Judge John Finis Philips Missouri Jurist and Civil War Leader
John Finis Philips a Missouri lawyer jurist and statesman served as United States judge for the western district of Missouri. Born December 31 1834 in Camden County he rose from farms to Centre College and the bar. He joined the Union cause in the Civil War recruiting the Seventh Missouri Cavalry and later served as a federal judge before retiring in 1910 and dying March 15 1919. His career spanned law politics and education earning honorary doctor of laws degrees from the University of Missouri Centre College and Central College.
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John Finis Philips
Missour
United States
Western District
Philips
Ctnralias Prairie
Boone County
Missouri
Centre College
Danville
Aentucky
Clark
Central Missour
Georgetown
Pottseounty
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Willard P Hall
Sedalha
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Cockrell and Crittenden
Warrensburg
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South Carolina
Supreme Court
Kansas City
Senator West
Cleveland
University of Missouri
Centre College Kentucky
Central College
Mussouri
State Historical Society of Missouri
Missouri Historical Review
West Crittenden and Cockrell
Roosevelt High Gym Dedicaton At Chaffee June 22
The Roosevelt High School gymnasium at Chaffee was dedicated Wednesday with a Southeast Missouri attendance. The parade led by the 110th Infantry Band, Mayor OT Honey commanding, plus American Legion, Chafee Boy Scouts, pupils and teachers participated. Dr W W Parke of Cape Girardeau addressed the meeting at 8 pm. Music by the 140th provided.
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Roosevelt High School
Chaffee
Missouri
110Th Infantry
O T Honey
American Legion Chaffee Boy Scouts
W. W. Parke
State Teachers College
Cape Girardeau
Water and milk safety urged for summer health
Jefferson City health officials warn that hot weather boosts filth-born illnesses like typhoid, dysentery, and food poisoning. Immunization is advised for all, and drinking water and milk supplies should be pure to prevent disease.
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Jefferson City
Harry F. Parker
State Health Department
Parker
Missouri
Spirit Leveling in Southeast Missouri detailed report
The Bis sour Geological Survey with the United States Geological Survey released a report listing bench marks from Southeast Missouri level runs. It covers many counties and shows elevation above sea level for each mark using diagrams. The Missouri Geological Survey Rolla office offers the report for twenty five cents. Parma marriage notice: Miss Muriel Mae Husted and John Mack Leigh wed in the Methodist church Sunday.
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Rolla
Bissour Geological Survey
Lnited States Geological Survey
Missouri
Scott Dunklin
Pemascot
New Madrid
Mississippi
Stoddard
Butler Wayne Madison
Bollinger
Cape Girardeau
Perry
Ste. Genevieve
St Francois
Iron Reynolds
Carter
Ripley
Geological Survey
Parma
Muriel Mae Husted
Geo W. Husted
John Mack Leigh
John Leigh
Special election set for Murrell Hughes successor in Kennett
Kennett voters will elect a new city marshal on Tuesday July 5 to replace Murrell Hughes who resigned and is in California. Three candidates seek the post as Senath reports the first cotton blooms from Cecil Lamberson on a Spence farm near Senath with blooms from June 14 and planted April 6. John Baynes and Robert Norris were fined for illegal net fishing near Bayou. nets confiscated by game warden F I Jones. Funeral services were held for Martha L Tucker 75 at home. three sons survive. Otto Bullinger formerly Nora Steimel died in Jackson after two years with cancer. burial at Russell Heights. Herman L Hering appointed Ripley county schools superintendent by Gov Lloyd Stark succeeding Myrtle Anne Williams. Hering now principal of Doniphen graded school.
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Kennett
Murrell E Hughes
California
Senath
Cecil Lamberson
E L. Spence
Hayt
John Baynes
Highway Department
Robert Norris
Wol
Bayou
F. I. Jones
Charleston
Justice Court
Chaffee
Otto Bullinger
Nora Steimel
Jackson
Presbyterian Church
Russell Heights
Bullinger
Fasco
Ray
Ralph
Nort
Jean
Robert Lee
Dompha
Herman L Hering
Ripley County
Liovd
Stark
Myrtle Anne Williams
Hering
T’- Doniphen Gerade School
Forecast of 1938 World Wheat Crop Increase
The Imperial Economic Committee in its annual review forecasts the 1938 world wheat crop will rise by about 67,009,000 bushels with the United States leading the gain while Canada and Argentina remain similar to last year. World visible wheat stocks fell to 14,250,000 tons by August 1937 from 32,000,000 tons in 1933-34, triggering price increases and widespread sowing expansion.
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Imperial Economic Committee
United States
Southeast Missouri Hospital Head Resigns
Cape Girardeau superintendent McGinty resigns after five years, requesting release July 10 to pursue other work in the general hospital field.
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Southeast Missouri Hospital
T J Meciinty
Cape Girardeau
Southeast Missouri Hopital
McGinty
General Hospital
US spy net indicts 18 in New York case
A federal grand jury in New York City returned a conspiracy and two substantive indictments naming 18 individuals in a major espionage probe. Indicted are German officials and associates abroad, including Lieut. Commander Udo von Pomin and Lieut. Commander Herman Menzel. Bail set at 25000 each. Witnesses Hofmann and Glaser testified.
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Federal Grand Jury
New York City
Associated Press
Johanna Hofmann
Europa
Pvt
Ench Glaser
Army AI Corps
Berlin
Defense Office
Reich War Ministry
Ernst Mueller
Hamburg
Germany
Erich Pfeiffer
Bremen
Ignatz Theodore Griebl
Werner G. Gudenberg
Griebl
Free Instruction For Expectant Mothers In Missouri
Missouri launches a statewide maternal and infant hygiene program July 1 led by the State Health Department University Extension Bureau and the Missouri Medical Association. The educational plan features lectures to laypeople by two experts, aiming to urge early medical advice and ongoing postnatal care, with outreach to 35,000 Home Makers club members across 41 regional units and weekly lecturer visits to rural and town groups.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
State Health Department
University Extension Bureau
Mussouri Medical Association
Harry F Parker
State physicians spearhead Missouri prenatal education plan
State specialists say early medical care in pregnancy and infancy reduces mortality. They note Missouri’s under-30 population decline since 1900 signals fewer marriageable people and offspring, prompting a new educational program to boost maternal and infant health.
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Parker
Missouri
Order of Publication in SikesTon land suit 1938
The State of Missouri, Scott County, issues notification in the Circuit Court proceedings in the case of Margaret F. Taylor versus unknown heirs of Joe Moore. The suit concerns title to all of out-block Forty Six in the City of Sikes ton. The defendant must appear at the Benton court house on the August term beginning August 8, 1938, or petition will be confessed. A copy is to be published in The Sikeston Herald weekly for four weeks. L J Pfefferkorn, Circuit Clerk.
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Margaret F. Taylor
Joe Moore
State of Missouri
Scott County
Missouri
Sikeston
Benton
Sikeston Herald
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Sikeston, MO
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Front Street Telephone
Merlin G. Anderson
Derris-Malcolm
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Center Street
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Applegate
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Tom L. Chidester
Peoples Bank
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265 Trust Company
Optometry
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