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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
2
Local business leaders and residents collaborate to revitalize Mansfield, giving the town a refreshed appearance and economic momentum. Citi zens participate in renovation efforts and community events to boost civic pride.
Mansfield Missouri residents, led by Dr F H Riley and the Young Men's Business club, fund park improvements through a six minute blind auction and a gold digging contest. A new Ozark Fair Circuit unites Mansfield, Hartville, Mountain Grove, Ava, Cabool with dates this fall. The park gains iron seats, flower beds, an illuminated bandstand and new adjacent business buildings as Mansfield plans a July 4 celebration.
Fragments mention Setts unit and traveley Aostromusindestion or desire to cast his lot in Myansfield Sprine field Lesivhyr with unclear context and no clear events or dates evident. Entities are indeterminate.
The Sunday Record Herald highlights the People’s Institute of Domestic Economy and The China Sunday Record. It praises feminine readers for new domestic ideas in cooking, house management, diet, and decoration with Danie Christy’s novelties and Anne Rittenhouse fashion guidance.
The Ozarks remain sparsely populated for several reasons. The region is hilly not prime prairie land, so settlers sought other areas. Farmers relied on corn and wheat, creating staples elsewhere. Rail travel missed valleys and streams, and railway promotion only recently spotlighted Ozark lands despite distant alternatives.
An alleged Missouri swindler attempted to force New York and Chicago firms to honor forged drafts linked to a Mountain View Produce Co parcel scheme. W. W. Elven, Dewinter & Co, M. Wittenhouse & Co, and C. Bishop were duped by letters claiming shipments of butter poultry and eggs, with all drafts stopped by banks after fraud alerts. The Mountain View Produce Co never existed and no shipments were ever made.
The article extols intensive farming in the Ozarks, noting transformation of poor land into productive garden spots. It reports land values rising tenfold through soil conservation and climate utilization, with grain, grass, and seeds improving via livestock integration and legumes like alfalfa, clover, cowpea, and soybeans boosting soil fertility.
Wright county Missouri Mountain Grove sits in the heart of the fruit region offering high altitude rolling hills rich soils and abundant water. The area supports creameries cold storage canning factories shipping sheds and several mills with dairying poultry and sheep raising as major industries. Towns boast a large Mountain Grove creamery and extensive plant capacity with yearly poultry and egg shipments surpassing a million pounds and a million dozen respectively.
The report notes tomato earnings of 75 to 100 dollars for farmers and outlines Wright county towns Mountain Grove Mansfield Hartville Cedar Gap Macomb Norwood. It mentions a new railroad line extending from Mansfield south to Ava, Douglas county, and cites Hartville as the county seat ten miles inland from Mansfield with local industries and schools.
Douglas County Missouri lies in the heart of the Elberta peach belt with a broken rolling terrain and streams Fox Beaver White and Spring creeks. It totals 506 880 acres with 152 000 cultivated, surplus products valued at 941 833 dollars. Leading crops include livestock fruit and truck with mills and a tannery in Ava the county seat. A branch railroad through Mansfield to Ava is the only railroad in the county and development is just beginning.
Frisco timetable fragment shows train numbers and times with errors. Mentions Nos 101 50 pm 102 6 05 am and others. Concludes lines 40 and 241 are low freights.
Advertisement offers brand new motorcycles and motor boats for sale with easy monthly payments. All makes advertised with low bar gain prices and a call to write, include stamped self addressed envelope to Lock Box 11 Trenton Michigan.
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