Corbett family plans and political quips in a bustling column
A sprawling miscellany fronting social plans and public figures spans vows by Jeffries to will Corbett, Lea Corbett’s double event, royal verses by Pope Leo, Chamberlain’s return from South Africa, and debates over currency elasticity. The piece touches on burglars, dentists abroad, Brazilian and French affairs, and satirical riffs on ego and power.
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Jeffries
Will Corbett
Lea Corbett
Missouri State Fair and Exhibitors Seek Reduced Railway Rates
A Missouri state fair plan proposes an agricultural hall and other buildings. The exhibition association, formed after last year, seeks half tariff rail rates for live stock shipments to and from fairs, urging a joint Chicago meeting of railways, stock men, and association officers to push a rate reform.
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Powes
Honalime
Gabe la Hat
Pippey
Chicago
State Farm Boards
Exhbtors* Association
President Kirk Re-Elected By Kirksville Board of Regents
Kirksville Missouri reports the Kirksville State Normal School board meeting to reorganize and conduct midyear business. New regents Doctor O A Cohen from Kirksville and Doctor Remben Barney from Chillicothe join Governor Dorkery appointees. John R Kirk unanimously re-elected as president for two years starting June 1 1903. Summer teachers named May 24 with plans for branch summer schools and improved athletic grounds.
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Kirksville
Kirksville State Normal School
A. Cohen
Remben Barney
Chillicothe
Dorkery
Atalio
A. W. Mullins
Lin Pens
J. M. Hardman
E4ina
8. M. Pickler
John R. Kirk
Fruit Spraying Exhibit for Mansfield Apple Growers
The Mansfield community hosted lectures and an exhibition on fruit spraying with support from the Blaine Fruit Experiment Station at Mountain Grove and the Frisco system. The event showcased spray pumps and materials, featuring F B White of the Frisco system and university partners. Articles on railway transfer and city paving contracts followed, outlining transfer of White River Railroad to St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern and a $12,000 street paving bid in Cameron with plans for $120,000 in city improvements by year end.
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Mansfeld
Mountain Grove
Prisco
White
Agent Industrial Department
Frisco System
Goulds
Carthage
White River Railroad
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company
White River
Batesville
Ark
Arkansas
Arkansas Line
Spring River
Lawrence County
Aurora
Frisco
Cameron
Matt T. Hayde
Kansas City
Pastor thwarted burglar at Monroe City home
In Monroe City Missouri Reverend H B Smith pastor of the First Christian Church woke to a chair overturning early Thursday. He wrestled the intruder into a closet and held him until police arrived to take him to jail.
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Monroe City
H. B. Smith
First Christian Church
Flags to Wave Over Schools in Macon Mo
At a mass meeting on Thursday night three new board directors were elected. Captain Wm Greer urged the board to purchase large United States flags for every public school building and prevent them from deteriorating in storage. The motion carried unanimously. Greer, a Round Heads veteran of a Pennsylvania unit in the Civil War, compared Gage’s flags tossed over East schoolhouses and urged Missouri to follow suit.
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Macon
Wm. Greer
Greer
Pennsylvania
Gage
Missouri
University art import boosts Missouri museum collections
In Ooluitia Missouri new shipments of Greek and Roman copies arrive at the Missouri museum. Doctor Packard director of art at the university, inspecting European works, reports the pieces will enhance alive and beauty exhibitions and place the institution among leading university collections.
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Ooluitia
Amt
Missoert
Ge Doctor Packard
Greece
Rome
Missouri Museum
Columbia
Btae
He ‘University
Europe
Simmer
Canton Citizens Plan Rebuild of Christian University
Canton Missouri residents organize a fund drive to raise forty thousand dollars for a modern rebuilt Christian University after a recent fire. A courthouse meeting formed committees to canvass the community with help from neighbors in surrounding counties. The new building is to be ready for occupancy by mid September, as the next term begins, and church work will continue through June 4.
