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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
1
Webb Bros Mercantile Company urges July farming work from sowing to harvest. They promote Best Ever sulkies and Knozier harrow, Superior drill, Swift's Fertilizer, and Osborne rake or Deering mower. The ad touts a 10 percent hat discount and Saturday specials on sugar, canned goods, and a Henney branded wagon.
Jasper residents reported witnessing a bright meteor or unusual rocket around eleven p m last Monday. The event traveled northward at a shallow angle, lasted briefly, and lit the sky with a spark shower. no debris was seen and no earthfall reported.
Jasper residents enjoyed two Fourth of July celebrations this year. Lamar joined in on the first holiday, while Lakeside hosted a larger event Monday with merchants observing a holiday-like closure. Reports say the Lakeside fest drew many attendees, with a band drum corps filling the day, and a late moving picture show on the square providing evening entertainment.
Fragmentary note lists donations and mentions socialize themes with vague references to English cousins, a socialist group, and Jewish communities. text appears as a damaged OCR snippet from a local newspaper page. No clear names, places, or dates are readable to anchor a complete summary.
Tom Lowe from Pittsburg Kansas visited his wife and children here for two weeks and plans to return. He criticizes local schools for racial segregation and laments the Kansas echoo lawn while claiming better prospects in Pittsburg. The Lowe family then returned to Pittsburg Tuesday.
Jobo Springer, a Lamar area resident and newlywed, suffered severe injuries when both shotgun loads fired at a rabbit struck him. One charge ripped the scalp above the hairline, exposing skull, while the other hole went through the left side and out the back. Doctors now hold hope for his complete recovery. Springer is the son of former Barton County Sheriff Dennis Springer and recently married Miss Edna Barton of Lamar.
A. D. Morgan reports W. B. Morrow, long in Alexandria Louisiana, plans to return home soon from Golden City where he has been attending court. Morgan notes Morrow is closing a deal selling about eighteen hundred acres for thirty seven thousand dollars.
Product claim from an old ad touts eggs that kill mites and "lions" or disease germs. It promises preventative value, free samples with each package, and lists contact names and a seller in Cana Midlet Kale Corti and Peas at Wolf How Co's dated 4 29.
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