16 May 1912
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
1
A clerk certify the county court filed a true statement of Bollinger County school funds for the year ending February 1912. The document records school fund totals and bears the clerk William Abernathy seal. The notice appears amid mixed local news items on floods, shootings, and weather.
N J Widecarver of Marble Hill Missouri proclaims purchase of W A Dunn stock and Mrs H J Smith now in charge of dry goods and millinery. A fresh stock is to arrive soon and will rival any in the county. Customers are invited to visit and be treated right at Dunn's $3 old stand.
Southeast News reports in Dunklin Democrat that the four New Madrid saloons shut down at midnight Tuesday as county and city licenses expired. The story notes an upcoming local option vote for unclear details.
A reader from Chatsworth sends two payments to renew a weekly paper, praising its role as a welcome home source. He recalls a harsh winter with ground freezing to four feet, followed by heavy rains hindering oat planting and field work.
A compact agricultural column discusses farm practice improvements from pest control to soil and storage. It notes the value of testing seed, proper manure and bedding for work animals, and the impact of weather on hay prices in 1901-02. It cautions farmers to anticipate market changes and rely on practical, science based methods.
An advertisement in a London newspaper sought a warehouseman and drew a sharp-looking Cornwall youth. Lacking a reference, the employer wrote to a police inspector in the same village. The reply confirmed the man as Thomas Trefullis, noting he is very smart and has been arrested three times for larceny but acquitted each time.
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