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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
4
A short newspaper notice lists a subscription price of 1.00 per year in advance dated Wednesday December 5, 1900. The item records the magazine or newspaper's annual payment terms and the date of the notice.
Tax News notes Canton faces urgent need for a new school building. Advertisements tout DeWitt's Little Early Risers as non griping liver pills. Gn Diaz inaugurated Mexican president for the sixth time. Rocky Mountain Tea offered by a local druggist.
Fragmentary clipping notes political results and patent medicine ads. Mentions Wisconsin, McKinley plurality around 850000, Bryan’s drops, and 1904 senatorial retirement speculations. includes patent medicine claims for Buckeye Pile Ointment and Herbine with prices 75 cents and 50 cents.
Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota died Tuesday night after a serious illness. Reports indicate Gov. Lind, a Republican, intends to appoint a Republican to fill the vacancy as the legislature, convening soon, is Republican in composition.
Ballard's Soon Liniment priced at 26 and 60 dr. Noah Martin promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles and skin diseases. A Missouri mutual insurance society named Sixteen to One receives authorization. Iowa law requires crossroad sign boards. Appanoose county needs 176 signs. Peter Sherman of North Stratford, NH testifies Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cured his chronic indigestion.
Press reports indicate a heavy exodus of Boers from the Transvaal to this country. They will likely settle in the northwest or southwest where land is cheap, with the southwest favored for climate suitable to stock raising on the range.
An old advertisement touts Herbine as a tonic to strengthen the stomach and regulate the liver, arguing it protects health when natural functions falter. Noah Martin markets the remedy at 50 cents.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, noted political agitator, files divorce from her husband of 1873 after 40 years of marriage. The couple has four grown children. Lease, a Wichita business figure, is described as attentive to his own affairs and known mainly as Mrs. Lease’s husband. The piece hints that politics canstrain domestic life.
Prepared in convenient capsule form these pills claim a speedy cure for obstinate colds. Price 25 cents. Sold by A. W. Lane.
Jos P Hxrernaton died at his St Louis home Friday night November 30 from Brights disease. He served as a Wabash passenger conductor before his nomination and had been ill throughout the campaign. His death sparks a public legal question since he had not taken the oath of office, leaving Gov elect Duckery’s power to appoint a successor debated.
An ad touts Krause's Cold Cure as fast acting and non affecting to head or hearing sold by A W Lane. The Macon Republican notes Maj. Gillespie’s 70th birthday as a famed former newspaper editor and publisher honored for his long career and ongoing travel as a salesman.
Official population figures show North Dakota at 319 146 up 74.6 percent from 1890 New Mexico 199 219 up 27.1 percent and Oklahoma 308 245 up 544 percent from 1890. Increase in these territories reflects rapid growth across the region.
The Keokuk Gate City notes that Missouri may keep mortgage taxation if the amendment is invalid, with debates on real estate versus personal property assessments, potential double taxation, and possible supplemental legislation. Court battles over mortgage tax on borrowers loom as lenders oppose changes.
Noah Martin, Druggist, advertises DeWitt's Little Early Risers as small pills that cleanse the liver remove obstructions and invigorate the system promising health benefits.
Tarkio Missouri reports a religious tidal wave with over 500 converts. Druggists in the town held a meeting among themselves to end liquor sales and plan to destroy all liquor on hand Monday. The move is praised as commendable and a model for other Missouri towns including Unionville.
An advertisement touts Fialllard's Horehound Syrup praising its relief of throat and lung troubles. It claims popularity for coughs colds bronchitis and similar illnesses and lists Noah Martin as seller with prices of 25 and 50 cents.
Elmer Young 19 shot and killed his father Franks Young in Carroll county early Saturday. The father, drunk on return, attacked the wife with a butcher knife. Elmer and another son intervened and Elmer fired in self defense. terrible outcome as justice could not be served for the other actions.
An ad-style notice promotes Lichty’s Celery Nerve Compound as a remedy for nervousness irritability sleeplessness poor concentration appetite loss fatigue and despondency. A W Lane is listed as the seller.
Monthly enrollment for the district 64 with 431 total days attended and an average daily attendance of 46. Seven pupils attended every day while 31 were absent five or more days. The list of pupils shows many with excellent grades, including Cepha Gooden Virgil Commesser Lawrence Francis and others with 99 to 100 percent.
The list records pupils with grades and attendance, naming many students such as Powell Shaver Maude Thompson Orpha Williamson Annie Albright Chiff Jackson Willie Ayers Elmer Ayers Ollie Gooden Novie Simpson Annie Simpson Beatras Rhodes Guy Burns May Burns Lila Albright Willie Greene Florence Greene Cash Jackson and Austin Shisler. It notes categories good fair and poor and excludes pupils who missed ten or more days.
Noah Martin touts White's Cream Vermifuge as a remedy that destroys intestinal worms. The advertisement asserts strong public approval and notes the price at 25 cents.
A northern town welcomed a circus with sixpence admission and half price for children under ten. Edith turns ten that day and joins her 18 year old brother Tom to the show. At the door Tom pays ninepence for two front seats and explains Edith’s late afternoon birth. The ticket seller accepts the tale.
An assortment of quotes and ads referencing remedies for coughs and lung troubles, Hood's Sarsaparilla for blood purification, and word of General William Booth's planned American tour. The noisy ad-like text mixes health pitches with promotional lines and product flavors.
In a Harlem Life vignette a man asks for marriage after declaring sobriety and the pledge he has signed. The woman notes his past vices of drinking smoking and betting, then confirms acceptance after he asserts he has not smoked in a year.
Daily family question solved with a two minute Jell O dessert. Prepare by adding hot water and setting to cool. Flavors include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. Available at grocers for 10 cents.
A Missouri editor quotes a reader's rebuke and defends persistent publication. The editor recalls past disputes over a cabbage shipment and notes the paper did not drop the reader from the list despite disagreement. The exchange highlights reader-editor tensions.
During a Thanksgiving football game in San Francisco several hundred spectators climbed the glass works roof to watch the game. Part of the roof collapsed sending about 1250 people crashing through onto hot furnaces. Fifteen deaths reported so far. The incident follows a tobacco advert offering Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.
A public sale will be held at the seller's farm six miles northeast of Umianville Missouri on a Wednesday in 1900. The lot includes 24 head of cattle with various ages and breeds, several horses including fillies and geldings, four or five hundred bushels corn in crib, three young male hogs, and other assets. Terms are twelve months with 8 percent interest from date and approved security. Sale begins at 1 a.m. Auctioneers R L Gray G A Starmers Rastpo.
Buyer seek 30 pure bred healthy pollard china hogs aged 1 2 years with meat Tecumseh lineage from a 7 pound hog. Also black ES family pigs from August sow of Lake me over weighing 106 pounds sold at $3600. Plus a Viet corn grinder for fine meal. Write or call Wu A Schnelle Lemonville Moi.
Noah Crooks, sheriff of Puttnam County Missouri, acting in official capacity. Dated at Unionville, Missouri, December 6, 1900.
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