Hannibal U S foodstuff sale exceeds seven thousand dollars
Government food provisions including meats and vegetables have surpassed $7,000 in Hannibal with 300 plus cases via the post office. Postmaster Robert Blackwood directs distribution and urges early orders as supply may not last. Purchasers are placing orders at the post office. items are mailed from St. Louis directly to customers. Delivery to Hannibal expected mid next week with about ten days for arrival. Carriers are not used to take orders to avoid confusion.
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Hannibal
Robert Blackwood
Blackwood
St. Louis
Noted Briton Visits Hannibal and Mark Twain Home
Sir John Foster Fraser, once a messenger to Russia and adviser at the peace conference, visited Hannibal on Friday. He toured Mark Twain’s boyhood home and bought Twain’s complete works to carry to London. Fraser spoke of Twain’s esteem in Britain and recalled his White Friars club ties in London.
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Trannibal
Sir John Foster Fraser
King George
Russia
Lloyd George
Hannibal
Mark Twain
London
Sir John
Mark
Post Office Food Purchases Offer Large Savings
Delivery improvements and Postmaster Blackwood in a plan that promises big savings. People with telephone orders face cash on delivery at the post office. Government procurement via mail could cut costs by about 50 to 100 percent after postage.
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Blackwood
Floyd McCune Fined In Hannibal Court
Floyd McCune drove an unlicensed car into Hannibal and was fined $25 plus costs after deputies advised leaving the vehicle at a garage until a state license was obtained. He said he bought the car in St Louis and drove it to Hannibal and Louisiana where the license issue arose. He is a known local figure and sought to keep the arrest secret from newspapers.
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Floyd McCune
Hannibal
McCune
C. V. Helton
St. Louis
Louisiana
Deceased George Vanderhaar Remembered in Hannibal
Hannibal citizens recall George Vonderhaar who died Thursday at his Quincy home after a brief illness. A brick contractor, he built the Lev ering hospital and the McCooey building on South Main street now housing Hotel Windsor and Odell Jewelry. He was father of Mrs. Clarence Lampton of 623 Bird Street and she was with him when his condition worsened.
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Hannibal
George Vonderhaar
Quincy
Levering Hospital
McCooey
South Main Street
Hotel Windsor
Odell Jewelry Company
Vander Haar
Clarence Lampton
Bird Street
Sunday church notices mix in urban Lutheran listings
By SINNO Hartley D D pastor Sunday school times set for 9 15 Christia de ovor 7 o clock no preachings vices Lutheran St John Lutheran seventh lucky streets Rev Ek BF Sch pastor Sunday school 9 16 morning services St James Lutheran Church Rj N Hlorn pastor Sunday school Junior Bible class 8 am services 10 am Evening 6 30 pm St Peter Evangelient York Ninth Rev Warshow Sunday school 9 oclock Morning service 10 oclock Salem Evangelical Ninth and Tey HW J Keemhals pastor School 2 velock English service track German services 730 pm Evening service Apotorte man serman The Other Sen
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Hartley
D. D
Christia
de Ovor
Jersey
IL W. Bingamian
St. John Lutheran
Seventh and
Lucky Streets
St. James Lutheran Church
Rj N Hlorn
Angelic
St. Peter Evangelient
York
Elock
Salem Eivangelical
Mrs Edward W Muder Dies in Hannibal Visit
Mrs Edward W Muder of Brookfield Missouri died suddenly Friday while visiting her mother Mrs Christian Menge at Palmyra. Her husband is a master carpenter of the Brookfield division of the Burlington. They lived in Hannibal until about ten years ago when they moved to Brookfield. Mrs Muder will be kindly remembered by Hannibal friends. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Edward W. Muder
Brookfield
Christian Menge
Palmyra
Burlington
Hannibal
Mader
Clifford Huber
George Reynolds
California
Harold Frazier
Minneapolis
Minn
W. Ll. Frazier
Laurence Terry
Mona Mae
Geurnsey
Wyo
Donald Parker
Macomb
Camp Point
Sam Curry
Conley Greer
Walter Greer
Tennessee
George W. Wise
The
Christian Church
Pittsburgh
Salix
Wise
James DeMoss
Ollie Hughes
Keller- Mille
Hughes
DeMoss
Clayton
Susan Eurel
Henry Grady
Siloam
Camp Poing
Wilai Livingston
Martha Mileham
Front Street
Joe Huneater
Mary
Sue Lilerle
Hunsaker
John Meatheringham
Meatheringhams
Lee Dunley
Quin
One legged Negro Woman Fined in Hannibal Court
Police Judge Ralph Smiley fined Alice Washington fifty dollars and costs after she pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed revolver. Policeman Arch Leonard found the weapon Friday midnight in West Hannibal. Her husband paid the fine and costs. the arrest may have prevented a shooting incident.
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Ralph Smiley
Alice Washington
Arch Leonard
West Hannibal
Hannibal
Body Of Woman Sent To Briscoe For Funeral
Funeral services for Mrs. Peter Mann were set for today at Briscoe Missouri. The body was sent this afternoon by Undertaker William Smith. Mrs Mann, 34, died Tuesday, leaving a husband and five children.
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Peter Mann
Briscoe
William Smith
Funeral for Mrs. Susan Miller Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Susan Miller who was killed by lightning at her Oakwood home will be held at 11 oclock this morning at Prince Avenue Baptist Church in Oakwood. Interment follows at Barkley Cemetery in New London.
