Missouri Corn Leadership Highlights 1912 Production
Saline County leads Missouri corn with 6.415 million bushels in 1912, followed by Nodaway Atchison Wettis and Johnson over 1 million. Best yield per acre was in Cooper with 45 bushels, Lafayette 44, Carroll 41. State wheat output tops half a million in eleven counties. Seed crop sets record. Fire disasters strike Bowerman School and a Salem church. Edna Atkinson dies from clothing fire. Vernon County completes first rock road half mile section at $4,500.
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Saline
Missouri
State Board of Agriculture
Thia
Nodaway
Atchison
Wettis
Johnson
Audrain
Carroll
Harrison
Lafayette
Livingston
Callaway
Cass
Cooper County
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Eloven
Plute County
Vernon County
Rock
Backache and Kidney Pills Claim Quick Cure
A vintage advertisement touts kidney health, detailing how weak kidneys cause back pain and nerve distress. It promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a quick, safe remedy without habit forming drugs, citing a Chicago man who recovered after six boxes and declares the cure permanent.
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Dean
Chicago
Tella
J. C. Wolf
Ogden Ave
Ill
Doan
Silencer and Bishop Talk at Princeton Luncheon
Dr Henry Van Dyke quips at a Princeton luncheon when a bishop is criticized. A visitor says he dislikes the bishop as worldly. Van Dyke fires back with a sharp line asking which world, this one or the next, highlighting his quick wit.
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Henry van Dyke
Princeton
Tle
Dr. van Dyke
Castoria Safety Reminder and In Use for Over 30 Years
A public notice underscores the importance of examining every bottle of Castoria for infants and children. It highlights Castoria as a safe remedy and claims it has been in use for over three decades, noting that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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Mothora
Fletcher
Shoots First Trigger Happy Hunter Claims Self Defense
A hunter who fires first is described as nearly always shooting his targets. The man defends his actions by insisting he acted in self defense, though accounts vary on the incidents and their circumstances.
Fragmented Ad Snippet on Remedies and Advice
A fragmentary OCR item presents assorted ads and aphorisms. It references shore remedies and powders, a product called ALTALEA 96 with a price, a real estate note about rent on crop pay, and miscellaneous social observations. The readable bits mention Mrs Windlow's Soothing Syrup for teething and a proverb about marriage.
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Altalea
Micute J. Mulilall
Aloux Cry
Easter and Pleasanter at the Theater
A humorous tale about a large hat wearing woman at a theater who refuses to remove her hat despite a polite request. She misidentifies the man behind her and quips that it would be easier and more pleasant to remove him instead, highlighting social bravado and theater etiquette.
What do you think of Thucydides in tea chair chat
Mrs Oldcastle and Mrs Gottalotte discuss Thucydides while sampling reading and rug frill. Josiah dismisses ancient writers as worthless unless fresh. grocer supplies only cuus editions.
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Mrs. Oldcastle
Mrs. Gottalotte
Josiah
Cuus
Their Location and the Sea of Domestic Life
The fragment hints at domestic life as a sea with many breakers and suggests shifting focus from mourning to living, noting a contrast between fewer flowers for the dead and more for the living. It references geome in a possibly misspelled or fragmentary way.
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Geome
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Missouri State News
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Vresident A. Ross TH
University of Missouri
Missouri Press Association
Women's Presse Assaciation of Missouri
Missour Press Association
Dairy Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Bowerman
Maimes
Mise Nell Kirkpatrick
Edna May Atkinson
John J Atekinson
McCredie
Salem
Kavery
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Tay
Abe
Lalloy
N.Y
Arter
Arie Ie Haverstock
Mampetend
Ledes
Ieee A
Areentieas
Renicus
St. Pac
Eo Sere
Foley's
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