Missouri’s Early Senate Appointments and Resignations
The Missouri Senate list includes twenty four names such as David Barton Thomas H Benton Alexander Buckner and Lewis Linn with many others from St. Louis Cape Girardeau and surrounding counties. Five were appointed to fill vacancies from death resignation or expulsion. Charles D Drake resigned to become a judge at the United States Court of Claims in Washington the only Missouri case of resignation from this office. Three senators had previously served as governors Stone Brown and Polk with Polk elected to the Senate while governor.
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Missouri
United States
David Barton
Howard County
Thomas H. Benton
St. Louis
Alexander Buckner
Cape Girardeau
Lewis F. Linn
Ste. Genevieve
David R. Atchison
Platte
Henry 8. Geyer
James 8. Green
Truston Polk
Waldo P. Johnson
St. Clair
Robert Wilson
Andrew
John B. Anderson
Pike
B. Gratz Brown
Charles D. Drake
Carl Schurz
Daniel T. Jewitt
F. P. Blair
Lewis V. Bogg
David H. Armstrong
James Shields
Carroll
George ©. West
Pettis
Francis M. Cockrell
Johnson
William J. Stone
Cole
William Warner
Kansas City
Chas. D. Drake
Drake
United States Court of Claims
Washington
Govenors
Stone
Brown
Polk
Govenor
Columbia Herald
Hinesley’s cigars advertised in Metropol itan paper
A filler ad promoting Hinesley’s cigars with mentions of Metropol itan Senne Chamber and Capt Bluitt. It also invites trying canned peas and succotash including stringless and wax beans from Jos L. Long Qualls Grocer with pricing noted from 11 to Ui contsa per can.
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Hinesley
Metropolitan
Senne Chamber
Bluitt
Jos
L. Long, Qualls Grocer
Three candidates seek Lafayette County Democratic nod for representative judge
A 1908 Lafayette County notice urges voters to hear Judge William Young Joseph H Christy and Frank Bownan speak on public questions and arrange speaking dates while promising frank positions. A second notice warns delinquent taxpayers that back taxes will be pursued after May 1 1908 with suits in township justices and the circuit court ahead of the August term.
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Lafayette County
William Young
Joseph H. Christy
Young
Mr. Christy
Frank Bownan
Lexington
Circuit Court
Clanend Vivion
Bank Director Field Motivates Faith With Baseball Tale
A bank director named Al G Fields tells a parable about a Saturday meeting, a million dollar rail bond financier, and a baseball game. He argues against funding, sways the room, and recalls a later bond failure near Buffalo, ending with a misquoted umpire line. The tale underscores his financial acumen without seeking credit.
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al G. Fields
Mr. Fields
Uniog Pacific Railway
Buffalo
Appalling Cost of War Grips Russia and Japan
The article argues Russia loses world standing without a navy and fiscal strength, its debt and ruined credit crippling its future. It then analyzes Japan, noting its vast army and global position but warns the burden of maintaining such power may outstrip resources.
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Rusnia
Japan
Yieter
Old Painting Appears on Church Wall at Babraham
Rev T D Gray reports to Cambridge Antiquarian Society a wall painting uncovered on the interior of Babraham church after plaster fragility revealed darkened color. The shadowy figure shows a bearded face in profile, a crown, wand with fleur de lis, and ermine robe beneath a cloak, dating to the fifteenth century. The subject may be Edward the Confessor or Henry VI.
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T. D. Gray
Cambridge
Eng
Antiquarian Society
Babraham Church
Forth
Edward the Confessor
Henry VI
Humble Clergyman’s Prayer for Prosperity Misfires
A devout midwestern minister marries a couple and offers a blessing asking God to increase the man’s business. The groom blurts out his occupation as “I keep a maloon,” prompting the minister to pause and remark that he need not answer that prayer. The anecdote ends with the clergyman realizing the misalignment between blessing and vocation.
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Middle West
Rooster Disruption Spurs Alarm Clock Comment
An overheard exchange features Degan Cillman and Ike discussing a reliabile alarm clock, interrupted by a neighbor declaring a Bhanghal rooster nearby, injecting humor into a domestic moment.
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Degan Cillman
Elastic Size Comment on Mrs Drea’s Figure
A clipped exchange questions Mrs Drea’s figure in playful fashion. The speaker notes she appears tall by the amount of fabric needed for her dresses, yet jokes that her pay for them is modest.
