Fourth of July Picnic in Hannibal Featured by Modern Woodmen
Hannibal marks Independence Day with a Mainland Field picnic by the Modern Woodmen of America. Activities include contests, a ball game, and a Hannibal band concert. Extra railcar service is set for the day while most businesses and post office close.
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America
Hannibal
Mainland’s Field
Woodmen of America
Sinclair Mainland
Hannibal Railway & Electric Company
Reverend Mapel Aids Lewis County Revival Visit
Pastor Frank J. Mapel of Park Methodist assisted in a Monticello Lewis county revival this week and visited Hannibal to celebrate his wife's birthday before returning home. He noted four weeks without rain, predicting a light crop for the local cat crop.
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Frank J. Mapel
Park Methodist Church
Monticello
Lewis County
Hannibal
Mapel
Working On Honor Roll For County
H R Charle checks Marion county World War I wounded killed and missing casualty lists, as press reports. He works at the Chamber of Commerce preparing the honor roll to be issued this year by the Missouri Council of Defense.
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H.R. Charle
Marion County
Chamber of Commerce
Missouri Council of Defense
Trosper Lands $4,000 Place with Council
I J Trosper an agricultural agent in Northeast Missouri has accepted a post with the National Farmers Council of Chicago at $4,000 a year. He and W E Griswold aided in securing the job. Trosper will relocate to Chicago while Griswold continues local work. Mrs Trosper visits Monroe City as preparations for the move proceed.
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I. J. Trosper
United States Department of Agricuture
Missouri
National Farmers’ Council of Chicago
H. A. Scheidker
Chamber of Commerce
Trosper
Chicago
W. E. Griswold
Department of Agriculture
Northeast
Tresper
Missour
Monroe City
Hannibal
Scheidker
W. H. Danforth
Federal Land Bank
Farmers’ Council
Mass Meeting Held In Hannibal Churches
Mass meetings will be held in four Hannibal churches Sunday night to promote the Civic Improvement league which will be organized next week to curb vice in the city. Leaders from prominent business and professional circles will head the league officers as the group aims to sustain the cleanup efforts already achieved in Hannibal.
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League
Hannibal
Special Fourth Of July Band Concert In Central Park
The Hannibal band will present a special concert in Central Park tonight at o'clock drawing a large crowd after a regular Thursday performance in the park.
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Central Park
Hannibal
Hannibal City May Not Raise Merchants Licenses Soon
A Hannibal city official said the council may not raise merchants licenses for some time. He noted state tax increases could offset about half of anticipated revenue losses. City Assessor Sylvester McIntyre is in Jefferson City gathering details on the 20 percent state levy. Reducing expenses could allow meeting obligations without license hikes.
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Hannibal
Sylvester McIntyre
Jefferson City
Will Cross Ocean to the Old Home
After four years of anxious waiting since the world war began, Andy Dahlgren and his wife of Union Street South Hannibal plan a trip to their parents in Sweden. They depart for New York City and sail on the Frederick VII to Gothenburg, their birthplace. They may be the first Hannibal residents to voyage to foreign ports since the war started, aside from war workers. Dahlgren leads railroad work at Atlas Portland Cement south of Hannibal.
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Andy Datlgren
Union Street
South Hannibal
Atlantic
Dahlgren
Atlas Portland Cement Company
Hannibal
Judge Smiley Turns to Insurance in Hannibal Bid
Judge Ralph J. Smiley, recently sworn as police magistrate of Hannibal after a record city election majority, announces a sideline venture by signing a contract to write insurance for the New York firm.
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Ralph J. Smiley
Hannibal
New York
Judge Smiley selects second oldest life insurer for duties
Life Insurance Company of New York will begin discharge of duties within ten days. Judge Smiley has chosen the second oldest life insurance company in the world and expects to do a large business.
Liepold Company Buys Building on North Main Street
The Liepold Clothing company of North Main street has purchased the building housing its headquarters from the R. F. Lakenan estate of Columbia Missouri. The 40-foot frontage site has a long local business history with past tenants including A L Shanker of William Barr, Little Dave and Sam, and Joseph Lesem before Liepold acquired the stock years ago.
