Cape Girardeau News and Local Happenings This Week
Cape Girardeau and surrounding area report a busy week with library drives at Bollinger county schools, a governor timber inspection in Seattle, and local incidents. Notable items include the old Methodist church purchase for $700, a rail widening project nearing completion, an electric line study between Cape Girardeau and Jackson, a fatal timber rail accident near Flat River, and multiple community events such as a minstrel troupe by New Madrid youths and a walnut shipment by Holt county merchants.
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Charleston
Kennett
Holt County
New Madrid
John Frank
de Soto
California
Cape Girardeau
Old Methodist
Farmington
Commerce and
Benton
Cotton Belt Railroad
Jasper N. Burks
Seattle
Wash
Charley Miles
Poplar Bluff
Milwaukee
Kanasas
Stoddard
Dunklin
William Gann
Doe Run Lead Co
Flat River
J. F. Brooks
Cape
Cape Girardean
Jackson
Glen Allen News Recap of Local Happenings
Robert Berrymann is very sick and Miss Kate Reilley, also ill, shows some improvement. Berry & Son have just received their winter stock of goods. The literary and debating society met last Thursday with a crowded house. A Snyder, the station agent, has returned after vacation. Dr. Berry moved his frag store into a new elegant location.
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Glen Allen News
Robert Berrymann
Berry & Son
Liturary and Debating Society
Dr. Berry
Fires and crimes swirl around Missouri towns in late period
Reports from Cape Girardeau and nearby towns recount two burnings on Main Street blamed on an arsonist seeking insurance. A theater troupe tours the Southeast supporting the Confederate Home at Higginsville. Robberies near Farmington yield $58 and $100 taken from J B Ryan and John Carver, with three suspects jailed. An express car robbery near Olyphant, Arkansas leads to shattered windows and siege-like damage. A dynamite scare near Poplar Bluff halted a planned attack as dynamite was found and saved lives. A Puptar Club event warns of safety concerns as a redheaded highway man taunts a man with a box of red matches, igniting them inadvertently. Authorities remain unsure of the guilty party.
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Cape Girardeau
Higginsvile
Farmington
J. B. Ryan
John Carver
Ironton Register
Olyphant
Arx
Poplar Bluff
Puptar Club
Nganto
Undarati
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Minton & Shelton
Adams
Nebraska
Goodwin
Bollinger County
John H. Zillmermann
Chicago
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Russell
Massachusetts
McKinley
Dr. Brown Sequard
Elixir of
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Virginia
New York
Boies
Anderson
J. M. Aller
Glen Allen School
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Kate Reilley
A. ©. Snyder
J. M. Poe
Insurance Aone
Latesville, C
College Heights
Mayfield-Smith Academy
Twin Cities
M.H. Williams
Scopus, Mo
Warren & HA & Hahn
Phelps & Burford
Blacksmiths Ins
J. W. Caldwell
Qiken
Wales
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R. I. Mayheth
H. J. Klene
M. Witmer
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