21 Jun 1905
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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1905
Page
1
The text notes Missouri's progress since adopting a Republican stance last fall and laments continuing muddle within the Board of Lady Managers of the St. Louis world’s fair, suggesting the board has long been in disarray since its appointment.
A writer laments that no high ranking boodlers have been punished and asks whether boodling is split into a conventional offense and a crime warranting penitentiary time, suggesting unequal accountability among officials.
The excerpt questions John D. Rockefeller’s wealth versus his reputed riches and suggests his recent income is largely absorbed by generous gifts. It questions whether such benevolence is worthy of praise and advocates for directing wealth to educational institutions already well funded.
The St Louis Mirror argues the Sunday closing law harms brewers, saloon keepers, and workers, while critics say losses reach 4 million yearly with millions more at stake for city revenue. The piece contrasts economic cost with true patriotism, urging peaceful civic duty over mercantile interests.
The Mirror argued morality benefits from Sunday closing of saloons but police records counter. City reports show arrests dropped about sixty percent after the first Sunday closures, suggesting a strong moral impact.
A Kansas City Journal item recounts a humorous tale of marital disagreement over medicine. Mr John W Young of Lincoln Illinois relates that his wife and he both had colds and chose different Hart’s Honey and Hoarhound products, with the wife’s choice failing to cure her cough. The ad notes Hart’s Honey and Hoarhound sold by F X Teasdale and J L Eaton in various bottle sizes.
John Jacob Astor writes in Collier's about the business automobile expanding from coal deliveries to rural mail and varied work. Horses will fade from cities, street maintenance improves, and the touring car becomes a key in education and recreation. Large cars offer long journeys, while small runabouts grow householdly essential. racing cars may someday defy gravity.
The Westerman vs Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias case holds that no policy can be forfeited after three payments, and policy value is determined by the law, applying to fraternal and regular insurance. A member who pays gains rights in his policy’s value, which his representative may recover.
A man refuses to subscribe so his son borrows a neighbor's paper. The boy stumbles into a stand of bees, swelling like a squash. The father breaks a barbed wire fence cutting flesh, ruining pants, while a cow eats green corn and dies. A churn spills cream into kittens, and a set of teeth is dropped. The baby crawls through the cream into the parlor.
E H Wolfe of Bear Grove Iowa credits Electric Litters for curing kidney trouble two years ago. He says the medicine eased pain and debility and he keeps them on hand for nerves and general weakness. All druggists sell at 50 cents.
A Columbus man reports a deep foot wound from an accident and credits Bucklin's Arnica Salve with rapid relief. The testimonial notes physicians were of little help, while the salve quickly healed the injury. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
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