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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
3
A motivational piece urges decisive focus on the main point. It tells how pinpoint thinking led to breakthrough inventions by a mining engineer, a Pittsburg chemist, and John D. Rockefeller, emphasizing concentrating energy on the core task and ignoring distractions to achieve wealth and success.
The passage argues that local wheat districts lose when flour is imported and remade elsewhere. It calls for market loyalty to domestic mills to support farmers, merchants, and labor, stressing that patronage boosts the district’s economy and reduces leakage.
A rough OCR fragment notes Teesagro in the Republic of Liberia with eight sledge entries of rubber. Details are unclear due to the damaged text. Further context unknown.
The article warns that ownership of water works streetcar systems and other utilities by outsiders drains local earnings. It argues for municipal or home-capital ownership to retain wealth, reduce rates, and fund local improvements, urging business leaders to favor local ownership over private franchises.
A call to good citizens to weed out evils and trusts, urging support for home trade and avoidance of capital flight. It emphasizes aiding protectors, uprooting negative forces, and resisting sowing of tares in the public garden. The passage advocates local loyalty and energetic public spirited action.
The piece laments conflicts between merchants and customers and calls for farmers, workers, and tradesmen to unite for the town’s benefit. It stresses how intertwined interests require cooperation to avoid harmful rivalry and promote community development.
The Billville Banner warns of high coal prices and timber limits as tensions rise over resources. It notes industry controls threaten local needs while residents seek alternatives to secure food and fuel through additional cotton, ore, and supplies.
A young doctor in a remote storm scene asks a patient’s wife about treatment. She lists many improvised remedies and medicines used, from hot plasters and blisters to ginger tea with rum, quack tonics, and home remedies, as she waits for the doctor’s assessment. The piece blends old time medical quackery with a narrative on separation.
A dialogue unfolds with a Sportsman asking Snobson about Lord Peckham, revealing a long history of shooting at his house. A Fat Customer seeks medicine to gain flesh, and a lean customer seeks fat-reducing remedy, with a pharmacist detailing opposite dietary and activity instructions in a humorous exchange.
Mrs Witt admonishes George for swearing after boys pelt him with a snowball. He claims temper not lost, simply swearing to please the boys. The exchange captures a chilly neighborhood moment amid winter mischief.
A humorous Chicago News item portrays Pat explaining his dog’s Welsh origin and long chase of Welsh rabbits. The land lord mocks the dog’s odd appearance as Pat retorts with a merry twinkle about its short legs from running.
A Cleveland Leader quips about public schools failing to teach mythology, defining equinox as a fabled creature half horse half cow. The joke notes the term derives from equine and ox, reflecting tongue in cheek about education quality.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Helen and May discussing Freddy's head cold and a question Helen prompts May to answer about what Freddy has in his head. The readable text is sparse and lacks clear event, places, or entities.
A fragment from the Washington Star shows dialogue about social tensions surrounding a man who wishes to marry a daughter. The exchange hints at community scrutiny and parental resistance within a strained family dynamic.
A New York detective proclaims an invest ment will pay at least a hundred percent profit amid a staged exchange with a novice on the force. The Washington Star notes the exchange as a sensational line.
A customer accuses a crafty horse dealer of selling a bum horse that “would go like the wind.” The dealer asks what the customer means and jokes that wind cannot be seen, echoing a Chicago News quip.
A clipped Washington Star line shows Mr Comrox describing approval of his son in law and noting his own preferences for handwriting and cigars as they discuss getting on. The quote reflects social wit and family dynamics in a domestic exchange.
A Fontress Norfolk merchant L Wood suffered months of back and kidney pain and irregular secretions. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he passed a stone measuring around 0.5 by 0.3125 inches and has had no kidney trouble since. Sold by dealers for 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A thin man questions cures for appetite while the plump man cites food as the perfect remedy. The exchange highlights contrasting body types and humor about hunger.
An advertisement claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes is curable by constitutional remedies. It asserts nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars are offered free by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo.
A Derbyshire doctor resigned his Midland golf club membership. He said a Scottish quip he would no longer play golf. The club secretary replied with a sharp verse suggesting he should golf like Vardon and to remove his name and his wife from the club, with a subscription noted.
A father teases a child about not sharing candy with his brother, calling him a pig and a hog’s little boy in a humorous exchange.
A testimonial describes a husband with severe coffee-related illness improving after giving up coffee and starting Postum. The wife also quits coffee, notes better health and weight gain, and says many are misled by low coffee costs. The ad credits Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and hints at a magazine feature.
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