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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
2
A vintage ad lists items such as 36 rain coats skirts at 175 dollars and 2.03.50, 90 satin waists at various prices, silkeline comforts, ladies flannelette night gowns at 49 to 99 cents, assorted handkerchiefs, and carpet warp. The note invites shoppers to visit and see the selection.
A long list of warrantee deeds and quiet title transfers dated October and November, detailing hundreds of acres and dozens of lots in Higginsville Lexington Odessa and Wellington. Notable parties include Harriet Payne William Bell Joe Santmeyer Charles Erdman and George Chamblin with consideration amounts ranging from 50 to 9600 dollars covering land deeds mortgage and parcel transfers across multiple local properties.
The passage warns that indigestion and digestive distress, including nervous headaches and sour stomach, worsen if untreated. It urges early attention to stomach weakness and recommends Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy.
Read as an 1901 testimonial ad from Neosho Missouri praising Hall's Great Discovery Texas Wonder for kidney and bladder troubles. It claims cures for gravel diabetes and other conditions with a two month supply and mail order option.
James A Rankin died at his home on a Texas prairie on October 9 at 10 am, aged 76. Born in Logan County Kentucky, he settled near his death site as a boy. Funeral was at the family residence and interment followed at Grenton cemetery Saturday according to the Odessa Ledger.
An old advertisement asserts deafness is incurable by local applications but curable by constitutional remedies. It describes the Eustachian tube and inflammation, catarrh, and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure with an offer of one hundred dollars for cures of catarrh. Includes mentions of F J Craney Co and Florida Everglades context.
The article cites President Roosevelt's stance on trusts, noting mixed views on antitrust action and tariff tweaks. It includes a brief menagerie of quotes, a health anecdote about Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, and a 1900-era legal docket snippet with grand jury items and local notices. It also mentions employment ads and a fiscal snapshot of trusts and capital in a historical ledger style.
Kansas City Star reports Rhode Island Republicans mocked by humorists who criticize tariff plans and pledge a future Congress to revise rates. The piece jokes that confidence in tariff changes is as secure as a fried chicken left with a cat, noting the mockery of political wit.
Sudden weather changes try readers and worsen scrofula and consumption. Hood's Sarsaparilla is claimed to provide radical, permanent cures, with many sufferers in towns and cities reporting improvements and nearing elimination of scrofula as a feared disease.
The roll shows 896 students with many denominations represented including 147 Presbyterians 112 Baptists 114 Cumberland Presbyterians 58 Southern Methodists 49 Episcopalians 19 Catholics and smaller groups such as 11 Jews 11 Congregationalists 10 Lutherans 5 Unitarians 2 Church of Christ 2 Salvation Army and 1 United Brethren 1 Latter Day Saint. Also notes malaria remedies and a local marriage near Greenwood Missouri.
Low rates to St Louis via the Missouri Pavble railway invite travelers to the Great St. Louis Fair featuring 40,000 in premiums. Highlights include the Velled Prophet pageant, street parade, carnival, horse show in the Coliseum, daily thoroughbred horse races, and baseball games between American and National League teams. Events run through October and the first week of November.
Three masked robbers stopped Burlington Hole Up at four miles from Lincoln Nebraska on the Pacific coast express No 41. They blew open the express car with explosives and rifled the safe, taking about 840,000 in valuables. Clarence Kinney reports county transfers and a local feed business. city demographics noted.
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