St Louis Market Drives Farmera Two Hundred Million Dollar Benefit
Readjusted stock commission rates in St Louis boost farmer earnings by an estimated two hundred million dollars annually. Livestock buyers and commission men argue for alignment with higher handling costs, noting packers and salemen gain from elevated prices while farmers seek fairer pay and prompt remittance.
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Valle
St. Louls Dvestock Exchange
National Stock Yards
St. Louie
St. Louis
National Stock Yards Company
St. Louia
Injustice of Law Highlighted by Woman s Home Companion
A retrospective piece contrasts mid generation housewives with modern standards. It notes how previous women kept to Means, avoided impossible aims, and taught practical child rearing. The tale shifts to a farmer defending a terrier license, joking about aging, dates, and repeated excuses before the police court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Home Companion
By & Friend
Andereland
Tantalizing, Woman's Way and Curious Ad Snippets
A jumble of quotations and mock advertisements from a 19th century page notices a women's convention, satire on We Men, a Twain quote, and patent medicine claims. It weaves humor, political quips, and tip line ads about coal, remedies, and 19th century consumer goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louleville Courier Journal
Missouri News Highlights From Jefferson City and More
Missouri news briefs cover Jefferson City preparations for the Missouri Convention of Commercial Clubs with a banquet on January 24 at the Christian church and sessions at the Gem theater. Other items discuss road-building efforts, a permanent Howell county exhibit plan, quail and game bird feeding advisories, local option elections in Carthage and Webb City, a push for a Missouri guards pay bill, criminal sentences for white slavery, postponement of major beef packing cases, a pencil accident injuring a boy in Mexico, Jefferson City's Polk v City of St Louis continuation, a Joplin fire causing $36,000 losses, and a Springfield report noting hens laying 22 eggs in 31 days in a state contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Springfield
Missouri Statve
Mountala Grove
Back Yard Communings and Golf Story Wide in Tone
A fragmentary chatter about a free concert by Crase and The Ding-Ie and a baffling tale titled A Golf Story features odd dialogue and a surreal gate scene. A saintly judge, St Peter, quizzes a man at heaven’s gate about golf rules and following through.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crase & the Ding
Cat
Markoise
Jeter
St Peter
St. Peter
Alone with Namure and the preachers tale
A fragmentary reading from a Chicago Record Herald scene features a sallow young man reciting a poem titled Alone with Namure and a surreal exchange about personal impressions and watching someone alone with her. A preacher’s odd habit and a punchline about a failed bed-manufacturing venture close the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Namure
le KH
Chicago Record Herald
Pature
Recollections of a Married Man Draws Librarian Gaffe
A librarian at the Library of Congress quips on readers seeking fiction and requests a copy of The Recollections of a Married Man. The exchange, relayed by Lippincott's, highlights the humor and mix ups in library requests and catalog confusion.
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Librery of
Congress
Lippincott’s
Ophelia and Hamlet Referenced in Quoted Dialogue
A fragmented passage playfully questions Ophelia and Hamlet through ironic dialogue. It contrasts old fashion concerns with a reader noting the speaker’s modern struggle of being behind on work despite claims of past hard labor.
Before the Scrap Why rushing around today
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet shows a man rushing about to find a gift for his wife with a playful line about getting offers, capturing a quick domestic moment in a city paper column.
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Louisville Courier Journal
No Doubt About It And The World’s Greatest Women
A quotation asserts that every good husband believes he is married to one of the world’s twenty greatest women. A Europe wide statistic notes annual per capita fire waste averaging 31 cents versus 3.51 dollars in the United States.
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United States
R.V. Pierce
World's Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
Prest
Buffalo, N.Y
Canada
Europe
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Cole
Hentia Aki
Gorreen
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J. Cole & Co
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Winslow
Be & Bettie
Missouri News
Missouri
Mate
Columbia
Tadley
State Board of Sericulture
D. Ward King
Curtia Hill
John HH. Fiiayson
Charles Householder
H. K. Doncan
George H. Bly. King
Dmg
West Plains
West Staios
Jesse A Tolerton
Tolerton
Carthage
Webb City
Springfield Court of Appeals
Des Cletons
Lower Court
Jasper County
Argue Cox
Luhcheahe
Womens of
Washington
D. C
Adjutant Generale
Frank M Kumbold
Missour Ia
Guarda
Carrollton
Grover Jordan
Hawel Jonian
Circuit Court
Jordan
Toad
Edgard Tilden
National Packing Company
St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company
Chicago
Mexico
Sam Locke, Jr
E R. Locke
Allen Coataworth
Locke
Folk
City
Joseph W. Polk
Joplin
John F. Wise
Bert Davis
Gamps
Phe LU Ey
Gastoria
Chik
Samuel Pitcher
Bears
New York
Jse
Castoria
Savannah
Sby Ern Oil & Ink CO
Hamlet
Glans
Mississippi
Land Dept
Wateos Be. Coleman,a
Ingtan
Kee Ere
Bitarls
Reece Lami
Remiidla
Watt Swan Orange Dicther
Sea County
Winchester
Leemon
Hooresten
Lil
Peet
Elie Cot Bank
Siloam
Albertina
Helmestead
Adapinbie
Nome
Aleth Kamenty
Aig
Putnam
Ben Chan
Monroe Drug Company
Quincy
Lewis
Sprenger Brothers
Peoria
Ill
Enowing
van Vieot-Mansfield Drug Co
Memphis, Tenn
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