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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1902
Page
4
The Intelligencer announces a sunsestrricy price of 1.00 per year in advance. Mottled text indicates second class mail status at Leetington post office and a date of November 29, 1902. Editor LG Neale, Business Manager EN Hopkins.
A senatorial committee toured Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona to prepare a 300 page report on statehood eligibility. The key decisions will come at a Republican caucus, with prospects for New Mexico and Arizona described as slim due to political balance and future influence in Congress.
The obituary recalls Colonel Thomas Ochiltree as a colorful Texan who moved in lively political circles, a witty and feared figure in Congress, later a New York club man, with stories of clashes and public works battles. It also discusses medical boards and professional regulation within a broader debate on state medical oversight and licensing.
The Commercial Club of Kansas City shifted from trade topics to the Boy Problem with speakers including L D Drake and W C Johnson. The meeting produced no clear report, but emphasized the boy as an enduring issue, urging action rather than theory and noting the difficulty of solving youth troubles.
A garbled OCR style note describes a heavy rain event and seeks information about local impact. It mentions a Saturday timeline and references to material damage and recovery efforts, but the city, dates, and concrete facts are unreadable.
A blunt critique laments a Kansas City circus of moral outrage over a planned bullfight tied to a thanksgiving event and the public spectacle around governor-elect W. J. Bailey. The piece compares theatrical cruelty, press sensationalism, and social pressure to a condemned man facing a fixed date, accusing readers and editors of enacting a harsher public punishment.
The Fultao Gazette prints a long interview with a Townland buyer eyeing Missouri as an investment site. He calls Missouri the best state in the West and imagines building a wall around it. He criticizes tariffs and Roosevelt era policy while pondering protectionism and competition.
The brief, unreadable text mixes names and places in a garbled way and hints at language play or misread OCR. It does not present a clear event, person, or outcome to summarize.
A brief dispatch notes the dismissal of the case titled The State of Teras wi. John D. Rockefeller et al. McLennan county grand jury indicted the defendants in 1804. Past attempts to arrest Standard Oil magnates were blocked by Roosevelt as New York governor and by Odell. Roosevelt is labeled an icteous destroyer alongside Muse Wetmore and Jim Hoge.
Two five and nine year old Italians arrived in Kansas City last week from Filomina Italy. They traveled alone with no guardian and speak only their native tongue. The writer praises improved travel safety and the global civilization it implies. The piece compares this to a modern realization of the Round Table dream, though in a new form.
A compact collection of preacher quotes from Rev. Dr. Dixon Rev. Dr. Clampett Rev. W. B. Duckoh and others on perfection patience science religious influence and duty. The text cites Baptist Episcopalian Methodist Congregationalist and Universalist authors from cities like Bouton San Francisco Rochester Worcester and Chicago offering views on intellect faith duty and society.
Miss Frances Bowen Smith, head of the department of philoeal culture at Central Female College, gave a refined reading to a crowded hall. The program featured Mrs Whege of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan with three parts and an encore of The Pionper Juett by Gielow. The audience enjoyed the humorous Theater Party and moved by the sorrowful death of Jim Wiggs.
The first formal reception of the season at Baptist College welcomed about two hundred guests Monday evening. Visitors admired summer improvements with cleaned smoke-streaks and new decorations. Senior and junior rooms featured yellow white hangings and oriental themes, while the orchestra played as refreshments circulated in rooms filled with flowers and ferns. Guests praised the faculty and young ladies for a brilliant function and invited all to the 8. P.O. ending note.
The annual Thanksgiving offering in the public school totaled 11 sacks of flour 19 boxes of crackers and numerous other items including 850 money among seventeen needy families nominated by the mayor and church pastors after a school committee visits to assess needs. A notable gift was a quarter of beef from John Gilmore’s children. The event, an enduring local custom, emphasizes moral impact alongside relief. Several named attendees traveled to Kapaus City for the gathering and distribution.
A London Hospital report details Dr Milne Bramwell’s lecture on hypnotism. It describes warders trained to sleep at bedside of dangerous lunatics and suggests prolonged hypnotic sleep as a therapeutic tool. Also cites Wettersrand methods for epilepsy and nervous disorders and lists conditions improved by hypnotism.
City Center Times recounts a Clay Center resident who declined an invitation with a witty chain of notes. He first sent regrets citing outfits as the real reason, then explained absence due to another party, and finally sent her a sister note to the hostess.
A brief note from the Atchiton Globe discusses how a chronic liar, when telling the truth, naturally feels compelled to provide supporting evidence for their statements, illustrating the tension between deceit and verification.
A complaint book at Huseia railway stations invites passengers to enter grievances they have, allowing documented feedback on services and facilities within the rail network. The notice urges travelers to use the form to record issues encountered during travel.
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