Local notices and fires stir Missouri town chatter
The column runs legal ad rates and missing inserts while reporting an arson attempt at a business block on Eighth Street. It notes a fire caused by coal oil and straw, two arrests, and calls for vigilante justice. The piece also mentions the Missouri Farmer publication from Knobnoster and various civic concerns including education and farmers politics.
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Diebel
Hapytir
Jake Stona
Busines
Eighth Street
St James Fair opens September fair week program
The St James Fair Association invites attendance for a four day event starting Tuesday September 23 with hopes for strong turnout. A recent railroad meeting in St James featured Col Meyer discussing regional benefits and a village vote to raise funds for the St James and Chamois Railroad. A false wire alarm and a quick fire response were noted, along with counterfeiting arrests of Henry Ritchie and a forged check case involving Warner and Louis Schneider.
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St. James Fair Association
St. James
St. James and
Chamois
Col. Meyer
Bluo
Warner
Bir
Lewis Schneider
Louis Auerbach
Schneider
Azro Emory
Am Worthy
Education prizes at Vienna World’s Fair highlighted by American awards
Correspondence from The Rolla Express reports that the U S Bureau of Education led by Dr Charles Warren lists twenty five prizes for Education Teaching and Instruction at the Vienna World’s Fair. Top honor went to the Grand Diploma of Honor awarded to American exhibitors including the U S Bureau of Education and institutions in Massachusetts Boston Smithsonian. Other medals of merit went to Chicago New York Cincinnati Worcester Cleveland and Jacksonville along with awards to individual contributors like Mr Steiner of New York. The roll of publishers and furniture makers also received medals of merit. The Education Bureau officers express great pride in representing the nation’s educational interests at Vienna.
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Bureau of Education
Charles Warren
Oving
General Eaton
Europe
Vienna
United States
United States Bureau of Education
State of
Massachusetts
City of
Boston
Smithsonian Institution
Weand
Worcester
Slass
Cleveland
Ohio
Jacksonville
Illinoia
Steiner
New York
Great Republic
Election Notice for Three School Directors in 1873
Notice of annual election on September 1 1873 for three school directors and one unexpired term. Election to be held at Hook & Ladder Co room. Rules govern use of a fire alarm triangle with penalties for improper ringing. By order of the Board of Education Camillus G Woody, clerk.
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Andrew Malcolm
RP. Laulkner
If. B. Brown
Room of Hook & Ladder Co
Board of Education
Camilus G
Woody
Crrnx
Hook and Ladder Company
W. Weiner, Jr
Babcock
Ian
Peelah
Weller
Devens
Peel
Lang's
Rolla
Chas. LY. Wildstams
Dirvator
New term of School of Minis opens near September 4
James Wells of Chicopee reports on a garden experiment from Prairie Farmer showing a deep-plowed bed 4339 square feet yielding 51 bushels of potatoes with 43 suitable for table use. He planted five pieces per hill, six to twelve inches apart, using early rose potatoes and sod bottoms for mulch.
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James Wells
Chicopee
MASS MEETING OF FARMERS IN MISSOURI CALLED
A statewide Farmers General Mass Convention is planned for October in Jefferson City. The effort unites Missouri Grange leaders and prominent citizens to address cheap transportation, anti monopoly laws, tariffs, and other relief measures for agriculture. The plan aims to organize a Western and Southern farming alliance and invite delegates from Farmers' Clubs and Granges statewide.
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Vite
Missouri
Jefferson City
Friends of Agriculture
Exposition Building rises on Lake Front amid political talk
Aug 23 editor notes current Building at Exposition site nearly complete with $290 000 spent and space limited to art department. Projections include use for grand balls and political conventions. Mentions reform stance of TIM BOULLONS OF Otto and letters from Congress, local politics and rail road frustrations with Alton and St Louis railroad.
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Csiace
Isp
Rolla Wapress
Tim Boullons
Otto
Dick Yates
Jacksonville
Congress
Washington
Richard
Reo Isive
Europe
Joseph
Trumbull
Stg
Doolittle
Confession in Saloon Robbery Ties Suspect to Crime
Scott Worse, arrested on suspicion of the August 16 robbery at Strobach's saloon, confessed to the marshal and led him to the outskirts to show where he discarded the emptied drawer. Authorities report most valuables recovered except two papers.
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Scott
Strobach
Trust Deed Sale and Stray Notice From Phelps County
Notice announces a trust sale of 80 acres in Phelps County Missouri to satisfy a note due under a deed from Turneas N M Wihlweth and wife to a trustee. The sale at Rolla Courthouse occurs Oct 30 1873 between 9am and 4pm. Also recorded is a stray notice for a yellowish bay mule branded KK PB taken up Aug 1 1873 in St James Township appraised at $80 by local officials.
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Turneas
N. M. Wihlweth
Phelps County
Missouri
Rustea
Phelps
See
Aion
Rolla
C Ob. Sanford
Ransom Matlock
St. James Township
John Lorts
D. C. Golf
Menzo Locsi
J.P
U. & Land Officeh
Roosville
Ang. Dth
Moritz Meyers
Parrish
Theo. Wagner
Lov Elock
Rolla Re Press
Rolly
Prank Konkleman
Ozark
The Health Lift Heath Restored and Strength Developed
The Health Lift system offers cumulative exercise to improve circulation and strength after twenty years of study. It advertises a thorough gymnastic method with daily sessions at 170 Washington Street and promotes the Reactionary Lifter apparatus for home use endorsed by many citizens. Subscriptions for regular exercise and instructional handbooks are available by mail or in person.
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Heath
Flbaltu-Lapl Company
Washington Street
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