Adjourned City Council Session Debates July 4 Preparations
City Council met in adjourned session at City Hall with six members present and two absent. They discussed permits for July Fourth refreshments, park cleanup, and a mass invitation to ride in the parade. Ordnances set paving bids for Coates and Barrow streets, and street grade matters were reviewed along with license actions for peddlers and express firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaey
Lathburton
Gamplin
Jacobs
Williams
Dingle
Grass
Maler
Ciniies
Onder
Mystic City Live
No'l
Madecaubues
Camplin
Lithle
Loswue
Gross
Coates Streat
Johnson
Sturgeon Streat
Montion
Carr
Barrow Street
Porter Street
Hunt and Godfrey
City of Mobarly
Goatss Street
Lerrow Street
City of
Brookfield
City considers plant closure and sewering plan
The council discusses city finances to build a 26 000 plant with 12 or per cent charges, potential ownership in years, and costs for water and light. The water and light committee to consult with the Water Company about deep wall pumps and possible franchise steps. A cemetery lot price vote and park fountain safety concerns are noted, along with police enforcement. A local testimonial promotes Dry King's New Discovery for cough and lung troubles.
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Nieiada
Enfaruy
Meberly
Cfseanre Light
Moberly
Dingle
Quayle
Water and Light Committee
Bast
Bhy Company
Governor appoints Vicksburg Siege Commission in Missouri
In Jefferson City on June 18 Gov Dockery named a ten member panel from Confederate and Federal troops who fought at Vicksburg to assess Missouri troops positions. The slate includes Maj Rainwater secretary Gen I M Cockrell Capt P L Pitts Capt James SYNAMON and others with additional appointments for the Board of Managers Missouri School for the Blind and an inspector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
General Assembly
Missouri
Vicksburg
Rainwater
I. M. Cockrell
Johnson County
P. L. Pitts
Monroe County
James Synamon
Pinto County
Kieunt
John A. Gagne
Dunklin County
W.d. Ervin
Caldwell
B.C Coleman
St. Louis
David Murphy
Col. P. Simpson
Howard County
J.T. Crowe
Ranklin County
Stuart Parker
Kansas City
Fr. M. Post
Board of
Missouri School For the Blind
J. H. Moore
James W. Miller
Boonville
Wabash Offers California Round Trip Tickets On Select Dates
Home seekers may buy round trip Wabash tickets to California on June 15, July 2 and 16, August 6 and 20, September 3 and 17 at one fare plus 2 dollars for the return. Dick valid up to 15 days from sale dates. Tickets not good for return until ten days after sale and not after the final limit not more than 24 days from sale. For details contact H E Warns 7 Pp a. A.
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California
Bor
H. E. Warns
Dr Kings New Life Pills End Liver Kidney and Bowel Ills
An advertisement touts Dr. Kings New Life Pills as a safe cure for liver kidneys and bowels. It claims a remedy for constipation and related pains with a price of 25 cents and availability at Dr. Purica's East Side druggist.
Death Claims Paid in Missouri Reach 6 Million
State insurance chief T Crear reports 6 million dollars paid for death claims in Missouri during 1000. Totals spread across cities led by St Louis with over 2.6 million, Kansas City 21,000, and Jefferson City 55,000. The largest individual policy paid 116,456 for Charles Hodgman of St Louis.
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BE. T. Crear
Missouri Insurance Department
Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas City
Clinton
Carthage
Iexcelsior Springs
Bayette
Clasgow
Wannibal
Joplin
Jefferson City
Kirkwood
Louisiana
Macon
Marshall
Mexico
Moberly
Polar Bluff
Sedalia
Slater
Springfield
St. Joseph
Charles Hodgman
John A. Gallagher
Cured by Pleairie Bitters and Dowie’s Zion Plot Revealed
An 19th century notice praises Pleairie Bitters as a cure for serafia and skin ailments sold by Dr. Burke. In Chicago Dowie claims physicians plotted to kidnap him, threatened opponents, and warned editors of Chicago newspapers of alleged murder incitement, as he declared himself Tsujah reincarnated.
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Cargile
Washita
J. T
Burke
East Side
Guarranteed
Shicago
John Alexander Dowie
Zion Tabernacle
Zion
Dowie
Zion College
Aion Tabernela
Persia
Uss
British Defeated and War Dispatches From Pretoria
The report notes Lord Kitchener cabled from Pretoria about a clash near Welmansrust Station 20 miles south of Middleburg. Boers attacked Steankoolspruit camp on June 12, killing 16 men and wounding 38, with two officers among the dead and 50 men wounded. Prisoners and loot taken. details incomplete.
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London
Kitcaner
Pretoria
Welmansrust
Middleburg
Beaston
Steankoolspruit
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Smoke Johnson Bros
Havana
San West Coates Street
Henry
Shoe Department
Oxfords
Childrens
9&C
Pat
McKay and West Sales
Henry Levy & Co
W. A. Pines
Manchester
King
Gov. Dockery
Vicksburg Siege Commission
Ele Buellon
Richardson’s
Justice Harlan
Chicago
Bourke Cochran
Warrigan
Bryan
Justices Harlan
West Reed Street
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