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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
14
The Vacation Reading Club organized by Miss Beatrice Dobbins in Sikeston has 55 members this summer. Participants must read ten books and write reviews. top reviewers will have their essays published weekly in The Herald. This week three children, two girls and one boy, are featured with the best reviews.
A village boy named Tom engages in a dust line dare with a new boy. They quarrel fight then fall into a dirt tussle over two copper coins. The new boy throws a rock before leaving. Read on to learn more about Huckleberry Finn.
A brief note describes Vera Louise Foust’s book about children in lands of cherry trees and windmills, highlighting charming, culturally diverse stories for young readers.
A compiled set of jokes and remarks notes the stingiest man in a Scotch tale who pockets his wife's teeth to keep her from eating, a quip about a famous milk cow named Magnesia tied to drugstores, and a local auto dealer who promises to back up every claim or make it right.
The Salcedo Extension Club plans an ice cream social at the Rootwad school house, five o’clock Friday afternoon, inviting the public. The club recently supervised making 19 cotton mattresses from May 19, using ticks from Chaffee and cotton fillers from Benton, aiding 19 families. A future project will add forty more mattresses. women need only fill and tack them.
A quiz item states the greatest fatal Missouri highway accidents occur when drivers go straight through, not turning or passing. It adds Missouri hand signals are the same as other states, then claims Missouri uses dated signals while most states adopted uniform signals.
Missouri State Highway staff photographer Walter H. Pohl presents a series of Old Mills and Covered Bridges meant for travelers. Features Hodgson Mill on Bryant Creek near Rockbridge Ozark County and Howes Mill on Route 82 near Salem. also mentions Springs and Douglas County mill near Romie plus restored mills at Bennett Spring and Montauk State Parks.
A brief excerpt recounts Wee Gillis and notes on Japanese home life including screen doors, cushions, and a pillow block. It contrasts relations of a boy named Wee Gillis from lowlands and highlands with a yearly visit and daily oatmeal.
In Scotland a boy named Wee Gillis learns to call louder to hear cows, grows strong lungs, and spends time in the hills stalking stags. He travels to the Highlands with his relatives and sits on heather while mastering breath control and playing the biggest bagpipe in all Scotland.
W Killgore of the Tanner Hillgore Service Station has been named local sales representative for the Missouri Automobile Club. He will continue his service station duties while soliciting memberships for the club.
Policyholders and beneficiaries in Sikeston were paid $42,000 by insurance companies in 1939, according to a Special compilation by the National Underwriter. The Missouri total payments for the year reached $81,200,000.
Mrs Ida B Wise national WCTU president says youths are moving away from cheap beer and tavern groups and gathering in liquorless night clubs. She spoke at a meeting in Evanston Illinois noting post repeat liquor issues will find their own solutions.
Readers can obtain all types of office forms at The Herald office with a full range of documents and paperwork available for immediate use.
McGee's Baby Elixir marketed for minor stomach and bowel upsets from overeating or improper foods. A bottle sells for 35 cents. Sold by druggists.
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