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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
2
Fragmentary jasper newspaper item references Roland B Ort and a fifty note. Unclear details, multiple repetitions, minimal readable facts. No dates or locations clearly specified.
The Society for Psychical Research uncovered fraud in Windsor with moving boxes rocking chairs and flying objects. Carrington and Hyslop’s team traced the tricks to local youths and a grocer, exposing how a hogshead voice and hidden mechanisms fooled townspeople. The NY Post notes the revelation boosts Prof Tyslop’s society’s credibility.
A dated column critiques neckwear as a social symbol, describing knit ties as perilous and provocative. It notes ties as fashion statements shifting from novelty to common, accessible items, and mocks the era’s attitudes toward women’s handiwork and masculine display.
Series of naval mishaps plague Toulon as battleship Hoche faces a near magazine explosion and ships Jean Dart Chanzy suffer total wrecks. Since January twenty notable incidents include submarine and torpedo destroyer losses, collisions, and a dockside explosion killing over a hundred on Linois.
The piece argues that constant grumbling harms atmosphere and public perception. It asserts grumbling signals a skewed world view, hinders progress, and that even small self corrections can reduce its impact. The text mentions businessfolk and a New York Weekly as context for tempering complaint.
In this tale from a bygone era a maturing governess named Saidie Porter lives with relatives in a household shadowed by illness and seclusion. A distant bachelor cousin Herman Dilkes enters, courting tension and romance as Saidie grapples with loneliness and a hoped for future. Meanwhile a grand turtle near San Diego carries a curious old inscription awaiting discovery.
A mastiff owned by Mrs. Albert Chenes of 612 River Street began a 40 day jail term after she refused to part with him. The dog followed to the county jail, whining outside her cell until officers allowed him to lie beside it. The owner was arrested for failing to obtain a license for the dog, which reportedly did not bite any child.
A New Thought notes Frivolous Fan ridiculing published pictures of the Russian parliament arranged as if in rows. The piece wonders what the czar's dissolution of the assembly implies and refers to a reaction in Baltimore American.
Mrs Clyde Pixley of Bold, Michigan writes that doctors warned only surgery could help her inflamed kidneys and severe pressure. She suffered bearing down pains backaches headaches and dizziness with kidney secretions. After taking Doan's Kidney Pills she improved in a week and felt much better. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo 60 cents.
In a village near Presburg a peasant woman claimed Death demanded 400 crowns to spare her, deposited by her husband in the savings bank. She went to withdraw next day. bank asked for reason. Death appeared next night as the local judge, who was found alive. the money remains in the bank and the judge jailed.
A racist anecdote from Lippincott's Magazine recounts an elderly Black man Mose who, after whitewashing a prominent busi nessman's stable in Richmond, asks for owed pay. The master on the porch questions his ailment, Mose replies he has the bill for the whitewashing, highlighting the colored worker's plea for compensation.
An excerpt extols Grape-Nuts as a scientifically prepared cereal offering ready use and balanced nitrogenous and starchy content. It argues ordinary cooking can injure digestion, compares stomachs to an old vinegar barrel, and touts improved digestion and palatability for children and adults through the product’s manufacture.
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