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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
2
A historic health note describes scrofula in children and consumption in adults as diseases of thin blood, urging increased fat intake. It promotes cod liver oil as the best source of healthy fat to combat the conditions, emphasizing fat as the remedy.
The advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as the easiest, most effective cod liver oil. It argues the product provides fat, weight gain, and nourishment, claiming benefits for scrofula and consumption and presenting it as valuable in all such cases.
The yearlong view shows 67 571 people licensed with receipts to the fund at 673 541 39. Claims show 21 976 06 reimbursed and a fund balance of 51 865 33. A St Louis appeal ruling let county residents hunt without county licenses if owning land there. A Toledo firm pledge offers cash for cure of catarrh. May crop report notes favorable weather but soil moisture and spring planting hurdles persist in Missouri.
Report shows wide variation in corn planting across the state with 20 to 76 percent planted in southern counties and only 1 to 20 percent in the north. Northeastern Knox, Lewis, Marion, Bush and Moore counties report near zero planting. May 1 averages vary, and land readiness may reduce acreage. projected screage around 6,722,000 with year over year lower plantings. An ad for Kodol Digestive Aid follows.
Andrew D White former Cornell president and former U S ambassador to Germany spoke to students on high crime in the United States. He argued murder is most frequent and least punished here, condemning lynching talk as foolish and urging less sentimentality toward criminals.
O R Smith of Tenaha Texas praises Ballard's Snow Liniment as a remedy for sprains rheumatism and chest pains. The product priced 25c 50c and 1 00 is sold by Orenshaw Young.
A fragmented note traces bells from Paulinus at Nola around year 400 to England’s first bell in 045 at Croyland Abbey and Belgium bells in 1407. It also mentions baptizing bells in churches since the eleventh century and a liver health tonic advert for DeWitt's Little Early Risers sold by Crenshaw & Young.
A medieval monk named Rivilto cites a Morence sermon from 1505 noting eye-glasses had been in use for about twenty years. The devices were crude and likely of limited value.
A list of property transfers from April 19 to May 2 1906 across Higginsville Mayview Lexington Odessa and surrounding areas, naming buyers sellers and parcel details including acres lots and monetary considerations for each deed. Individuals include Margaret A Bryan John P Downing Matthew Boonemann Amelia Kriebo Amelis Kriehn and many others with transfers recorded through late April and early May 1906.
An ad notes a corollary between stomach health and skin tone urging attention to digestion. It promotes KODOL ROR DYSPEPSIA as a remedy to digest foods, relieve heart palpitations, sour stomach, and heartburn, with local drugstore Crenshaw & Young in Odessa. A marriage notice follows: Herman Hunter and Miss Minole Belle Carter wed at a Baptist chapel on Wednesday, April 25. Also listed is a land sale notice near Waverly offering 148 acres with 234 male improvements.
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