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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
2
A dated 1870 poem pasted into a post office notice laments class division and calls for freedom from oppression. It argues that wealth, luxury, and social privilege must not override the rights of the poor, urging mercy, shared soil, toil, and brotherhood.
Atchison Globe quotes sharp social sayings on marriage money and appearances. Witty observations note widowers versus married men, attention, a fire metaphor for desire, and fashion savvy among women. Included: Misses Bess Lu Boarman and Margaret Heubsch depart for Kirksville for nine weeks of summer Normal course.
A collage of Missouri editorials and columns criticizing politics and policy in 1910. Notes on Hadley administration, tariff debates, cost of living worries, and press attitudes toward campaigns, taxes, and transportation rates across Missouri and neighboring states.
A brief item notes Bates County Democrat mentions certain laws that did not pass, highlighting fiscal implications and political context without ornate detail.
A New York Journal of Commerce editorial decries Washington display as nauseating and coarse, condemning fraud revelations at the port. It argues protection fosters deceit and urges tariff revision while condemning flagrant proprieties violations.
The piece asserts gambling persists in society, noting forms from lotteries to market betting, church raffles, and shell games. It contrasts prohibition of races with permissive acts toward market gambling, calling attention to enduring, high toned forms like Monte Carlo and wheat betting as ongoing social practices.
Ex notes playful, dialect filled with humor about skipping lessons and observations of fish biting after school. Mentions clocks running slow after noon, a girl named Hollydays rarely present, and the idea that breaking a promise allows making another just as good.
An East St Louis resident named Le Louis Harry Weet appears in a brief notice. No further details are readable in the fragment.
A Hannibal Journal critique denounces scandal mongers who spread rumors and injure reputations. The letter warns they are more dangerous than highway robbers and urges legal action. Also reports a horse injury on Main Street and local mentions including Spokane’s Frank Richards' death and a Palmyre visitor.
Victor Spalding arrived from Chicago Friday to visit homefolks and reconnect with friends. Mrs. Richard Heath of Hannibal has been visiting her mother Mrs. George Jarman and other relatives. Charlie F. Kistner of Cooperville traveled through Friday to visit A. T. Baker in Ft. Worth, Texas, who arrived Saturday. Mrs. James B. Gray left Monday to visit relatives in Farber and LAddonia.
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