Sikeston Attends District Catholic Youth Rally at Dlmo
Sikeston youths joined Rev J J O Neill at Dlmo for the Southeast Missouri Catholic Rally an all day event with field mass business session and an amateur program The group included Rosemarie Schorle Mary Layton Ruth Ann Middleton and others A series of resolutions urged loyalty to country oppose foreign entanglements support soil conservation and call for changes to divorce and race death laws.
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Sikeston
J. J. O'Neill
St. Francis Xavier
Dlmo
Aissouri
Sikeston Kiwanis Meet Set For Friday Night
The Sikeston Kiwanis Club will hold its regular dinner meeting Friday night May 12 at Hotel Marshall. Gene Couey from Sedalia Missouri guest of the club spoke about the State Legislature. John Sikes of the Junior Chamber asked Kiwanis cooperation on the municipal swimming pool project, board to decide.
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Sikeston Kiwanis Club
Marshall
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Club
Missouri Life Insurance Payouts Reach 79.9 Million in 1938
Missouri life insurance payments totaled 79.9 million dollars in 1938, with policyholders and beneficiaries receiving 218 904 daily. The figure represented 27 percent of state bank deposits and 62 percent of building and loan assets, highlighting Missouri's high insurance activity relative to population and other state metrics.
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Missouri
Funeral Held for Brother in Arkansas
J W Ross returned home from Little Rock Arkansas after the death of his brother J B Ross aged 75. He suffered a stroke a week earlier and never recovered. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian Church in Little Rock and burial followed in the city cemetery.
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J W. Ross
Little Rock
Ark
J B Ross
Mr. Ross
Presbyterian Church
Southeast Missouri Press Association elects Ernst president
F J A Ernst publisher of the Ste Genevieve Herald was elected president at the 47th SEMO Press meeting in Cape Girardeau. The group voted to hold the 1940 meeting at Puxico with officers including RL W Johnson Festus G R Derby and Alden Pinney. About 150 attended the banquet at Idanha Hotel.
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F. J. A. Ernst
Ste. Genevieve
RL W Johnson
Tn City Independent
Festus
G. R. Derby
Puxico Press
Alden Pinney
Scott County Democrat
Benton
Rainbow Room
Idanha
Boulder Crest
Fred Naeter
George Naeter
Cape Girardeau
Southeast Missourian
Idanha Hotel
Arboreta
R. Kelso
Walter Head
Boy Scouts of America
Wright A Patterson
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
James Todd
Missouri Press Association
Moberly Monitor-Index
Edward Gerald
Rush Limbaugh
Charles Liles
Dexter
Patterson
Sikeston Herald
C H Denman
Ward Denman
John Denman
Lathan Taylor
Last Rites Held For Herbert Lankford
Funeral services were conducted at Hickman Kentucky for Herbert Lankford Southeast Missouri representative for the Missouri Insurance Co who died at Missouri Baptist Hospital St. Louis on Wednesday night last week. Interment was in a cemetery at Hickman former home of the Lankford. The Lankfords had resided in Sikeston for six weeks living on Dorothy Street in Mrs Emma Walker’s residence. Mrs Lankford will move to St Louis next week.
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Hickman
Herbert Lankford
Missouri
Missour Insurance Co
Missouri Baptist Hospital
St. Louis
Lankford
Sikeston
Dorothy Street
Emma Walker
St Louis
Quits as Adviser to Harry Hopkins
Gen. Robert E Wood of Chicago resigned Tuesday from his temporary job as business adviser to Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins. He cited press of private business and later noted Hopkins illness limited meetings. Wood, chair of Sears Roebuck, said studies would take more time than he could spare since April 11.
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Robert E Wood
Chicago
Harry Hopkins
Wood
Sears. Roebuck & Co
Washington
Hopkins
Tanner Jr of Charleston Conducts Sikeston Monday Business
W. H. Tanner Jr of Charleston engaged in business in Sikeston on Monday, indicating a local commerce interaction between two Missouri communities. The report notes the transaction activity and location without further details.
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W. H. Tanner Jr
Charleston
Sikeston
Sikeston City to debate swimming pool project plan
At a special Sikeston city meeting the City Council and boards will decide on a $29,500 swimming pool project to be built in the Chamber of Commerce park east of the Armory. The plan includes a 60 by 120 foot pool with 7200 square feet area, 250000 gallon capacity and modern facilities, funded by a $5000 bond, $2500 from the Public Works Board, $500 from the Junior Chamber, and loans or donations to cover roughly $2000. about $1000 already pledged.
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Sikeston Cty Council, Board of Public Works and Junior Chamber
Sikeston
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Conley Purcell
Joan Sikes
Bob Mow
Vernon Green
Frank Miller
Board of Public Works
Chamber of Commerce
Armory
Washington
Jefferson City
Works Progress Administration
State Board of Health
Poppy Day Set for May 27 Nationwide Observance
The American Legion Auxiliary will lead a nationwide Poppy Day on Saturday May 27 with volunteers distributing memorial poppies to honor World War dead. Disabled veterans crafted over eleven million crepe paper poppies in hospitals and work rooms. Local observance in Sikeston will be led by Mrs James S Kevil with a large committee and volunteers collecting contributions for veteran welfare and relief.
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United States
W. A
James S Kevil
Sons and Daughters of the Legion
Legion
Southeast Drummers Meet at Flat River
The Annual Convention of the Southeast Museum Drummers Association will be held at Flat River Missouri on May 25 26 and 27 1939.
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Flat River
Southeast Mauseum Drummers Association
Missouri
Seven Million Bibles Distributed By American Bible Society in 1938
New York May 11 1938 The American Bible Society reported its 1938 annual circulation reached about 7 000 000 volumes in 182 languages and 40 countries. In China Bible production rose to 20 000 monthly, amid war disruptions, with a truckload of Bibles lost and rebounded volumes eagerly circulated. The society also formed Nippon Seisho Kyokwai with Japan, celebrated Japan’s Bible milestone, and noted lifted duties boosting Latin American distribution. In the United States 40 501 Testaments went to CCC camps totaling 250 256 granted since 1935. Publication abroad continued in 18 languages and dialects.
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New York
Boar of Managers
American Bible Society
Park Avenue
57Th Street
China
The
China Agency
Carleton Lacy
Hongkong
Bible Societies
Japan Bible Society
Nippon Seisho Kyokwai
Japan
Bible
Tne
United States
Society
CCC
Miss Davey to Visit World’s Fair Tour
Miss Ellen Davey daughter of Mr and Mrs L T Davey will leave St Louis Saturday morning May 13 with three Hopkinsville Ky young women for a nine day tour of Eastern and Northern cities. They will visit Washington New York Atlantic City Detroit and other cities and points of interest including the World’s Fair in New York and a steamer trip to Niagara Falls.
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Ellen Davey
L. T. Davey
Hopkinsville
St. Louis
Washington, D. C
New York
Atlantic City
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Marshall Wilson to Visit St. Louis Relative This Sunday
Marshall Wilson an employee of the J C Penney Stores in St Louis will spend Sunday here with his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs J W Marshall on South street.
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Marshall Wilson
J. C. Penney
St. Louis
J. W. Marshall
South Street
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New Tee Street
Arkansas
Puxicoln
Ubova
Rhe
Oneronan
Goddess
Elgin and
Hamilton
C. H. Vanson
of Commerce
Latin America
Charles W Turner
Brazil
Amerca
Port c
Mania
Bangkok
Shangha
Hankow
Siam
Tokyo
Miss Davey
Gatelys
Poe Ceres
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