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Mrs. Drea
Enormous wealth seen in Katanga copper belts
A London Times correspondent notes Katanga in the Congo as a vast mineral district within the Oriental Province. The area hosts a 120 mile copper belt, large copper quarries, hematite and other minerals, with over 1 billion dollars in proved copper value and potential tenfold more. Coal, tin, diamonds, petroleum and gold are present, with favorable climate for European settlers.
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Rhodesia
London Times
Katanga
Provincs Orientalé
Congo State
East and West paint market clash in private collections
Henry Reinhardt of Milwaukee says American oil paintings receive stronger support from western elites than New York collectors. He cites Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Denver as rising private holdings surpassing 100000 and approaching 200000 dollars, while New York works remain largely unseen by the public as collectors ship pieces abroad.
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Henry Reinhardt
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Cleveland
Denver
Africa
Keep Your Child Fearless
Clara Louise Burnham argues that maternal fear and fear laden discourse shape a child’s confidence. She warns against exposing children to sickness or disaster talk, which dulls happiness and plants anxious resignation to danger and fate.
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Clara Louise Burnham
Appleton’s
Iainibeal
Irresta
Woman Keeps Mexican Leopard as Pet in Alton Society
Mrs. G. J. Grommet, a prominent Alton society figure, owns a Mexican leopard wildcat cub gifted by her husband in Mexico. The four week old kitten, born from a litter whose mother was killed, nuzzles to captivity. She plans to chain the animal when it roams indoors.
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G. J. Grommet
Alton
Indios
St. Louis Republic
Mexico
Nothiing
Woman Lecturer Warns Against Overvaluing Education
A female lecturer argues that education and multilingual knowledge do not automatically solve problems. She criticizes self doubt and peculiar notions, urging plain American understanding over linguistic pretensions.
Gate Kid and Tomy Thirst for Nithel
In a brief, playful scene a mother compliments Tomy for good behavior and he asks for a nithel. The exchange contrasts his claimed obedience with a pointed nod to Willie Nez, suggesting peers influence and the mother’s firm attitudes. The text preserves a childlike voice and regional spelling without sensational detail.
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Tomy
Tommy
Willie Nezdere
Philadelphia
Saint Gaudens Fountains Inspire Janitor Prank
A Rome resident sculptor tied a faucet to create a perpetual fountain sound to fuel his work. Returning to America he found the scheme successful until a janitor was needed to move the work. The janitor, speaking in broken dialect, explained he could not keep watch over the “nuk” while the fountain ran.
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Saint Gaudens
Rome
America
Saint-Gaudens
American Art News
Induced the Cook to Stay in a Bank Cash Dilemma
A San Francisco Chronicle account recalls a chaotic scene with Carelton Crane and John A. Gill over forged or misused bank certificates and a wrong cash payout to a Chinese cook Ah Lu. An Englishman Captain Hutchinson recounts pay discrepancies and a saving resolution involving a $500 check. The episode ends with Ah Lu continuing as cook.
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John A. Gill
Capt. Hutchinson
Lindsay
Porterville
Ah Lu
Ab Lui
Flying Machine an Old Story
A French professor recounts Jacques de Vaucanson s eighteenth century flying machines such as a fly that returns to its maker and a pigeon circling a room. His automatons performed duck like actions and villagers note none survived.
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Jacques de Vaucanson
d'Alembert
Biographie Universelle
Vaucanson
Stones In Queer Places From East Indian Isles
Stones known as tabasheer form in bamboo joints and are believed to be secretions from tree sap. Cocoanut stones occur in certain nut endosperms and are carbonate of lime. These stones vary in shape and size, are rare, and viewed by Orientals as charms against illness and evil spirits. They appear in fruit parts such as palm or other East Indian fruits.
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Jaya
East Indian Islands
Lima
East India
Why Mike Was in Mourning In Mourning Hat Tale
A brief rural tale shows Mike returning home with a deep black band around his hat. His wife questions the mournful band, and he replies he wears it for her deceased husband, explaining his sorrow and respect in a witty, regional exchange.
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Mike
O'Flannigan
Tobacco Shop Reportes
A fragmentary dialogue depicts anxious speakers discussing being seen, as one warns of imminent trouble and the other fears being pinched. The odd phrasing suggests a historical or stylized transcription with nautical or pseudonymous language.
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Tobacco Shop
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Fundendall Nilson
Ewing
Johansen
Ladies’ and Children’s Oxfords
Calico
DR. Lichtig
Higginsville
Odessa
Concordia
State Bank of Hover
Dover, MO
Senators
Kennedy
DaWitt
Gall Saved Bank
Victor
Carelton C. Crane
New York Central
The
San Francisco Chronicle
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