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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1900
Page
4
Advertisements reveal sincerity and truth in their tone and claims. A modest, honest approach builds audience trust more than flashy overstatements. The publication emphasizes honesty as the foundation of its reputation and status.
The catalog lists men’s balbriggans and undershirts at fractions of a dollar, A-1 overalls, good cassimere suits, straw hats, and children’s wear. It promotes ladies collars and cuffs, handkerchiefs, underwear, hose, mitts, corsets, belts, and a line of low shoes guaranteed as good as the best.
Official directory lists judges, prosecutors, and county officers for Washington County Missouri. Names include Circuit Judge F R Dearing Presiding Judge Joseph Wilkinson and Clerk John Ob Lone, with officials in Potosi Belgrade Mineral Point and other towns. Courtholding dates specify circuit March and August, county February May August November, probate February May August November, with special terms announced.
Train schedule snippet lists St Louis Mail and Express trains with times and stopping points at Mineral Point. Includes abbreviations like OCCUING SOLTLIE and COIN NOISEEH, indicating timetable fragments for Te. 57 and 4.02, with speeds and arrival notes.
Long list of residents and visitors in Potosi and surrounding towns including Tadine Palmer Caledonia and St Louis with names like John Acer Mrs Tow Miss Maud Smith and Stephen Compton. Mentions market price drop for coal and local schooling and church activity plus a shooting incident at Blackwell with Thomas Seeger badly injured but not fatally.
Wiedon's will in Wallon Township and Shippa hires Danoantet Oak di mension. Residents report Memorial Day exercises at Hopewell with a large crowd and a fine supper at Hotel Austin. Mrs W N Wood and family travel to Wet SpringsArk for health. Sterling P Johnson and Nellie Mafford marry in Potosi with best wishes. Lillie Neeley wins Farming Town Herald composition prize Work While You May. J F Evens of Mineral Point enters Assessor race Republican convention. W J Compton of Harmony Township seeks Republican nomination for Sheriff.
Clarence Judd Quaker of Mo. wed Jane Taylor. Sterling P. Johnson and Carlyon Nellie Flalford appear among names listed for license issuance.
The board of managers awarded five cottages to Westlake Construction Company of St. Louis for 172,002 to build a new in sane asylum at Farmington Missouri. Bids opened at the Laclede Hotel in St. Louis in the presence of the board and architect Hohenschild. Commissioned buildings include six initial structures with capacity for sixty inmates per cottage and a power house, with subsequent buildings to be let later.
Community notes report sick residents convalescing, visits among Mill family, Owens relatives, and Compton and Tye families visiting Cadet and Potosi. Local buyers advertise sale of two cows and straw. Mentions Lutty and Shirley as nearby locales. TraKettle appears as a signature or name.
A vintage advertisement urges even healthy people to try HERBINE to dispel weariness and restore vigor. The ad notes price at 50 cents and lists F. X. Teasdale as the seller in a classic local commerce style.
Mr Martin of Furnace Creek preached to a large local congregation last Sunday. John D Lucas of Flat Woods spent Sunday on the creek. Edith Lake of Delgrade visited Miss Bertie Patterson of Stringtown last week. Will Jornsey of Caledonia is building a new saw mill at the old Requette site. Mrs Patterson of Stringtown left for Nashville to visit her mother Mrs Casey in her ? year.
For coughs and colds there is no medicine so effective as Ballard's Horehound Syrup. It is the ideal remedy. Licensed and see. For sale by F. X. Teasdale.
A recent rainfall eased needs while wheat will be ready to harvest in about ten days. Visitors include Will Scott of Carlyon and Mrs J C Nicholson. A Sunday baseball game saw Flint Will vs Pleasant Milloine with Flint Will prevailing. Local residents are mentioned in various visits and health notes tout Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment as a cure for piles, sold by F X Teasdale.
The Journal reproduces a State Labor Commission report listing Washington County surplus commodities shipped in 1599. It covers cable, flour, hard wood lumber, pine lumber, cordwood, lead ore, poultry, dressed meat, wool, nursery stock and more with quantities and values totaling 8204 6.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to guard infants against hidden worms causing sleepless nights. It promotes White's Cream Vermifuge priced at 25 cents, sold by FX. Teasdale.
Notice from Mr A H Moffet of RIX T Ry Kansas City Mo announces a free mailed book about Colorado. He offers cheap excursions via the Rock Island leaving Kansas City on June 21 July 7 3 9 10 18 and August 21. Postmaster F Writ notes inquiries welcomed.
A fragmented page itemizes an insurance agent in Potosi Missouri and Perry Linn, the murder of a brother in law at Bonne Terre then captured in Corning Arkansas. It mentions a tombstone program for deceased old soldiers and a government request to rest place markers. Also advertises a combination spray for fruit trees with precise chemical proportions and preparation steps.
Readable fragments suggest a local note or brief but lacks clear people places or events to identify. The unreadable OCR blocks prevent a concrete headline and summary.
The report covers several minor incidents: 200 phones to be in service on the Warmington and Plat River system. miners’ dispute over Go charter. Chris Cochlin of vnne Terre injured in a horse mishap with several broken ribs. Tierman Tamel of De Sate accidentally poisoned by dusting plants. three Gill children in Dent Ceclimty fed wild parsnip roots with one child dying and others recovering. Also mentions Ainige PLM Dearing as a county performer, Piedmont Tanner and Pastor R. D. Kennedy involved in a street altercation. a revival at the M BE Church. a police court appearance for Goldsmith and preacher's remarks. Sheriff Hieley’s prompt action preventing a fight. Luther Iieley and AYE. Mitchel in a dispute leading to gun use. rocks thrown by Tairhies. ensuing chase and a hunting pistol brought back by Vine bare-Paris ngetes.
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