Missouri Food Administration Plans Licensing of Dealers
Dr F B Mumford Missouri food administrator receives order from National Food Administrator Herbert Hoover to begin licensing all food dealers with annual business over 100000. Aim is to set reasonable prices prevent hoarding and move commodities to early markets. Campaign to conserve food runs through November a pledge drive engages schools hotels restaurants and professionals nationwide.
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F. B. Mumford
Missouri
National Food
Herbert C. Fodever
Missouri Food
Conservation Movement
Wilson Pur
National Food Commission
State Food Administration
Wien
Evers
Stave
Mumford
Lexington Intelligencer editorial policy note
The Lexington Intelligencer announces weekly Friday issues under editor A. W. Allen with subscription at $1.50 annually in advance. Communications to print must be signed and mailed through the Lexington post office as a second class matter.
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Lexington
South
Neighbors Rally For Liberty Bond After Sinkings
A U S transport was torpedoed and sunk, killing about seventy sailors. The writer urges buying Liberty Bonds to help exterminate those responsible for the outrage.
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United States
Tulsa Fire Destroys Ohio Building and Spreads to Mayo Building
A blaze that began in the paint room of the Tulsa Decorating Company at 10 tonight gut four story Ohio building and spread to the adjoining Mayo building, the largest office block in Oklahoma. Property damage estimated over $500,000. fire brought under control by midnight.
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Tulsa
Tulsa Decorating Company
Ohio
Mayo
Oklahoma
Two killed and injured in Pacific Electric crash near Van Nuys
A Pacific Electric car struck a motor car near Van Nuys, Los Angeles, fatally injuring a man and a woman, with Miss Hottee of Pasadena and Mr and Mrs C H Graham of Whitewater among the injured. Also report of aviator Robert Hanford killed in France while landing at an aviation school.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Pacific Electric
van Noya
Miss Hottee
Pasadena
C. HL Grahm
Whitewater, Run
Robert Hanford
Brooklyn
N.Y
Paris
Hanford
Georgetown University
Bachelors Face Two Per Cent War Income Tax
A national war income tax targets bachelors and single earners with yearly incomes over one thousand dollars and benedicts over two thousand. The new levy begins with March 1 filings and two percent of income, roughly a week's pay, due by June 15. The article notes higher costs on goods and services and outlines the need to obtain filing blanks after the year starts, while listing brief local society items.
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Uncle Sam
Toadeco
Germany
County Food Enrollment Committee Plans Drive in Lafayette
The Lafayette County Food Enrollment Committee chaired by E. M. Taubman met in Lexington to plan enrollment week from October 28 to November 4. The drive aims to canvass every home, urge housewives to pledge conservation of meat sugar and flour, and report pledges or refusals up the chain to state headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
E. M. Taubman
Lexington
Coumpilén
Taubmaxa
Herbert Hoover
Lee J. Slusher
Clem Tyree
George #. Curry
E. N. Hopkins
H. T. Phillips
J. G. Crenshaw
T.C. Ryland
Felix Young
George Scott
Higginsville
Lannon
Odessa
Warren Sherman
George Taylor
Clay
P.W. Osborn
R. J. Mann
Wellington
Snui-a-bar
Ella Siler
Mayview
Freedom
Max Dobbe
Concordia
Mary
George S. Klingenberg
Dovyer—M. YY
Straight
Dover
Mars
Frank Gordon
Davise
J.C. Lippard
Sam Downing
Taubman
Local Residents Attend Nearby Cities on Short Trips
Dr. VV. R. Beckle spent Sunday in Waverly. L. G. Peak went to Kansas City Tuesday on business. Mrs. J. W. Homer went to Kansas City yesterday for a brief visit. Mrs. W. R. VanAnglen also traveled to Kansas City yesterday for a brief visit.
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Nice Sill
Paradise
Wilhelmina Snyder
Kansas City
Mary Quinto
Confederate Home
Z. A. Wright
Edna Green
Joplin
J. A. McDoneld
VV. R. Beckle
Waverly
L. G. Peak
J. W. Homer
W. R. VanAnglen
Liberty Pageant for All Aims to Stir War Support
The Progress of Liberty a patriotic pageant by Miss Louise Nardin of the University of Missouri will tour Missouri towns under the Missouri Council of Defense. Produced by university students on Registration Day, it praises liberty’s growth and culminates with America entering the war. Linwood Taft, a graduate student who directed the first production, offers to direct statewide without pay for a year.
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America
Linwood Taft
bin Serviowa
Daughters of the Confederacy Back Truman Support
The Waited Daughters of the Con federacy at the state convention in Columbia sent a telegram to President Wilsen pledging to study him during the national crisis and to aid the Allies and the nation in the war effort. St Louis plans city coal yards with public welfare chief John Schnell proposing a plan to the board of estimate to establish municipal coal yards selling small quantities to citizens with modest means.
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Daughters of the Confederacy
Columbia
Wilsen
St. Louis
John Schnell
Public Welfare
Board of Estimate
Christmas Bags For French Soldiers
Christmas bags will be filled at the Surgical Dressings room on October 31. Bring articles or money by that date. Do not send contraband items such as tobacco cigarettes playing cards and matches.
Fletcher’s Castoria Ad and Kansas City Visit
An old notice features an advertisement urging Fletcher’s Castoria for children. It notes Mrs. Newell Shull traveling to Kansas City on Friday for a visit.
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Newell Shull
Kansas City
Paul Heidenriche Announces New Telephone Number
Notice from Stier Clo things Company shows Paul Heidenriche's new phone 155 for Fall and Winter clothing cleaning pressing and repair services. Call 155 to arrange pickup or service and we will handle the rest.
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Paul Heidenriche
Stier Clothings Company
155
Vose & Sons Piano Sale At Low Prices
A viel mahogany Vose and Sons piano along with several new pianos and player pianos are offered at the lowest possible figures by W. W. McCall located at 1124 Franklin Street. Phone 200.
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Vose & Sons
W. McCall
Franklin St
Pumpkins For Sale At Wilcox One’s Feed Line
Wright & Sons Brin ship and chops offer pumpkins for pies and Halloween. Phone 67. Wilcox on’s feed line stocks pumpkins and related items suitable for autumn meals and celebrations.
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Wright & Sons
Wilcoxon's
Judge Dyer names receiver for Mile Sour Glass Co
Judge D P Dyer of the United States district court appoints William Jo Vance as receiver for the Missouri Plate Glass Company of Valley Park Missouri. The action follows a creditor petition amid a $1,500,000 capitalization and aims to stabilize the firm’s finances.
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D. P. Dyer
United States District Court
William Jo Vance
Milesouri Plate Glass Company
Valley Park
Patriotism remark sparks espionage act case at Union Republican Headlight
A. H. Steinbeck editor faces federal charges after an October editorial calling patriotism a last refuge of a scoundrel. A warrant from U S Commissioner Irvin Mitchell accuses Steinbeck of attempting to incite disloyalty of U S military forces. If convicted, he faces up to twenty years in a federal penitentiary. The piece notes other local obituaries and political appointments amid a flood of unrelated town notices.
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A. H. Steinbeck
Union Republican
United States
Irvin Mitchell
Steinbeck
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Napoleon
Collector of Internal Revenue
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Lexington Savings Bank
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Sedalia
America A. Slack
Cooper County
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Atate
Clay County
F. A. Hoefer
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Richard Field
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