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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
6
Rural column notes federal aid for high school cultural teachers, farm labor, and outdoor work. Local anecdotes mention a rooster myth, threshers organizing, watermelon planting, and a goad about machine gun tents. Red Cross drives in Cincinnati and county oversubscriptions are reported amid farm congress talks and rainfall impacts.
From the Republican Files notes St John preparing for festivities. Wentworth suffers boils and contemplates hard paths for transgressors. Tone Shelton and Guy Elson studied shorthand at Stanaberry Normal. Uncle Jimmy Gaul dies June 4 amid rumors of three buried piles of gold and plans to leave equal sums to his sons. treasure reportedly hidden but not found before death.
The battleship Oregon completed a Pacific to Atlantic voyage to Key West. Lieut Hobson sank the Merrimac at Santiago harbor on the fourth. Dr E J Geisinger surveys a twenty acre tract near J E Burnham to be laid out in town lots. J H Holman returns from University Medical College in Columbia Missouri. Catholic church contract awarded to Geo Roth and Sam Davidson. work to start after materials arrive. Central telephone office set for Townsend block second floor. switchboard and twenty five phones arrived. Hunt Son store at Blackbird destroyed by fire. cause unknown. Tonight June 8 at nine at the bride’s mother home the marriage of Misa Lovella Stewart and Mr Orris Wentworth to be performed by Rev O F Mindleton of Maryville.
A snapshot of 1918 notes includes church dedication on May 31 amid high water, Bishop Weakley sermons, local dignitaries and families like Greasen, Pierson, Hall, Roth, and others. Red Cross totals show $1122.82 gain. members listed, and a sea voyage letter from Milton K H W Boardman describes crossing the ocean and a large pool with whales. Governor Harding issues English-only proclamation with narrow private-use exception.
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