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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
3
Columbia May 9 A unique Made-in-Japan banquet marks the close of Journalism Week at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Nippon foods and 25 000 souvenirs arrive from San Francisco via Nippon Maru at a cost over 10000 dollars. Guests include Saburo Kurusu and international correspondents outlining US Japan ties as 400 Americas Friend Society members dine in Tokio.
John I. Ashurst promotes up to date concrete mixing claiming savings and better quality with a new mixer. Capt Ryder traveled to Kansas City on Monday for a day trip.
Fragmentary OCR shows eastbound and other numbered trains with garbled station names and times. Entries include Missouri State express, Kansas City, St Louis, and night schedules, but many words are unreadable, yielding unclear origin and destination details.
In Kansas City on May 7 Marshal Joffre drew 20 000 cheering attendees at Convention Hall as the French mission and Viviani toured, the crowd filling the Union Station approach. In St Louis a mass meeting pledged aid to France with a color standard given to the Fifth Missouri Infantry.
The War Department announced that nine regiments of engineers will be raised for duty in France at the earliest opportunity. Recruiting points include New York City Chicago Boston Philadelphia Pittsburgh Detroit Atlanta San Francisco and other cities, in addition to existing administration army plans.
Washington May 9 Congress will be asked to appropriate 1 billion dollars for building the American merchant fleet to counter submarine threats. The Shipping Board plan would divert steel mill products to government use, cancel private contracts, and pay damages where needed. It estimating 5 to 6 million tons of steel and wooden vessels to be built by the government in the next two years.
Twenty four American and British refugees arrive in New York claiming Cuban negro rebels are burning and pillaging the estates and properties of foreigners in Palmarito Bavate and Mirinda districts of Oriente Province.
Mily Z Harvey 59 years old vice-president and editor of The Norfolkedger D Peich died at his home in Norfolk Virginia today. He was one of the best known newspaper men in Virginia and led the company. He held senior roles with local news operations and contributed to the state press landscape.
Missouri's crop outlook reports wheat condition at 51.9, down from 68.6 a month earlier, with May 1 corn planting at 37 percent. The oats crop stands at 93.7, the highest in over a decade, while fruit prospects sit at 76 percent. Strawberries reach about two thirds of 1916 levels, and young livestock shortages persist with pigs, calves, lambs, and colts running well below last year.
Journalists from Missouri and national figures attend a unique Made-in-Japan banquet closing University of Missouri Journalism Week. A 15 ton, 83 case shipment from Nippon Maru in San Francisco presents about 25,000 Japan gifts worth over $10,000, donated by Japan via America’s Friend Society. In Tokyo 400 Americas Friends will dine as cablegrams link the two events with speakers Saburo Kurusu Marcel Knecht Karl Walter and Niel Nielson representing Japan Britain and Australia.
A telegram to the Drury college board of trustees states that Dr. Thomas W. Nedal dean of Olivet College Olivet Michigan accepts the offer to become president of Drury.
A dozen young men including lawyers students and business men apply for enlistment in a Fort Riley training camp opening May 14. Joshua Barbee chairs the committee overseeing Marshall and vicinity as they prepare surgical dressings and supplies for the war hospital.
Mildred Paul, young daughter of Rolle Paul former Tribune editor at Montgomery, died in a motor car accident at Parmland Indiana. Other family members were lightly injured in the crash. telegrams received at his old home.
Fragmentary report recalls a family tragedy linked to wartime danger. A local widow mourns a son believed lost to the conflict as neighbors recall a prayerful vigil and a still unresolved fate.
Misses Cliffe Dillingham and Ruth Craig spent Sunday in Higginsville with Miss Craig's sister. Miss Marguerite Bates returned Sunday evening from a visit in Higginsville.
An old advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Discovery as a soothing balsam that relieves a persistent cough heals the throat loosens phlegm and fights germs. It claims effectiveness for grippe croup and bronchial affections and urges keeping a bottle in the home medicine chest. 50 cents at druggists.
Miss Lizzie White of Higginsville spent Sunday here with Miss Naoma Lahay. Miss Ruth Fanolio also spent Sunday in Kansas City.
A vintage drug advertisement promotes Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a pleasant cough syrup for children. It claims soothing pine balsams relieve coughing loosen phlegm and heal irritated tissues urging immediate treatment from a druggist.
Mrs Frank Kriehn visits Kansas City for a few days with her son Arthur. Mrs Charles Wallace travels to Kansas City to see her son George K Wallace. Mrs A M Penn of huskit Oklahoma arrives Sunday morning as a mother visiting here.
An ad-promoted laxative claims to regulate the bowels and relieve accumulated wastes for better health and bright eyes. It urges taking a pill before retiring to dispel heavy head and spring fever. Available from druggists at 25 cents.
John Warder of Kansas City spent Sunday in Lexington with his parents. C A Griffin of Palm Beach California is a guest at the home of Mrs V A Kelly.
An ad touts Sloan's Ointment as fast acting and easy to apply for muscle stiffness, rheumatism, gout, lumbago, grippe, bruises and backaches. The clear liquid supposedly penetrates without rubbing and leaves no skin stain, offered at 25 cents at druggists.
Mr and Mrs Chas Mayer visited Higginsville on Sunday. Miss Ruth Crowe traveled to Kansas City Monday for a day. Misses Jessie Wayland and Agnes Swinney went to Kansas City Sunday evening for a few days. Miss Ruth Ashurst planned a short visit elsewhere.
Mrs Mary Ramey returned Sunday morning to her Kansas City home after a brief stay in this city with relatives. O R Sellers of Chicago spent Sunday in Lexington.
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