German Immigrants First Planned Amusement Gardens for St Louis
The article chronicles St Louis German immigrants creating summer gardens and beer gardens as a lively cultural hub. It notes Uhrig's Cave and Camp Spring gardens, the rise of lager beer with Adam Lemp's brewery, and massive beer consumption figures by 1881. It cites Pat Short's role at Uhrig's Cave and press praise of St Louis as the origin of modern summer gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Christian Nunz
Uhrig
St. Louisans
Pat” Short
Olympic Theater
London
Mr Short
Camp Spring Gardens
20Th and
Market Streets
Camp Spring
Adam Lemp
Nnw
St Louis
Apollo Gardens
Beef cattle owners meet at Poplar Bluff event
Scott county beef cattle breeders are invited to exhibit herd sires and calves at the old Fairground Sale Barn in Poplar Bluff on Tuesday March 28 at 1 30 pm. Animals should be there by 11 am for judging with Purebred bulls welcome. County Agent Caldwell notes beef production interest and soil saving pasture ideas using small grain and legumes. advance notice requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
Poplar Bluff
W. F. Jones
Butler County
Charles Kyd
Caldwell
Risco Club Members Study Slip Covers
Risco Home Economics Club members met Friday March 17 to craft a slip cover for a Cogswell chair owned by Mrs Lowell Kirksey. Miss Earline Weddle assisted, twelve members attended a pot luck dinner, then a recreation period led by Mrs A Q Blough. Next meeting on April 21 at Mrs John Zarecor’s home will discuss sewing machine attachments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Risco
Home Economics Club
Earline Weddle
Cogswell
Lowell Kirksey
Don Brewer
A. Q O. Blough
John Zarecor
Prospective Planting In Missouri For 1944
The federal report shows Missouri spring crop acreage 1 percent above 1943 with oats up five percent tobacco up twenty soybeans up two tame hay up one while barley flax sorghums potatoes sweet potatoes and cow peas fall back. Corn unchanged at 4 931 000 acres. Oats total 2 804 000 acres and tame hay 3 163 000. Soybeans alone 765 000 acres. A ten cent rise in support price follows the survey but its effect remains unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Federal State Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
New 4 H Club Organized in Champion Chamption 4 H Club
Mrs Lencil Crouthers was chosen club leader at a Wednesday meeting on March 15. Proctor Pond was elected club president with officers Ethel Mae Lance Lena Mae Daugherty Vernon Dalton Wir dell Bowden and Virginia Fay Dalton. Projects focus on vegetable gardening and clothing. Next meeting set for Friday night March 24 at the leader's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
lLencil Crouthers
Proctor Pond
Ethel Mae Lance
Lena Mae Daugherty
Vernon Dalton
Wirdell Bowden
Virginia Fay Dalton
House panel blocks school lunch and FSA funding
The House Appropriations committee refused to recommend $50,000,600 for the school lunch program in the agricultural department supply bill. It said the fund was not authorized by law. Elimination of the lunch item and the FSA funding, plus a crop insurance revival, dominated the debate.
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House Appropriations Committee
Agricultural Department
House
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Highway Patrol Finds Most Crash Drivers Have 10+ Years Experience
Missouri highway officials report that over half of drivers involved in highway crashes last year possessed more than ten years of driving experience. The finding suggests experience did not prevent a majority of accidents on state roads.
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Missouri
Correction on lime spreading payment rate in New Madrid County
Guy Calvin, chair man of the New Madrid County ACA, clarifies the limestone spreading rate at 2.20 dollars per acre, correcting an earlier erroneous release noting a range from 2.18 to 2.58. The 2.20 figure is the minimum and maximum reimbursement for farmers, whether buying through the AAA or directly from the quarry.
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Guy Calvin
New Madrid County
ACA
Extension Service
Calvin
Farmer's Daughter to Drive Family Tractor at Canalou
Pauline Dollar, daughter of Canalou farmers Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dollar, returns from St. Louis to help on the farm driving a tractor and doing farm tasks. She leaves behind three brothers in military service and joins the family operation as local news notes a wide circle of area visits and local happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canalou
Pauline Dollar
Sam Dollar
St. Louis
Southeast Missouri War News Briefs Update
War Department lists John D. Estes as wounded in the Mediterranean. Kennett man Odell Bunch dies in a late night accident near here. Malden and Cape Girardeau report military losses and missing airman Clarence Daniel noted missing after combat missions. Holcomb and Chaffee note awards and funerals. Puxico Press sold to Dennis Bacon, publisher shifts.
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ESSEX
Pfe
John D. Estes
Douglas Estes
Fisk
The
War Department
Mediterranean
East Prairie
Herman Daniel
Clarence Daniel
Daniel
Puxico
Puxico Press
G. R. Derby
Dennis Bacon
Derby
Gideon News
Malden Army Air Field
Cleaning powder puffs with nail brush and towel care
Use a nail brush to remove stubborn soil from powder puffs. After rinsing, roll puffs in a clean fluffy bath towel for drying and fluffing.
Mrs Bertice McWaters Leaves Charter Oak to Join Family
Mrs Bertice McWaters and her daughter Berta Jane departed Tuesday for San Pedro California to join husband and father S C McWaters. McWaters had been teaching at Charter Oak with Floy Jones named as substitute for the term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertice McWaters
Berta Jane
San Pedro
Cal
S. C
Charter Oak Farmer Dies of Gunshot Wounds
Ben H. Martin a 34 year old Charter Oak farmer died Friday night February 17 at Sikeston General Hospital from a self inflicted gunshot wound with a .22 calibre rifle. Despondency noted by family. Funeral services held at Reddenbo cemetery near Corning Arkansas on Sunday March 19. Survivors include his widow and two young children.
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H. G. Cathey
Excelsior Springs
Arby Whittenberg
Catron
I. C. Westerfield
Zonie Westerfield
Aymon Newman
Frank Newman
St. Louis
Lonnie
Joe
Otto Marx
Claudie Latham
Norma Roberson
St Louis
Kenneth Averett
Charter Oak
John Ling
Marcella
Edmund
Jefferson Barracks
Arnold Lee
Appalone Taul
Sikeston
Emma Patton
Whitesville
Dora Baughn
Patton
Ross Latham
Latham
Audrey Lesler
Bonnie Jo
Wilda Mae
Oval Arbuckle
Earl Byers
Grace Bridges
Joyce Taul
Chaffee
Lemuel H. J. Peery
Edna Stidham
Peery
Fredericktown
Minnie Peery
George. Peery
Bonne Terre
Ben H. Martin
Sikeston General Hospital
Reddenbo
Corning
Ark
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State Historical Society of Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Bailey & Bailey
Attorneys-at-Law
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate
Public Accountant
Public Accountants
E. J. Menstedt
Front Street
Howard A. Dunaway
Mc Coy-Tanner Building
Optometry
W. E. Sidwell
O. D
Mc Coy-Tanner
B. L. McMullin
Startup
F. L. Sisson
North Kingshighway
Welsh Funeral Home
Distinctive Service
Risco Club
Highway Patrol
Pareen ‘Re
Powell Insurance Agency
Jodie Kemn
Edsel
Southeast Missouri News
Kennett — Odell Bunch
Here
Bunch
Malden
T. C. Stokes
San Antonio
Texas
Bloomfield
Stoddard
Cape Girardeau
Hosie Hutchison Jr
U. S. Marine Corps
Southwest Pacific
Hosie Hutchison
Kennett
Odell Bunch
Holcomb
Tech
J. T. Vines
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Sikeston Auction CO
Dixie
MINER
Highway 60
Sikeston Herald
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