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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
3
Thousands cured claim Hyomei is the most unusual remedy for catarrh with balsams inhaled into the airways to reach nose, throat, and lungs. The ad pledges a dollar refund if not cured and cites a long list of local people traveling and visiting in various cities.
Poem extolling Missouri as the finest state with repeated praise of its people landscapes and climate. The speaker, a Missouri-born poet J P Campbell, celebrates the lilies sunshine birds streams and springlike life found in Missouri and claims it above all other places.
The Missouri Experiment Station at Columpaine publishes a detailed bulletin on profitable cattle feeding by Dan H J Waters. It compiles experience from about 1000 seasoned feeders in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Iowa, plus Coslumona station results on feeds, ages, and conditions. It covers optimal fattening age, weight, season, feed prep, shelter, market demands, and showcases prize fat steers from major fairs. Notable feeders listed include J B Baker, J W Warren, G P Grimms, Jas M Carty, and many others. The bulletin is free and available to farmers and citizens, with additional free bulletins on cowpens, alfalfa, and wintering cattle.
A collection of humorous maxims about work, wealth, family happiness, and social attitude ends with a local obituary note: Mrs. John Lake was called to Ely Thursday morning by the death of Mrs. Emmett Griffith.
Fire Sunday around 11 a.m. devastated the J McClintic farm cottage 84 miles west of the city. Foreman Charles Hamilton discovered the blaze as the home burned, his wife and children inside. Loss estimated at 3000 with no insurance. A previous McClintic barn fire occurred about a year earlier from a breaking engine.
A string of social visits from Quincy and surrounding towns fills pages with Miss Lillian Ely, Miss Ruby Forsythe, Lotta Lanve, Bert Lange, Miss Ansie Longwell, Miss Goldie Stewart, Alma Cunningham, Miss Eva Bowling, and Miss Lucile Bowling visiting friends and relatives. Four new engines for the K C S Ry pass through. Also listed is an administrator's notice for Lucy A. Ragar dated April 16, 1907, plus brief notes on Andrew Robertshaw returning from Natchitoches and various regional figures including Carrie Hampton, a new city notary public chosen by Gov Folk.
Quincy eye ear nose and throat specialist Dr R Woods will be at Monroe Hospital in Dr Hull's office on huraday February 6 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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