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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
7
Washington society faces a shift as Evelyn Walsh and Edward McLean prepare fall nuptials, dissolving a famed quartet of belles. Mathilde Townsend, Katherine Elkins, and Isabel May each loom in romance with European royals or dignitaries, shaping a season of shifting alliances and headlines.
A historical note recounts President Andrew Jackson selecting the U S Treasury site in 1833 by driving his walking stick into the ground at the southeast corner of the White Lot. The building, begun in 1838 under architect Robert Mills and completed in 1839, will be rebuilt in solid granite from Maine and New Hampshire.
SRECTOR NORTH plans the thirteenth census awaiting congressional authority. About 70,000 workers and a $14 million cost are projected. Coverage includes United States territories and Panama canal zone with agriculture, manufactures, mines and quarries also enumerated. Philippines census not included due to prior 1903 count and cost concerns.
Miss Anna Cammack, daughter of the late John Cammack, says she will not contest her father’s will. She explains she inherits a life trust of about 60,000 dollars and continues her 660 dollar a year federal clerk job. The will largely favors his widow Elizabeth Cammack and a minor son, with Miss Cammack as the only other heir.
William J. Ryan, president of New York's supreme council of public hackmen, warned winter panics cut hack receipts and forced tentative rate cuts from 60 cents to 12 cents per mile. He cited widespread hardship, including a tramp lamenting scarce bread. The note then shifts to advertisements praising modern Defiance Starch and a Seneca quotation on cultivation of the mind.
A garbled OCR collection quotes quack remedies and advice about eye cures and laundry products. It mentions a Marine Eye Remedy offered for 50 cents and Red Cross Ball Blue powder for clothes. The text also includes odd phrases about marriage, fear of death, and a two faced woman, with scattered typographic errors across Miladelphis.
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