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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
3
Readable text advertises special prices on cloaks for ladies misses and children, likely from a department or dry goods store. The note emphasizes discounted coats and wraps, suggesting a seasonal sale to attract shoppers.
The piece traces early transatlantic travel from the first steamer crossing in twenty four days to Cunard lines in fourteen days. It notes the Dreadnought sailing in nine days and seventeen hours in 1860 and says steamer records have fallen by hours rather than days for about two decades since the five day ship appeared.
In London a U S schoolteacher admires lace curtains but balks at the price. A saleswoman signals a supervisor saying the teacher cannot afford them because she must budget carefully. A reduction is hinted as possible for this tidy shopper.
A clever peasant in southern France deterred nut pickers with a notice stating that all who enter do so at their own risk and listing Corylus avellana and venomous snakes. Since posting the sign no trespassers have entered the woods.
Quick joke about a patient advised to sleep on her right side. The wife complains she cannot hear her husband’s nocturnal chatter with her left ear, sparking a light moment from Stray Stories.
In a Chicago News item, Higgins notes Higgins wears a mourning band on his hat and jokes about a frat wife. He recalls the man remarried last month and believes he is only now feeling his bereavement.
Water for Amsterdam and The Hague is sourced from sea border dunes with summits 20 to 25 feet above sea level. Rain percolation adds about 1.19 inches annually. Water is captured via canals at Amsterdam and stoneware pipes in The Hague, then wells near Harlem go 0 to 60 feet deep to access fresh water. Filtration and aeration precede pumping into mains.
A Maryland farm family story describes a renteacher’s daughter using whisky-soaked corn to lure ducks ashore near Chesapeake Bay. About sixty ducks became intoxicated and were easily captured, earning the girl over 25 dollars in a single haul. The tale rails at duck drunkenness as a market tactic and jokes about human laughter at the prospect.
Sheriff Bernhard Gockel announces a general execution sale of real estate in Cape Girardeau County Missouri to satisfy Babson Brothers versus Frank Sellia. The property is forty acres of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter section 35 township 32 range 13. Sale January 7 1908 at Jackson courthouse south front door between 9am and 5pm for cash to highest bidder.
Notice for sale of a farm comprising 160 acres located one and one half miles north of Whitewater Missouri. Apply to Clinkenbeard Brothers for particulars. Also a separate note about a dressed doll with eyes that open and close offered at 25 cents by G Miltenberger and Co.
Murphysboro based Magnetic Healing, led by L. Haskell, offers home treatment cures for all diseases without surgeon or medicine. Endorsed by national figures, the claim cites hundreds of cures and invites written case descriptions for guidance. Address is N. 15 and Elm St., Murphysboro, Ill.
Everett House advertises coal for winter use promising fair treatment and dependable service to customers seeking fuel.
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