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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
3
A collage of quirky observations and opinions spans topics from hats and gambling to labor, politics, and science. It notes jokes about Zeppelins, San Francisco graft, Bermuda onions, and a nurse of social mores, with jabs at lawmakers, surgeons, and a rising female workforce in hard labor roles. The piece blends satire and social commentary on recent affairs and cultural shifts.
A humorous fable about old political horses and a reform push ahead of a party convention. An Old Sorrel negotiates with a Dark Horse to avoid scrutiny while a crowd seeks transparency, ending with a warning about labels and manipulation in politics.
Judge Crosscut and Williams discuss a peculiar theory of trained crows delivering cold bottles to balloonists. Williams mocks reason while the judge recounts a past failed invention and a sale to tobacco and wooden Indian trusts, ending with a move to Philadelphia.
Campion hosts all night poker session with five companions leaving him tired and awake. Morning reveals a restless day as Campion battles fatigue while Mrs Campion calmly plans a bridge night with the Van Smythes, testing his endurance.
A dispute between J W Head and Ottis Bush over Mrs Donie Kelley ends in a double tragedy on a country road ten miles north of Caruthersville. Head shoots Bush and then kills himself. The coroner's inquest reveals prior quarrels between the two men as they were driving with Mrs Kelley. Other items note a 12 year school record for Pauline Roach, a fatal lightning strike near Macon injuring two children, Spanish War Veterans elect officers, and a youth’s suicide in Springfield’s Frisco yards.
The secretary of state grants a charter to Hannibal and Northern Missouri Railroad, a $2,000,000 capital corporation to build a 100 mile line from Hannibal to Kirksyne Mo through Marion Macon Shelby and Adair counties. Lightning kills farmer Slater Witherspoon ten miles NW of Springfield while plowing. clothing torn from his body.
The Missouri Music Teachers Association, in its current session at St. Joseph, will convene in Columbia next year. W. Mueller Tarkle was elected president. Bolin Starshall secretary and treasurer. W. H. Pommer of Columbia chairs the executive committee. Miss Theresa Finn of Louis is chairman of the program committee.
The First Baptist Church Sunday school at Sedalia led by Louis Hoff man plans advertisements in Sunday papers to boost attendance. W. W. Herrold, superintendent of the First Christian Church Sunday school, will take similar action.
Morgam county reports the death of Olea aged 60 described as Poutmaster with partner Charlen Steinbich. The notice notes lengthy illness and lists Therboen as a contributing location. Details are sparse due to OCR errors but confirm death in Morgam county and age.
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