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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1901
Page
4
Train timetable fragment shows Mineral Point stations with southbound Belmont Mail and northbound services. Mentions Potosi and Tahona Bay areas, with times shown in am and pm columns, but details are partial and unclear. Entities include Mineral Point and Potosi. South and North directions indicated.
Local notes list residents visiting from St Louis Farmington Caledonia Irondale Harmony and other towns. Mentions include Mr B St Grimah John Murphy Rev Sitton and Miss Nora Politte. Christmas ads at Teasdale's and the Racket Store, a wedding rumor, new band uniforms, and subscriptions renewed. Santa depositories and a sale of gold watches featured.
Murphy's presents the most complete holiday goods line in town. Toy wagons, dolls, rocking horses, toy books, air guns, pocket cutlery, dressing cases, brushes, stationery, perfumery, silverware, watches, clocks, fireworks and more. Also a fine musical instrument selection, candies, nuts, fruits, celery, oysters, cranberries and cocoanuts. Fresh groceries, cigars and tobacco complete the assortment.
Citizens visit the office and renew subscriptions while others travel for land transfers and business. A Belgrade resident sold a farm for 4000 dollars. corn and wheat prices in town sit at 80 cents per bushel. Flag Day proclaimed for December 20 by Governor Dockery. First snow and fog blankets the area briefly. Woolford advertises a large Christmas stock. Revenue collector E C Baugher visits, and American Lead and Baryta Co plans diamond drill work around mid December. Walton lands sale progress and transfer papers near completion. DeSoto Lodge hosts a banquet where Mrs. Lynch garners praise for attire. Irondale Lead Co expects its reduction plant to start early next year. Rail car movements include Conductor Lynch guiding a special for George Gould and Mo Pac dignitaries.
Misa Genevieve McGregor celebrated her seventh birthday last Saturday with a party. A number of her young friends attended and enjoyed the afternoon and refreshments provided by Mrs. McGregor.
In Potosi Camp No 4459 M W A officers for 1902 were elected at the regular meeting including V C A Harrison W A Chas Richeson Banker J B Dumphy Clerk W H Gay Escort J W Fowl C F L A Letcher Sentry A Hamm and Board of Managers F M Deggendorf 3 C Cresswell and A B Sparks. Report on local real estate moves and a copper ore discovery near Caledonia. Serious accident near Cadet injures Mr and Mrs Michael Duffy. both hospitalized with Duffy recovering gradually.
Rev H W Cook of this place won a premium for his Nixonite apples at the State Horticultural Society meeting in St Joseph last week. The display, competing with leading orchards in the state, earned special mention as grand fruit and showcased Washington County's apple growing prowess. A cough or cold can be treated with Foley's Honey and Tar sold by all dealers.
Latty reports activity in logging and lumber trade as Sparks and Co harvest walnut, cherry, and pine. Higginbotham and partners strike a lead ore prospect in Shore tunnel. Huckstep buys a wagon for hub timber hauling. Matlock builds a five room cottage for tenant Metcalf. Miss Douglas and Miss Matlock visit. visitors explore Matlock onyx cave. Foley's Honey and Tar praised for a child's membranous croup cure. For sale by all dealers.
Mrs Effie Horton wife of Alonzo Horton dies at Flat River and is buried at Sunlight. Irondale correstpon dent corrects small pox rumors. Fire destroys David Black house. John Tulli family away. Fire cited stove ignition. near- by homes saved with water barrels shown. Folys Tar and Hovey praised by Daily Post editor Lynch. Over 2000 ducks and geese shipped from Piedmont to Milwaukee.
After exposure or at the onset of a cold, take Foley's Honey and Far. It is advertised to stop the cold if taken promptly. Sold by all dealers. The note adds a newspaper man enjoys visiting a business for job printing from a foreign office and hearing a proprietor berate customers buying elsewhere.
Advertisers claim Banner Salve cures ulcers sores tetter eczema and piles and state manufacturers will refund money if it fails. For sale by all dealers.
A vintage ad copy promotes spectacles as ideal Christmas gifts for family and friends. It emphasizes a perfect fit, free testing, and guaranteed satisfaction with Woolford offering the service.
Hopewell reports a new store move by A F Blum to Powell near Irondale and wishes him success. B E Hunter relocates to Irondale while Sam J W Bryan recalls a boy recovering from pneumonia after Foley's Honey and Tar. Local youths plan a box supper on the 21st to fund an organ cover for the church. Salem Mo weighs a municipal electric plant.
Thomas Davis was accidentally shot in the left side when a pistol in his belt discharged while he stood near a car loaded with logs in Bismarck. He was taken to St Louis claiming it as his home. L J Staarecke, operator of clothing stores in Fredericktown Farmington and Flat River, is declared bankrupt with assets around 7000 dollars and liabilities near 10000 dollars.
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