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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1914
Page
2
Local report highlights successful singing at Mt Pleasant and Ashley with multiple families sharing visits. Neighbors attend quilting, pie supper, and church services. farming tasks and garden work described. Occluded lines note school teaching changes and rough plowing causing talk, with several names and places recurring.
The passage notes neighbors and friends as they plan summer singings. Kingsley Findley is seen late at Mr Crippen's, and Della Smith is mentioned as an intriguing figure. Names of locals such as Laster Hello Stone Free Shanes Spence White and Dennis appear with talks of meals, visits, and travel to California.
An advertising notice touts Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment as a simple solution for skin blemishes and eczema. It claims mild soothing relief, suitability for babies, and a money back guarantee with relief promised through doctor recommendations.
In London, residents note pleasant weather as crops are prepared. Families host and visit relatives, including Uncle John Strong and Uncle Jim Rippee. Miss Sarah Rippee visits Mrs. Roy Dennis, while Hattie and Essie Newton return home for a weekend. Several Rippee siblings gather, and Opal Chapman visits the Kelley sisters. Ollie Latimer and Mrs. John Kelley are sick, with Dr. Fuson seeing Mrs. Kelley.
Mrs. Riley Laramore praises Thedford's Black Draught for curing her dyspepsia after nightly use. The column also lists local visits, a note of readers' messages, and details of a Dec oration Day baseball event with lineups and admission proceeds for park funds.
Purge winter impurities with Dr King’s New Life Pills a mild laxative that purifies the blood cleanses stomach liver and kidneys. Take no other 25 cents at your druggist Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for all hurts.
We thank neighbors and friends for help and kindness in our time of need after the passing of our dear husband and father Charles Church. Signed by Effie Church and family Gail Church Max Church Gertrude Church Marjorie Church.
Smoke National and Silk Tiedgars. For sale by Mansfield Hotel Mason's Drug Store, Mansfield Drug Co. Stone & Williams, and Steve Yates, Adv. A graniteid walk has been put down in front of I. EB, Short's blacksmith shop, and a new crossing connects that walk with the Frisen drug store sidewalk.
A humorous, gossiping piece lists a quirky lineup with playful nicknames and exaggerated feats. It mentions Freeman, Frye, Lenhart, and other characters, touting unusual yarns about catching reach, returning curves, juggling coins, and giants, ending with a call to baseball fans.
W. T. Norcross invites shoppers to see bargains in dry goods groceries shoes and general merchandise with optical goods. Every pair of glasses guaranteed and phone 101 provided.
The notice invites town players and fans to a holiday baseball game at 2 p.m. to support the park improvement fund. Doctors Fuson Bowers and Hamilton will be present with medical supplies. Residents on south coast and northwest sides urged to line up and cheer for the west side team while festivities include a boastful tenor yell.
The program features long readings and discussions on suffrage topics led by Mrs. Cause Long Mrs. Jno Craig and Mrs. Margaret Riley. It includes readings of letters from suffrage governors and talks on legal status of women in Missouri temperance music and maternal care.
The Geo H Lee Co of Omaha has contracted for space in the Mirror with J K P Coday as their representative. Mansfield special road district 21 traded an old grader for a larger model expected to arrive soon, enabling about a third more work with the same workforce.
A three act college comedy titled noe AGT II was staged Saturday evening with light humor and student performers. The program featured ensemble scenes, brief songs, and lively dialogue, drawing a full house in the campus theater.
Fonte, wife and son, Harmer, and the latter's wife and child, have arrived from Fayette, Iowa. Mr. Moore recently purchased the A. L. Miller farm where he has made many improvements. He brought with him three ears of fine stock. We welcome them to Wright County.
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