Maeterlinck discusses time, arguing that life is an immense eternal motion in which past present and future blur. The idea that tomorrow and yesterday are indistinguishable to human minds reflects a philosophical meditation on existence and perception.

Maurice Madteriinck

John Chinaman nickname in a 19th century London letter

A read fragment notes the term John Chinaman used as a designation for celestial beings in a letter to the committee of management of Drury Lane theater published in London about a century ago. The wording reflects dated racial terminology and theater culture of the era.

Earll Wat John Chinaman Celestials le Drury Lane Theater London

Time He Hurries When Told by Father and Girl

A seventeen year old faces a choice between statesmanship and professional baseball after his father and girlfriend urge him to hurry. The scene contrasts paternal and romantic pressure as the youth debates future paths.

Kannis Cly

Raising Foxes on Ranches in North America and Beyond

The article discusses ranching foxes in Canada and the northern United States with some in Japan and Norway. It highlights adapting foxes to local climate belts under favorable conditions, focusing on domesticating the black fox and expanding industry practices.

Teast United States Japan Norway

Liberty Demande Full Loyalty and Statues Raised

The text praises liberty in name and form while acknowledging incomplete trust. It notes rising demands as the state grows and mentions a half service Lord Macaulay. The piece reads as a formal, period tone reflection on national ideals and leadership.

Lord Macaulay

Porphyry Pebbles Quip Echoes at Nantasket Beach

A fragmentary quotation evokes wet porphyry pebbles observed at Nantasket Beach. The remark links to a witty aside on imperial attire and Shakespearean tone, reflecting literary allusion in a seaside setting.

Nantasket Beach Emerson

Half and Halt For We Woovw Ip Port and We Proph

fragmentary OCR note references First Cortothians with unclear meaning. No clear event names dates or places readable. Summary limited to the fragmentary line provided.

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