Styles May Come and Styles May Go Milliners Go On
A historical look at Missouri milliners from the frontier era through mid-19th century, noting home work giving way to shops by 1840, fashionable headgear ships arriving by river, and local stories from Liberty and Kansas City. It recalls the prominence of women in fashion, notable hats like the leghorn and Come Kiss Me bonnet, and the social chatter around millinery in weekly papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wen
Missouri
New Orleans
Milady
Liberty Tribune
Clay County
White Cloud
Liberty
Sally
Council Bluffs
Observer
Spring Street
Oscar Hammerstein II
Frank Mandel
Laurence Schwab
Robert Misson
May Births in Scott County Reach Twenty Nine Names
The Missouri State Board of Health reports twenty nine children born in May to Scott county parents. The list records newborns with their parents and towns such as Sikeston Morley Commerce Benton Oran New Hamburg and Sikes ton among others. Several named families appear repeatedly including Armstrong Avery Beaher Dockins Dalton Eichhorn and Lowrey reflecting local farming and small town life across Sikeston Morley and surrounding communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
Missouri State Board of Health
State Health Board
Jerris
Norval
Ana Thelma Armstrong
Sikeston
John
Thornton
Ruth Avery
Nancy
Herbert
Ida Baer
Joseph
Pansie Beaher
Earl
Oscar
Marion Bell
Kenton
Carl
Nora Brasher
Patricia
Gilbert
Dottie Bretzel
Commerce
Edward
Brent
Clausma Coats
Lie detector for Missouri State Highway Patrol
Colonel Hugh H. Waggoner announces the Missouri State Highway Patrol has acquired a Keeler polygraph for crime laboratory use. Available free to law enforcement with tests conducted at Jefferson City. field use limited to multiple subjects in serious cases. Historical overview of lie detection covered. device monitors pulse, respiration, and electrical resistance with a graphic paper record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh H. Waggoner
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Keeler
Jefferson City
India
Munsterberg
Larson
August Vollmer
Berkeley
Cal
Leonardo Keeler
Smith
Waggoner
R. N. Eidson
Chicago
Local Names Linked in Sikeston Directory Row
Tra Lee Ragsdale of Sikeston Susan Ivan Sandlin of Catron Martha Ann Wilson of Oran Carrie Corrine Yanson of Sikeston appear in a Sikeston area listing with multiple residents named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tra Lee Ragsdale
Sikeston
Susan Ivan Sandlin
Catron
Martha Ann Wilson
Oran
Carrie Corrine Yanson
St. Louis Welcomes Summer Visitors And Troop Stops
St Louis sets a warm welcome as pre war declines fade and crowds return to opera, baseball, Shaw Zoo, Shaw's Garden, Art Museum, and hotels. With soldiers passing through en route to the Pacific, the city markets extended stays to turn brief visits into pleasant summer vacations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Browns
Cardinal
Zoo
War Production Board Urges July 4 Work Stint
The War Production Board asked war workers to stay on the job July 4. Chairman J. A. Krug urged un stinting work on battle damage repair and in the textile lumber steel and lead industries to support war production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Textile
Lumber
Steel
Jead
J. A. Krug
New Moon at Municipal Opera in St Louis
Romberg's stirring romance of old New Orleans, The New Moon, returns for a week at Municipal Opera in Forest Park starting Monday July 2. Performances at 8 45 p m through July 8 feature Dorothy Sandlin Edward Boecker Morton Bowe with Doris Patston and Jack Sheehan in comic roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Municipal Opera
Sigmund Omberg
New Orleans
Dorothy Sandlin
Forest Park
Edward Boecker
Morton Bowe
New York Metropolitan Opera
Doris Patston
Jack Sheehan
Ruth Urban
Earle MacVeigh
Fred Harper
le Roi Opera
Miss Sandlin
Boecker
Robert Misson
Bowe
Phillippi
Brakes Improve in Missouri During Emphasis Program
The Brake Emphasis Program in Missouri checked 29 096 cars from April 15 to June 1 using a one inch block to test pedal travel. Of these, 4 654 had defective brakes requiring immediate repair, with failure rates dropping from 19.9 percent in week one to 13.9 percent in week six, indicating a six percent decrease in defective brakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Watchful Highway Patrol Warns of Child Pedestrian Risk
The highway patrol urges drivers to beware of children as school resumes next fall, warning that accidents could leave a child missing. Authorities emphasize slow speeds near schools and neighborhoods to prevent harm during the new term.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miller
Lord Hamlet
Cis
James William Carmody, Sikes
Rebecca Hanice Higdon
Mamie Belle Miles
Chaffee
Fannie F. Oliver
George Washington Hall Presnell
United States
Delmo Labor Homes
Wyatt
East Prairie
Morehouse
Gray Ridge
Lilbourn
Wardell
Kennett
Farm Security Administration
Massachusetts Avenue
Indianapolis
Indiana
Carl Ross
Post Office Building
Sikeston, Missouri
McCoy-Tanner
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate Bldg
E. J. Nil
Nstedt
Front Street
Howard A. Dunaway
Mc Coy-Tanner Building
F. L. Sisson
North Kingshighway
Optometry
W. I. Sidwell, O. D
McCoy-Tanner Building
Romberg’s “New
U.S
BABY
Standard’s
Hatchery
THE
Highway Patrol
Ring
Sikeston Auction Company, Inc
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!