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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
5
A crowded local column notes visitors and travel from Unionville to Moulton and Centerville. Residents attend fairs, visit relatives, and shop for market hides and poultry. Businesses advertise, including Weatherford for flour and hay bidding, with multiple neighbors and friends stopped by on weekend trips.
A collage of small notices lists travel, visits, and medical matters in Unionville. Names include Miss Nellie Schnelle and Miss Etta Jestus with relatives in Green Castle and Pollock. Others mention Rev J B Lockhart, Drs Berry, and Miss Rebecca Howard, plus local arrivals, departures, and business ads.
An advertisement notes price 81K for sale by Noah Mar Angee and mentions Tiderwood and wife departing for St Louis to Philadelphia and New York. It references Underwood buying winter goods for the Jackson store and Mrs Shaunesdonen seeing a physician in Kansas City with her mother. The notice urges careful attention to vehicle quality and invites inspection of the line.
The eighteenth Illinois district convention renominated Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the House, for a nineteenth term. They also endorsed him for the presidency and will seek Illinois’s support. He indicated willingness to accept the nomination.
Patrick Kyrlie Jr. 14, son of a Carnegie steel plant worker, has lived thirty two days with a broken neck. He suffered a July 15 diving accident in Greenville when his head hit a rock causing scalp wounds and complete paralysis from head to toe. He was moved to Spencer hospital in Meadville for treatment and care.
The Light Running New Home sewing machine is described as easy to operate and mechanically simple. It adapts to all kinds of sewing and is showcased at Comstock-Brasfield Merc. Co. for inspection.
The old cry for laborers grows louder amid harvest fields and overflowing transportation sites. Employers blame worker shortages on unwillingness to drive wagons and scarce railroad staff while agents seek immigrants to fill coastal jobs, a pattern echoed from California vineyards to distant ports.
R E Morgan writes from Three Hills Alberta praising new settlement prospects. He notes rich soil with crops like fall wheat oats flax and barley, expanding land prices, nearby coal mine store post office dairy creameries and a growing town. He mentions plowing costs three to six horses and government road work, and contrasts abundant opportunity with Missouri for capital holders.
Mighty interesting sales note promises fall bargains on buggies and road vehicles. The firm claims to offer better value for the money than any other seller in the country, stating Fiier & Wentworth Merc. Co. as the source.
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