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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
6
Black Publishing Co editors W A Black advertise a weekly paper printed Thursdays. Subscription is one dollar per year in advance. Entered at Mansfield Missouri post office as second class matter. Published on West Side Square by the Opera House block.
A compact note describes front page locals coverage with five unusually long lines per insertion. It mentions banks in the context of a card and legal rate notices, noting standard legal ads and official rates without extra promotion.
The program lists delegates registration Bible hour and prayer service led by Rev Zaverss with plans for a convention, committee appointments, and adjournments. It details hymns, speakers including Rev Upstate and Rev Davis, and sessions on education, missionary spirit, temperance, and final adjournment with a focus on religious and civic activities.
Lead Hill hosts Thursday evening gatherings with Sunday School at 10 a.m. Rev M W Spain of Cedar Gap to preach September 5. Local residents attend, visit, and report on past week weather and crop damage from rain. Nearby travels include Miss Clan Goss and Miss Sadie Goss, Joe Goss and family, Mrs Joe Goss visiting Mountain Grove, and Mayor J W Key visiting experiment stations.
Veto TL ML Norcross advertises prices on men's work shirts and home wear, misses garments, overalls, bread pans, tin buckets, and a line of notions. It flags high quality meats at low prices, a fancy tobacco and cigars lineup, coffee graded by quality, and a promise to beat rival prices. Buy now to get the best deals before they vanish.
H. M. NORCROSS announces a new shop in the old portotiee building one door east of Hank of Mansfield. It celebrates “There No. 7 fer Uigh” sites Sorview.
A Friday schedule lists Rev. Newton Bundy leading devotions at Mountain Grove with Mrs. E. G. Emmons, Mexico, and an Executive Committee meeting. The program includes readings, songs such as Keep Praying Toiling On and Throw Out the Life Line, noon prayers, reports on Revenue from Vice and scientific temperance, and elections of officers.
Classic 1930s bargain page listing household staples and general merchandise. Items include Best Granulated Sugar 14 lbs, sugar and coffee, Alaska salmon, corn flakes, boxes of matches, & H. soda, J. & P. Coats thread, work shirts and overalls, work socks, shirts and drawers with listed low prices. Includes brand names and multi item pricing typical of a department store circular.
In Mansfield Missouri the McCanse Store Company and the W T Norcross Store advertise new stock with large trade line items. They promote fancy dress ginghams, percales, fresh candies and cakes at competitive prices.
Antrim reports heavy rain in the vicinity. Several residents such as Will Dudley and J N Hall family visitations noted. People travel to Geary Oklahoma and Deniston church events cited. Peach canning and horse trading common among women and men respectively. A lightning strike damaged J D Kelly's barn killing stock.
The Weather Bureau in Washington, D C, issues a forecast for the week beginning August 2. Temperatures will rise to unusually high levels with a possible shower toward week’s end. Front likely Wednesday with scattered showers in exposed areas of the upper Mississippi Valley and plains states including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
Notice announces a line of Woods-Beerts Cook Stoves for sale and offers furniture, rags, carpet and wallpaper. The seller urges readers to come in and compare goods before Gouineg, Adv, Wool Pullington.
J M Moutrsy reports leaving a peculiar produce item at Av ery and Stephens' office a tomato described as double jointed, weighing three pounds seven ounces with about twenty inches in circumference.
N. J. Craig offers money to loan on good improved farms in Wright or Douglas counties. Guidance suggests secure, productive properties as collateral and reliable repayment terms. Contact N. J. Craig for details and qualification.
Charles Bennett and Miss Chloe Roley of Seymour wed yesterday morning at the home of Rev Joseph Davis pastor of the C P Church. The bridal couple were accompanied by Mr Dutt and Miss Stokes. Congratulations go to the newlyweds.
A vintage advertisement touts Texas Wonder as a universal cure for kidney and bladder issues for men and women, including diabetes and rheumatism. It promises bladder regulation in children, offers mail order for $1, and claims two months of treatment per small bottle with testimonials available from multiple states. Dr. B. W. Hall, 2026 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO, is listed.
Heavy rains caused street and culvert damage citywide. City Marshal Roe Strong and Mayor I. H. Riley urged residents to apply to work off their city poll tax immediately. Avaquectioneer T A Kay reported crop damage in Douglas county and Hunter creek area. Dr. R M Rogers returned from Dawson Okla where his sister M E Huffman is improving after uremic poisoning. Crops in Oklahoma praised, but excess rain hurt yields.
Catalogs received for Seymour District Pair and Live Stock Show to be held September 2 325. Also catalogs from Phelps County Fair Rolla September 21 24 Springfield Fair October 50 and State Fair Sedalia September 25 to October 2.
John Tripp and family came Tuesday morning responding to a telegram about Mrs. Win Rosevear being ill. She was taken to Springfield that night for appendicitis surgery, accompanied by her husband, her brother Win Brasher, and Mrs. Tripp. We hope for a good recovery.
Market item list shows various farm products including IBF butter green hides ducks and geese with weights and fat percentages. Mentions 1915 springs and hens 5 percent fat.
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