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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
4
The item quotes temperance activism and Prohibition arguments amid liquor trade debates, noting liquor stock declines and political shifts. It then details Jackson Missouri ordinances on butcher shop licenses and a curfew for minors, including penalties and enforcement, with notes on the city clerk and mayor.
Aeronauts spot a city below and identify Louisville after a pilot notes a mint bed in every backyard. Jacques urges realism as an actor warns to discharge him. A mishap from the prior night is blamed on missing a speck of dust from a boot.
A long obituary style roster lists authors, statesmen, scientists, actors, journalists, and veterans. Names include Ernest Crosby, Josiah Flynt Willard, Huesell Alger, Princess Clémentine, Gunter, Wendell Phillips Garrison, John O Leary, Osler, Aldrich, Theodore J. Wint, Angela Hellprin, and Edmund Pettus. Ages range broadly with many centenarian or near centenarian notes. locations include Baltimore Chicago New York Vienna Paris London and Cuba. The list also notes former officials, poets, scientists, and entertainers amid a global memorial roll call.
A terse exchange unfolds about visiting strangers, burden of burial, and belief in pretense. One speaker confesses ignorance and honesty, while another remarks on the monotony of conversation, revealing tension between outsiders and familiar ritual.
The exchange notes that Tighe, recently remarried last month, wears no mourning band on his hat. Observers speculate about his first wife, but others think the focus is on lingering interest in Chicago news rather than personal loss.
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