Audubon a Lover of the Wilderness Portrait of a naturalist and hunter
Ted Kesting profiles John James Audubon as a frontier naturalist whose bond with the wilderness shaped his art and ambition. From penniless beginnings to Birds of America, Audubon roamed perilous forests, traced every bird, and ignored critics to publish a landmark work for the American outdoorsman. Sunday note mentions Louisiana coal to oil demo plants as a nation’s energy foretaste.
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John James Audubon
Morap Tudury
Haiti
Pennsylvania
Louisville
Cincinnati
England
Louisiana
United States
Pioneer of Driver Education Honored by Auto Club
Bremen Van Bibber superintendent of Sikeston schools received a Certificate of Award as a Pioneer of Driver Education and Training from the Automobile Club of Missouri in gratitude for leadership in high school driver training. The AAA backed program uses dual control cars and classroom instruction, aiming to reduce teen accidents. Walton & Williams Motor Company supplied the dual control car for practical training.
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Bremen van Bibber
Sikeston
Automobile Club of Missouri
Board of
Matt F. Morse
Gus Wahlkamp
P. F. Drury
Morse
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Auto Club
American Automobile Association
Missouri Department of Education
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Traffic Engineering and Safety Department
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AAA
Drury
Walton & Williams Motor Company
District Editors to Meet at Poplar Bluff Missouri
Southeast Missouri editors travel to Poplar Bluff May 27 28 for the press association convention the first in 28 years Speakers include Missouri Representative Paul C Jones Art Wallhausen Charles Blanton and others A banquet at Dunn Hotel features toastmaster J H Woipers A bus trip highlights the program with visits to Wappapella Dam Veterans Hospital and the Rodgers Theatre Leon Schade of Jackson presides over the association.
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Poplar Bluff
Missouri
Southeast Missouri Press Association
E Hoag
Paul C. Jones
Congress
Art L. Wallhausen
Charleston
Charles Blanton
Sikeston
Dunn Hotel
J. H. Woipers
Crooks Children Given to Their Natural Mother
In Jackson circuit court Judge R B Oliver III awarded custody of two minor Crooks children to their natural mother Jessie Stacy Crooks. The trial arose from habeas corpus proceedings begun by Mrs Jessie Stacy Crooks after the death of James A Crooks. The court stressed welfare and noted public sentiment but ruled custody to the mother, who lives on Edmondson street.
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Jackson
R. B. Oliver III
James A. Crooks
Jessie Stacy Crooks
Ethel Crooks
Sikeston
James A Crooks
Cape Girardeau
Oliver
Edmondson Street
John Boardman Initiated Into Tau Sigma Delta
John Boardman, son of Mr and Mrs Edward L Boardman of 714 North Sikes Avenue, a junior in the Iowa State College Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, was initiated as an active member of Tau Sigma Delta. Also honored in the ceremony were Professor Chastian Peterson and eleven architecture students at the Architectural Library in Ames.
Funeral for Morehouse merchant held Tuesday
Funeral services for Harrison Fox aged merchant of Morehouse were held Tuesday at 2 30 pm at the Morehouse Methodist church conducted by Rev M A Massey Interment with Welsh service was in Sikeston City cemetery Fox born October 24 1870 at Vergennes Illinois death occurred last Sunday a 46 year Morehouse resident He worked 20 years for the Frisco railroad and 30 years in the mercantile business Survivors include his wife Jeanette Fox five children Herbert Wendell Harry Henry and Violet six grandchildren and one great grandchild Also noted was a Monsanto official announcing a chemical PAS para Amino salicylic acid shows promise as a cure for some forms of tuberculosis in commercial quantities for pharmaceutical use.
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Harrison Fox
Morehouse
Morehouse Methodist Church
M. A. Massey
Sikeston City
Mr. Fox
Vergennes
Ill
Frisco Railroad
Jeanette Fox
Norwalk
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Herbert Fox
Sikeston
Wendell
Harry
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North Hollywood
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Violet
St. Lows
Family Remains With Children After Settlement
The brother Phillip Stacy and Mrs Stacy retain custody of the two daughters ages 7 and 9 following the recent arrangements.
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Phillip Stacy
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