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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1906
Page
5
The Detroit Free Press argues for prevention as essential as cure, praising Nature as healer. It claims right living and fresh air prevent and cure early lung disease, noting prevention is simple, cheap, and attainable, yet requires nationwide education and large expenditure.
A Chicago man recounts a tale of talking aloud while walking with a young woman. He explains how his characters spoke through him and his shout of a hero’s proposal led the woman to misinterpret the scene as a real romance. He says he’s avoided talking to himself since.
Near the grave of Al fred Bell lies an odd tomb of Lady Anne Grimston daughter of the Earl of Thanet. An atheist in life and death she predicted unlikely resurrection. A tree grew from her coffin center an oak and a sycamore spreading through brick and granite vaults.
A doctor warns a baron that a cure depends on living a temperate life. The baron retorts that the doctor believes he is incurable.
A banker asks a broker if his stenographer reads novels while working. The broker confirms and jokes that between every stock quotation the text mentions a villain with white teeth, a pure heroine, and a hero with the manly cheat.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a mother urging restraint before stepping onto the veranda. The reply vows to scream if kissed, prompting a quick decision to retreat inside. The exchange hints at caution, propriety, and underlying tension in a domestic scene.
In a lighthearted exchange, residents discuss a new joke book while an elderly critic remarks on the effort involved, noting the humor and thoughtful approach despite language quirks. The brief dialogue captures local amusement and lingering curiosity about humor.
The article explains the tea chest lead used to line tea chests, prized for purity in China. Lead sheets are handmade by pouring molten lead between bricks and flattening them, then soldering sheets to the tea chest size. Workers produce many sheets daily as the process and top sheet fit the chest.
A Philadelphia Bulletin quote explains that roosting birds lock to their perch because the tendons in their legs bend when sitting, causing claws to contract and clamp the wood. Only when the leg straightens can they release. This natural design keeps chickens from falling off at night.
The Ganges and Indus drain over a million square miles while 200 million people pursue farming. irrigation advances boost crops like rice, wheat, maize, cotton, and sugar cane, with jute and tea also exported. A Missouri family reunion marks 1,019 descendants of Jones of Kentucky. In Scotland field laborers practice the "straightening the back" by pressing their backs with a foot to relieve ache.
Mayview notes document several brief local travel items. Chal Young left for Kanang City last Tuesday. T. M. Chinn travelled to Higginaville on Wednesday. William Moore of Kanana City visited his mother in Wyoming. Dr. J. Perrin retraced Tuesday from a ball to his sister in Wyoming. T. Daan of Baton City was there on Inet Tuesday pursuing life insurance. L. O. Freye of Kansas City was
The notice outlines prizes for best draft stallion and mare, harness horses, and trotting horses, plus top fruit displays including grapes apples peaches and pears. It also details artistry and craft categories like crayon drawings and china paintings with prize amounts, and awards for best corn wheat oats barley grass seeds and grain display. Clarence Vivian, Supt. announces deadlines for entries.
Best display of comb honey valued at two dollars. Display of extracted honey priced at two dollars fifty cents. Entries due Thursday. Best two pounds home made butter priced at eighty two dollars fifty cents.
Entry rules state no entrance fee. Premiumne awarded Friday with no article to be taken from the hail until Saturday.
The notice lists barred entrants and special rings for watermelon, muskmelon, cake, and beer categories. It states no entries and that judges will be chosen Friday and the rings deeded Saturday by the county fair organizers.
A long list of residents and visitors is reported across Lexington and nearby towns. Individuals from Higginsville Odessa and Galena Kansas City and Oklahoma are mentioned visiting relatives buying property and pursuing business plans. A school bond campaign and plans for a cold storage plant and an apple jack plant are noted along with typhoid illness in a local household and multiple travel updates among families and neighbors.
Mr. Blanton Vaughn conducted business in Lexington Monday. Mr and Mrs Roy Achworth spent Sunday in Kanaasity with a quiet family visit and local errands.
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