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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
6
An assortment of local ads. Caldwell and Son promote oysters meals and lunch options while Raney and Saunders push school books, supplies, tablets and stationery. Monarch mixed paint from Old Reliable Drug Store also features, with general shopping pitches across multiple merchants.
A local ad column mentions eye glasses adjusted by Dr Ritchey with a guarantee of fit or refund. It also promotes the Democrat paper and urges enrollment, plus several short items about visiting and local shops, a tax critique of Republicans, and gift suggestions at Wood's Drug Store.
Dr H J Waters dean of the Missouri University Agricultural College and Experiment Station received a Paris inquiry for station bulletins on experiments testing whitening buds and twigs effects on flowering and maturation. Dr Varigny seeks French publication material, following the Paris Exhibition exhibit. Experiments were in 1896 1897 under Prof J Whitten. Farmers urged to write for bulletins.
The article asserts a method to cure stuttering in children through gentle patient correction. It advises stopping hesitation, teaching deep inhalation to fill the lungs, and forcing clear pronunciation of difficult syllables until smooth. If followed undeviatingly, cure is certain. December Ladies' Home Journal.
Lawrence Kan Dec 3 1900 Kansas City Times reports Captain Hardy corrected a misstatement in Noble Prentis history of Kansas regarding the Battle of Bagbag. A letter from Joan F Haut late First Lieutenant Twentieth Kansas disputes the crossing details and calls for clipping the paragraph.
Train lines from St Louis and Kansas City to Omaha Nebraska and beyond are detailed with times and destinations including North Western routes via Northern Pacific Express, Mississippi River connections, and local passenger services to Hannibal Quincy and Chicago. The notice names J L Lyon as agent and lists daily services with limited hours and all- others daily.
The timetable lists M K and T lines with trains to Thains South and Dallas. It notes trains No 16 passenger service and No 6 and No 4 from Kansas City to Chicago with afternoon departures.
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