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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
6
A bone dry voiced man enters the newspaper office to ask if his subscription is due. The editor checks records and finds the subscription expired eleven months earlier, and the man promises to pay next time he has spare money. He then sits with locals by the courthouse discussing fire insurance and how to run a paper.
A list shows thrift stamps and war savings stamps purchasing wartime gear for soldiers. One 25 cent stamp buys a tent pole or five tent pins, gloves, belts, laces, and tags. two stamps buy a trench tool. four stamps buy leggings. twelve stamps buy a steel helmet. four stamps buy a rifle. three and a half stamps buy blankets. two and a half stamps buy a gas mask. other combinations fund coats, breeches, shirts, or belts.
A historical suggestion describes using a cork sliced to dime thickness, smeared with lard and fried, salted as rat bacon. The cork remains wedged in the rat’s throat, causing it to attempt to wash it down with water, leading to death outside the house.
A note traces the eraser's origin from 1770 when a small piece of Initia rubber sold for three marks. It took years to gain general use, with crumb bread previously used for erasing.
In a biting note the Missouri Pacific replies it cannot provide more transport as government takes over roads. The Rich County Enterprise quotes their line urging blame on the Kaiser. Missourians vow to protest by attending war tax events, supporting Red Cross drives, sending magazines to soldiers, and lampooning Senator Reed as they seek “revenge” on Kaiser.
The early German and Gallic dwellings were simple huts often built on stilts or resembling primitive lake dwellings. Roofs were low and thatched with coarse reed, usually with a single high window under the eaves. it took long before sturdier structures replaced them.
Tradition credits tobacco to many origins but Henstridge Ash Somersetshire crowns itself as the birthplace. In the lone village house known as the Old Ash or Virginia Inn, locals insist tobacco was first smoked there, a claim supported by regional champions despite broader debates.
The Massachusetts Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense cites a German price list showing sharp increases in wholesale goods. Infant cotton socks rise from six cents to seventy two cents per pair, machine cotton from four to thirty two cents per spool, woolen stockings from sixty six cents to 3.60 dollars, cotton voile from thirteen cents to two dollars per yard, ladies chemises from one dollar to sixteen dollars, and half wool dress goods from thirty eight cents to five hundred seventy six dollars per yard.
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