Local items reveal school closure and travel notes
Local items report public schools closing next Thursday and reopening on Jan 34 1910. J P Evans visited Kansas City Monday. Mr and Mrs J W Wilcox from near Sweet Springs shopped here Wednesday. A B Van Anglen Malta Bend banker was in Marshall Wednesday. J B R Scott returned home Monday after several days in Kansas City. Detmer Gedalia passed Marshall Wednesday en route Little Rock to visit Geo S Wilson Grand Pass who planned to depart for Hazen Ark Saturday.
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van Anglen
Malta Bend
J. BR. Scott
Kansas City
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Gedalia
Marshall
Little Rock
Geo
Wilson
Grand Pass
Hazen
Ark
Town Gleanings and Local Happenings in Marshall
J J McCoy circulates a petition to Congress for river improvements about Miami. J A Falke and Dr C W Scott visit Carrollton to place a child in the Missouri Colony. Mr and Mrs B D Allen of Malta Bend shop in town and stay with the Misses Fink. Mrs Marsh Thomas returns home to Stanhope after visiting her brother C G Fisher. J B Crockett sells coins to Lev Leonard for seed corn to Texas. Mrs Robi Crump and nephew visit from west of town. Ed McLeod arrives from Brooksfield Miss to holiday with Jacob Van Dyke family. Thus Sutton visit from Arizona en route to Phoenix for winter. Stores display Christmas cheer as Santa sights draw near. Christmas stories and illustrations ordered but delayed till Dec 24. Eva Scheid of Kansas City to spend Christmas with her parents. forelady at Woodland Laundry. John and Roy Sutherlin plan to join C E Crutcher for a January trip to Fairfield Alaska. Weber Bros promote the new 5c 10c 25c Store in Opera House block. Weber Bros ship hogs to St Louis at 8 50 cwt totaling 1450, with five to six thousand dollars worth raised this year. Sadie Scott to Kansas City to meet visiting mother from Spokane. Santa letters partly published. more next week but no more letters requested. A M Dickerson of Slater visits Marshall, noted as county’s tallest man at 6 feet 3 8 inches. father 6 6 and a brother taller weighing 375 lbs. Davenport of Gilliam claims to beat him by a “foot or sol.”
Clothing suggestion on button design and laundering
A short suggestion from the New York Press discusses clothing fastening options. It favors soft ancient Egyptian or modern Chinese buttons with a note that removable buttons might be better. The author questions laundering efficiency and imagines machine laundering.
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C. L. Bell
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