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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1873
Page
3
A garbled OCR read shows a string of numbers and broken phrases with scattered punctuation. No clear event or names are readable, leaving only a collage of figures and incomplete words.
The advertisement promotes a New Singer Family Sewing Machine as a useful and ornamental gift suitable for relations or friends. It highlights it as an everlasting holiday present that will be cherished as a gracious keepsake, with R. T. Moore and J. L. Donnell as agents in Rolla, Missouri.
A dealer advertises new and varied jewelry and watches after panic sales. Stock includes gold and silver watches chains rings and pins with bright stones. Everything offered at a 50 percent holiday discount to attract gifts for friends and relatives.
Gem Pictures and a Guild's Gallery advertise a 50 cent to 1.50 range with large and small photography options claiming cheaper and better quality than elsewhere. Satisfaction guaranteed or 10 pay. Also promotions for violins and perfumes at local shops plus subscription reminders and regional notes from Lamar to Rolla.
A column of notices reports bargain prices at the Red Store with prints, dress fabrics, sheeting, Nuslins, and delaines. It notes a wedding party near Pine Street where a large box nearly caused an accident and mentions a local editor attack and a court filing on a Wright County sheriff fraud probe.
Card of Thanks praises County Court for use of the court house and sheriff for favors shown to the Christian church of Rolla during recent meetings. Died on Friday morning the 26th of the inst year Martha M. Watkins age 52 from pneumonia.
Henry J. Lorey, a Western Union Telegraph employee and translator for the Western Associated Press, is accused of surreptitiously supplying the Globe with AP reports. The AP Local Board will meet to decide action. Losey was dismissed from both companies.
Notice to creditors that Frank Rogers has filed for discharge in the district court. The court sets January 17, 1874 at 10 a.m. before Judge Arnold Krekel to show cause why discharge should not be granted. Creditors’ meeting with Assignee James C. Barbour is January 6, 1874 at 10 a.m. in Jefferson City.
Mr. aly, now engaged in prospecting for lead, reports finding copper of remarkable purity in Cole County. The discovery is believed to be payable and adds to the region’s mineral wealth.
The Ladies of Quarling announce a concert and oyster supper at Ozark on Tuesday evening December 30 1873 to benefit the Presterton Church. A passenger car will run from St James and Rolla for visitors, with return after performances. Admission 25 cents refreshments priced reasonably. Event starts at 7:30 PM.
A late 19th century notice describes decorative dress items including velvet collars, lace trims, and ornamental combs and coronets. It notes fashionable neckpieces and sashes as essential to a complete toilette and mentions CosrinLo & Yost near Nat. Bank offering around the clock medicine access with a clerk on site.
William J. Powst advertises land sale services in Phelps and adjoining counties with five percent commission and free advertising. He offers non resident tax payments abstracts of title and information on lands. Also small notice for an Estey Organ 110 price and local shop ads for oysters and clothing discounts.
Government notice cancels Homestead Entry No 2357 for non compliance with settlement rules. Receiver J Lewis Moser and Register W G Dilts announce appeal rights within 60 days to the Secretary of the Interior. The rest lists product ads and anecdotal commentary from the Nomistown Herald and Yale Journalism jab.
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