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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
7
The narrator recalls a huntsman life tale from Shadow Lake involving a famed buck coon, the dog Leander, and a brutal chase through swamps. A reader-friendly reminiscence details camp setup, a fall that injures Leander, and the sentimental death of the dog whose owner laments the loss and burial.
A Western railway senior official recalls a Brakeman named Thomas J Meechin who earned a month’s vacation and spent it on a Rockies trip. In Denver he met fellow workers who gifted him a mountain goat. He shipped the goat home using a tagged horn with the note Please Pass the Butter. Harper’s Weekly reports the amusing ruse as a souvenir of railway humor.
A fragment reflects on parenting habits and the tension between theory and practice in caring for a child named Marjorie. Dialogue suggests contrasting views of parental management and moral guidance within a household.
A simple home test uses white lead and charcoal with a blow pipe to show purity. Pure lead yields shining metallic globules, while adulterated lead resists complete conversion. National Lead Company offers a free blow pipe and booklet to prove paint purity, with Dutch Boy trademarked lead.
Too Alsky jokes about Postmaster Daniel resigning after reading Florida shipments of live alligators to the mall. A loafer from Beacon Ridge recalls the line about not learning circus training and quitting last week. The drummer asks why he resigned and the dialogue reveals the gag.
A. S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming it cures painful burning and itching nerves in ingrown nails relieves sweating feet and makes shoes comfortable. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents with a free trial package offered.
The exports of manufactures from the United States averaged more than 2,000,000 dollars each day throughout the entire calendar year, reflecting steady daily export activity across all 365 days.
A quirky note praises lemon pie making with slogans like OUR PIE and WE will pay the same. An Indy commenter admits trying lemon pie and vows not to repeat the old method, citing common sense and a Persian proverb about learning.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ill health. It is claimed to cure displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors severe periodic pains backache and nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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