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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
5
A dated railway timetable snippet lists passenger trains No 208 No 210 No 207 and No 294 No 201 with daily or Sunday exceptions and freight No 203 with an 11 00 a m departure. Times span 6 17 a m to 8 38 p m and include a 2 05 p m freight slot.
Saturday and Sunday schedules show cars leaving Jasper at 10:50 AM and 1:00 PM and from Carthage at 9:15 AM 11:46 AM and 4:00 PM with evening Jasper departures at 6:30 PM and return from Carthage at 11:00 PM. Starting points include Jasper Brown's Cafe Carthage Ladies Rest Room and Carter Garage.
Local page advertises farm money loans from First National Bank and market services. It promotes Ladies Toggery Shop gloves, Crow Mercantile Co cream testing and high cream and poultry/egg prices at Hammond's east end house. Optometry services by W B Pingree, Carthage, Mo, and a Cream test boast by J D Harbur, with price claims and contact notes.
Local snippets list Miss Mary Drake visiting Columbus Kansas and many Thanksgiving gatherings in Joplin Alba and nearby towns. Residents mention visits, deliveries of hogs to Kansas City, car notes, school fund pie supper proceeds, and a new shipment of ladies dress skirts at J. D. Harbur's.
A collage of small ads and notices offers gift ideas and services. Dora Smith promotes cut flowers while a doctor of optometry in Carthage, W B Pingree, is listed with a jewelry partner. Other items include lost silverware, a stray dog, livestock for sale, and a house for rent. Local notices urge caution on purchases and estate sale bids follow.
A friend of a woman advertises a chance to obtain a five cent trial bottle of a tonic named Leggs Taw. The note mentions a Sand Preesription and offers an apparent promotion to try the product.
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