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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
2
The piece riffs on Sirena Humpheys telling ghostly tales and boogers to scare listeners, with verses highlighting her eerie stories of graveyards, cannibals, haunted houses, and other spooky booger filled scenes. It also notes a Republican call for 15,000 laborers in Oklahoma and other humorous, mundane vignettes from small town life.
Instructional fragment outlines drag and hitch methods for road building with horses two to four, detailing driver position, drag angle, and earth movement to fill mud holes and level the roadway. Contains period style prose and technical terms.
In East Hampton Long Island Par son Lyman Beecher's home a carpet woven from cotton spun by his wife Roxana astonished locals. AHay border and floral center became the centerpiece of the pastor's parlor. Deacon Talmadge doubted entering the room stepping on the art.
The Department of Agriculture reports major growth in highway spending from 1904 to 1912. Total road outlays jumped from 79.8 million to 164.2 million, while per mile spending advanced from 27.07 to 74.65 dollars and per inhabitant from 1.05 to 1.78 dollars.
In 1912 thirty five states contributed a total of 43,757,498 dollars to state aid and trunk line road work. The largest expenditures were New York 23,000,000 dollars, Pennsylvania 4,000,000 dollars, Maryland 3,470,000 dollars, and Connecticut 3,000,000 dollars.
The discussion centers on the enduring importance of good roads and the ongoing need to maintain them. Officials emphasize that while creating good roads is vital, keeping them in good condition presents an equally crucial challenge for transportation planning and funding.
Southern and Spaulding report Adler-i-ka is gaining friends through the Quick benefit. The simple mixture of buckthorn bark and glycerine is touted to cleanse both bowels and relieve constipation. Just one dose is said to ease constipation and gas promptly. Mrs. M C Patterson spent Friday in Quincy. Keep up your courage though challenges persist.
Mrs R E Leake of Hunnewell and Mrs Susan Fowler visited relatives here with short trips ending Friday. Mrs Carl Garner left for Quincy after a stay with W T Miles and family. Dean Spalding, who spent the week with kin, returned to Shelbina with his grandmother Anna Powers visiting Sunday. Leland Gulick and wife of Palmyra stayed with Jackson and Mrs Rouse. Money to loan in any amount office over Wood's Drug Store. A 8 Jayne.
Christian's bread sale is mentioned alongside a family trip to Hannibal with George Chipman and relatives. Mrs D R Campbell traveled to Palmyra on Friday to attend the funeral of her friend Mrs Mary J Mayes.
Dave Hardesty, recently ill, has recovered and spent part of the week in Hannibal with his sister Mrs. J. C. Mudd. Miss Myra Aye visited Thursday in Quincy with her mother who is a patient at Blessing hospital.
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