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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1909
Page
3
The text touts Golden Medical Discovery as a strong blood purger aiding mucous linings in passages and digestive organs, Favorite Prescription as a tonic for worn out women strengthening overall health. It claims non alcohol non secret formulas from glyceric plant extracts, with Dr Pierce’s Pills aiding stomach liver and bowels.
F L Carter visited Kansas City on Monday and again on Sunday in Highesville. Walter Shinn also traveled to Kansas City. Mrs R P Hogan spent Sunday in Corder. Rhode Island red roosters for sale from Mrs G H Logan and Mrs Frances Saunders, who went to Kansas City for a short stay, report market activity. A guaranteed cough remedy Beem Laxative Cough Syrup claims quick, pleasant relief for coughs, colds, croup, and bronchial affections, sold by C W Loomis.
An advertisement touts a pneumatic clothes washer that replaces hard labor with a handle pump. Priced at 41.00 with a demonstration promise to neighbors, it claims to save hands time and temper and offers a money back guarantee. Also notes local visits and various remedies and tonics sold by Crenshaw & Young.
Names Moorehead and ron and James B Jr spent Saturday in Kansas City while Mrs C H Wilcoxon visited Sunday evening. An ad promotes Woods Liver Medicine a liver regulator claiming quick relief for headache constipation biliousness and malaria like symptoms. Contains pricing and seller C W Loomis.
Beech Laxative Cough Syrup praised for cough relief and cold symptoms. DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve marketed with warnings against imitations. Pineules claimed for kidney disorders and backache. Multiple local items note visits and travel to Kansas City. Sold by Crenshaw & Young and C. W. Loomis.
Advertises Zemo as a clean external liquid for eczema pimples dandruff and all skin or scalp diseases. Claims instant relief and positive cure. Writ for sample J. W. Rose Medicine Co. St. Louis. Sold locally by C. W. Looms.
Henry Beizenders left Sunday morning for Garden City Missouri to accept a position with a jewelry firm there. Mrs J J Cashen returned to her Kansas City home Monday after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J J Mulligan.
A brisk ad notes Dr Kings New Life Pills help prevent appendicitis by stimulating the stomach liver and bowels. The copy claims they cure constipation biliousness chills malaria headache and indigestion. Sold for 25 cents at Crenshaw &
In a candid interview Kathryn Osterman argues that actresses should marry and value home life. She contends marriage benefits women on stage and that a home brings stability, charity, and a grounded view of the world.
The writer states they will prepare a dish of homemade chilli con carne upon request and invites contact with Mrs L. B. Mark for indulgence.
A farmer and his wife tell how they kept their son engaged with farm life in a World’s Work excerpt. The piece praises hearty meals and homely plenty, notes gendered expectations, and emphasizes parental duty to nurture responsibility at home. It suggests sons may wander if this guidance fades.
A Manayunk woman found a mother mouse in a trap with four young and a nest built from paper thread straw and linen. She watched overnight as the mother gathered bedding and cheese, then released all by morning with the nest left as evidence.
M Arthur Chuquet recounts in L Opinion a tale of Napoleon and Blucher at Finkenstein. Napoleon compliments the Prussian general as he prepares for Danelg siege, Blucher leaves delighted and later laments a missed chance. The javler suggests Blucher could have thrown Napoleon from the window, a remark Blucher barely counters.
A young mother recalls a baby offering candy to a crusty old man with side whiskers on a car ride. The man frowns each time, then grows fiery when the candy is chewed and sticks in his whiskers, prompting him to ask the conductor if the baby is rude.
A Wide Awake Magazine account notes the Lapps enjoy heavy coffee drinking and large punch consumption. It describes numerous intoxicated people in the streets of Tromap after profitable reindeer meat sales, claiming crime and robbery are nearly unknown due to innate honesty.
Fragmentary note argues a child’s needs go beyond clothes and food and must be met with love in a home. It stresses every unit’s success depends on recognizing each child as an individual with unique traits, even if small or from crime, and treating them accordingly.
Deacon Cripes mockingly notes no cold has occurred since Peleg Haw bought a thermometer and oil. The exchange centers on a practical joke about weather instruments not predicting cold, reflecting lighthearted town chatter and community humor.
Swarts, Chris Walk, Sam Poo visited Kansas City on Tuesday. E. M. Taubman, Charles Lyons, S. N. Wilson, Alexander Grives, Dr. B. R. Tucker also spent Tuesday in Kansas City on business or brief stays. Mrs. James Horn left Tuesday for Hughesville. Lee and John Davila left for Victor, Colorado after their sister Mrs. C. B. Goodwin's death. Mrs. A. B. Albro returned from Kansas City and Dr. S. T. Neill returned to Clinton after relatives' deaths.
The city of Lexington Missouri will hold municipal officer elections concurrently with the annual Lexington School District No. 2 meeting. Voters in four wards vote at designated local venues with separate school ballots. Also on the ballot are two school directors for three years, one for one year, a County School Superintendent, and a tax rate Increase from forty to eighty cents per one hundred dollars.
Sterling Price Chapter U D C presents Days Of Old Manton a college musical comedy tonight. The show features catchy songs engaging situations and interesting characters with a novel plot and ingenuity.
Capt and Mrs Fred Day and their daughter Alberta spent Monday in Kansas City. Mrs M C McPaddin went to Kansas City Saturday evening to visit relatives for a few days.
The cast features Miss Gligds Winn and Warren Vivian in leads backed by Miss Marcia Sellers and Captain Gentry. Other actors include Mrs M D Wilson Miss Winifred Winn Reeder Barnard Hubert Bates J M Sydnor Morris Doctor Johnson Professor Little Captain Aller and the chaperon and college choruses with multiple named members.
Miss Annie Eliszaveth Spruce of Kansas City visited her parents here. Miss Mayme Stewart arrived Sunday evening for a short visit in Mrs. G Rexloger accompanied by her son Bert of Cincinnati, arrived Friday evening for a tele with her daughter Mrs Ben Grats.
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