Roedale Train Scores Affects Rolla Express Aboard
Fragmentary OCR shows a railway item with numbers and times, likely listing fares or schedule derailed in Rolla. Unclear readable names or locations.
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1873
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows a railway item with numbers and times, likely listing fares or schedule derailed in Rolla. Unclear readable names or locations.
The Toit Library Association to hold a meeting at their hall on a Tuesday evening with urgent attendance requested by order of the association. Also notices of Rev. J. W. Alien preaching in Roma, O’Brien Bros. fire company events, a February 5 meeting for a Washington birthday celebration committee, and various local business and court items including a divorce decree, criminal case, and name changes.
Advertises toys notions clothing and accessories including knives pistols and musical instruments at T. M. Snodgrass Pine Street Volla Missouri. Late caps boots and shoes offered.
A Thursday evening public school exhibition at MM EF Church drew a large crowd. Training, tableaus, recitations, and singing received high praise with Miss Fannie Hotken honored for acting talent. Taylor's Book and Stationery Store advertises violin strings in Rolla Mo.
A Feb 1 1873 meeting in the Court House drew farmers from across the county to discuss forming Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry. Albert Neuman chaired. N. W. Allen read letters from regional and national officers. Township committees were named to promote Grange organizing, with a central three member panel to oversee petitions and reports. Several signers volunteered for charter membership and more were expected.
A rambling Arkansas letter recounts a love triangle with Sally and her suitor. The narrator plots to sleep with Sally, Ike helps, they trap the beau in a soap trough beneath a bed. A violent interruption ensues as the old folks burst in with gun and poker. The intruder flees, never to return.
The Publishers of Our Finest Purexy Chicago distribute premiums to subscribers under their annual plan, praising the paper’s wide circulation and fair treatment. Mentions St James Round House completion, an iron mine development by M C Tate, pork trade profits from Missouri to Kansas, Wyoming legislature proposals, and a St James arrest for gold theft. The Elections Committee reports in the Jameson vs Hampton contest in favor of Jameson.
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