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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
2
A collage of satirical items from Jasper Missouri notes pop culture trends and global quirks. Remarks lampoon Tolstoi Boni and Santa Claus while mocking royal claims and economic woes. The column rails at misprints and boasts of odd science stunts and a shifting global market.
A scientist notes reaching the north pole by drift takes two to three years. The auto spreads widely, voyaging American trips, world tours, carrying passengers toward the frigid north and impressing the Grand Lama of Thibet. Now an adventurer plans a camelless Sahara crossing.
A statue of General Baron von Steuben, the Prussian reformer who trained American troops, will stand in Lafayette Square Washington. Albert Jaegers of New York won the commission amid many German American designs. The memorial honors Steuben for teaching European tactics and lifting morale, while his grave is marked at a New York state preserve near Steuben town.
Herbert Knox Smith will succeed James R. Garfield as commissioner of corporations in the department of commerce and labor. A Yale graduate and Hartford lawyer, he has served in Connecticut politics and aided in antitrust actions against Standard Oil. He has drafted passenger safety laws for sea and lake craft and helped organize steam boat inspection.
Kansas City reports a tin Fugio dollar from 1776 owned by Eugene A Martin of Pattonsburg Missouri. One side bears Continental Currency 1776 a sun dial the word Fugio and Mind Your Own Business. The reverse reads American Congress We Are One within a chain of 18 links naming the 13 colonies.
In a late 1900s dialogue, Wenwright the financier collapses from fortune to ruin while his wife Edith supports him. A chance encounter with their estrangement rekindles hope as she urges them to value life, love, and death over success, echoing the proverb cited by Edith's father.
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