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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1907
Page
2
A Philadelphia Ledger note highlights typhoid carriers among healthy individuals and urges scrutiny of household staff. In one case, a cook linked to 26 prior typhoid cases across seven families was found to be a chronic carrier, leading to six infections in a single household after her arrival.
The article explores how factories and department stores offer varied recreations for workers. It notes outdoor matches, tennis and bowling for men, croquet for women, and compulsory gymnasia. Noon concerts, picnics, and roof gardens in cities like Dublin, Pittsburgh, and New York provide healthier leisure options to reduce street idling.
A Hindoo editor’s jailing for printing his thoughts is debated by the Chicago Daily News. It suggests a popular hero can emerge from the arrest, noting potential notoriety in history or better treatment in jail, while the British government records it as a kindness the editor may not appreciate.
The article describes Thuringian craftspeople making glass eyes. Four men work at a table with gas jets, blowing eyes from plates and shaping them by hand. Colors are traced with squall needles, and each eye is unique due to no fixed color rule.
A farmer in Harper's Weekly recounts an Irishman who, attracted by the Celt's cheerful manners, asks for a cradle and then, with persuasive humor, asks if he could be given a job instead. The exchange highlights wit and the era's social humor.
Gov. Hughes influenced the Legislature to avoid radical changes to the current New York insurance law. Proponents cited wide reforms and cumulative benefits for policyholders, noting a past mismanagement cost of about 20 cents per policy while current and future benefits exceed that. Equitable Life’s 1906 report showed $2 million saved in expenses and higher asset income, with dividends rising 9 percent from 1905 to 1906. The state kept the law substantially as is.
A man newly arrived from Mexico criticizes traditional matches as he hands out a wax lucifer with two heads. He says double ended matches save records with the Recording Angel and predict a fight if one end fails. He notes revived old time matches spill bright sparks pleasing babies but demand for double ended ones.
Rev J B Hammill of Hanson Place M E church Brooklyn preached at Sayville from Look well to your foundations. He repeated the text then bent on the pulpit desk, which collapsed and toppled toward the front seats scattering Bible and notes. The aged preacher narrowly avoided a fall over the altar.
A Maryland resident describes switching from coffee to tea then to Postum Food Coffee after dyspepsia. She claims Postum stabilized her digestion, helped her regain 25 pounds, and asserts it can replace coffee. The narrative emphasizes health benefits and taste of Postum.
A humorous serialized letters page recounts Sylpha P.s dramatic confessions of love, weight loss obsessions, and failed romances. Across a chain of locales San Francisco to Tucson she chronicles broken ties with Charles, courtship with a doctor famed for fat reduction, and a surprising appearance by an old flame, all amid satirical social observations and affectionate mockery. The installments end with a newspaper clipping praising Charles for a giant potato, adding a playful closing note to the melodrama.
A student at Berkeley University discovers an old algebra book on a shelf bearing ownership notes claiming it belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte. Inside cover states it was part of Bonaparte’s library at St Helena and includes “Bonaparte's library Jolande de St. Helene” along with a seal of Napoleon on a page.
A garbled newspaper fragment mentions mourning bands and fashion, referencing New York Press and a Western girl. The text appears as stray OCR with distorted phrases and unclear subjects, yielding no clear event or person.
In a short visit from a Texan city a traveling man arrives in a little country hamlet to sell wares. He seeks hot water for a bath, discovers no hot water is available, and the nearby negro porter offers to heat water instead with deference and apology.
A woman from Selma Alabama reports four years of severe itching and eczema on face and body. After two physicians failed, use of Cuticura Remedies over six months cured every splotch. No symptoms for three years. Mrs Ligsia BE Bridge 540 Ones Ave Oct 28 1905.
Upton Sinclair addresses Chicago Socialists criticizing charity as futile. He cites a parable of a rich donor and a young lady angler who supposedly eases a fish with a finiment tongue in a bottle of ornament.
In Detroit, two people discuss a formal dinner where one comments on the gown’s expense and presence. The other notes the occasion feels subdued and wonders if the attire helps avoid being overlooked.
The Associated Drug Co of Washington DC offers the public investment in its Treasury Stock and 7 percent preferred stock and common stock for a Western laboratory project. Investors are told the stock will pay eight dollars per share annually, with orders to be mailed and rapid response for subscriptions.
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