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Newspaper Trivia
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This page will have trivia. You know,
that information that is totally useless. On a need-to-know basis, you
don't ever need to know any of this. Data devoid of any value....the kind
of stuff that is so EASY to remember unlike those birthdays and anniversaries
and other IMPORTANT dates that completely slip your mind.
I love newspapers! and at this time figure
that I have read 700 years of area news. These tidbits of trivia are just
too good to pass up..they need to be shared. Pat
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| Warren Melvin of Phelps City, Missouri
advertised in the paper for a wife. Clarinda Herald,
(Clarinda, Iowa) June 15, 1925 |
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| Joseph Cass and Maggie Walker got in a
fight with George Masters over some fruit jars. Shots were fired, nobody
killed. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri), August 19
& 26, 1886 |
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| John Nicholas, plowing near Braddyville,
found 2 rusty guns, a tomahawk, hunting knife and the remains of two human
beings. Shenandoah World (Shenandoah, Iowa), May 16, 1905 |
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| Charlie Norton, whom everyone thought had
been murdered 29 years ago, returned to Blockton for a few days visit. Taylor
County Herald (Bedford, Iowa), September 15, 1932 |
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| Ed Ridenour was out hunting Sunday and
killed...well, the middle toe on his left foot actually. Clarinda
Herald (Clarinda, Iowa), October 9, 1894 |
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| J. Fairley and wife, who separated here
last week, have kissed and made up, and will go to housekeeping somewhere
else. Jim is a good fellow in a general way, but it has taken him more years
than it ought to have done to cross the divide on fool's hill, and to settle
down to a pleasant home life. If God ever allows mud to go to waste it is
in letting it be toted around by some old fool who has started out to sow
a second crop of wild oats. Blockton News (Blockton, Iowa),
April 7, 1898 |
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| Ed Dwire living 3 miles south of Maryville
a few days since went out to the pasture to get a horse and thinking he
might as well ride back he mounted without bridle or halter; when the horse
began to run he met a tree and received severe wounds about the head. At
last accounts he is getting along nicely. Nodaway Democrat
(Maryville, Missouri), January 2, 1890 |
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| Anna Donahoo, 15, and John McClellan, of
Gentry County (Mo) tried to get a marriage license. Her mother had sent
a note that she gave her permission for Anna Donahoo to marry Andy Umphrey.
No one knew who Andy was. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Mo),
June 11, 1885 |
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| Grandpa Hull had a serious attack of sick.
Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Mo), October 4, 1888 |
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| A.A. Barton and Robert Blake took a hunt
last week. They fired at a coon up in a tree and killed it. Amos climbed
the tree and discovered that they had murdered an owl in cold blood. Everything
in a tree now is an owl. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri),
October 16, 1890 |
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| Dr. J.M. Brand can't find his insane wife;
if seen, please contact him. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville,
Missouri), June 14, 1871 |
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| Jack Brink was in Mound City and confidentially
informed the editor there that the rumor about him dying of smallpox was
not true. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri), August 1,
1895 |
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During the
night, someone stole the braid from 8-year old Lena Taylor. Shenandoah
Sentinel Post (Shenandoah, Iowa), September
5, 1913 |
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| W.W. Wygle of Gentry
County was in town Tuesday looking at our beautiful women. He is in
need of a wife. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri),
Feb 1, 1894 |
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| At the John Ritze home,
while the family was eating supper, someone stole all their underwear
from the clothes line. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville,
Missouri), December 8, 1892 |
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| Lafe Rambo was out riding
with Miss Jett Moore when his horses became frightened; he has 2 broken
legs and she has bruises. Buggy is deceased and the horses unfound.
Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri), Sep 13, 1888 |
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| Fred Parshall
accidently discharged a shot gun in hardware store; no one hurt.
Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri), December 23, 1897 |
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| Judge Pointer of Holt County, Missouri,
died; malignant attack of cholera morbus; laid him out, all at once he sat
up and is getting better. Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri),
July 31, 1884 |
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| John P. Reynolds, ex-convict and prominent
politician of Leavenworth, Kansas, is now judged insane. Nodaway Democrat
(Maryville, Missouri), December 28, 1893 |
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