07 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1901
Page
1
A letter to the Post-Dispatch author as another “Old Bach” shares courting tips for widows and maidens. The second segment reports a Young Married Peoples Club reunion, city council sessions in Monroe in 1901, census ordinance, bridge funding, a funeral, and a political column criticizing congressional looting and pending appropriations.
In Hannibal the jury found Mrs. Alice Nesenhewer guilty of murder in the first degree for poisoning her husband Frank Nesenhewer. A petition for mercy accompanied the verdict, signaling a possible life imprisonment or pardon later. Col. and Mrs. R. E. Lear returned from Chillicothe after attending the Board of Industrial Home for Girls meeting, the last of the old board, with Lear praising the home’s work and noting its severed association.
A 1901 Evansville report condemns Know Nothings and similar secret orders, cites a city safety board order to arrest “strange negroes” and expel them if unproved, notes Rockport vote‑selling indictments, laments Southern freedom for Black people, recaps a Kansas City theater fire, and records local nuptials and a Monroe City school report with attendance and grades.
The program lists student performances including declamations recitations and musical numbers such as a piano duet Holiday Spirits and Our Boye with Balabh Christian Emma Jackson and others. Acts include Knowedye s Power Revitation The First Settlers Story Lone unis aw eel alry Wolves and The Gentle Fury among others.
The Palmyra Herald laments Palmyra's backward progress over ten years due to a lack of capable business men. It notes a few hold four or five offices, urging realism about expectations. A. W. Holmes visited from Shelbina on Saturday, reuniting with old friends and celebrities.
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