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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
8
Pithy agricultural advice covers livestock care milk handling feeding breeding and barn management. Topics include stock health, breeding focus, calf scours, soil quality, mint in lemonade, plum losses from neglect, pruning habits, alfalfa, corn cultivation, rest breaks, and equipment like mud scrapers and label wires for fruit trees.
The piece presents a collage of quirky lines, odd dialogues, and aphorisms. It riffs on folly, wealth, fame, and love with playful interjections from a chorus of voices and brief vignettes. It closes noting how in modern life secrets travel fast through streets and alleys.
Venomous attacks on Senator Stone inside and outside his party prompt speculation on his potential majority if unopposed, underscoring his enduring place in Democratic support. Glasgow Missourian.
A Lexington Intelligencer note mocks political figures and hints at pleasure some Democrats would take if Dave Ball sought other office. The item blends sharp political commentary with a prairie crime mention of a four-foot wild animal killed near the W. T. Yowell farm, three miles west of the city, followed by a late 19th century wedding note from Trenton Missouri.
W B Spalding spent yesterday afternoon in Palmyra on business. Mrs Carl Jaeger joined Quin cy friends yesterday. Get ready for Christmas.
A Denver Post reader quotes a hack driver recounting how bereaved relatives sometimes find odd solace in cemetery runs. The driver tells of a deceased’s family joking about the ride, then laments the expense to “poor George.” The piece shifts to ads and local notes about suit sales, political rhetoric, and Palmyra acquaintance Harry Scheetz with Monroe friends.
A Howard County citizen criticizes neighbors for quarrels over political candidates noting that officials seek power not people. Yates & Hagan advertise big sale on Boys and Men's Suits and announce price cuts. The Monroe High School bazaar is set for Saturday December 12. A yellow Shepherd dog with a collar marked J. H. McClintic is lost and a reward offered. Andrew Garner and Miss Virginia Baker visited Palmyra relatives yesterday.
The Lecture Course organizers will host the Orphan Musical Club on Saturday evening December 5 as a special attraction. Season ticket holders attend free. single tickets are 50 cents. Seats will be checked Friday morning at 9 o'clock at Anderson & Montgomery's. The note also mentions political speculation on Bryan and tax proposals, and a brief item about Misses Ruth Brown and Lillian Ely visiting Gem City friends.
In Hagerstown Maryland on December 1 Jim Wilson a colored man was whipped by Sheriff George W Earnsbury after a conviction by Police Justice Hoffman. He received ten lashes and six months in the house of correction. Wilson refused mercy and was lashed in the jail’s upper corridor.
Traded eighty acre Lee farm northeast of the city to Charles Evans for his ten acre east city place. Kirksville Normal to host a Short Course in Agriculture Dec 7 to 19 with lectures on corn, stock, veterinary, dairying, breeding, horticulture, poultry, and more. contact H H Laughlin, Department of Agriculture, Kirksville Mo. Visitors from Terrell Texas and Xenia Ohio meet Mrs E W Campbell family after thirty eight years apart. Missouri and Kansas preachers urge zinc duties rise, showing theology debates widen beyond pulpit. Rev L Sipple and Mrs departed Bucklin after visit with Prof E M Sipple. Marion Pruitt sold 120 acre farm northwest of city to George D Newell for $40 per acre. Dimmitt’s Jewelry Store promotes new watch stock. come early.
With few exceptions all turbine steamers have three shafts with the high pressure turbine on the central shaft and the low pressure turbines on the wing shafts.
From excavations in Egypt comes a discovery of a complete company of wooden soldiers standing 15 inches tall. The find contrasts with the bleak caverns of daily urban life as Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked on wage earners in New York, noting even equal sharing would yield only modest annual incomes.
New York City is growing at twice the pace of London, with an estimated population of 4,950,000. The surrounding metropolitan district totals about 6,200,000 residents, reflecting rapid urban expansion in the area.
An estimate suggests 600 million people live in houses 700 million in huts and caves and 260 million have no regular shelter.
A wry reflection on Eden and the idea that beauty rises from loss. If Adam and Rye had remained in the garden, they might never have perceived the place as remarkable. The text hints at perspective shaping value and sweetness born of exile.
A fragmentary item notes that along the Volga river wives are bought and about $25 suffices to purchase one wife, with quips about their value and cost. The source presents a sensational line as a standalone observation without broader context.
London Bystander notes a social quip about Weatminster’s unmarried women and proposes renaming the city Weatsinster. Archeologists reveal marble quarries that supplied material for the Diana of the Ephesians temple.
A recruiter asks an instructor if the firing order can be kept at five hundred and two hundred yards during rifle practice in a London Punch cartoon caption. The scene shows field discipline and training methods in a humorous wartime frame.
A simple fish sauce base uses half a green pepper and half an onion, both chopped, added to a regular tomato sauce. The prepared mixture is simmered to create a flavorful accompaniment for fish dishes.
A brief quotation notes health preservation as a duty and introduces the concept of physical morality, credited to Herbert Spencer, reflecting on personal responsibility for well being.
A claimed dentifrice combines emery powder, sweet oil and kerosene as a tooth cleaner for pets, not humans, emphasizing its use on animal teeth rather than human dental care.
A critic notes that tourism, a major Swiss industry, is officially valued at 23 million francs annually, surpassing the confederation's public revenues by 7 million. The remark highlights the perceived understated self-promotion of those who debate the subject.
A regional aphorism suggests that a chronic bore should rest and reflect to improve. It notes that one’s own thistle is dearer than a neighbor’s garden and uses a German proverb to emphasize self familiarity over envy. The piece blends cautionary folk wisdom with a social nudge.
Poetic line contrasts a loaded fantasy with a revolver that remains unloaded in the angel of death's armory. It wryly notes how disliked people become defined by their faults, labeling them as charming peculiarities when they are dismissed.
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