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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
2
A local hardware shop promotes its service by advertising ready estimates for lumber purchases. Staff invite customers to bring plans and measurements to receive quick, confident price projections and material guidance.
A note warns against including any writing in merchandise parcels to avoid fines and inspection, advising to keep only sender names and greetings visible. It also shares a German farmer tale about a boy choosing among a Bible a dollar and whiskey, then a Dutchman jokes the boy will be a politician, followed by a Schoolmaster quip about overcoming habit and letter removal wordplay.
All persons owing accounts at Jasper Elevator please call and settle by January 1 1907 by cash grain or note. Don''t fail must close my book H L Tallman.
A man arriving in Jasper used multiple aliases to cash stolen checks at several banks and stores. He presented payments on checks drawn on Carthage National Bank in names such as A. A. Lamkin and Sam Odell, casing goods from J. F. Bright and Add Joyce before being caught. He confessed various identities, with Triance Popajuy claimed as his real name. the First National Bank recovered funds and he was jailed in Carthage.
Governor Folk grants a fourth 30 day respite to Mrs Aggie Meyers and Frank Hottman sentenced to death for the murder of Clarence Meyers. The stay until Jan 10 1907 buys time for appeal to the US Supreme Court and a writ of error. Local notices follow with varied names and purchases from Dublin treme to Pleasanton Kansas and Lombard Investment Co.
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