Summer Trip Offer Sparks Curiosity and Souvenir Folder
A fragmented notice touts a summer trip as the most attractive and lowest priced option, inviting readers to request a souvenir folder from a group or agency named in the fragment.
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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1903
Page
7
A fragmented notice touts a summer trip as the most attractive and lowest priced option, inviting readers to request a souvenir folder from a group or agency named in the fragment.
A catalog blurb promotes The Lodge Goat a humorous lodge life book of 600 pages with illustrations priced at 82 and published by The J. M. Vickrey Co Terre Haute Ind It promises many unpublished stories for lodge members and includes a teaser about Goats rides plus Fourth of July excursion offers with low rates from St Louis on M K T Ry on July 3 and 4
Mr and Mrs B L Anderson hosted a Thursday evening event at the C of H Clubrooms in honor of Mrs Andersons sister Miss Beth Patterson of Mexico. Grand march started at eight thirty and dancing continued to midnight with refreshments served by L C Saunders. Guests included numerous local residents and families, with special note of Bertha Jaeger returning from music study in St Louis. A. H. Green promotes Cane Miller and Cow Peas seed sales.
A Missouri editor prints a lengthy editorial defending Sunday fishing, arguing it is no sin to fish on Sunday as a minister’s dinner dish, a comparison that may calm potential criticism from churchgoers. The piece reflects partisan debates on taxation and state governance from 1900s Missouri.
Davenport & Co and W. Hurlbut advertise in The Ruralist Sedalia. The agricultural paper notes a Pleasant Call Thursday by Democrat representatives and promotes the State Fair to be held in Sedalia August 17-28. The Ruralist catalog is described as a neat job with limited premiums offered.
An advert promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a universally trusted, pleasant remedy for bowel complaints. It highlights its value for summer diarrhoea in children and claims it saves many children's lives annually. Available through all dealers.
An insurance man Charles Lasley tried to oil his wife’s chickens and chicks to keep pests away. He rubbed them with oil, washing up to the wrists, leaving the birds slick. By morning the chicks appeared drowned and by night most were dead, prompting his wife to phrase I told you so.
The gentleman who claimed Geo Woods was the first engineer was wrong Horace Kent held the post first and operated the engine for many years.
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