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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
5
A fragment from a 1920s page lists Farm and bank notices. It mentions First National Bank inviting inquiries, a poll tax deadline at Preston Township, and farmers urged to pay before January 1. Also advertisements for White Leghorn roosters and a money loan on farms.
A snippet of local society notes and notices. People visit relatives in Kansas City and Cassville Missouri. Church food sale planned for Hammond's Store on December 11 with a box supper December 16 at Sembee house. Roy Robinson recovering from a Thanksgiving gunshot wound. Roy and others travel to Texas coast. Bank clerk Arthur Teeter returns to work on crutches after a recent accident. Teachers and subscription tasks noted. Hunting restrictions posted by local landowners. Oblique industrial note on leather processing and value from a New York paper.
A Jasper vendor offers the Vaporite burner for household use with claims of satisfaction. Wm. Rice is named in connection with the product.
The article notes a penalty attached to restoring to circulation a coin fraudulently reduced in weight. It remarks that hands are being attended by nearly all townspeople during the event, with reference to St. Joseph Gazette.
The piece notes that American women buy the majority of law and market items and a large share of dry goods drug supplies hardware and house furnishings while buying a minority of men’s clothing. It argues advertisers favor newspapers for reach and fireside reading.
The readable fragments show garbled lines about love and three words, intermingled with stray punctuation and phrases. It mentions a reader, subscribers, and a editor, but no coherent event or clear names or places emerge.
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