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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
4
Local notes list visitors and arrivals in Mansfield Missouri including Jobo Pope Hartville Hi Miller Norwood Ola Campbell Kansas City and many others. It mentions purchases, sales and town events with brief social and business notices plus a church meeting update and a Thanksgiving gathering.
The Technical World reports a breakthrough turning wheat and hogs spittle into rubber. Inventor Mr Carr, once a wall boy, formed a glutinous compound from grain, later testing it in a backyard shed and small English lab, amid forecasts of 80 000 to 100 000 tons annual demand.
A Newark woman owns 1500 unique pitchers of diverse shapes and colors, gathered from global corners. One piece came from a shop famed by Dickens. The entire collection is housed at the New Jersey Historical Society, occupying the rooms described as a curious archive.
Mansfield, a town of about 750 residents in the southwest county, sits on the Frisco road east of Springfield. As the Kansas City Ozark and Southern Electric Line advances from here to Ava, the county seat of Douglas, the gridwork progresses with grading half complete and steel laid for miles, promising north and south connections and highlighting local enterprise and home-building appeal.
The county is well watered with the Gasconade river and many creeks feeding bottom land ideal for farming. Soil is a fertile clay loam with good moisture retention and versatility, though rocky areas exist yet support clover and bluegrass. Cities boast good schools and churches, no saloon, and welcoming citizens. Stock raising offers long grazing seasons. hogs travel well to markets in St Louis and Kansas City.
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