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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
3
A health ad claims a weak stomach weakens strength and digestion. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for stomach and digestion related issues, enriched blood, liver and kidney support, and overall body strength, warning against secret nostrums.
A speaker denounces tariff legislation as harming farmers while enriching trusts. He argues Congress fostered special interests over general prosperity, urges farmers to scrutinize incumbents, and notes the steel and wool tariff fights, the veto clash, and questions who bears tariff costs.
A historic set of proposed Missouri constitutional amendments pursues education funding expansion, county sewer and waterworks indebtedness, and revised taxation. The measures seek to remove old limits, authorize new public school provisions, create district water systems, and adjust state resident and voter registration rules.
Initiative petition proposes replacing all taxable property with land and improvements exemptions over years, abolishing poll taxes, limiting licenses, and shifting revenue exclusively to land based taxes. It sets phased exemptions through 1920, with no poll tax and state and local tax reforms, awaiting voter approval.
Proposed by initiative petition to abolish the state board of equalization and create a state tax commission appointed by the governor. It prescribes the number, qualifications, and salaries of commissioners and references voter approval at the next general election in November.
A proposed eighth constitutional amendment aims to empower grand juries to investigate elections, open ballot boxes, compel access to registration and tally records, and indict offenders. It sets election official qualifications, police at polling places, and measures for voting secrecy, signature checks, and ballot integrity in cities over 25,000 with a statewide grand jury framework and procedures for conduct, trials, and oversight.
A fragmented postal list includes several named individuals such as J. Allen Stella Blair Henry Tackman Miss Cross Lee Aves Mes C EB Colum Mes Annie Free and others. The note ends with JOLIN K TAUBMAN Postmaster and reference to a mail horse Sy Ml.
Proposed by initiative petition the ninth constitutional amendment provides a state tax of ten cents on each hundred dollars of property value to fund public elementary and high schools normal schools and state universities. It advances to the November 1918 election for voter approval in Missouri with a provision limiting use of funds to education and specifying appropriation rules and oversight by state authorities.
A notice records mail remaining uncalled for at the Lexington Post Office on Saturday October 26 1912. The list names items and recipients pending pickup.
Good mining, steady work offered. Apply at mines or see Edward Aull at the Traders Bank Building.
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