Personal notices of local residents and travelers
L T Beck made a business trip to Calhoun today. Fred Hughes left for Warrensburg on a business visit. Mr and Mrs W g Crawford visited relatives at La Monte. Hylie Smith arrived from Kansas City for a short visit. R P and Gus Foster returned from Warrensburg. Mrs E Burrowes and daughter Edna visited Higginsville Sunday. Will Lee the traveling coffee salesman visited Fayette. G A Widder the candy salesman rode to Warrensburg. F R Sands left for a trip to Boonville. Walter Staley and M L Starr at an Embalmers meeting in Kansas. Will Connor returned to Lamonte after visiting Sedalia. Adam Wagner departed for Erie Pa to tend his brother Anthony Wagner who is seriously ill.
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B. Burrowes
Edna
Higginsville
Will Lee
Fayette
G. A. Widder
Warrensburg
F. R. Sands
Boonville
Walter Staley
M. L. Starr
Kansas
Embalmers’ Association
Will Connor
Lamonte
Sedalia
Adam Wagner
Erie
Anthony Wagner
Dunn
Paris
Lew Dockstader
Dockstader
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar Cures Coughs
promotes Kennedy's laxative honey and tar as a unique cough remedy that moves the bowels to expel a cold and soothe throat and lungs. claims no opiates and suits young and old, sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Kennedy’s
W. E. Bard Drug Co
Passionist Fathers in Council in Rome
Rome May 8 Passionist Fathers from all parts of the world met in Rome at SS Paul and John monastery to elect a general and four consulting generals of the order. Edward Beall elected mayor of Alton Illinois with 110 vote plurality. he supports renting Storknest flats to families with children. United States shows smallest peace time army relative to population at one per 1000. France 1 per 72. Italy 1 per 100. Germany 1 per 107. Austro Hungary 1 per 125. Britain 1 per 225. Belgium 1 per 130. Russia 1 per 140. Japan 1 per 350.
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Rome
SS. Paul and John
Edward Beall
Alton
Ills
Beall
Storknest Flats
United States of America
France
Italy
Germany
Austro-Hungary
Great Britain
Belgium
Russia
Japan
Payne Whitneys erects 75000 estate fence for deer herd
Payne Whitney plans an ornamental iron fence around his Manhasset estate costing 75000 to keep a deer herd confined. Boonville prepares a 40000 hotel project to be run by Col W R Million, owner of the Million hotel. Bees travel far while ants stay near their mounds. Whittier school at Minneapolis has fourteen pairs of twins and supports Roosevelt with 1547 votes to 161 for Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Payne Whiteny
Manhasset, L. I
Charles £. Sombart
Boonville
Col. W. R. Million
Whittier
Minneapolis
Roosevelt
Parker
Great Steel Magnate Fortunes Stir Wall Street Talk
Henry Clews estimates wealth of leading capitalists with Andrew Carnegie and William Waldorf Astor among top fortunes. List notes gaps, excludes several prominent families, and relies on bank presidencies for influence. The piece also details the Eliza Sage murder case and a related prison life sentence and later parole.
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New York
Andrew Garnegie
United States
Canada
Wall Street
Henry Clews
Clews
Andrew Carnegie
Gambling Tales From Chicago Club Rooms
A Chicago club hosts an evening of poker yarns from gamblers and showmen. Billy Ames recounts a crooked game with a cold deck and a fifth player winning with a straight flush. Other speakers share train and street stories of pulls, disguises, and raids, with sharp banter about blue chips and high stakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Billy” Ames
Butte City
Ames
Tailor Ad Promises Perfect Fits for Your New Suit
Don’t miss our notice urging you to visit for a made to measure suit. Our fits are always perfect and tailored to your measurements.
Piles sufferers urged to take care as heat rises
Advert says hot weather and bad water worsen piles and warns of danger this season. Promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve to ease pain draw out soreness and cure, naming E. C. DeWitt & Co. as maker and W. E. Bard Drug Co. as seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
E. C. DeWitt & Co
W. E. Bard Drug Co
Butcher Specializes in Vig Oral and S Soft Wheat Flours
G. B. Butcher takes over from Ww. E. Poindexter and runs a specialty line in Vig oral hard wheat flour and "S" soft wheat flour offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Butcher
Ww. _E. Poindexter
A Crime of Long Ago in Hartford City
Hartford City Indiana May 8 twenty three years ago Miss Eliza Cunningham a poor but beautiful girl loved Perry McNeil a local character. A little daughter was born and a promise of marriage followed a terrible crime. They became estranged and years later she faced more trouble with the man who caused her second misstep.
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Michigan City
Lliza Sage
Sage
McNeil
Orange
Texas
Lake Charles
Ind
Ter
John Sage
Terre Haute
Eliza Sage
Rachael Cross
Crystal Cross
Hartford City
Eliza Cunningham
Perry McNeil
Time Tried and Merit Proven Cough Cure
One Minute Cough Cure is praised as a harmless pleasant remedy for coughs including croup and whooping cough. Marketed as safe for children and sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Bard Drug Co
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Genuine South
Panama
Just
Knox
Agency
Ieare Vre
L. T. Beck
Calhoun
Fred Hughes
W.g. Crawford
lLamonte
Hylie Smith
Kansas City
R. P
Gus Foster
Oxfords
Ohio ST
Magnate
William Waldorf Astor
Gould
George J. Gould
Marenall Piel
Blair Estate
W. K. Vanderbilt
Russell Sage
William Rockefeller
Tanakadames
Henry H. Rogers
Henry Phipps
John D. Archbold
Henry M. Flagler
James B. Haggin
James Henry Smith
We Ee Ote
Oh Aces
James Stillman
George F. Baker
Rock Island
Wm. H
K. H. Moore
D. G. Reid
Little Lick Creek
Blue Chip
Hoyt Dunn
Fresno
Pullmans
Charley Crawford
State Street
Huitily
Mr. Goodpayer
Michigan
Lions
West
Dearborn Street
Randolph Street
Godlpayer
Mr. Easy
Goodpayer
Tris
W. H. van Wagner
Third Street
Maurice Weisburgh
Arnold Bros
Indiana Town
Union Tailors
Grace
Frank E. Breslin
Ohio Street
Reynolds & Reynolds
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