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Canton
The
Christian University
Christian University Ta
Eleanor and Owen Page stir speculation at society gathering
Emma weighs Owen Page's attentions to Eleanor as a possible romance while Harold jokes about status. Emma guards the situation, noticing Page’s persistent gifts and outings. The piece hints at social maneuvering, propriety, and ambitions within New York society.
Governor Dockery appoints new coal oil and assessor posts
Jefferson City Missouri Governor Dockery made two year appointments naming Newton Walker as Coal Oil Inspector for Pleasant Hill and James G Winn as Coal Oil Inspector for Slater. Charles F Johnson of Allen County will be County Assessor of St Charles County to succeed Henry Sapin who resigned.
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Jefferson City
Dockery
Newton Walker
Pleasant Hill
James G. Winn
Slater
Charles F. Johnson
Allen
St. Charles County
Henry Sapin
Vandalia Judge W D Butler Found Dead At Home
Vandalia Mo. Judge W D Butler aged 65 was found dead in his room at his home three miles west of the city on Thursday. He was a prominent stock dealer who owned vast land near Vandalia and served long as judge of Ralls county.
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Vandalia
W. D. Butler
Ralls County
Large Warrensburg land deals dominate weekend sales
Warrensburg Missouri reports two major purchases: F B Eberle of Iowa paid 45000 for 1010 acres south of town, and Will H Clinton of Peoria Alabama paid 71009 for 1200 acres northwest of the city from Twing Cockrell. Since June 1, 1902, county land sales total about two million dollars.
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Warrensburg
F. B. Eberle
Iowa
Wills H. Clinton
Peoria
Eloped Bride Replaces Faithful Suitor in Missouri
Robert Bastin of Kansas City came to Salisbury to honor a promise with Miss Lizzie Bradley, but she eloped with Charlie Lyons. The couple married in Marshall, Missouri before her family learned of the change.
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Salisbury
Robert Bastin
Kansas City
Lizzie Bradley
Charlie Lyons
Marshall
Sues City for Damages Over Defective Sidewalk
Centralia resident Mia Lucy Tinder sues the city of Sturgeon for 1000 in damages claiming injuries from a fall on a defective sidewalk. case set for trial next month in the Sturgeon court of common pleas.
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Centralia
Mia
Lucy Tinder
Sturgeon
Obituary: Robert Carlton Barton of Laddonia dies at 81
Laddonia Missouri. Robert Carlew Barton died here Thursday night in his eighty second year. Born in Boone County Missouri in 1841 he went with the Argonauts to California in 1849. He leaves a widow and three children.
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Laddonia
Robert Carlew Barton
Boone County
Missouri
Argonauts
California
New Judges Appointed to Missouri Circuit Court
James R. Kinealy and John A. Brevins were named by Gov. Dockery to fill newly created circuit judgehips in St. Louis. The legislature recently adjourned, approving the appointments to the city’s court system.
Forest Green Incorporation Moves Forward In Missouri
Forest Green Missouri, a village twelve miles northwest of the city, has launched steps to become incorporated. A new Farmers' Bank of Forest Green has been organized with paid up capital stock of ten thousand dollars.
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Armstrong
Forest Green
Farmers’ Bank of
Meets at Carthage Next Year
At a meeting of the M. E. Conference on Saturday it was decided to hold the next session in Carthage Missouri Marshall delegates reported.
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Carthage
Marshall
M. E
Doctor W. H. Black Lectures in Adrain on The Old Greek Doctor
Missouri Valley College president W. H. Black spoke at the Haas Opera house in Adrain on Saturday night to a large audience. His talk, titled The Old Greek Doctor, drew heavy attendance.
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Adrain
W. H. Black
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
Haas Opera House
Butler doctor sells 1000 acre Woodbury ranch to Bates county buyer
Butler Missouri reports Doctor G C the August flower king of Woodbury New Jersey sold his 1000 acre ranch on Friday to B C Webster and Lee Angutes of California for 26000 dollars.
