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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
2
The Hulburt Undertaking Company's ambulance was summoned after a disturbance involving 15 year old Perry Belk's son. Belk was so distressed by the affair that he collapsed minutes later.
Walter J. Glosson, 17, son of W E Glosson ground boss at Kitty Mack mine, was accidentally killed near Harris crossing at Chitwood while returning from a day’s hunt along Turkey creek. Elmer Belk, his boon companion, fired both barrels of a double barrel shotgun in an unknown manner, the blast striking Glosson in the neck. Neighbors and the boy’s father helped carry him home.
The new basketball team held its first practice at the opera house Monday night and defeated a scrubs team by an unmentioned score. Practice will be twice weekly, likely Mondays and Fridays, with limited spectator admission of 5 cents to help fund the ball. Challenges have been sent to Lamar, Carthage, Webb, Joplin and others, with a potential game next week.
Ad claims Dr King s New Life Pills cured chronic constipation and other ailments. Author A Schingbeck of Buffalo New York promotes the remedy as unequaled for biliousness jaundice indigestion headache and malaria debility with a price of 250 at Webb bros.
A St Paul Pioneer Press passage argues the American of today is not fundamentally fixed but will strive for better education and higher local state and national standards. It emphasizes Americans desire for community improvement and children demanding ongoing progress beyond their parents’ era.
The Iroquois viewed language as a body part gift, requiring interpreters when crossing tongues. In councils, debates occurred in their own tongue with translations by trained speakers. Speaking another language was an affront to ancestors and the Great Spirit, and deaf males were seen as losing their native speech.
A New York City man who traveled to the country for two weeks brought back 200 snakes including rattlers, milk, water, ribbon, and black snakes. He, his wife, and two daughters faced no fear, though seven baby rattlers were born during the trip. One bite came from a water snake with 20 poison glands.
A gardener in Bright Victoria planted EY seeds for medicine but the weed spread via cattle along stock routes and crossed into Gippsland. It now covers about twenty thousand acres of farmland, prompting the Victorian agricultural department to spend thousands annually on eradication, with some methods costing around 650 pounds per acre.
Paris hosted a rose show by the French Horticultural Society recalling the world’s oldest rose tree believed to grow on the Hildesheim cathedral wall. Eleventh century records note expenses for caretakers maintaining the tree which spans twenty five feet high and twenty inches thick at the root.
A handwritten ad promises a present to the family that buys the most goods between December 12 and December 24. The offer is cash or trade and allows selection of fabric up to one dollar per yard from the stock. Responsible party J. D. Harbur.
A small town notice requests customers shop during the day or early evening as the upstairs skating rink forces closing at 8 pm. Messages mention visitors Milton Thornton and L E Thornton, seasonal sweets and groceries at local merchants, and various calls to buy Christmas candies, fruits, nuts, and chocolates from Nunnelly's Wheat's and Bislip's.
A fragmented conversation contrasts wealth and poverty with quick shifts between being rich and poor. One speaker asks how the other amassed fortune, and the reply traces a life of alternating wealth and hardship. The exchange highlights social mobility and the unpredictable nature of fortune.
A doctor warns that the wife’s mind is deteriorating while a patient asserts he has long been receiving a share of her thoughts, claiming years of mental transfer. The exchange highlights a tense, personal confrontation within a medical setting.
An Optimist Lysander John Appleton always looks on the bright side. Hoe is the kind of man who could look at preacher kin and find pleasure. I’m bragging that when the kin preaches they have to put chairs in the aisles. Atchison Globe.
Two zealous anglers fished in a rented sheet of water when one slipped in. His companion dragged him ashore after great effort and revived him, only to be asked by the conscious man if he had seen a lot of Gsh.
A quoted philosophy extols the greatest men who choose right with invincible resolve resist temptations bear burdens cheerfully endure storms face menace fearlessly and rely steadfastly on truth and God as unfaltering foundations.
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