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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
4
Local paper lists Missouri Pacific schedule with southbound and northbound trains. Includes No 200 Joplin Mail and No 283 Local Freight, times from Jasper, timetable notes, through car connections, and agent A. H. Baker.
Rates listed for subscriptions include One Year at 1.00, Six months, and Three months. Single copies priced at 5 cents. Advertising rates available on application. Advertising matter continues until an order to stop is received.
Announcements name candidates for Jasper County offices. Al MacCawley seeks Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney with a platform of strict enforcement of the law. J B Chaffee of Carthage is named for Recorder of Deeds, pending Republican convention. Thos Brock of Sheridan township is named for Judge of the County Court Eastern District, pending Democratic convention.
The piece extols Jasper Colorado as a standout town and argues for irrigation as the sure path for good yields. It notes alfalfa and sugar beets as profitable crops and pokes fun at demographics, asserting Colorado's mix of Missourians and natives from other states.
A Boulder postcard shows a man pulling a donkey’s leg with the caption This is what they are doing to me in Boulder. The observer declines to buy it after learning the price, noting the cost of being a tourist in Colorado. They joke about costly Colorado experiences and express envy for Coloradans’ small services.
Secretary Taft delivered a pragmatic North Carolina address urging the South to judge public questions on their merits rather than party stance. He urged Republicans there to prove a respectable party can attract Democrats and suggested his leadership could succeed Roosevelt as the party's guide.
An OCR fragment contains scattered notices and ads for patent medicines and sales positions. It mentions Waldivia, Naxxas, and Maivin drugs, and a Toledo address. It lists positions like traveling sales manager and office manager with salaries, plus requests for district managers to post signs and distribute samples. The legible items include “Row” references to Columbia House and equipment depots in Chicago and Chiouze with job offers and pay details.
Notice calls all who know themselves indebted to the sender to call and settle accounts promptly. The message urges payment of money and bills owed to Misee E B Camonenn.
In a University of Pennsylvania commencement address, Professor J J McMaster offered historical perspective on moral standards. He noted recurring fears of dishonesty and decay during early republic crises, including political disputes, debt trials, and foreign threats, stressing context over present judgment.
The passage recalls political plots against Washingtons administration and argues that early industrial excesses sparked reform. It contrasts corrupt finance with public virtue, noting bank monopoly, wealth disparity, and urban growth, then describes a public reaction leading to a new era of reform and a “square deal.”
Advertisement style copy extols a single remedy for digestion and stomach comfort. It links healthy digestion to fresh breath and general well being, promoting Kopol for dyspepsia with older sentencey prose and archaic phrasing.
A fragment from a period publication promotes a tonic for liver and constipation with dubious claims. It mentions Dublin based Urupor and a Western magazine priced at fifty cents, plus an ad for forty acres of land near town suitable for poultry or fruit farming with inquiries at the office.
An early 20th century advertisement lists Kodol for dyspepsia promising relief and digestion support, plus products from J. W. Boucher & Son and De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It promotes Wollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and references J. K. Schooler in St Paul with June 31, 1908 as a dateline.
Wanted by Chicago wholesale and mail order house an assistant manager, man or woman, for this county and adjoining territory. Salary 20 and expenses paid weekly, expense money advanced. Work pleasant, position permanent. No investment or experience required. Spare time valuable. Write at once for full particulars and enclose self addressed envelope. Superintendent, 1932 Luke St, Chicago, I. 818.
Children like Kennedy s Lexative Honey and tar The pleasantest and heat cough syrup totale because it covlying co opiates Bold by J K Behoaler
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