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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
9
Amity Land Company advertises holdings with over 5 million dollars invested in canals spanning more than 200 miles, 16 000 acres of reservoir water, railroads and sugar beet factories, claiming potential for substantial returns on sale land.
Advertisers tout $160 per acre yearly with free transport from Jasper on January 21. Farmers from Granada and Holly testify to high sugar beet and cantaloupe yields, strong alfalfa growth, and water rights. Names include Frank 8 Butcher, A L Wood, Otto Peterson, and other Kansas and Colorado farm owners.
In Joplin a natural gas explosion in the Olivia hotel basement killed one person and left two seriously injured with about $8000 in property damage. Night clerk Marvin Reyoldes, 20, entered a store room to feed a pet and struck a match as a leak detonated, shattering windows and throwing debris. Mrs. Jobo F Stevens, residing above the room, was severely hurt. she was found unconscious among burning wreckage. The six story steel framed hotel, completed a year earlier at $225000, suffered extensive damage. A coroner's jury later ruled the death accidental after a prior misadventure involving a man who hanged himself by suspenders.
Alba notes report a local horseshoer in Jasper Jas Jeffreys at Whitesel workshop praised. Alba becomes a third class post office on January 1 1908. Local arrivals visits from Joplin Redbird Ark Columbus Kans and Hardy Ark. A Alba basketball player injures mud accident. Murder at Alba as Chas Sidenstricker shoots wife at a dance. Sid enstricker arrested later. QC Lyons opens real estate HQ with G C Eckles.
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