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Residence seeks advertising rates for locals with 6 cents per item and 3s per year. Advertisements legal rates and display ad rates are available on application.
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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1905
Page
2
Residence seeks advertising rates for locals with 6 cents per item and 3s per year. Advertisements legal rates and display ad rates are available on application.
A local directory lists mayor ward officials and city officers. The piece endorses a new county courthouse, discusses water works, and argues for self regulation and practical law over broad licensing. It cites editorials and urges readers to vote for the courthouse while urging informed judgment.
Last week Barkis urged a committee of the county’s wisest taxpayers to seek a new courthouse and a majority of qualified voters to back them. Now over 1,000 taxpayers have petitioned the county court to decide the issue.
A Jackson citywide appeal urges August 26 vote to approve a new court house and water works plan. Editors pledge support, defend council integrity, and urge taxpayers to back the proposition while noting water options including well and creek water with Hubble Creek as a purer alternative.
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a modern medicine to clean the blood and system. It claims the pills cure stomach and liver troubles and are guaranteed, sold by Woods drug store at a price of 2 cents each.
A brief medicinal advertisement describing a severe throat and airway inflammation common in children. It recommends Ballard's Horehound Syrup for relief and Ballard's Snow Liniment for external throat application, with prices 25c 50c and 1.00, sold by Drs. S. and Woods, druggists.
The Herald notes readers will find the paper averages a fair value, with apologies declared as rare. It remarks the paper’s size varies but aims to deliver value, likening a $1.50 price to a $1.00 annual worth.
The town endures heavy rainfall the heaviest yet, with wheat to thresh and corn to drain. Wm Cox threshes, ducks and geese fatten on grasshoppers, and blackberries are still being picked. John Hitt thrives in fishing work while Adam Cox plans to start tomorrow. Homer Beck hunts watermelon patches as Jim Punch and Jake Rudleman continue their partnership. Frank Rees burns with heat, A J Cook adds screen doors to keep flies at bay.
Sunday sermon by Rev J J Lovett expounded 1 Corinthians chapter thirteen focusing on long suffering kindness and humility. He denounced favoritism and urged preaching the pure gospel regardless of outcome, earning the author’s praise.
The letter reports record high flood water, ten inch rainfall in twelve hours, corn and oats losses, damaged bridges at Millerville and Critesville, and H M Kurre’s ruined watermelons. A cistern accident near Haupt left Riehn near death but recovered, wheat threshing late, Mrs Dalton aged and frail, a push for stock law, and creeks forcing most fields onto higher ground with farms for sale along creeks. The Kurreville congregation plans an August 13 mission feast.
Indigestion and a wide range of related symptoms including heart burn flatulence liver torpidity constipation palpitation foul tongue offensive breath and general nervous unrest are claimed to be cured by the Herbine treatment. The advertisement notes a bottle price and lists Dr E Woods as the selling druggist.
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