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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
6
A homily on life as a harvest driven by sowing deeds. It argues that outcomes reflect choices of soil, seed, and care, warning that missteps invite critics and poverty while diligent effort yields a peaceful conscience and public respect. It notes luck and calamity exist, but perseverance brings eventual reward.
A Western town banker notes daily money orders totaling over 600 dollars sent to catalogue houses. He argues that buying locally boosts the town, keeps wealth at home, and promotes pride and economic education, urging residents to support home merchants over distant retailers. Dr. Johnson warned that not making new acquaintances leads to loneliness.
The speaker notes harvest time follows long waiting and emphasizes careful spring sowing to ensure a plentiful harvest. D M Carr comments on the timing of feasts and work, urging patience and prudent planting for a likely bountiful yield.
Towns in agricultural districts awaken to forming clubs and associations for public improvements and protection of home industries. The broad field includes creating employment, attracting capital, and keeping money local rather than sending it to distant mail order or department stores. Business men fund taxes and community services, not
The passage urges addressing local harms in the town before attracting new merchants or mail order houses, arguing the community must fix internal issues to support broader trade and growth. It emphasizes preserving the home place and warns against courting outsiders while problems persist.
In small towns wandering merchants flood markets with inferior goods. They arrive with carloads, occupy vacant rooms near commerce hubs, and rely on aggressive advertising to draw customers, sparking friction with local retailers and enforcement efforts.
In a humorous exchange a man laments that after twenty years of struggling to meet his old clothes demands he must now wear two pairs of trousers at once to keep up with processions. The doctor calms him with a chloral dose as the tale unfolds.
A humorous Chicago Daily News style dialogue contrasts a hoarding habit with a husband budgeting before going home. The Chicago Journal snippet mocks marital money mischief as Oldwed and Newed exchange quips about pilfering from pockets and preventing theft with early spending.
A clipped, humorous exchange mocks a city scene with a pompous host handing out cigars and a wary guest reacting to smart talk about a passing woman amid casual banter. The dialogue, though fragmentary, shows social attitudes and quick wits in a street setting.
Dialogue notes a judge criticizing a quaint country estate name as the owner defends it, with a wry clash over branding. Mr. Bondholder insists the place should sound prestigious while the judge dismisses the sentiment as an ironic misnomer.
A fragment notes Miss Neurich as a butterfly of fashion and contrasts her with another tone of taste, calling attention to social satire in a Chicago Daily News quotation.
George questions leap year ideas while Grave quips about landing four already this season. The brief exchange hints at playful ambiguity around the leap year proposals and the timing of events.
A courtroom dialogue contemplates a ten year contract and removal in a blurred business discussion. The judge weighs the implications of binding duration and termination terms in a ambiguous negotiation between parties.
A fragmentary exchange features a character asking to “put my Variables in the ale” while another dismisses the idea, noting nerves from past troubles with “impregnable institutions down in New York” and reflecting on life’s worries.
The Chicago Daily News quotes a moralizer noting that human nature tends to want more as one gains, while a de moralizer questions the idea and mentions a man given 90 days by a police magistrate in a playful exchange.
A fragmented clip from the Chicago Daily News and Balimory American shows a garbled exchange about embarrassment and debt. The text references creditors and a week’s session while hinting at a social or financial turmoil.
An old newspaper fragment touts Dean's Kidney Pills with testimonials of relief from kidney issues and a salesman’s ad for 60 cent boxes. The piece includes a comic aside about a flirtation in a domestic scene and references to Bayer products and Herr Schmidt.
W H Dean of Newark Delaware reports seven years of eczema on his hands with cracks deep enough to hold a slate pencil. After trying remedies and doctors he found complete relief using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, needing two boxes and one cake.
The earliest elevator reference appears in a letter to Archduchess Maria Lascive from Napoleon. He notes using a chair-like platform called chaise volante at Schönbrunn, the Austrian emperor's summer residence near Vienna. The device, suspended and drawn up by a shaft, served lifting the Empress Maria Theresa’s rooms with ease.
During a Lucia production at the Metropolitan Opera House last winter a famous critic brought a cousin from Connecticut to hear Donizetti’s opera. At intermission he asked how his relative liked it and quipped in a broken Latin remark about the drama.
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