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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1917
Page
5
A dense ad page in Lexington Missouri highlights how the printing press empowers local merchants against mail order rivals. It extols editors as town boosters, urges large well-made ads, and promotes a range of local businesses from clothing and groceries to photography and furniture. The piece frames press power as a tool for local economy with named merchants and shops in Lexington.
It Tailer. Suits made to pr of Wollens on hand. Dry Pressing. Goods called livered. Phone 24. a time to look over our Domestic Serges before Spring suit. Geo. Wit ont Tailor and Feronch
Local page lists ads for Grand Theatre featuring Vivian Martin in The Wax Model airing Monday April 30. Nearby entries note gas and electric service, paint brands, feed and poultry shops, and drug company locations at 1120 Franklin and 1220 Franklin St, with other storefronts and promotions this week.
Advertisement notes a line of Royal Red Rhode Island Reds for sale with eggs priced at 1.50 for 15 eggs, promising good hatch and asking buyers to phone 275. Also mentions Buff Orpingtons sets available. Mary Ayera visited Kansas City yesterday.
Prof and Mrs. B. M. Little came back Tuesday morning after a trip to Kansas City.
Let ters of Administration on the estate of Maria Poudevigne deceased were granted to Albert Poudevigne on April 25, 1917, by the Probate Court of Lafayette County Missouri. All persons having claims against the estate must present them for allowance within one year from the date of the first publication or be forever barred.
An old style grocery ad lists J A Wittenberg Groceries at 10 Main St offering fresh fruits and vegetables daily. It promotes Danarne 25 to 50 cents, spring new potatoes, tomatoes, rhubarb, celery, cabbage, radishes, plant Hag, strawberries, two boxes for 25 cents. Plants of all kinds also offered by Mike Malo and Co on 10th St between Main and Frank.
SANTA FE TRAIL GARAGE supplies of all kinds expert repair work all material and work guaranteed Goodrich Tires best in the long run phone 174 10th and Main.
A granite 48 foot memorial edifice at Liver pool Prince ss Pierhead honors British navy engine room heroes with an obelisk over a heavy base. The sculpture portrays engine room divisions on two faces and earth air fire water figures at the corners. A sea globe backs the figures and a crowned wreath group tops the shaft beneath a fiery apex torch.
A fragmentary verse scene depicts a rural barber remembered by a farmer and a young man, with playful rural slang about scissors and a dull sickle. The sketch evokes small-town life and the humor of everyday work in a farming community.
A list of inmate nicknames from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth Kansas is published from the New Era, naming numerous monikers such as Snipes Muly Skinner Pawnee Gummy Ducky Wop Hoonkenbul Indian Dan Brownskin Human Spider Honolulu Midnight Old Kill Red Slim Patty Silas Mose leo Oats Home Town Booster Toote De Bick Horseshoer Crip Soldier Headney Chick Happy Crab Lake Tony Old Folks May be and Bota.
Proffit Bros meat market offers fresh and salt meats oysters and fish when in season. Sells hats caps shoes and clothing for men and boys. Butler Williamson proprietor. Located at 825 W Main St Lexington Mo. Phone 16
Notice invites women to send lilies to a city market priced for profit and charity. Anna Phetzing Gibbons lists contact at 763. Mrs R. Walker, visiting parents Mr and Mrs George Trail, heads home to Yates Center Kansas, escorted to Kansas City by her mother.
A fragment notes a debate over taxing contracts made by minors. The speaker questions the fairness of taxing such transactions and asks why a minor should face a tax on contracts, suggesting it may be a privilege that should not apply to youths.
Speakers from England and France join a May 17 18 program closing Journalism Week at the University of Missouri. Karl Walter will discuss The Journalism of England in Wartime and Marcel Knecht The Journalism of France in War and In Peace. Walter, a British citizen, recently returned to the United States representing Britain. Knecht, a journalist and professor, also appears at the May 18 banquet. Additional speakers include Charles M. Palmer G L Caswell Wright A Patterson Hugh McVey Byron W Orr and Henry M Windell with topics on newspaper value advertising efficiency business and cooperation.
Bean F. B. Mumford of the College of Agriculture at the University of Misaguri says wheat must be supplemented by corn to offset grain shortages. He notes per capita wheat was 10 bushels in 1915, 6 in 1916, with 1.33 for seed and other use and 2.5 exported in 1916. World wheat shortage nears 200 million bushels while U.S. production declines. The university urges increased food production and offers student enlistment for the farm.
