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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR reads like an old advertisement. Mentions egg yolk stain, children’s handkerchiefs, laundry with soap, water bluing, and a Red Cross Ball Blue note. Includes stray reflections on life and learning.
Quote notes a wife giving her husband a necktie each Christmas for several years, illustrating a recurring gift custom described in the New York Sun.
Stephen S. Tillman of Washington D C served as a private in World War I at fourteen, fabricating a calendar age to join. He fought on the Mexican border with Company B of the Third D C Infantry, later guarding Congress. Now he holds the post of sergeant at arms for George Washington Post No 1, American Legion.
The Traylor family of Trenton Missouri contributed to the war effort with W. B. Traylor as a private in the quartermaster corps. He closed his general store to serve, while his wife, four daughters, and two sons joined active duty or served in related roles. Their son Charles fought with the Eighty-ninth division and was wounded, Frank became an aviator, Orville served in the adjutant general's department, and Boynton joined the Thirty-first railway engineers.
Thousands of Mexican jumping beans are prepared for a letter exchange with sick and wounded World War I veterans in New Mexico hospitals. Five thousand beans are trained to “jump” as a cheerful project organized by Herman Haen and the American Legion.
The exchange hints at a daughter recalling dancing with her father and a raid before ten, reflecting on past nightlife. The fragment from American Weglon Weekly suggests a nostalgic view of a once lively venue interrupted by police action. The readable text centers on memory, parental/family angle, and a raid event.
Fragmentary note references John Green of Arizona and Judge Davis of Onegin fowl Hamilton Vieh Jr of New York. Mentions Mr Fish, nurse compensation, land reclamation irrigation, and a wartime captaincy of a varsity football team leading black soldiers in the Fifteenth New York Infantry with a Croix de Guerre award.
Miss Myrtle Wilson led a drive for Spokane Washington Legion post to secure $4000 for a club home. She wrote post history, advertised in the post paper, and served as a delegate to the national convention after Navy service at a San Diego hospital where she was chosen queen in a local contest.
Henry Dwight of Yonkers New York seeks the source of two AEF expressions doughboy and out of nek and unreveals no clear origin They claim General Custer used doughboy in letters and Arthur Young said out of luck while seeking a mall in Ojon France in 1780 The pursuit remains unsettled and age old according to Mr Dwight
The American Legion post in Fairmont, Mun, received a $25000 building and a $51000 renovation offer from local donors. The Legion aided four lodgers in Boomerville by closing and housing them in the post’s camp, while memory of Abraham Kratoshinsky, a Lost Battalion messenger, inspires service and Palestine aid efforts.
A period tone ad notes many unaware of kidney issues and promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root. It cites life insurance findings on unrecognized kidney problems and claims wide availability in drug stores with a test bottle offer. It emphasizes the product’s healing influence and urges mentioning the paper when ordering.
A mother urges her son Tinrold to thank the cow for daily milk, arguing virtue of gratitude. The boy retorts the cow has no use for milk herself, highlighting a humorous clash over appreciation and utility in a Harpers Magazine style vignette.
An advertisement stresses trusting genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. It instructs readers to verify the Bayer name and the Bayer Cross on every package and tablet, claiming decades of physician use and safety for cephalalgia toothache neuralgia and general pain, with proper directions on the package.
A Boston Transcript correspondent shares more vivid similes from recent novels. The notes parody dramatic lines such as laughter dropping like a dead bird and breath in the ear like cuts of blood, reflecting a seasonal wry take on grad life and financial strain.
A fragment reflecting on coping with catastrophe, valuing small happinesses and kindness. It notes that enduring loss is hard, yet surrounding oneself with simple joys like a friendly word or a smile sustains joyous living. The piece emphasizes practical wisdom over grand claims.
Fragments of a poem or pastiche line evoke Nympn and a creature by a river with an odd phrasing about mating and a satiric monarch. The readable text is sparse and appears to be a playful or obscure literary fragment. The passage lacks clear narrative or identifiable real-world entities.
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