Miss Ella Shannon Operated On In Boonville
Miss Ella Shannon traveled with Dr. Ravensway Hospital staff to Boonville for an operation. The latest reports say she is improving. Local residents note many trips to visit, with family updates and travels to Marshall Napton Brickwater and Maine. Arrow Rock youths enjoyed a dance last Tuesday night as town recovers from flu season. Local vendor promotes King's Little Liver Pills with price two bits.
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Ella Shannon
Boonville
Near Blackwater
Arrow Rock
Colorado
Arrow Rock Social News Roundup from Slater and Nearby
Mrs Talbort of Slater visits granddaughter Mrs O Wood and family this week. Ice cream supper Saturday by Baptist ladies raising about twenty dollars. Preston Brockway and wife shop in town. Miss Georgia Steon returns to Columbia for school. Mrs B C Bradshaw and son Steve return from Boonville visit. Nora Diggs leaves for Marshall to reopen school. Will Freeman and wife and Misses Nannie and Bettie McMahan visit from Cooper County. Janes Marshall and wife visit W II Edwards. Walter Diggs and Cary Diggs visit from Cooper County. Mrs George Bradshaw visits Cobb family in Oklahoma. Pearl Ligget of Gilliam visits Lucy Townsend. Mrs J W Nixon visits.
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Preston Brockway
Georgia Stean
Columbia
B. C. Bradshaw
Steve
Boonville
Nora Diggs
Marshall
Will Freeman
Nannie
Bettie McMahan
Cooper County
Janes Marshall
Near Blackwater
Edwards
Walter Diggs
W. B. Diggs
Cary
George Bradshaw
Cobb
Oklahoma
Pearl Ligget
Gilliam
Lucy Townsends
Henry’s misadventure to Fritz’s in rural Missouri tale
A letter from McAlister Springs recounts Henry intending to visit his brother in law Fritz, traveling from Saline to Pettis County. He gets lost on back roads of Black Water Creek, ends up hungry after finding Fritz only to be dismissed, and plans to call again.
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Henry
Henry Vonta
Fritz
Literary entertainment at Mt Calvary Free Baptist Church
A report from Mount Calvary Free Baptist Church notes Mrs M E Murray organized a Tuesday night event with young helpers. tableaux and vivants interspersed with sales songs and recitations drew praise as perhaps the best such performance yet in town. the item urges more such talent to be activated for communal good.
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M. E. Murray
Mt. Calvaryree Baptist
Anon
The Telephone Doctrine Encourages Local Cooperatives
The article argues that people delay telephone use because they do not know what they miss and urges communities to organize telephone systems. It notes declining costs for instruments, manufacturers pushing quality, and farm households gaining comfort with telephones, highlighting cooperative rural models as affordable options.
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In this excerpt the speaker argues that paying $25 for a four year term is inexpensive because it will save money on horse flesh. The statement ties cost to future savings in animal maintenance.
Correction Notice on Guest Attribution
Mr and Mrs J F Miles request correction stating that the guests reported last week were unknown to them. Our correspondent was misinformed or referenced a different family.
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J. F. Miles
Local voters urged to present signed pro and con articles
The paper invites both sides of the local option debate with unsigned pieces discouraged. Editors request prompt, signed submissions for readers to weigh before the election, noting that many received pieces are dry or unsigned and that several signed articles will run next week as the election nears.
Civil Service Examination for Clerk and Carrier
An examination for clerk and carrier will be held at the post office in this city on January 25, 1908. Age limits are 18 to 45 on exam date. Married women cannot attend. unmarried women may apply as clerks only. Applicants must be physically sound. men must be at least 5 feet 4 inches tall and weigh 125 pounds without coat. For blanks and full details, address LOCAL SECRETARY, Board of Civil Service Examiners, Post-office Marshall, Mo.
Uncalled for Letters at Marshall Post Office Jan 8 1908
Uncalled letters list includes Minnie Lyons Anna Reynolds Mesdames Compton Grimes Harriston Wilson Jesse Allen Harry Brown Haux Brown W Buros Roy Carochan Otto Davin Aaron Jackson Willie Levine J L Mathews N C Roberta P Salth Taylor Robs Williams M T Chastain P M. If not collected within two weeks they go to dead letter office.
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Marshall Post
Ofice
Minnie Lyons
Anna Reynolda
Susan Compton
Ella Grimes
Matilda Harrston
Matte Wilson
Jesse Allen
Harry Brown
Haux Brown
W. Buros
Roy Carochan
Otto Davin
Aaron Jackson
Willie Levine
J L. Mathews
N. C. Roberta
P. Salth
Taylor
Robs. Williams
New Year Holiday Joy At We High School
We High School students express appreciation for New Year’s holiday and announce preparations to move into the new High School building next Monday. We invite visitors to attend assemblies in the new auditorium and note mid term exams begin late next week. The state university elected Dr. A Ross Hill as president, a choice admired by high schools statewide.
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H Gn
A. Ross Hill
State University
Municipal ownership contrasts and civic gas fear
Amid digressive notes on Britain's debt and Rhine fascination, the piece argues for public ownership to wipe deficits, citing Birmingham and Chicago campaign costs. It predicts a shift toward individualism as services falter and municipalities face costly utilities. References to Valley City gas, Brunswick heating, and general municipal finances illustrate the debate.
Can’t Do It by Statute Says Municipal Journal
The Municipal Journal and Engineer argues that every corporation is entitled to a fair return on its investments when managed carefully. It notes some utilities overcharge the public, but many have never paid dividends, and warns legislative action to force universal rate reductions could worsen tensions between people and public service corporations.
