Elaborate Missouri Pioneer Funerals From Past Century
The State Historical Society recounts Missouri funerals as costly social events with lavish hospitality, midnight feasts, and expensive coffins and flowers. Pioneers buried in rough-board coffins on open hillsides, with graves dug wide and a vault-like recess, no embalming, and solemn processions on hard roads.
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State Historical Society of
Missouri
Floyd Co. Shoemaker
Mr. B
Mr. A
Brother C
Ozark
Individual earnings soar to 142 billions in 1943
Washington reporting shows payments to individuals rose to 142 billion dollars in 1943, a wartime peak far exceeding 1933. The Office of War Information and Commerce Department note consumer spending at 90.6 billion, with wage earnings up 26 billion from 1942. corporate figures for 1943 were not yet released.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Commerce Department
Step by step guide to filling tax form 1040A
A detailed example shows John J. Jones with income of 2600 wages plus 25 interest, using the 1040A short form. It walks through entering wages, interest, credits, deductions, tax brackets, victory tax, and final payment of 13.86 with forms 1125. The narrative emphasizes reading instructions, collecting figures, and following the table to determine tax owed.
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Bureau of Internal Revenue
Jones
Internal Revenue
Henry Smith Company
Mary
Sam
War cuts deep six killed in one family in war
Atlanta residents learn that Lt. Nick Zadorkin was killed in Burma, marking the sixth death in Helen Conner's immediate family from the war. Her son William B. Conner and husband W J B Conner were killed in Tunisia and the Marshalls respectively, with Vera Zadorkin dying in a ferry plane mission and Alex Zadorkin in North Africa. Mike Zadorkin and Nick Zadorkin also lost in the Pacific and Burma.
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Atlanta
Helen Conner
Nick Zadorkin
Burma
William B. Conner
Tunisia
W. J. B. Conner
Marshalls
Vera Zadorkin
Alex Zadorkin
North Africa
Mike Zadorkin
Pacific
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Pioneer
Bailey & Bailey Attorneys-at-Law
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate Bldg
Public Accountant
Public Accountants
Sikeston
E. J. Menstedt
Front Street
Howard A. Dunaway
Mc Coy-Tanner Building
Optometry
W. S. Sidwell
O. D
Mc Coy-Tanner
Moo
B. L. McMullin
Stallcup
F. L. Sisson
North Kingshighway
Welsh Funeral Home
Home of
Distinctive Service
Chiye
The
Herald
John J. Jones
West High Street
Missouri Association OF Utilities
Jefferson City, Missouri
America
WAR Fund
RED Cross
His
SIDE
F. & M. Oil CO
Ben Matthews
Fred Matthews
Malone Avenue
Ranney Street
Sikeston, Missouri
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