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Newspaper
Missouri Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1909
Page
3
County News items list Mrs Harriet Lockwood and Ida Cecere Indiana visiting relatives, several Marshall and Wellington visitors, weddings in Kansas City, and community events. Mentions include Mrs W H Thornton Marshall visitor, Miss Peters Waverly visiting, and many locals at dinners, bazaars, and religious society meetings.
Watson Diggs and wife hosted by T. F. Hogge and wife last week. Harry Ritter and family moved to town and occupy the Wood property. Mrs. Henry Morris visiting relatives in Boonville. Mrs. A. H. Townsend and Miss Blanche visited Parilee Bingham. Miss Grace Craig town visitor. Dr. Quig of Blackwater and Miss Elizabeth Craig from near Little Rock married Dec 2 1909 at W. R. Hubbard home. Only close friends present. Mesdames Lucy Townsend and Bo Bray guests of Hogge. W. P. McMahan and daughter visit. Herman Eshlers seen on street. Gibson sale of B Townsend property near Western suburb Boonville last week.
Rev. C. Q. Shouse filled his appointment Sunday at the Christian church. Ray Shemwell celebrated his 12th birthday on December 2 with a gathering of friends. The Christian church ladies plan an apron sale Thursday afternoon and a pie social that night on December 16. D. Lewis of Cooper visited town Monday. Mrs. W. H. Edwards stayed last week with James Marshall and wife near Blackwater. E. D. McMahan and wife of Cooper County were shoppers here Monday afternoon. Will Diggs and family were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Diggs.
Western Saline residents discuss butchering and corn gathering as rain has dampened spirits. Levi Kramer returns from Hazen Arkansas and Jene Smallwood and John Humphrey recover from illness while H Gorman endures rheumatism. Local visits include Will Earp and daughter Beulah. P Arnsmeyer and Toledo in Waverly. and Bristows from Springfield visiting family. James Bryan of Grand Pease plans a few weeks in Oklahoma over the holidays.
Mt Leonard indicates Mrs James Baker entertained friends at a Friday card gathering to celebrate Mr James Baker's birthday with a lively social afternoon.
Mrs EF Simmons travels to Atlanta Missouri to spend winter with sister Clara Kleen suffers a serious arm injury after a Sunday ice fall Mrs Will Haines of Marshall visits Friday with Mrs Carl Grimes Mrs Sam Semmons hosts a pleasant Friday night for young folks Mr and Mrs Wiley of Higginsville stay at Mt Leonard hotel Sunday James Welch relocates his family to Campbell property in town Lizzie Norman returns home south of town due to illness F M Smitherman travels from Mexico Missouri with family Wednesday night
A short health ad warns that babies with worms show always hungry rings under the eyes poor weight gain and yellow complexion. It touts White's Cream Vermifuge as a positive reliable cure expelling all worms priced 25 cents per bottle and sold by P. H. Franklin.
Prairie Home residents share visits and calls as Arthur Tieman, Anna Schlue, and the Wesslers, Junger man and others spent time with relatives in Maite Bend, Shackelford, Concordia, and Marshall. Notable attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Aug Tieman, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Schlue, and Hulda Kirchoff.
Snow slows activity as families gather. Charles Hartman of North Dakota visits ailing brother with typhoid, now slowly improving. Anna Larue buys Clinard farm in Kansas. Guests include J H Fordham, Victor Allen, D M Harris and family. Several locals visit and host, with Botts of Elmwood ill but improving. Walter Larue visits Blackburn.
Chas Niemeier of Nelson Missouri sold 320 acres adjoining H B Lively of Howard Ranch Community for 14400 dollars. The deal shows rising land values in the region. Niemeier bought the land six years ago for 4200 dollars, yielding about 10200 dollars profit plus rent on 4200 invested. Niemeier still owns two other farms and believes in the Arkansas Rice Belt's future.
An advertisement asserts catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. It claims endorsements by a leading physician, lists Toledo, Ohio as the company base, and notes the product sells for five cents along with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The readable fragments describe a price increase and cost implications, but the text is garbled and lacks clear entities or events to identify. No distinct people, organizations, places, dates, or concrete numbers are present to anchor a factual summary.
A collection of humorous snippets from a newspaper page includes a girl claiming she is a figetarian, a call about a fight near Blanchard, a dogeared Sunday paper about Jonah and the whale, a wife debts notice, and a quip exchange between a young man and an old parson. The pieces illuminate light, local color and social banter from frontier papers.
A Muscotah Record item recounts a woman who advertised to find a husband. She succeeded but lost him within a year, leaving her a $10,000 life policy and $11 total expense. A local youth found a sewing girl's name in his overalls and received a blunt reply: she will not marry a man who cannot afford better than 47-cent breeches.
Brookfield Gazette notes John D. Rockefeller’s urging young ambitious men to rise early and toil long. The paper reveals the line was borrowed from Josh Billinga and supplies the omitted portion urging to live frugally, give nothing away, and save if one avoids vice and disaster.
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