Monroe City urged to boost local factories and jobs
A letter urges Monroe City Missouri to grow its manufacturing base to keep wealth) in town. It highlights small factories like the Monroe Handle Co and a recent hand tool factory, arguing more plants would spur demand for local wood and materials while creating employment. A separate anecdote from Cardiff features Rev John McNeill quipping about Cain's wife to a question from a young inquirer.
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Monroe City
Missouri
Monroe Handle Co
John McNeill
Cardiff
Wales
Nole
Tariff battles and cultural notes across 1904 pages
The clipping surveys tariff politics favors in 1904 with Democratic revenue tariff and free trade aims, AMAs stance on army post exchange reinstatement, plus cultural notes on theater influences, nature study in rural schools, and a Minneapolis Times forecast of tariff tensions. It mentions St Paul, Monroe City Democrats, and Denny Fields of Paris.
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Quincy Herald
Monroe City
Home-Seekers Excursions May June 18 Wabash Route
Wabash Route offers Home-Seekers tickets on May 21 and June 4 and 18 to many southern western states. Fare is round trip at 2 over fare with limits of 21 days from sale and stopovers allowed in Home-Seekers territory. Contact local agent or H E Watts P and T A Moberly Mo for details.
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Wabash
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana Territory
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
Carolina
Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
H. EK. Watts
The Burlington Route 5 Great Trains No 41
Burlington schedule details multiple through trains from Hannibal Quincy Kansas City St Joseph to Puget Sound Portland and beyond. Notes include No 3 early morning to Kansas City St Joseph and beyond No 5 to Denver and St Louis connections No 55 Chicago to Kansas City St Joseph and beyond and California Excursions with through tourist sleepers from St Louis and Kansas City. Western journey options emphasize nightly departures and scenic routes via Denver and Salt Lake City. Write for schedules and travel details.
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Hannibal
Quincy
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Northwest
Puget Sound
Portland
Burlington - Northern Pacific
St. Louis
Denver
St. Paul
Minneapolis
North
tHiannibal
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Utah
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Beyond
California
Salt Lake City
WM. Vitzokmald
Wakeley
Ell Tee
Patriotic Confederate Reunion Wedding in Memphis May Day
A chaotic wartime wedding tale unfolds in Memphis Tennessee with veterans from both sides gathering for a May ceremony. Soldiers like Johnny Lee and Jimmy Lent share vows while memories of Civil War battles linger. The piece blends romance with flag-waving nostalgia and ends noting debates on national identity and citizenship amid satire and history.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Metphis
Sermon Ends with Odd Advice to Sleep Deprived Wife
In Lavernesshire a new minister meets an elderly shoemaker after service. The shoemaker asks to extend the sermon to aid his wife who has not slept for three nights. He suggests the minister should say a few extra words to the end of the discourse to help her sleep.
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Brooklyn Hagle
Lavernesshire
Bain
Home Seekers Excursion for Texas and nearby states
The M. WK. & T. offers home seekers tickets to points in Texas Kansas Indian Territory Arkansas Louisiana Southeast and Southwest Missouri Oklahoma Arizona New Mexico on specified dates June dtl tech pal atone fare for round trip. Contact local office for details on routes rates and train services.
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Kansas
Indian Ty
Arkansas
Louisana
South East
South West
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Dtl & Tech
Wweit
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