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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
3
The plan of guaranteed deposits wins broad support in Oklahoma and is being considered by Kansas and Nebraska. Bryan has long advocated deposit guarantees and favors home produced goods and broader national regulation complementing state laws. The Commoner offers weekly political content for sixty cents to Lincoln Nebraska.
An amusing tale from a western farmer and a village store spark a wager over an eye and a wire egg beater, ending with the farmer pocketing the stakes after the storekeeper’s iron clowning breaks. The rest notes Miss Lula Hayden at Ely, Audrain County local option vote on March 14, and Mrs Mary Patterson visiting north of town.
An advertisement touts Hyomei as fast relief for catarrhal troubles. Drops in the pocket inhaler provide five minutes of relief, with the therapy claimed to purify the air, kill catarrhal germs, soothe membranes, and improve general health. L. M. Wood backs it with a guarantee to refund if unsatisfied.
The text argues advertising should build goodwill and steady patronage, using newspapers to reach a natural audience at low cost. It likens attraction to a sun and customers as planets, then notes John W. White recently recovered from a tassel with the La Grippe and has two sick children.
A Salem Republican propagates for the Republican ticket citing business growth, prosperity, and protection of home industries and labor as reasons to vote. A Rolla Sharp Shooter counters by portraying the Democratic ticket as corporate rule aimed at injunctions, federal judges overruling states, railroad robbery, bond sales in peace, high taxes for a standing army, coercing labor, currency control by corporations, and panic risks.
A Spaulding Nebraska letter questions how to bury Theodore Roosevelt for issuing seventy five millions with a large gold reserve, comparing it to Grover Cleveland's debt. The note comments on editor supremacy and urges readers to seek fault in others, reflecting hometown rascality and satirical sneers from the Rus sel lv ille Rustler.
The Farber Forum urges residents to speak well of their town as it notes no resident ministers. Farmers are urged to prepare machinery for spring work. R. B. Meriwether made a professional visit to Hannibal on Thursday. Miss Oka Melson of Hannibal visited in the city. A Middletown man recently married in 1904 has gained possession of his wife. Mrs. Mary L. Rouse spent late last week with relatives in Stoutsyville.
February issue highlights fine portraits of drama and music celebrities including Warfield Janis Kalis ch Elliott Anglio Kirby Lunn and Renard. New music department led by Arnold Kruckman with a Ule article by Charles Quincy Turner. BurR Publication ad notes availability and journal quote from Madam Leandre about impressions and marriage.
A man can take a newspaper and it is the cheapest thing he can buy. Each hen’s egg pays for the week, cheaper than a postage stamp. It comes rain or shine, a welcome guest. It opens the world and shortens the evening, your advisor and friend. Tomorrow is Valentine Day.
Coutty Gilmore Yowell died at Santa Fe on Thursday. He was about 50 years old and had long resided in Monroe County.
W B Arnold traveled to Palmyra Monday to serve on jury duty in the 10th circuit court, fulfilling a civic obligation.
To have a good sale requires the right items and a skilled auctioneer like Ely. A made to order suit in the window priced at 18 dollars is advertised as a bargain. Conway the tailor promotes the sale while Mrs Jennie Yowell from Quincy is in town nursing her ailing father Ed Hardesty. Mrs Edward Hardesty of Stoutsville visits city relatives.
Joan W. White and his wife visit his uncle Mike Sullivan Friday. Mrs Sullivan is quite sick with the grippe.
Vincent Huebsch, employed with W. T. Keighley for the past year, departed Friday to return home to Monroe City. He is described as an efficient clerk and sociable young man with many friends who regret his departure.
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