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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1913
Page
7
A preacher visiting a country church with his ill son gave a half dollar to the offering. A late-arriving worshiper returned the coin claiming it had been in the box since the service. The tale, from National Magazine, ends with the son remarking that more given would yield more return.
A terse courtroom exchange unfolds with Predatory Pete claiming to inherit only poverty while the magistrate challenges the narrator about their origin and honesty in a sharp, satirical exchange.
A middle aged bachelor in a Sparta New Jersey restaurant found a note on an egg asking any young man seeking to marry a farmer's daughter aged eighteen to contact. He wrote to the daughter and received a reply: she is married with four children. The anecdote came from the Newark Morning Star.
Mr and Mrs B Y Young and their little son Blain traveled to Kansas City on Friday to spend the day while renting two rooms at 16509 Main Street.
A sale notice for a jot property in Southside Addition. Henry Smnaller is named as the contact. Tevis arrived Thursday evening to spend the day on business in Irving.
For sale in Lexington Missouri two parcels on Estill Heights, lots 107 and 201, listed for bulk fresh Kentucky blue grass by Wilcoxon and Co. Interested buyers may apply to the broker for details.
In the senate, dictionaries were in demand as Senators sparred over wording. Senator Martin accused Senator Clark of offering platitudinous assurances on the Clayton injunction bill while Senator Nelson charged Martin with whangdooodle haste. Martin replied there had been whangdoodle delay but claimed ignorance of the term.
The note recalls Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry who will report to Governors Island and as a youth at West Point donated his stovepipe hat to his father who wore it in a St Patrick's Day parade. Barry attended school in the First ward nicknamed the thirty second county of Ireland due to its large Irish population.
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