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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
4
The business offers 15 percent discounts on shoes and calicoes per yard until stock exhausts, plus cost pricing. They purchased $1000 in Hamilton Brown Shoes and plan to clear old shoe stock. A full line of all wool suits and pants for men, youths, and boys is on hand to clear space.
Train time card shows southbound Belmont Mail at 11.04 am with express at 4.27 pm and Bismarck acceleration at 8.23 pm. Northbound includes St Louis Mail at 11.30 pm and Bismarck Acc at 5.81 am two legs listed.
Sulivan Sentinel reports a week of abundant fish in the Sulivan river with clear water and easy catches. A St. Clair person reportedly took over 200 pounds in a day and others fished heavily, prompting concern that such wanton slaughter will end fishing in the area.
Christmas draseth near with fresh oysters at Jane Murphy's and a large stock of holiday goods at John Murphy's. Numerous locals, townsfolk, and visitors are noted from Belgrade to Cadet with remarks on deliveries, births, and business. A new post office at Welch Stave mill is announced with T. F. Bount as postmaster in charge.
Readable text shows merchants in surrounding towns heavily loaded with Christmas advertising. note the contrast with local merchants not catching the holiday promotion idea. The piece comments on seasonal commerce and marketing timing, highlighting a regional focus on festive promotions.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions toleration reward, gas, and several clipped names including Beier and Potusi. Lacks clear event or actions. No definite date or location are readable.
Hopewell resident Mr K C Lore visited Miss Stella Ashtall. Potosi Lodge No 141 elected W H Gay W M A Cole SS W P E Tmofmann J W and Benjamin Davidson treasurer and J F Evans secretary. Sam Mason moves to Liondale. Rudolph Jaeschke sends Christmas wishes with subscription. Maj George B Clark dies in St. Louis Hospital and buried in Jefferson City. Teacher Reading Circle meets Dec 19 at 1 PM in Potos. Palmer mine reports 190 pounds per week and 6000 pounds last four days. J B Sloan renews sub. Sloan harvested corn from 46 acres at 69 bushels per acre. M E church bazaar nets around 70. Flat River Mining Co builds boarding house at Latty. hopeful for big lead strike. Captain J T Hunter opens livery in Rifle Reveille note. Heavy storm prevails with snow, four degrees above zero, quickly moderates. J W Nixon recounts fox trap tale near Hopewell. fox hung in stump, pelt sold for $1.50.
Neoma daughter of Mr and Mrs Milton J Patterson Mineral Point died November 23 1903 after a short illness with whooping cough aged months and 12 days. Remains buried in family plot on Patterson farm near Potosi on Tuesday November 25 conducted by Rev H Whitehead.
All parties knowing themselves indebted to Townsend & Wiley are notified to call and settle without further notice as there is to be a change in the firm on the first of the year. Resp’t Townsend & Wiley Belgrade Missouri.
Sheriff Higginbotham uncovered that prisoners Chris Yarbrough and John Dean planned to escape after tampering with the locking box beside their cell door. An iron bar and other implements were found, and the prisoners admitted the escape plan, losing corridor privileges.
Palmer, a pretty busy valley town twelve miles from Puckeyhuddle, formerly Webster, with a general store, blacksmith, wagon shop, grist mill, saw mill, two smelters. Spaniards found Webster’s Spelling Book here about 1627 during excavations for a gudgeon factory. Lead mining by early settlers and navy beans brought from Texas by the Bean family. Reverend Ball, Presiding Elder of the M E Church, preached here last Sunday to a large crowd.
One year old red heifer strayed from a farm on Clear Creek Belgrade Missouri. Marked with two swallow forks in right ear and branded on right hip J D. Will pay reasonable amount for her recovery. Joan J Declue.
C Johnson and Nancy Burghart. Daniel Compton and Mary Murry received marriage licenses in St Louis. Brief entries name the individuals and their city of residence Belgrade and Flat Silver appear in readable fragments.
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