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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1910
Page
2
A jumble of giddy observations, weather quips, and social asides touches topics from buttermilk cheese sandwiches and hatpins to aeroplanes and cross country strolls. The piece riffs on fashion, weather, weddings on roller skates, civic reforms, and folk humor with a playful, period voice. Names and places drift by in fragmentary fashion, sketching a lively collage of contemporary minutiae.
An overview of chicle as the base for chewing gum notes the Sapodilla tree in northern South America and Central America. It explains tapping, processing, and the industry’s economic reach in the United States, with figures on imports, prices, and tariff history. It highlights cultivation, quality, and factory sanitation, and mentions the material’s global distribution and medical credibility.
An OCR fragment presents medicinal claims and a brief joke about a boy praising his mother. It references remedies for female troubles and backache, a walking trip anecdote, and a Youth's Companion quote about a boy calling his mother the world. The text is garbled with unclear names and dates.
On August 14 at Breaksea island near Rottnest Western Australia a bull whale cow and calf were harassed by a school of threshers. The cow whale fought bravely as sharks pressed the calf and the herd, until the cow finally sank to the red tinted water.
The speaker denounces superficial politeness in dialogue while recounting a nightmarish incident with a four year old swallowed safety pin. A midwestern reader recalls a convoluted exchange with Jones on the midway and dismisses junk remedies for common injuries.
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