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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
1
A crowded page shows holiday ads for Shinpaugh’s and Stapp’s, hotel dining specials, a harness shop opening in the Coday building, and scattered notes on court visits, travels, and a veterinary alert describing a contagious animal disease with signs, duration, and economic impact.
The Mirrorettes and Sunday Schools prepare Christmas programs while Geo M Johnson and his wife buy a farm five miles south of Mansfield. In East St Louis 1400 workers were laid off, two of them travel the country repairing stoves after retirement. Frisco fields down a Mansfield telegraph operator, assigning duties to station agent G S Burney as J N Craig leaves the key.
An old Texas Wonder advertisement touts cures for kidney and bladder troubles, diabetes, rheumatism, and other ailments. It claims two months of treatment per bottle, requests $1 sent by mail, and offers testimonials. Dr. E W Hall of St Louis is listed with druggists selling the remedy.
Dense local social column notes mark Friday to Sunday visits and dinners across Hartville Mansfield and surrounding areas. Names include F Harris Mrs Justus J Newton H G Newton Orin Newton Will Mallory Anna Mallory Vernon Ralph Chapman Kim C F Harris and others with church preaching at New Hope Baptist every second Saturday and Sunday.
Adv. Mack Davis advertises at home service for 10 days starting December 24 to January 4, inviting readers to call a central phone line for silk stock care, promising availability day or night to check on fabric inventory and related needs.
Farm loans offered at the lowest prevailing rates with immediate processing. Freeman and Qo advertise prompt service without delays for prospective borrowers seeking quick funding.
Tardies, calendar gifts from Cash Mercantile Co., and open session of Hylstonian literary society planned for Friday evening. Reports urge parents to review report cards, support children, and enforce school hours during turkey and produce season.
Official tax tint for Pleasant Valley township requests payment of taxes at convenience to avoid penalties. Taxes should be paid before January 1 at the office first door north Farmers and Merchants Bank. Ward B. Hitchcock.
Macomb residents complain of disagreeable weather over the past week while social visits fill the days. Mrs Avery Freeman travels in Arkansas with her daughter, and many neighbors enjoy Sunday gatherings at friends’ homes and various sisters’ and cousins’ houses.
Mrs Verde Shaffer of Van dergrift Pa praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a mother’s favorite for children with colds or coughs. She says it always helps and is superior to other medicines and urges trial. Available from all dealers.
Wolf Creek correspondent reports wartime misery in Europe and promotes the Dollar Christmas Fund for Homeless Belgians. Benny Clews of Broad Street New York serves as treasurer. Contributions may be sent directly or left at the office and will be forwarded promptly with a published contributors’ list. Who will be Manafield's first contributors.
N J Craig offers money to loan on good improved farms in Wright or Douglas counties. He seeks reliable borrowers and favorable terms for agricultural real estate financing in these areas. This brief notice invites potential applicants to inquire for details.
H Baltzell Thayer Frisco Ozark division superintendent plans a seventy page book showing a boy from each station with full name age residence and views on train hopping. A Mansfield committee selected Earl Cauble and Dewey Edwards as top essayists. Cauble, 15, Mansfield, writes hop-free reason. book aims at wide circulation and safety lessons for boys.
Rainy week brings mixed relief after long dry spell. John Shores killed King Saturday. Leonard France visited Friday night. Charles Royal left for Kansas to work. Will Shores and wife visited cousins. Virgil Anderson and wife from Town visiting at Jarretts. Sue Dennis recovering from broken arm. Glen Moberly spent Sunday with Fred Shreeve. Wess Frye and wife visited his brother John. Mantle and Myrtle Shores at Mr Richerson's. Sheridan Findley's horse wandered Sunday evening but was recovered. Ashley had no singing due to rain. small crowd gathered. Next singing planned.
A scanned testimonial style notice offers a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cures not helped by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Cheney of Toledo and the National Bank of Commerce. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and promises testimonials free with a 75 cent bottle price.
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