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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
3
A historical critique explains mail order advertising tactics that bait customers with prices below cost. It outlines misrepresentation in jewelry and paints and warns that solid gold items may be only brass with a thin gold layer. The piece condemns sending money away from local economies and urges readers to shop locally.
A rural urging youths to pursue work with brains and industry. Warns against scams in want ads and overinflated promises. Encourages legitimate employment in nearby cities and stresses earning value over fast advances. Notes competition rising as commerce modernizes and urges steady, honest labor for lasting success.
The text notes a merchant facing removal from business due to insufficient customers. It mentions a recurring search for new “stickers” and a recurring crop, implying unstable patronage and pressure to adapt or abandon the enterprise.
The article argues the country editor’s value to a town hinges on faithful work, advertising vigor, and local news coverage. It reflects on poverty of pocket vs. usefulness, noting that a busy, well filled paper signals progress while sparse reporting and ads suggest a stagnant place.
A western editor urges readers to buy from home merchants to strengthen local commerce and city stability. He argues that every dollar spent locally keeps exchange within the city, supports better merchants, and helps the community grow. He cites calling at home first, requesting items locally, and avoiding distant sources whenever possible.
A historic quotation praising integrity and careful speech as the best form of dialogue. It notes that true conversation comes from a person who listens without intent to betray and speaks without deceit.
A garbled phonetic fragment shows Badger discussing taking a day off for enjoyment. The speaker, Kataenjammer, mutters about needing time and plans, reflecting a muddled attempt at conversation.
Bernard F. Woods of Lonaconing recalls fifteen years of fatigue dizziness headaches and disordered kidney secretions from heavy work before starting Deans Kidney Pills. He reports steady improvement and eventual cure and strongly recommends the remedy. Bold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY. The bull-pup I suppose this is what they call a family tree.
The principal described Miss Squirming’s complaint about Mr. Dennis visiting her class last Friday. He said Mr. Dennis, a poor man and father of a badly behaved boy, argued he could not afford to let her wear out his son’s pants, calling it a misinterpretation of a protest.
A dapper young man entered a Chicago hotel with a middle aged companion. The affable clerk offered a pen to the well dressed visitor who registered as William Henry Tyler III. Behind him the other man wrote John Smith MCDCCCLXLIX, raising questions about identity and intent.
A short vignette from Pasadena in the San Gabriel valley describes Echo mountain’s glow at night. A girl staying on the mountain rushes into the dining room exclaiming that all the stars have fallen on the ground, prompting wonder at the sight.
A reader describes how her mother quit coffee after seven years of nervous headaches by switching to Postum Food Coffee. She notes the eased symptoms and shared how she now prefers Postum, recounting a friend who nearly failed to brew it correctly before learning the proper method.
A flourished plea for a vegetable and flower seed catalog from Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin. It advertises 120 dollars annual subscription equaling 314 percent profits and a mail order sale with low postage. It promotes quick carrot cabbage cucumber lettuce onion and melon seed packages with postage paid and prices as marked. The notice highlights ambitious yields and a dazzling flower seed selection with a thirteen day radish and other offerings.
The Nobel prizes were proposed by the eighth earl of Bridgewater, son of the bishop of Dirham. He left 40000 dollars to be paid to the author of the best treatise on The Power, Wisdom and Godhead of God and Manifested in the Creation. The judges divided the money among eight persons.
The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac is distributed free through druggists and already in 8.9 million homes. The 1908 edition is published and supplies will run out soon, so inquire early. Speak for happiness now as the future promises unfold.
A Denver woman, Mrs A Gregory of 2955 Lawrence St, credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after six years of female troubles and an unsuccessful operation. She urges other women with backache and periodic pains to try the remedy and notes Pinkham offers advice to sick women.
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