B C Trummond postmaster of Lexington and twelve year editor of the Lexington News sold his newspaper to Janes B Slater of Kansas City. He will devote his time full time to the postoffice.
A Kirksville loyalty parade drew about 2500 participants from Company C of the Fourth Regiment, the normal school, the osteopathy school, and public schools. The mobilization showcased local support with students and servicemen marching together in a coordinated display.
Dr. M F Ravenel of the University of Missouri preventive medicine department notes Baby Week marks national importance. He argues that today’s baby is tomorrow's citizen and a country’s vigor depends on infant welfare.
A lighthearted exchange features a boy asking about his dog Ginger. The friend asks if Ginger bites and the boy replies Ginger snaps, delivering a pun built on a dog’s name.
Executor's notice announces probate of Michael Holwell's estate in Lafayette County Missouri. The undersigned seeks claims by six months after leave of administrator or be barred. The notice is dated May 1917 and signed by the Precistor of the court.
A witty quip contrasts frugal spending with a wife directing funds to a license for a pet dog. The line highlights household budgeting and humor about financial priorities.
A compact note explains that grammar shifts with mood, claiming correctness depends on the speaker's mood rather than fixed rules. The brief suggests language reflects attitude and context more than static structure.
Under the extension division of agriculture farmers in nearly every school district were urged to attend meetings. Each rural household with a telephone received a call from its county and postal circulars were placed in rural mailboxes. Meetings were scheduled to begin at the same hour.
Mrs Agnes Yeater charged with poisoning J L Yeater who died December 6 1915 was defeated on the first ballot at Albany election after a trial. The acquittal ends a landmark case drawing attention to local affairs and court precedents.
A fragmented line mentions a girl with uncertain description and a play on identity. The text hints at confusion around Ainve and her complexion without clear context or additional detail.
Farmers across Northeastern Missouri face seed shortages for planting and fear asking for help. Ads report a multi year crop shortage leaving smallholders reliant on limited feed and charity to sustain livestock.
Jewell Mayes details a statewide plan for a Farm and Garden Sunday to boost food production and conservation in Missouri. The Missouri State Council of Defense seeks $100,000 in subscriptions, with Governor Gardner contributing $1,000, and aims to organize councils in all 114 counties to encourage planting, urban waste-ground use, and households storing two years of canned goods and dried produce spearheaded by pastors leading patriotic farm and home efforts.
Carlos S. Greeley of St Louis, a representative of F. HM Rollins & Sons, New York brokers, has posted a $1,000 rent position to fight for Pacte Sam at $182 a month. He will go to San Francisco to serve in the naval patrol.
Robert Hauvk, a harness dealer, was found dead at Pleasant HU after his room was broken into and a fire started. Indications suggest he died in bed during the blaze, with investigators noting the incident began during the night.
BE. W. Sith, acting as a salesman for the Scolten Dillon Tobacco Company, was dangerously injured in a motor car accident at Mountain Grove. Four others RC Harden Charles Hampton Max Williams and Pr. Carl Thorne, all of the city, were also injured.
Greene county farmers meeting at convention in Springfield adopted resolutions urging Missouri members of Congress to back a war time prohibition on alcoholic beverage manufacture for the duration of the war and one year after peace. They also called for government control of all grain elevators and food storage houses.
J B Wood of Shelbina reports at the second annual Hannibal convention that over two thousand dairy cattle have been placed in twenty counties since last fall under a dairy development campaign run by the Northeast Missouri Industrial and Agricultural Association. He also announced B J Trosper of Minnesota will be the daily appoin t by the association.
Anderson Craig, attorney and former state senator, died at his Maryville home aged 66. He is survived by his widow and two children.
The two year old daughter of Edwin B Michel fell into a well at the Michel home near Sessor Landing southwest of Springfield after a board was removed. She struck a rock and died almost instantly. In a separate case Ben Carter of Ash Grove was arrested in Springfield for treasonable utterances and abuse of President Wilson, fined, and ordered to take an oath to support the United States during the war.
The ten year old son of Arthur Brumley was fatally struck by a train at Mountain Grove while attempting to hop aboard. Both legs were severed in the incident. Authorities report the boy was not yet identified at the time of the accident.
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