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Susan Miller
Oakwood
Prince Avenue Baptist Church
Barkley Cemetery
New London
HAPPENINGS IN HANNIBAL RECORDS VISITS AND SICKNESS
Local notes from Hannibal report Miss Mabel Ryan a bookkeeper returning from visits to Callao and Kansas City MI Mrs Anna McClain former Hannibal resident visiting relatives and friends Mrs Susan Rigler recovering from a stroke at Sycamore street remains unimproved Mr and Mrs Thomas Jackson of St Tourg back home after visits in Hannibal Miss Katherine Brown of St Louis returns home after visiting relatives and friends in Hannibal
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Mabel Ryan
Lowe Wood and Coil Company
Callao
Kansas City
Susan Rigler
Sycamore Street
Thomas Jackson
St. Tourg
Hannibal
Katherine Brown
St. Louis
Theaters Showbill Display of Silent Era Gems
Pictures Today at Star Theater features When a Man Rides Alone with William Russell. Gem Theater presents The Star Boarder with Larry Simon and Kinogram. Orpheum showcases The Lone Star Theater with William Farnum and Fatty Arbuckle along with vaudeville. Savoy has Dustin Farnum in The Man in the Open. Family Theater screens The Test of Ylonor with John Barrymore. Princess Theater offers Way of a Man with a Maid with Bryant Washburn and Bray Pictograph. Gladys Brockwell stars in The Sneak at Princess. Quincy Theater offers Ruth Roland in The Tiger's Trail and Pete Morrison western His Royal Nibs with a Nester comedy. A stray note on bracelets notes their historic use to distinguish the insane before confinement in asylums.
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Star Theater
William Russell
Gem Theater
Larry Simon
Star Boarder
Gladys Brockwell
Quincy Theater
Ruth Roland
Pete Morrison
Nester
Camp Point Bride Unites Lydia Brakensick and Charles Wilkey
Miss Lydia Brakensick of Camp Point and Charles R. Wilkey of Columbus wed at seven in the evening in Rev. R. A. Omer's residence. The couple, unaccompanied, receive warm wishes as families and friends celebrate.
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Lydia Brakensick
Camp Point
Charles R. Wilkey
Columbus
R. A. Omer
Miss Brakensick
Mena L Brakenseick
Wolf Ridge
Wilkey
Edna Guthrie
Vermont
Frank Roberts
Hailey Park
Paul Fotchemer
Nelae Hounald
Quincy Tuesay
John T. Spence
Aubrey Spence
Roy Liggett
Quincy
William Liggett
James Liggett
Willie Liggett
Dressing
Frank Thomas
Kansas
Flouyd Omer
Quincey
J. L. Grove
Astoria
Will Grove
Sunday Services Notices for The Whig Beff Ve
The Whig Beff Ve requests Sunday service notices to be submitted by Friday by 6 p.m. to be published in the thin column.
Local Churches Schedule for Sunday Services
Christian Church Ninth and Broadway holds church school at 9 15 a m and services 10 30 a m with Rev RH Newton pastor at Broadway. Another church Rev LC Mauck presides Sunday school 9 30 and communion 10 45 with Jr GC and 11 00 for senior worship. Cathedral of St John Seventh and Hampshire priests Dean WW Cone. Good Shepherd Twelfth Street near Maine holds Holy Eucharist 7 30 and services 10 45 a m with Dr Arthur V Francis. St Alban Chapel Spruce and Twenty second streets church school and evening prayer at 3 20 p m.
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Apital
Seventh
Vermont
Women's Mission
Feat Christian Church
Ninth and
Broadway
RH. Newton
Bexat
Christian Church
L Cc
Mauck
Communion
GC. E
Senwor
St. John
Hampshire Streets
Dean Ww. OG. Cone
Good Shepherd
Twelfth Street
Maine
Arthur V. Francis
St. Alban Chapel
Spruce and
Twenty-second Streets
Scientist church notices at First Church Scientiat
The document lists Sunday services at 11 o clock and Sunday school at 9 30 a m at the First Church of Christ Scientiat located near Eighteenth and Vermont streets. Wednesday evening meetings 8 o clock. Free reading rooms on Wells building first floor open weekdays 10 a m to 4 p m and Saturdays until 5 p m. Morning subject mind. PRESBYTESLAN Rev R H.
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First Church of Christ, Scientiat
Eighteenth
Vermont Streets
Yidd
Wells Bullding
eMind
Unsited Deaemtioren Services at Cedar Streets
Rev Trueblood preaches at Hibla school and Christian Fie at Tits Evening services at Sof Croduetion Exercises of the normal eiss Ino in the evening led by the pastor to the mario.
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Sixth
Cedar Streets
Trueblood
Tor
Hibla
Bess
Cristian
Sof Croduetion
Mario
Forces to Remain in Germ After September 30
Washington dispatch lists American units staying in Germany after September 30 including the 8th Army, Seventh Machine Gun Battalion, Second Battalion of the Sixth Artillery, 34th Field Signal Battalion, First Supply Train, First Mobile Maintenance Repair Shop, Company A First Engineers, Field Hospital and Ambulance Company No 26. Announcement by the War Department notes these units will remain while others depart.
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Washington
Ger
Eld
Wapartment
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