24 Jun 1915
Page 4
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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
4
The Mansfield Mirror published by Black Publishing Co editors A Black and W A Black. Subscription one dollar in advance. Entered at Mansfield Post Office in Maine. Published weekly on Thursdays in the Opera House Hick West Side Square.
Display, We per inch each insertion. Front page double rates. Locals. Per line per insertion four average words tenally make one line. Card of thanks one. Legally at end legal rates. No ad accepted for less than two. No liquor ads accepted. All ads inserted until ordered discontinued.
A Mansfield area meeting called by M A Freeman discussed building a rock road to connect Springfield and Mammoth Spring Ark and the Springfield St Louis road. The group favored Ozark Trails via Lebanon and Marshfield, avoiding Mountain Grove, with strong local boosters in Wright County and invites to multiple towns along the Frisco line to send delegates to Mansfield on a date to be set.
Discussion centers on the Seiseo route No 2 as the briefest of the three options for a Springfield to St Louis highway. A competitive building approach is favored by ex Ozark Trails head Mr Harvey, with plans absorbing routes from Hazelgreen ferry to connect Gasconade and other towns through to Little Rock and Hot Springs.
The Business Men's League of St Louis prepared an illustrated Missouri lecture for Missourians showcasing the state as it is and as it might be. It features motion pictures and colored views to highlight health wealth and wellness.
A statewide lecture tour titled Health Wealth and Happiness on the Park will promote Missouri progress. It aims to show how farms, roads, schools, homes, and living standards can improve income and well being through local projects and nationwide comparisons. Citizens are urged to submit pictures and information to the organizing body for inclusion.
A woman with two children sought transport to Cabool from Mayor JH Riley Priday claiming they were stranded. The mayor declined aid. She then panicked around town seeking help, later bought railroad tickets at the Frisco depot with a roll of bills, saying Mansfield cash was unnecessary. The episode suggests grafters are not as common as some think.
A brief note places travel routes or events centered on Mansfield on Monday July 5. No further details on times or organizers are provided in the fragment.
The Mountain Grove Creamery describes rapid dairy growth in the Ozarks with 20 creameries now active, butter output jumping from 500,000 to 1,200,000 pounds yearly plus 20,000 gallons of ice cream. The piece highlights silos, fodder quality, alfalfa, and root crops as key feeds, praises registered stock and a Cow Testing Association, and notes Wisconsin influence and plans to produce 50,000 pounds of butter weekly with butter fat valued at about half a million dollars.
Gentlemen we seek subscriptions to keep posted on progress of local towns and the dairy industry. The company reports large butter production over 40 000 pounds weekly and growing ice cream sales. They note influx of registered stock, a new Ayrshire purchase by W S Candler, plans for more stock and a carload of steel cattle from Wisconsin, with ads to follow and buyers listed in Wright county.
A severe storm struck Thursday night causing downed trees and heavy rain with hail and thunder. Munsco passenger No. 105 ran over 12 hours late and No. 100 about 2 hours late due to high water between here and Kansas City. Seven box cars were blown off the track at Fort Scott blocking traffic. trains delayed several hours Sunday.
A Hardin Missouri resident, Mrs J W Collier, extols Thedford s Black-Draught Liver Medicine, saying she has used it for years and cannot manage her home without it. The ad touts 75 years of use as a standard remedy for liver stomach and bowel irregularities, selling packs for two bits and one dollar.
An advertisement touts Thirty-Six for 25 Cents Dr King’s New Life Pills in well-worked glass bottles with UV sugar coated white pills. It claims one pill nightly relieves constipation by morning and urges purchase at druggists.
Dennis and Cecil Brageal returned Saturday from Mountain Grove where they had been doing carpenter work.
The Missouri newspaper notes two illustrated booklets titled Summertime in the eastern Ozarks and Summer Days in the Ozarks issued under the passenger department of the Morisco. They present the Ozarks as a recreation area for Midcontinent residents with store names homes and tourist rates. The folders emphasize these are not summer resorts and list towns such as Mammoth Springs Cedar Gap Mansfield Norwood Mountain Grove Cabool Houston Willow Springs Mountain View Montier Birch Tree Hunter West Plains Springfield region.
A vintage sales note promises relief from neuralgia pains in the neck, head, arms, shoulders, chest and back by applying a few drops of Sloan's Liniment. It guarantees soothing comfort within minutes and urges readers to buy a 3 ounce bottle at druggists.
Postmaster Ell Bryan reports that Bryant and S G Wallace plan active work on a zinc mine on a two acre tract near Bryant. Samples sent to Rolla state geologist praised potential, with plans to ship 1000 pounds or more. Nearby Mansfield zinc prospects and Missouris lead zinc output emphasized, noting high ore prices boosting mining statewide.
A testimonial from N S Galloway of Stewart South Carolina states trialed remedies for colic cholera and diarrhoea and finds Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy most effective. promotes for sale by all dealers.
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