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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
2
A collage of witty notes and quotes from The World and others, touching on royal humans, German school costs, streetcar etiquette, New Zealand parliament entertainment, and absurdities about drinking water. It mixes editorial asides with humorous commentary from various sources.
An essay by Edward S. Clark explores the wood thrush and the loggerhead shrike. It contrasts the thrush as a messenger of music and solace, its nesting and haunting song, with the shrike’s predatory behavior and clever hunting, noting the birds’ roles in gardens, cemeteries, and city edges, and reflecting on odors, diets, and natural balance amid summer landscapes. The piece also mentions other birds like the Maryland yellow throat, goldfinch, cuckoos, and the grosbeak, tying their habits to broader natural history observations.
An advertisement from Wm Winney of Medina New York offers to mail kidney patients details on hospitals and remedies. He claims personal success using Tured Down’s Kidney Pills and asserts weight gain from 143 to 162 pounds after 10 to 12 boxes. Pills sold 60 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Philadelphia matron overhears three children, Jack Ethe and Tom, acting out Biblical themes in a home playroom. Nine year old Thomas sits atop a table as Ethel cries Garden of Eden while Jack points to Tom and blurts God’s eat the apple in a dramatic domestic moment.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Tommy admitting a fight with the Carter boy after a quarrel sparked by motherly feuds. The exchange hints at ongoing tensions as authorities or elders attempt to enforce a ceasefire.
Rev Sydney Goodman of the Men's church in Atlantic City is praised for sharp wit and original sermons including a beggar themed bit. A member recalls a joking exchange where a deacon questions the clergy's money requests and the minister's wife answers with a sly remark.
A Michigan reader touts Grape-Nuts and Postum as superior for athletic training, noting weight gain from 124 to 140 pounds between June and September, reduced meat, and morning meals of Grape-Nuts with cream. The note credits dairy coffee substitutes and urges readers toward the Postum linked diet.
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