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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
3
L. M. Woods offers Parisian Sage with a money back guarantee if dandruff is not cured in two weeks. The product promises to stop itching and shedding, reduce hair breakage, and leave hair soft and lustrous. Manufactured by Giroux Mfg. Co. Buffalo NY.
R F D carrier David Clark alerted three women at Eugene Maston s home about a cow tangled in barb wire. Mrs Maston, Mrs Turpin and Lena Turpin grabbed an ax and nippers, rushed to the scene, and freed the cow before returning home exhausted.
The New York Tribune reports a postcard from Pavelsko Bulgaria showing a flax-spinning peasant woman and a tall gray-bearded man with a legend claiming Baba Vasilka is 126 and her baby Todor is 101, both lifelong residents.
Brookfield Georgia gossip notes two local men named Geo Lucas and E T Johnson dealing with injuries from nails and boxes. The Brookfield Gazette hints the M T at Monroe City favors a cost saving plan requiring three men to do two, a contrast to government proposals. Mrs James Fields and children visit Mrs Fields sister Mrs Charles Curtis. Annie McLeod of Hannibal visits her sister Mrs Bernie Sandifer.
Miss Ruby McIntire went to Woodland Thursday to visit her sister Mrs. W. J. Jackson and family.
The Hannibal Boosters, about a hundred strong, arrived Friday evening in Monroe City after a parade with the First Regiment Band. The Commercial Club hosted them at two hotels and presented city keys via Paris, with speeches by R S McClintic Sidney Roy and J Will Hays. Guests praised Hannibal as a lively, up-to-date city and extended best wishes to the Boosters and local editors W J Hill and John A Knott.
A motivational pitch urging rugged determination to win success through training. It emphasizes self belief, the fading prospects for unskilled labor, and the need for business skills. It promotes Moberly Commercial College in Missouri as the place to learn bookkeeping shorthand typing and office work and promises rapid placement after graduation.
Mrs. Emma Bevell and her daughter Miss Maggie from Hunnewell visited sister Mrs. Charles Walker on Saturday. Miss Bevell was traveling to Ewing to visit friends. Miss Willie Hampton and Miss Virginia Hampton stayed with relatives at Ely. Miss Rose Mae Smith and Miss Elma Smith visited Quincy friends.
In a rugged editorial voice the piece critiques social pressures on marriages and parental judgment, comparing courtship to fragile acts. The harsh rhetoric mocks weak parents and the community’s gaze, using vivid similes to highlight social scrutiny in Ralls County.
The New Idea notes a rising animated political scene in New Jersey as the progressive Republican wing issues its platform. It condemns the Payne Aldrich tariff as serving trusts and monopolies and calls for a reformed tariff law, marking the first Republican tariff critique by self described Republicans in the state.
Poem-like lines praise farmer youths as future rulers. It asserts prosperity ends where the furrow ends and equates bread production with warfare. The piece cites Frank L. Stanton as author and extols agricultural work and peace banners over battle imagery.
A man’s remark about delicate women is challenged by a forthright courtship of ideas. The speaker presses that a woman’s strength lies in steadfast resolve and clear-minded authority, capable of stirring intellect and spirit alike.
In Macon County a man mistook a burning barn for the comet W leading him to begin praying. Local reaction notes that while urging prayer is not harmful, burning barns for superstition would be costly and impractical.
A Boston boy and his mother study ancient mammals when the child, answering the door, declares an ichthyornis is there to see her. His mother is astonished until the boy explains the visitor is only a collector.
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