Missouri Exhibit Ready For San Francisco Fair
Missouri prepares a 130000 exhibit for the San Francisco Exposition opening February 18. The 10000 square foot display in the Missouri Building highlights the state's history, people, products, and landscapes with a moving panorama and native rock wall. Commission members plan continuing oversight at the fair.
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Missouri
Associated Press
R. E. L. Marrs
State World’s Fair Commission
Supreme Court
Albert M. Clark
Richmond
San Francisco
Sedalia
F W Sayers
Marrs
Ste Genevieve
Arrow Rock
Saline County
Haven
Kit Carson
Massour
Savers
Paul Summers
Herbert Tanner
State Highway Department
State World's Fair Commission
New York
Cairo Saturday night ends in two deaths and injuries
Last Saturday Cairo witnessed two fatal confrontations and multiple injuries. Constable James DeJarmatt died at St Marys Hospital after a fight with WPA timekeeper John Morehead, who was drunk and later remorseful. Minutes later Booker T West was fatally stabbed by Johnnie Mae Foodson after a dispute over threats and a gun. A third man, Robert Briggs, was knocked unconscious in the vicinity as a white assailant, B E Baggett, struck him.
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Cairo
James William DeJarmatt
St. Mary’s Hospital
John Morehead
Charleston
Morehead
Strkck
Sikeston
Mississippi
Booker T West
Johnnie Mae Foodson
West
Robert Briggs
E Baggett
Star of Sikeston Forty-Nine Years Ago Details
A copy of the Star of Sikeston dated January 17 1890 arrived at The Herald. The four page issue carried dense ads on front and scarce headlines with scattered world notes. It quoted odd items such as a deer law, hogs killed, a stray ox and local curiosities reflecting early Sikeston reporting.
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Star of
Sikeston
John Scott
M N. Miller
Dexter
Cyciores
al Efim
Clinton
Wickelrre
St Lars
George A Lutz
A Carness Mother's Lesson and Local Notes
A small boy dies from clothes catching fire while his mother was briefly away. Mrs. E. E. Arthur improves after two weeks of illness. A tin cake box aids the working girl managing a room, keeping bread cereal crackers fresh. Instructions urge oiling sewing machine balance wheel and shuttle shaft with few drops of oil at every other use.
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Carness
Negroes Fined for Attempted Assault Near Station
A. D. Redd was fined 52.50 and given six months in jail, paroled to his employer C. T. Keller, after allegedly attempting to knife Fred Gurley at a Martian Oil Co station. Raymond White was fined 1250 and paroled to Loomis Mayfield following the same incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Redd
Claude McManus
Walter Hughes
Fred Gurley
C. T. Keller
Raymond White
Loomis Mayfield
Martian Oil Company
Gurley
Gasolne
Redd
Sikeston Real Estate Ad Turns Town Into Hollywood Warning
Keith Real Estate News chronicles Sikeston's notoriety from the Sharecroppers' convention on U S Highway 61. It claims national attention will draw tourists and new residents, noting sales details and local figures, with colorful anecdotes about Leonard McMullin and a boast about Ed Coleman’s farming.
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Sam Salt
Bimbo Gump
Sikeston
U. S. Highway 61
Hollywood
California
United States
U.S. 61
Farmers Grain Co
Leonard McMullin
Leonard
Keith
Highway 60
Ed Coleman
Board of
Public Works
Coleman
Kotex
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Frisco
ST Louis
Cairroftel
Sikes Winchester and Co
Frank Heisler
Jones & Bro
Handy Moore
George S Ellmit
John Marsnail
M WW Phillips
New Madrid
E. E. Arthur
Gene Potashnick
A E O'Hara
Winston Salem
Asheville
Knoxville
Tenners O'Hara
Washington
Caleb Smith
E. Malone
Sikeston, Mo
Likeston
Hatchery
J. M. Colvin
P. O. Box
Corno
Missouri Pacific Cor
Fec
Missouri Pacific
Keith Real Estate News
East Acres
B. F. Chaney
Lillian A. Smith
Applegate
Sikeston East Addition
Dexter East
Billie Keith
Bank of Sikeston
U.S. Highway 61
John Huffman
John the Basket
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