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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
8
A jumble of antiquated notes covers diverse topics from animal quirks to military history. It mentions a Bermuda conditioned cow pilot called mojarra, two anal fin spines in demoiseries, and a claim about U.S. wars with Indians. It also describes birds perching when sleeping and eye spots linked to cataracts and digestion.
Community members from Blue Star Carthage and Golden City visit neighbors and relatives across townships. Guests include Geo File and family, H E Coiner, A L Owen, Elmer Coiner, Dave Bayles, M T Grinders, Hollis Stockdale, C A Arnold, S P King, Eva Taggart, Minnie Pell, Edna and Gertie Hasbargen, Elsie Kauffman and others. Several families relocate temporarily and plan longer visits in Sedalia Hor ton and Kansas City areas.
Mrs. Payton and her little son returned to Osborne Kansas after a visit with Chas Taffner and family. She will care for the motherless Lottie M Taffner in the future. Miss Sara Arnold came home from Sedalia with her parents after months with her sister. Verona and Elsie Heckman visited as did several others around Chas Grim and families at H D Grims.
Chas Nett and family spent Sunday at Bart Ingels. Chas Elting and family returned from Sedalia Wednesday morning. Walter Wood and family and Tom Wood and family. Silas Denniston and wife and Grandma Ryan and John Barley and family spent Sunday at Frank Wood's. Frank Montgomery Sadie Sidwell and Chas Hamm attended an ice cream social at Alden Schell's Tuesday night. Theo Mitchell and family visited Lamar to see Mr and Mrs Brown. Lena Sidwell visited Chas Elting's sister Sadie over the weekend. John Buzzard and wife visited kin in Jasper Sunday. Families including Elting Montgomery Lena Sadie Sidwell attended a Sunday School picnic at Carytown. Carrie Serafine visited Mrs J A Boyd. Elting family joined a Carthage reunion at Thomas Edwards' home. Mrs Hamm Caleb and Bessie visited Ira Hamm in Carthage. Leona Creamer Murnal Scott Mary Boyd Alice Boling Nellie and Rachel Hane spent Sunday evening with Ethel Ingels.
The English language was used in Philippine House debates for the first time. Principal speakers included Mesare, Benl tex, De Guzman and Viroia, all University of the Philippines graduates. English is taught in public schools and may continue post independence. About seventy percent of Filipinos over 10 are literate, among the highest in the Americas.
The passage recalls early English tobacco adoption with Raleigh popularizing the habit and medical claims of its health benefits. It notes 7000 tobacconists in London by 1014 and mentions a preceding “great tobacco persecution” as the era's backdrop.
A curate with a nervous temper keeps making awkward remarks at a clergy gathering. A senior curate, his companion on the return, rebukes him, calling him a donkey and urging silence as a brotherly correction.
An account of ancient inland Britons renowned for basketry and luxury wares. They produced woven boats and hides, with buttocks fashioned from openwork oilers and reed shields, displayed in a manner described as miraculously diapered.
A newly arrived brother elicits tears as John, puzzled and emotional, contemplates fate while witnessing the bedding scene. The scene centers on the newborn and family reaction, with emphasis on mystery and unfinished understanding.
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