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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1908
Page
2
A quirky collection of observations and witticisms on habits politics and social quirks. The author smiles at human folly noting how inside views and outside appearances clash and how common truths hide in everyday sayings.
Willis Wood presents Robert Edison in The Call of the Worth, directed by George Weredhurst and based on Stewart Edward White's novel Juror's Mouse. The engagement follows triumphs in New York Boston and Chicago with Edison in a congenial role noted as one of his best in recent seasons.
In the Globe Sights column, readers encounter whimsical musings on aging, fashion, and social quirks. A Atchison widow recalls marriages, while a tale of a would be poison and a comic note about Mrs Join Smith in St Jon adds to the collage of small town rumors and fashion fancies.
A long essay argues for uncooked food, challenging cooking as natural. It cites medical opinions in New York, explains albumen chemistry, heat’s destructive effects, and advocates fireless cooking. It notes monodiet trials, cautions on digestion, and praises Wu Ting Fang’s shift to raw foods for health.
The Kennebec Journal notes a unusually large lobster supply for the season and affordable prices. In Portland a single day saw about 75,000 lobsters routed to Broadway and other markets. Warm fall weather allowed fishermen to fish safely, with minimal gear loss and little storm damage, boosting profits.
An old new woman at tea time smokes a cigarette and argues that the new women of today misjudge themselves. She recalls the thirteenth century to suggest longstanding female identity beyond modern labels.
The tale recalls 700 year old Bologna with Morella d Andrea as jurisprudence professor, Madonna Manzolina anatomy, Matilda Tromboni languages, and Marc Magnes in mathematics. The university is praised as Europe’s leading, boasting 10,000 students, amid a snort about Sunday mornings and church small change.
An early Sungay morning passenger aboard a surface car chats with the conductor about having small change. The conductor shifts a handful of dimes and nickels between pockets to avoid rusting. The exchange reveals a casual moment and hints at daily transit life.
Frost has varied impacts on foods with eggs burning, apples contracting, and potatoes turning black under its influence. The fragment notes frost altering several products, indicating broad effects on perishables and storage.
A historical note traces brass bands to 1835 as the first genuine brass ensembles. Before that woodwinds dominated military music, with regimental bands in 1783 typically comprising two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two bassoons. The evolution highlights the later prominence of brass and the partial blending of saxophone roles.
A local druggist advertises a home remedy labeled Concentrated pine for cough relief. The formula calls for half an ounce of pine, two ounces glycerine, and half a pint of whiskey to be dosed as a teaspoonful every four hours, with each bottle sealed to preserve strength.
A caustic incident shows Beerbohm Tree and an unknown playwright read a manuscript. Tree offered no enthusiasm and quickly scribbled notes. The playwright protested that it cost a year of hard labor, while Tree challenged the writer’s claim with a sharp quip.
A satirical note highlights a Munyon Magazine Almanac claiming to cover moon phases phrenology palmistry birth stones dream interpretation and beauty culture with weights and measures and poison antidotes. It advertises free mailed copies to rural families and parties from the Munyon Remedy Company in Philadelphia.
Johnnie includes dialect and mispronunciations as his mother guides proper speech. He struggles to replace love and nice with appropriate terms and learns to say cake correctly while noting it sounds like bread. The passage shows family teaching language nuance through dialogue.
Reward offers $100 for paper written by J. Cen & Co Toledo Ohio. The ad promises relief for a dreaded disease and tabula, claiming a cure for catarrh. Request for address and mailing details. Gold by all druggists. Cease.
A bystander questions a party member as the speaker muses aloud on men in trouble and a woman’s understanding. The exchange centers on social expectations and miscommunication in a Chicago Daily News styleinquiry.
Spohn s system claims to cure various horse illnesses including distemper and pinkeye among all ages, and to prevent diseases such as cholera and fever. an advertisement promises tests and free samples from Spohn s company, listing contact details and claims of universal effectiveness in a chaotic old medical patter.
A fragmentary note mentions a seer named Fred and a matali reference with uncertain context. No clear event, date, or involved organizations are discernible.
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