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Liepold Clothing Company
North Main Street
R. F. Lakenan
Columbia
A. L. Shanker
William Barr
St. Leasis
Famous
Barr Company
Little Dave
Sam
Haeussermann Hurt In Motor Accident
Sergeant Haeussermann in charge of Hannibal army recruiting and Eugene Bowers of Star theater were injured when a motorcycle and side car overturned on the Hanibal Palmyra road nine miles west of Hannibal. Haeussermann suffered severe lacerations after being thrown onto a barbed wire fence. Bowers was bruised but not seriously hurt. Raymond Rendlen witnessed the accident and Mr Haeussermann was brought to Hannibal.
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R. Haeussermann
Hannibal
Eugene Bowers
Star Theater
Hanmibal-Palmyra Rock
Haeussermann
Bowers
Raymond Rendlen
Haeusser
Mark Twain Sighting Near Hannibal on River Road
Two miles south of Hannibal on river road, near the site made famous by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, stands a wonderful freak of nature. Worthy a thousand mile visit. grounds free to respectable parties. For information contact E. T. Cameron, custodian, Hannibal Missouri by letter or phone.
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Hannibal
River Road
Tom Sawyer
Vicnie
E. T. Cameron
Missouri
Recruiting Station Visit With Pain At Hannibal
A wounded man attended the recruiting station despite great pain while a War Department motorcycle aided the drive. Bowers operated the motorcycle, with Sergeant Haeussermann in the sidecar during the operation.
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Mann
War Department
Hannibal
Bowers
Haeussermann
Hannibal Men Tour Iowa Tire Plants
More than a dozen Hannibal businessmen returned from a trip to Keokuk and Fort Madison Iowa to inspect tire factories. They traveled in cars of D D Mahan F G Richards and W J Richards. The visit aimed to gauge tire production and spur a future Hannibal plant on Colder street near the Burlington tracks after stock sales. W J Richards and E I Gibson of the Hannibal Rubber Tire Company plan a large local plant and the Chamber of Commerce has donated a free factory site there.
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Hannibal
Neokuk
Fort Madison
D. D. Mahan
F. G. Richards
W. J. Richards
Standard Four Tire Company
Keokuk
Perfection Tire Company
Iowa
Hannibalians
E. I. Gibson
Hannibal Rubber Tire Company
Collier Street
Hannibal Chamber of Commerce
Burlington Railroad
Colder Street
Becker kin in Hannibal area visits and local notices
Mr. Becker visits his brother Albert Becker Hannibal bridge superintendent and relatives while Milwaukee ties noted. Funeral set 10 50 a m Saturday at Oakwood Christian church with service at Haydesburg cemetery. Mrs Bryan recovering at Fulton avenue home after hospital stay. Postmaster Black and Mrs Chowning plan visit to Saleiver Wisconsin. Deport spy Tribich Lincoln, ex MP jailed since 1918, to be sent to Hungary.
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Becker
Hannibal
Albert Becker
Hannibal Bridge
Mr. Becker
Milwaukee
Qakwoed Christian Church
Hayvdesburg
London
Senstitus Tribich Lincoln
Hungary
HAPPENINGS IN HANNIBAL Elmer Miller and family visit Baylis
Local brief notes Elmer Miller driver of the automob ile fire truck at station No 1 and family of Church street visit Baylis. Porter Hubbard sold his barber shop at 1224 Market to N C Trutt. Myrtle Hughesins daughter of Mr and Mrs A M Hughesins of North Third street expected home from St Louis. Mrs Mary A Wright wife of Tally Whele died Thursday at Oakwood age twenty. She leaves husband and three children.
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Elmer Miller
Station No. 1
Church Street
Baylis
Til
Porter Hubbard
Market Street
N. C. Trutt
Myrtle Hugesins
Mre. A. M. Lugeins
North Third Street
St. Louis
Sadeter
Carl Inner
Hannibal
Mary A. Wright
Tally F. Whele
Oakwood
Former Hannibalian New Factory Manager Homer Becker
Homer Becker of Milwaukee has become manager of a large Portage, Wisconsin shoe factory, leaving Hannibal fifteen years ago to pursue opportunities and recently accepting the new position.
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Hannibalian
Homer Becker
Milwaukee
Wis
Hannibal
Portage
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