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Municipal Journal and Engineer
Warn Of City Governance Perils By William T. Read
A critical warning argues city governance is weak and municipal ownership dangerous. It warns that utilities meant for public use could become private property of political leaders, benefiting their wealth and power.
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William T. Tead
Municipal ownership versus private plant sale guidance
City policy guidance cautions against municipal ownership of a privately owned plant. It argues ownership only under unusually favorable conditions that guarantee financial gain, warning that general municipal control is not advisable.
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Carver
Political Machines Dominating City Services Warned
Marquette Journal notes the vast power of street railways and gas and electric lighting controlled by a political machine with thousands employed, urging voters to consider the influence when voting amidst party loyalties and civic leadership claims.
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M. O
Maboo
Baltimore
Pernicious Partisan Activity and Public Ownership
The Terre Haute Star warns that public ownership invites pernicious partisan activity as municipal employees in street cars parks and utilities could sway elections. Officials would be paralyzed by placating these large employee bodies and leaders might bargain with heavy interests to deliver votes for favored candidates or measures.
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Chicago
Post Office Department
Representative Loud
California
Congress
Seth
Elf
Terre Haute Star
Duluth Approves Electricity Contract for Pumping Station
At a Duluth council meeting a resolution was passed to authorize the water board to contract with Great Northern Power for electricity to operate the pumping station. The proposed rate would be 50 cents per million gallons, a change from last year when the city paid $9 per million gallons excluding depreciation.
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Duluth, Minn
Great Northern Power Company
Electrical World
A Key of Light From England
Municipal indebtedness from taking over public services burdens England. Some suggest avoiding interest on redeeming bonds with penance bearing municipal power to ease strain. Financiers and statesmen have not approved the plan yet but it offers hope to cities facing similar burdens.
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England
Engilab
Lynchburg boards defeats electric light plant proposal
In Lynchburg Virginia the plan to set up a municipal electric light plant was rejected by the board of aldermen following a special committee investigation. In Natchez Mississippi residents also voted down a similar proposal.
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Bown
Dixie
Board of Aldermen
Lynchburg
Natches
Miss
Private Enterprise Versus Municipal Ownership Debate
A Philadelphia editorial attacks socialism and government ownership of utilities as immoral and stifling to private enterprise. It argues that even partial government control harms individual effort and contrasts theory with actual conduct, urging skepticism toward municipal ownership advocates.
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Philadelphia
Broadening influence of Public Life
A dialogue about municipal service. One man asks if serving as alderman broadens horizons. the other suggests it broadens this equator, a wry exchange hinting at civic ambition and self view rather than concrete facts.
Gas Plant Operation Debate by Lucien Tyng
Lucien H Tyng argues in Moody s Magazine that private ownership of gas companies is not a guaranteed gold mine. He contends profits require capital and sound business, warning that a franchise alone provides little value without effective management and investment.
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Lucien H. Tyng
Moody's Magazine
Gas utilities profit via education and efficient capital use
The article argues gas companies achieve high returns not by exploiting franchise power but through aggressive management, educating the public, expanding per capita gas use, and investing large capital when needed. It asserts private firms can generate higher profits by lowering costs and selling more gas at lower prices, a maneuver municipalities cannot replicate by salaries alone. It notes that true success relies on intelligent operations and capital discipline to raise overall profitability even with lower per unit rates.
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Tomeral
Public business neglected and costly municipal failures
An editorial argues that private enterprise would not back reckless contracts in Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg capitol project or the Manhattan bridge folly. It cites a $7,000,000 records building over seven years that fails to hold records, linking debt, narrow borrowing, and bad tar policies to public ownership flaws.
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Harrisburg
Manhattan Bridge
Insane Asylum
Father Koickerbocker
New York Mall and Express
There Was a Reason Graft in City Water Works
A Rochester waterworks city owned and insured the system for 32000 dollars while a cement tank carried 26000 coverage. An influential official acted as agent for a fire insurance firm with ties to the tank and other properties, suggesting a conflict in a municipally operated utility.
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Hochester
Rochester
N. Y
Democrat and Chronicle
Portsmouth’s Fight to Spark a City Light Plant
A Portsmouth Ohio story recalls the city’s effort to own an electric light plant, its takeover then transfer to the street railway company when a new system arrived, and the decline as finances blocked new equipment for the aging plant.
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Pamiliar Story
Portsmouth
Freto
Street Railway
City plant ownership disputed by Chehalia mayor
In Chehalie Washington the mayor says the city owns the plant but leased it to a private party who now owns almost all the plant machinery. He contends the city failed as operator due to prior corruption and financial mismanagement.
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Chehalie
Wash
Chehalia
Forfeit Hast Revenues From Railways Valued at Billions
Walter J. Ballard argues in the Los Angeles Times that street railways paid $13,300,865 annually in taxes to various municipalities and states, with securities and additions pushing the total to about $25,000,000 per year, and that such revenue would be forfeited if ownership shifted.
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Bureau of Census
Mipal
Walter J. Ballard
Los Angeles Times
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Nelson
P. H. Prasklin
Mrs. Talbort of
Slater
O. Wood and
Mcalister Springs
Mount Calvary Free Baptist Church
Civil Service
Board of Civil Service Examiners
Post-office
Marshall, Mo
M.T Chastain, P. M
Municipal Macy
John Kendrick Bangs
Hudson
Rhine
Iere
Andrew Carnegie
Birmingham
Valley City
NX. D
Munele
Tod
Anid
Brunswick
Bualwe
Marquette (Mich
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