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Butler
G. C
Woodbury
N. J
Bates County
B.C. Webster
Lee Angutes
Cal
Uncertain Household Struggles in Dartles Era
Fragmentary chapter portrays Mrs Stagz bearing social duties with resolve while secretly doubting success as Eleanor is described in a whirl of receptions and late nights. A strained household dynamic highlights devotion amid personal fret.
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Dartles
Stagz
Eleanor
Lord of the Jungle Ram Defeats Bengal Tiger in Cage
In Calcutta's zoological gardens a native ram defeated a tiger in a rare match. The ram, trained for fighting, leaped across the cage and struck the tiger in the ribs, then retired to its corner as the tiger yawned. The tale, while possibly apocryphal, notes man-eaters are often old and feeble.
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Calcutta
Ram
Fort William
Jay
Helen Keller Secures Island in Bargain for Autobiography
Helen Keller agreed to publish her life story after an editor offered to buy her a North Atlantic island to fund the work. The unusual bargain led to her embracing the project and taking pleasure in writing Story of My Life for fall book form.
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Helen Keller
Miss Keller
North Atlantic
Mise Kaller
The Musical Russians Describe Cold Winter Nights
The snippet notes Russians as natural musicians with many playing in bands while young Ivan or Stepan head to winter nights. It mentions the kabak or traktir as places to spend time and the idea of carrying agarmouls under one's arm.
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Ivan
Stepan
Aborigines of Little Known Japan Mentioned
A fragment describes the aborigines of Japan once deemed savage, now living in the northern Subir region. They number about 17,000 and sustain themselves mainly by hunting and fishing, dwelling in crude huts with two windows serving ordinary use and a reserved purpose.
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Japan
Subir
Burdick Suit Over Support Bond Details Court Case
A court filing outlines Mrs. L. Burdick suing over a support bond. The document notes a $50,000 bond was posted to secure Mrs. Burdick’s support payments and references the service of process and related legal steps in the case.
Burdick Bond Linked to Pennell Estate in 1902 Claim
The case centers on a $25,000 bond tied to Pennell's estate with a due date of November 1, 1902 and a possible payout if unpaid. Mrs. Burdick testified about her past relationship with Pennell on the Yale campus in 1898 and described efforts to influence her husband amid divorce actions. She denied Pennell had access to the home key but suggested fault lay with her husband, while Pennell allegedly sought a divorce and urged forgiveness for the sake of children. The testimony touches on motive, alibis, and a fatal case context as investigators examine the relationships and long-settled disputes.
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New York
Hal
Harold
Eleanor
Pennell
Yale
New Haven
Aberard
Peanell
Mr. Burdick
Tesis
Lettuce Claim Prevents Smallpox Says Doctor
A physician asserts lettuce daily prevents smallpox and is far superior to vaccination. The claim highlights lettuce as a rapid, antecarbutic remedy, arguing it stops smallpox regardless of vaccination status and contrasts with winter scurvy and delayed vegetables.
Will Versus Brevity in a Testator’s Last Wishes
A brief will attributed to Judge Leslie Ww. Sucks at Koreny City outlines that all estate assets pass to his wife with the clause “With reversion to our children.” The document contrasts concise wording against lengthy contingency provisions, noting the simplicity of the bequest.
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Leslie Ww
Koreny City
Tia
Ma inspired remark hinted at a frozen moment
A fragmentary line captures a childlike exclamation about a parent figure and a shirt, suggesting a domestic scene or family distraction in an interrupted text.
A New Idea in Poker At New York Magistrate Court
A recent raid leads to a courtroom exchange about draw poker rules. The magistrate questions the seized items and the judge confirms they are poker decks. The dialogue notes that cards were captured and the prisoners face charges.
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Magistrate Pool
New York
Study to Prevent Crime in Congress Bill
A recent Congress bill aims to collect sociological and pathological data from criminal institutions, paupers, defectives, hospitals, and schools. It contrasts the U.S. punishment of crime with a lack of preventive effort and notes the long history of crime statistics in society.
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United States
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