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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
4
Mansfield readers get a brisk mix of town news, errands, and ads. Notables include Judge Burkhead visiting Ava, millinery updates, new furniture arrivals, and hardware bargains at J D Reynolds. Local trips to Seymour, Springfield, and Mountain Grove are frequent, with farm, stock, and produce notices from P W Newton and Bonnell Produce.
Glenn Pearson, about 16, living three miles north of Mountain Grove, died instantly last Saturday night when a gun accidentally discharged while he twirled it to scare companions. He was camping with G. Rudd and two Melntire boys. the weapon exploded as he moved to check a sleeping companion. He was buried at noon Wednesday and is survived by relatives from Mansfield Motel and nearby families.
A London firm wrote to the University of Idaho president offering to purchase an LL.D. degree for a young client aiming for Parliament. The university replied with a sharp rebuke, stating the principal’s actions disgrace his nation and the bar and warning that a cad’s ambitions are rarely if ever legitimate.
A Tuesday morning shower brightens Ava area. Main railroad grading paused for a week then to resume. Flint Point pie supper well attended with a 1525 collection. Miss Sades friend Miss Lutos Hardton of Oswego visited. she is a nine mile schol. Mount Everett church planned singing. all invited with books. Bryant Bridge completed and sturdy. A. Williams and wife guests of D. H. McCrute. Wallace and Ode did extensive sawing for the new road, about 75000 feet of lumber. Marner Bollem heads to Oklahoma to seek a home site. Elmer Hunsaker reports returning home after the pie supper. two couples visited Lovers Leap mountain with Elmer Hunsaker and Eva Lena Sade, Robert McCrule and Lotus Hardton. They carried a field glass and said the lime is good.
Christine Nilsson decorates two rooms in Madrid in a novel style. The belchamber is papered with leaves of opera music she sang, while the dining room features hotel memorabilia from her tours, reflecting a fashionable yet eccentric display.
In Salem Massachusetts a man calling himself John Betrosky tried to withdraw $100 from a savings bank. His appearance and story triggered a crowd including ex Mayor Hurley. The tale explains whiskers were shaved off during hospital treatment after a fight, leaving questions about identity and trust in the bank.
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