Trusten Polk a Missouri Leader and Confederate Return
The life of Trusten Polk, Missouri governor and U S senator, highlights his pro slave stance and 1861 Senate expulsion. He joined the Confederate army, later practiced law in St Louis, and died April 16, 1876, buried at Bellefontaine. His career spanned St Louis law, educational advocacy, and politics against Benton.
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Trusten Polk
Mills
Polk
United States Senate
South
Sus Bex County
Delaware
Yale College
St. Louis
Src
St. Laws
Missouri Historical and Philosophical Society
Cass
Butler Polk
Missouri
Thomas Hart Benton
Benton
United States
Henry S. Geyer
Beacon
Hamilton
Gamble Hs
Committee On Judiciary
Senate
Willard P. Hall
John Brooks Henderson
Pike County
New Madrd
Department of the Mississippi
Joseph O Shelby
Mexico
St Louis
Bellefontaine
Property Transfers in Sikeston Area Real Estate Ledger
A sequence of land and lot conveyances listed for Sikeston and surrounding areas. Transfers include numerous parcels in blocks and additions such as Sikes City, Chamber of Commerce, Matthews and Chaffee additions, with prices noted from $1 to $900 and properties in Sikeston and Blodgett. Names include Oscar Roth, M F Roth, Roland Malcom, J J Reiss, Standley, Bertha Roussel, Shackles, Sutterfield, E Lindsay Brown, D P Bailey, H C Sexton, and D P Bailey among others.
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Pow Paley
Nick Carter
Sikes
Sikeston
Oscar Roth
M. F. Roth
Pleas Malcolm
Roland
Early
Wade Malcom
Chamber of Commerce
J. J. Reiss
L .M. Standley
Matthews Sd
C.F. Spann
Bertha Roussel
Chaffee
Geo
Grace Murray
Joan Shackles
Pecan Grove
Rockview
C. H. Shell
J. L. Sutterfield
J EF. Cox
Harry Burton
E. Lindsay Brown
D. P. Bailey
R. L. Bailey
Blodgett
Missouri’s 1939 Fishing Season Opens Tuesday
The Missouri Conservation Commission announces the 1939 fishing season begins at 12:01 a.m. May 10 with creel limits across species. Channel catfish open until July 14, others set for bass, white perch, jack salmon, goggle eye, trout, and crappie with various minimum lengths and a daily limit of 25 game fish. undersized fish must be released and minnows gathered under nets rules.
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Missouri
Judge L K Kelso Named Board of Regents Member
Governor Stark sent 26 nominees for state boards incl I R Kelso of Cape Girardeau and Orville Zimmermann of Kennett to the Senate for Cape Girardeau Teachers College regents. Kelso would join Groves, term six years, with other regents McGee Bailey Lottes Munger.
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L .K. Kelso
Board OF Regents
Lloyd C. Stark
Senate
I. R. Kelso
Cape Girardeau
Orville Zimmerman
Kennett
United States
State Teachers College
George W. Gay
Ironton
State Board of Health
Kelso
Fred A. Groves
Groves
George Munger
Bloomfield
Mr. Groves
Eugene L. McGee
Poplar Bluff
Ralph E. Bailey
Sikeston
John F. Lottes
Perryville
Zimmermann
Big St Louis Storm Forty Three Years Ago
Forty three years ago Saturday St Louis faced its worst tornado tolling over 300 deaths in the metro area and causing 13 million dollars in damages. In the city 127 perished and the 1927 storm near Sept 29 killed 84 and did 10 million in damage. The 1896 twister hit the city’s western edge, crossed the Mississippi River to East St Louis, killing 118 more.
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
Sikeston Real Estate Push and Industrial Survey Plan
Sikeston ideas include Chamber of Commerce funding an industrial survey for city planning to attract factories. The writer outlines potential jobs, subdivisions, and a real estate boom with the Sikeston Auction Company, Bank of Sikeston funds, and a proposed regional securities exchange to lure capital from larger cities.
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Sikeston
Chamber of Commerce
Dexter
Mammie
Helen
Bently
Sikeston Auction Company
Jean Hirschberg
Bank of
Missouri
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Scott County
C. H. Denman
H. C. Sexton
McCoy- Tanner
Missouri Conservation Commission
Kentucky
Patronize Herald
Keith Real Estate News
B. F. Channey
Lillian A. Smith
East Acres
Applegate
East Park
National
East St. Louis
Frank Alexiou
Bill Woods
Bill
Southeast Missouri
Sikeston Mo
Sport Oxfords
Sandles
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