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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
3
A collage of journal humor and oddities notes a New Jersey arrest for looting, war talk, and quips about weather, brains, and romance. It surveys curiosities from fashion to misprints, with Chinese whispers of political fuss, a French duke, and a scientist claiming malaria, all in breezy, era-tinged prose.
Fragmentary prose extols sympathy and authentic relationships as essential to real education. It urges observing life across spheres and recognizing the growth of a personality that seeks guidance and love when embraced with openness.
In James Fullerton Muirhead’s The Land of Contrasts an American girl is praised by an English missionary for her English purity. She retorts with a sharp line about having special advantages due to missionary relations and colonial attitudes.
A garbled text offers disjointed comments on love matters, loyalty, and health. It hints at relationships, funds, and aging but presents no clear facts, dates, or named entities. The piece reads like a stray editorial or personal reflection with cryptic phrasing.
A substitute for the militia pay bill has been submitted to Secretary Stimson and appears to have approval. The measure ties militia pay to a percentage of the regular army grade, detailing five percent for general officers, three percent for officers commanding units, and four or five percent for other ranks, with age and active service restrictions. In war or emergencies, the president may transfer militia members to the army.
Vienna figure Bertha von Suttner, famed for inspiring the Nobel Prize concept, visits America to rally women to abolish war. She notes wartime horrors and cites advocates like Aaron d Entournelles de Constant and Count Albert Apponyi, but argues armaments drive conflict while public mood shifts toward peace. Her message stresses direct action and moral suasion over treaties.
Governor Hadley of Missouri lives in a log cabin in Jefferson City from May to frost retreating from the mansion. He built the cabin with his own hands inviting most townsfolk to attend the housewarming and brush burning. The move, seen as a bid for health and strength, contrasts with his official residence and shows a simple, frugal governor.
Dr Charles F Neill, labor commissioner, is hailed as a master mediator who averted numerous large strikes across industries and railways. Born in Mississippi in 1965, he studied at the Catholic University, settled disputes from the 1900s, and earned a reputation as the “Tall Mesquite of the Rio Grande” for his decisive arbitration in coal and miners strikes.
A regional notice lists the International Sunday School Lesson directed by My D Sells of the Eve ting Department at Thy Moody While Tyetitote of Cyne, noting organizational details and leadership.
Sermon discusses the kingdom parable of the tares growing among wheat, the harvest, and the distinction between the righteous and the wicked. It explains the period of propagation, the eventual separation by angels, and warns against human attempts to uproot tares. The righteous will shine at harvest. the wicked face judgment.
A garbled page shows disputed ads and consumer pleas including half dollar offerings, requests for salmon herring and lobster, and a letter urging shipment of wine. It cites Parpe Antisentia for antiseptic use and quotes Landor on effort. The text also mentions dental care, a Paxton Toilet Co product, and various unrelated lines about money, music, and shipping.
Mrs Deas Beetamne of Sikeston Missouri reports severe monthly pains cramps backache and weakness for seven years. She refused surgery and credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength enabling household work garden activity and social visits. The testimonial urges others with displacements inflammation ulceration or irregularities to try the remedy after other methods failed.
A vintage notice touts Resinol products to relieve infant skin problems such as eczema ringworm and tetter. It claims simple bathing with Resinol Soap and applying Resinol Ointment will stop itching and burning and rapidly clear eruptions, promising calmer babies and less maternal worry.
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