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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
4
An account of a social gathering from Mrs Myers kitchen to Jasper living area. Guests played games, had supper with oysters cake peaches pickles and pop corn, and a minor vehicle mishap near a ditch with a broken wheel. The writer notes 15 to 20 attendees and ends with shipping an ad for Berkshire pigeons for sale near Jasper Michigan.
Teachers and parents are urged to improve reading, study habits, and behavior at Jasper schools. Emphasis on recitations as a test of progress, vacation discipline, and parental support for orderly study rooms. Notes on visiting literary societies, teachers in training, and calls for extra classroom space to ease crowding.
Friday and Sunday socialities unfold as Miss Bessie Cofell, Miss Myrtie Milton, and others visit relatives in Lyndend Mize Preeton Neck City Carthage and Rosebank. Citizens attend gatherings, travel for holidays, and note health, business appeals, and local commerce including Webb Bros. Ford and Jasper elevator bargains.
A collage of a temperance column urging sobriety linked to Santa Claus and Christmas cheer, plus small local notices about Barred Plymouth Rock roosters for sale, a Christmas clock giveaway, and miscellaneous ads for groceries and boots. The text mixes moral verses with commercial postings and community notices.
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