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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
6
The Boers in the Transvaal smoke a substitute resembling weak tea with a peculiar flavor. English visitors accustomed to tobacco rarely use any other substitute while in that country.
Smileage is a government backed plan uniting leading chautauqua and theater groups to provide clean entertainment at Liberty Theaters, chautauqua tents, and auditoriums in U S training camps. Admission costs 16 to 25 cents via Smileage Coupons. Booklets include 20 coupons for $1 and 100 coupons for $5, with proceeds supporting the entertainment and no profit to any party. Libery tents are set up at multiple camps and more theaters to open by February.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Clarence Ousley calls for broad home front sacrifices beyond front lines. He urges all citizens to help sustain the war effort with practical support, criticizing the phrase do your bit and stressing collective duty.
A grocer pitches Cerebellum biscuits as brain nourishment and calls them unsurpassed for food for thought, claiming strong mental benefits in a playful sales line.
A local round of visits and gatherings outlines weekend visits among residents of Rising Sun including Nettie Lowe, Joe Smith, Walter Lauderbaugh and others with family stops at Patterson and Rice homes. The item also describes military hat cords by branch and insignia for cadet aviators and aviation affiliation.
A speaker hails a man as blessed with great riches of kinship. A woman calls him son, a tin calls him brother, a wife calls him husband, a child calls him father, and a few others honor him as friend. The excerpt centers on gratitude for family bonds.
A householder complains about paying forty five cents a pound for beef while a family member retorts that the real sting is eighteen. The exchange captures frustrations over rising food costs and household budgeting pressures.
The piece argues against self-importance for workers and notes that good employees survive changes as leaders die and are replaced. Employers fear probation periods and prefer workers who earn ongoing satisfaction, suggesting job security depends on merit and steady performance.
A fragmented sale listing details span bay mares aged 5 and 7, full sisters, both in foul by a jack, weights around 20 hundred. Also notes a bay team with a full brother and sister, ages 6 and 7, weight 2000. Several other horses and mules described by color, age, weight, and sires, including brood mare claims and planned foals, with several coming yearlings and young animals.
Captain A P Simmons of the U S military observer unit in Germany described German war crimes as real not fiction. He recalled babies impaled on bayonets and the suffering of Belgium to urge strong American action. He said five million U S troops would be needed to blunt a fortified foe in France.
Mrs Newcom tells Mr Newcom that before marriage he promised to obey her wishes. He replies that her wishes are many and varied, so he cannot yet decide which is the slightest to obey. Newspaper humor note from the Pittsburgh Post.
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