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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1902
Page
7
DeLacy's French hair dye promises to restore gray hair to natural color with a money back guarantee if the result fades. The ad touts easy application and long lasting coverage for aging locks and emphasizes customer satisfaction.
A Minneapolis woman sues a Chicago surgeon after claiming her vermiform appendix was removed without consent. The surgeon says he told her it was removed, but she insists it remains missing. The piece humorously weighs in on who truly owns the appendix and the meaning of lonesomeness.
A ChicBO Chronicle tale recounts Jess and a friend debating vows to marry. The friend argues that declaring a decision can steer outcomes, citing women who vowed against foreigners or Catholics only to wed surprising partners, including a Spaniard and a Jones, proving vows may misfire.
The Tufts College board of overseers urges radical changes to the student code of morals, warning that cheating in exams and vandalism after athletic victories erode discipline. They call for faculty action to discipline offenders, stressing education must foster respect for law and order and deem dismissal for violators an invaluable civic lesson.
A Washington Star report recounts a hotel dining-room tale from a town on a railway line. Mrs Cobaugh’s doctor ordered a tonic and kept it on the family table with directions. A newlywed couple on their wedding trip, unfamiliar with hotels, ordered everything on the menu and misread the label leading to a comic faux pas.
In a Jefferson avenue crash between a car and a junk wagon, St. Louis Patrolman Charles F. Campbell noted the driver’s lack of a first name. The witnesses George Noel and C. W. Hickman provided names, while the unnamed junk wagon driver, Wolf, refused to disclose any given name, insisting on filing the report promptly.
An experiment shows a turnip seed can multiply its weight fifteenfold in a minute under favorable conditions. Turnips grown in peat reportedly increase in weight more than fifteen thousand times the seed’s weight in a single day.
Homeseekers tickets sold on the Burlington Route on the first and third Tuesdays of even months for round trips to the territory east of the Rocky Mountains with fare plus $2.00, encouraging western settlement. The 1902 harvest boosts interest among homeseekers, investors, and renters to visit western territories served by Burlington, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern Railroads. Weekly California excursions, through tourist sleepers, and guided groups are offered with Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City as key routes. Contact L. W. Wakeley, Gen. Pass’r Agent, St. Louis, or 604 Pine St, for publications and trip planning.
The article proclaims an extended Ayerue route via Oxarke Indian Territory to Bapula and Fort Worth, then southward to Dalina. It highlights heavy ballast new rail, palace day coaches, reclining chairs, drawing room sleepers, cafe observation cars, electric lighting, and air cooling. Management by Mr Fred Harvey is noted and a dining room and library service described.
An insurance notice states farm property, occupied by tenant or owner, is insured in New York town in canity. It promises a personal inspection and rate determination upon application. Identifies “Or Insure ANYTHING” and directs to contact the Lexington office.
Real estate listing notes farms for sale and houses to rent in Lexington. An agent advertises services to place properties in trusted hands with a reasonable cost. Office location provided as Lexington.
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