Purina Checkerboard Story From Missouri Country Store
The Purina Checkerboard trademark originated from Will Danforths childhood in a southeast Missouri country store. He later founded Purina Mills and chose the four square checkerboard design to distinguish Purina feeds, a symbol now familiar on bags and supplements at Eads Produce.
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America
Purina Mills
Eads Produce
Checkerboard
Missouri
Will Danforth
Danforth
Scotland
Wm. H. Danforth
Purina
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Eads! Produde
Community notes and social glimpses from Marella area
A long list of local residents and visitors fill a Saturday scene around Marella with names of families, shoppers, churchfolk, and students. The piece notes tennis activity, health campaigns, school events, and upcoming plays, along with farm work and a new baby birth.
Plymouth Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Illness
Mrs. Vernon Fritts and Belva Fritts visited Mrs. Sam Turner and Mrs. Claud Whitfield. Theo Parker learned his brother Walter was badly hurt in a Duncan Oklahoma car crash. Travis Clement fell ill in Vernon and moved from Fresno. Junior girls lost in Quinn. many local families visited churches and attended gatherings.
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Vernon Fritts
Bobbie Glenn
Belva Fritts
Sam Turner
Claud Whitfield
C. B. Cates
Grandma Balikman
Andrew Hunnicutt
Lone Mound
Walter Fritts
Theo Parker
Walter
Duncan
Okla
J. P. Sullivan
Velma
Henry Baikman
Arvin Graggson
Alazlee Montgomery
Mildred
Geneva Bellow
Leslie Higgins
Prairie View
S. A. Clement
Travis Clement
Hil
Vernon
Travis
Fresno
Quinn
Lillie
Milord Willingham
Hackberry
Davis
Church of Christ
Biland
Cottonwood
C.W. Lee
Jewel Bradley
Nath Gragg
Shamrock
Barney Walker
Wellington
OR A. Fritta
Mo Montgomery
Prairie View Socials and Visits Highlight Weekends
Miss Emmie Winters was a luncheon guest of Winona Holland. Robert Jackson spent Sunday night with Ancel Winters. Numerous locals hosted and visited in town including Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Winters, Grover Batlew, C. V. Elzey, Dick Cook, and the Shields and Oldham families. 108 guests attended a Saturday party. Minnie Presnal, the primary teacher, is improving.
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Emmie Winters
Winona Holland
Robert Jackson
Ancel Winters
Sarah Lee Johnson
Agnes Jackson
Lois Fritts
Ola Mae Johnson
Lou Oliver
Messers
Bill) Wenderson
Robert Jackison
Genesta
H.E. Sewell
C. EB. Winters
Grover Batlew
C. V
Marella and Salt Fork Visitors Reported at Local Farms
A sequence of short notes lists Marella, Jeo Geune, J. P. Cummings, Delmos Brewer, D. W. Harris and son of Salt Fork as visitors at the Claunch farm last Monday. Other area visitors include J. B. Stephens of Quall, Otis Melton, Woodrow Cheves, J. A. Claunch, Lee Mitchell, Freeman Gilbreath, J. A. Carmack, and the Morris family visiting O. B. Wilson in Salt Fork and Berlin last Sunday. W. V. Cottrell of Abra spent the previous day in Marella.
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Quail
Ben Morris
Fr. G. Pierce
Claude Daves
Mabel Jones
Elmer Gilbreath
Austin Carmack
Joe Payne
N. E. Childers
Charlie Ogletree
I. E. Bell
Fay Smith
Christine Carmack
Wort
Tommie Cherry
Shamrock
Jim Cheves
Marella
Cheves
Buel
Taylor
David Weaver
Sadie Ogletree
Elmer Breeding
Alfred Walker
Mazel Self
Edward Gaurneh
Mildred Self
Alice Morris
Vandiike Bett
Troy Walker
J. P. Cummings
Delmos Brewer
D. W. Harris
Salt Fork
Claunch Farm
J. B. Stephens
Quall
Otis Melton
Woodrow Cheves
Pleasant
J. A. Claunch
Lee Mitchell
Freeman Gilbreath
J. A. Carmack
Wellington
O. B. Wilson and Son
Berlin
J.D. Morris
Otto Russell
W. V. Cottrell
Abra
Buck Creek Social Roundup and Local Visits
Buck Creek community reports a series of social visits and gatherings. Miss Willie Jones hosted a party Wednesday evening. Miss Tracy Clement and Lena Lacy stayed with Mrs. Ed C. Smith. other residents hosted friends across Thursday to Sunday. A Sunday sermon by Rev. W. S. Crawford invites attendance. several families hosted guests over the weekend. A separate incident notes J H Moran from Laurel Mont killed a pheasant by striking a bush with rocks.
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O. O. Adamig
Inez Clement
Dodsonville
E.G. Clement
T. C. Clement
Ray Scott
Arne
Frances
Ruby
Clara Kesler
Goldie
Trannie Scott
J. T. Opal
Peral
L. C. King
Line
Paul Dorn
Doe Collins
E. C. Clement
Wellington
Neal Traboy
Leo Teague
Wes Morrow
Willie Moats
W. Bradbey
Bill Davenport
T. Greenwood
Fresno
J. P. Sullivan
Plymouth
A. B. Hicks
C. F. Roberts
Maxine
Charles
Lora Beth
Willie Jones
Tracy Clement
Lena Lacy
Ed C. Smith
Onie D. Smith
Dora Lou Hayhurst
Buck Creek School
Paul Cantrell
Maudie Cantrell
Frank Skaggs
Buck Lancaster
Claudia Webber
Ester Pearl Smith
Opal Barnes
Rachel Crawford
Claudia Tedder
Hollis Barnes
Jack Brown
Ruth Crawford
Lena
W. S. Crawford
George Patterson
A. J. Winegeart
Elmer Sweatt
Wilson Porter
Mrs. L. Tedder
Claudie
W. E. Burns
Swearingen
J. H. Moran
Laurel
Mont
Words Many Hear Daily Spark Reader Letters
Readers submit a playful list of commonly heard words and pronunciations including misspellings and mispronunciations. The note also reports local social updates with Nora Fisher and relatives visiting Childress, a play enjoyed by attendees, PTA and Literary Society elections, a newly organized society, and a theft report of a large lighting plant valued at 165 dollars.
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Tom Mills
San Antonio
Tex
Nicholson Social Updates Highlight Family Birth and Local Attendance
The article notes a party at the Sparlin home for young people, announces the birth of Mary Jo to Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McNeal on February 27, and mentions Nicholson residents attending the precinct meeting last Saturday.
Fort Worth Bandit Receives 100 Year Sentence
Jodie T Lloyd pleaded guilty to five robberies in Criminal Court. He received twenty five years for each count. Lloyd admitted staging five hold ups on the north side in recent weeks using a cork leg as a disguise and then discarded it to avoid suspicion.
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Fort Worth
Forth Worth
Jodie T Lloyd
Lloyd
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Ralph Ball
Grady Finley
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J. T. Baldwin
Mr. Richards
Vance Swinburne
T. D. Hudspeth
Ottice Chaudoin
Allison
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Jeo Geune
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Childress
My Dixie Rose
Flordell Boon
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Tivilia Gossett
Messrs
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Vernon Crossland
Albert Boon
Ernest Willoughby
J C. Willoughby
Literary Society
Viola Hyman
Floyd Boon
Rufus Sweat
Tivilla Gossett
Lorene Williams
Nicholson
Virginia Crossland
Pruden Drug Co
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Ellis Funeral Home
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Essary
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Texas
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nowlin Wholesale Supply
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