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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1915
Page
4
A fragment mentions rail or service times with numbers and routes to St Louis. Details show sequence of morning and evening legs with train numbers and times but lack full context or complete sentences.
A curious instance reports a ship owner worked to death as the schotioner Johanna Green was seized for crew claims. Six men were owed 2202.00 and cannot borrow more as Captain White notes the ship’s mortgaged state and prior loans. The ship is forty-two years old, in bay service, with a watchman ordered aboard to secure further actions.
A farmer, igniting a lighted match into a gasoline tank, caused an explosion that injured him for weeks. He confronted the merchant who sold the fuel claiming compensation, arguing the accident resulted from defective gasoline. The merchant argued it was the farmer’s fault, noting the gasoline may have behaved differently this time.
In Canton about forty ivory shops operate with two stages cutting and carving. Siam import busts as raw material, first cut with a saw, then carved into various shapes. Carving uses a woolen block, a saw, and a tub of water to moisten and shape the ivory.
A mother teaches her child politeness as a grocer calls daily for orders. The baby, learning speech, blurts out a candid line asking in simple terms if there is more candy waiting for him. The scene captures a charming, small moment of domestic life and language learning.
A trove of brief items reports visitors to Potosi and nearby towns, roadwork, sales, one piano for sale, a grand exposition in California, farm weather and crop notes, church and social doings, and local politics including a local option campaign. The piece preserves names like Miss Lola Simpson and Mrs. Smiley, plus several places and institutions.
Among our renewals the past week are Won Carrigan and H L Smith Potosi and Mre Montgomery Pu thio Colo SN AL Wall of Potosi is a new reader.
The Bonne Terre Register reports that the smallpox epidemic in Bonne Terre is now practically under control and is expected to be entirely wiped out in a few weeks.
The pastor of the Lutherean Church at Farmington condemns the current revival as misguided and disclaims any spy involvement in the large union revival effort underway in the town.
Mrs F Thurman and her daughter Grice attended the Ursuline Convent commencement exercises at Arcadia last Thursday and were accompanied home by Miss Alice Thurman, a student there.
George Belley aged 20 of Desloge fatally shot himself Monday of last week while extracting cartridges from a revolver. The bullet hit his right breast and he died shortly after the injury.
Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Church features a sermon on Spiritual Generation. The program notes question and discuss Teor's son Taolam in the theme, with the article listing related events for page 14.
Charles W. Anderson will officiate a special service at the Moechstatter Scheel House on Saturday. The event begins at six o clock, and all are warmly invited to attend.
The Steelville Mirror reports reliable authority that mining at the old Palmer Lead Mines near Cranford and Washington County lines will restart. Capitalists have recently visited the site to initiate operations, with hundreds of thousands of tons of lead ore historically mined and shipped from Palmer. Previous drilling by Gugenheimer interests left concealed data, while old smelter and holes overgrown now. Active mining is expected soon as options and leases are taken on nearby lands.
Rev Father Canning, pastor of St. dimes Catholic Church, marks his twenty fifth anniversary of priesthood with high Mass at noon. Visiting priests include Father Lyons of St. Vins Saint Louis and Father Rourke of St. Mark’s. Monsignor Comielio, Father Mead, and others attend as headlined by Father Head who will lecture on Joan, integrating history and poetry. A 6 p.m. banquet and reception follow at the parish residence with a special choir program.
For sale two large dressers one wardrobe one bedstead and springs in a described living area. Contact details appear garbled but indicate items offered locally.
A severe wind and hail storm swept parts of Jefferson County damaging crops and breaking glass. In Festus and Crystal City crops were flattened and the Pittshore Plate Glass Factory lost thousands of sheets. Total losses run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Potosi saw only wind and rain with vivid lightning.
The Christian Science Monitor reports a sensation in Missouri road building. A stretch in the Wellington Napoleon district is claimed as the best graded earth road, with district funds totaling six miles in expenditure. The district owns modern machinery and pays staff, with daily progress of two miles. Compare costs for similar Missouri roads show higher per mile figures elsewhere.
A fragment from the Pesoio Republi ch ponders the sweetest words ever spoken or written. It suggests lines like Come to dinner and Lets have one as contenders and invites readers to send in lines, promising an enclosure.
A home crafted tool prevents hammer strikes on fingers. Shape a three quarters inch wide tin strip six to seven inches long with a small end slot. Double it at the mandle to hold a nail upright by its head until driven. A plain cardboard version may also work.
Irondale reports include Mrs. Mary Rooney of Flat River visiting here with Mrs. Glenn and Miss Nellie Brent of Kimmerwick staying a week with her aunt. Farmington residents Mrs. Sichard Adams and family, Thos Conway, and Holman travelers seen locally. Prosecuting Attorney W A Cooper of Potosi attended to the trespass case of Homer Snodgrass, who received five days in the county jail. The arbor meeting proceeds amid rain and wheat harvest. Robert Mason returns to De Soto after weeks with C W Sloan. Capt J F Bennett hosts Mr and Mrs G M Roope and daughter Marguerite from De Soto for a short stay.
The Marble Hill Press reports Arch Jenkins was sent to the penitentiary after being taken away on Friday, following last Thursday’s hearing. Jenkins’s family, including his father and two sisters, visited the jail and broke down when the prisoner left, highlighting the tragedy of innocence caught in punitive consequences.
A Detroit Homing Pigeon Co. coop was sent to the Frisco agent at St. Clair and released to return to Detroit. Each bird carried a tag. One operator freed them early Saturday morning. the pigeons circled the depot, then flew directly northeast toward Detroit.
A broken ad lists Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment claiming a $100 reward if it fails to cure. The copy touts energy and blood health, offers to mail tests, and promotes Halls Family Pills for constipation, attributed to Toledo based sellers.
A narrator describes a train ride from Tarrytown toward five o'clock on a perfect afternoon. He notices the sun setting behind Palisades peak and again at Grey Stone, marveling at the differing sunset views caused by cliff altitude.
In Potosi, residents testify to the benefit of Deans Kidney Pills for kidney trouble and nocturnal urination. H Gayton of Potosi reports improved back pain and kidney secretions after using the remedy, with others endorsing its efficacy and urging readers to ask for Doan's Kidney Pills.
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