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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1902
Page
7
Advertises Ashbrook a brown trotting stallion at four miles east of Lexington on Dover Road. Offers breeding at a low price with pasture care at 30 cents weekly, no liability for accidents. Ashbrook, 15% hands high, has strong racing records through age six and progeny showing promise. catalogue available via Bor pedigrees extension.
Sired by the Great Ashland Wilkes 2:19, the first dam of Ashbrook is by Young Wilkes, son of George Wilkes founder of the Wilkes line. The passage highlights the sought after blood for trotters and fine harness horses despite inbreeding concerns.
A buyer describes a fine black Jack named Onward Sillver sired by Monsess with 15 bands high and World’s Fair Tremmium blood. He has seen several of the colts and calls them first class. Insurance for the colt is set at $10.
The 1902 season features Albert Allison No. 34045 a chestnut stallion bred by B F Swaggard Sweet Springs Missouri. He won 12 of 20 races as a four and five year old and paced a mile in 2 09 1 0 with timing. He will stand at Fliggine ville Missouri February to May and then train at Moberly Missouri on Miller's mile track until August 1 before racing. The stud fee is 320 payable when mare foals. This price aims to give broad access to breed to the state’s top horse.
Fragmented advertisement prose claims free treatment for numerous ailments including skin issues joints eruptions glands and ulcers. It lists various conditions and promises relief using a mysterious product or method, but text is garbled with many misspellings and nonsensical phrases, offering no verifiable details.
A clipped report notes the Chicago and Alton Railroad line has a departure from Higwineville with water named.
Notice to bridge contractors announces bidding for a wooden fridge and construction items at a site near Lexington and Wellington. The lowest bidder will be awarded the contract with bidding to occur at 10 o clock. bond for maintenance is required as directed by law. The commissioner reserves rights to accept or reject bids.
A famed bachelor painter known as Mr House kept a frog as a model. After a late night wakeful episode and a moral crisis, he returns the frog to a New Jersey pond, insisting the animal’s cry of water upon landing repays his trouble. Neighbors deem the tale plausible and characteristic of House.
A New York report describes four bottles with three sides each two flat and one rounded forming a quarter circle. Set upright in a round box their angular corners meet at the center while their rounded fronts fill the cylinder, all housed in a leather holder for a traveler's toilet kit.
A 1920s style line warns readers to retain items out of fashion, asserting that trends cycle and what is out now will be in again, with Washington noted and the Democrat stance mentioned.
A Port Myer Eleventh Cavalry private told Post reporters the so called monkey drill drives men away. He described riding bareback in an upright stance at breakneck speed as the hardest, most exhausting training, with two thirds of desertions attributed to it. He said officers are not to blame and that new recruits know they face harsh regimens before enlisting.
A man waivers through department store aisles singing a fragment of a song to a Milwaukee saleswoman who recognizes the tune after he hums a few lines. The exchange reveals how customers often buy music by ear rather than by title. The saleswoman notes many shoppers know only a line or two and rely on recognition to identify the song.
A morning chat among friends recalls a local bettor known for three sure things in horse races. They recount a comic string of misfortunes that followed his so called sure bets, ending with a wrecked ride and a failed return home. The Washington Star notes his streak of misfortune.
Historical note says burning scraps of leather in homes was believed to guard against cholera as odor from burning leather deterred infection. It recalls a period in Vienna when shoemakers avoided attacks by using this practice.
A claim is repeated that a murder occurs in Italy roughly every two hours. The statement reflects a commonly cited statistic about violent crime rates in the country.
An old railroad ad promotes the Burlington service from Kansas City to Denver via a fast through car route with sleeper and dining options. It also touts through trains to the Northwest including Portland Seattle Tacoma and Puget Sound, plus double daily trains to St Paul and Minneapolis with rates and agent contacts.
Frisco System introduces The Meteor and The World’s Fair Special traveling via old line through the Ozarks and Indian Territory to Sapulpa, then Red River Division through Creek, O Chickasaw Nations, to Fort Worth and Southwest, via Sherman to Dallas. New track ballast, heavy rails, electric lighting and fans, Palace Day Coaches and sleepers, dining car, and library service under Fred Harvey.
Charles Teubner proprietor advertises a sale of TREES AND PLANTS including peaches Ciaraplon Miberta Heath and other varieties strawberrins Excelsior Warfield Hiemarck Brandywine grapes Moores Early Niagar a Concordia apricots Superb Golden Moor plums Abundance Burbank Wick aow apples pears cherries and asparagus at Lexington Nursery Lexington Kentucky
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