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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
4
Jasper News issue lists train arrivals and departures for local and through routes with times for Joplin and Kansas City. It includes service notes on through cars, connections at Union Depot, ticketing, baggage checks, and subscription rates for one year six months and three months. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
The News announces Al McCawley seeking the Democratic nomination for Jasper County prosecuting attorney with a platform of strict law enforcement. It also notes J. B. Chaffee of Carthage seeking Jasper County Recorder of Deeds, and Thos. Brock of Sheridan township seeking County Court judge for the Eastern District, all subject to party conventions. The piece ends with satirical lines on politics and current events.
We note many subscribers have fallen behind for several years. We have sent statements in hopes of a hearty response to jog your memory and collect overdue payments.
Just Like Our Method Geo Ade reports Egypt's roads are up to date, similar to Jasper county. He notes outlying districts are behind the times, but while driving from Assiut to visit tombs, he glimpsed up-to-date methods and a cheerful cluster of sites.
The observer recalls watching road work in an Orient heathen land and compares it to Indiana where voters must work road tax days. He laments improvised improvement practices, scooping dirt to form tall mounds and hindering travel, while praising disciplined road work in the Midwest. He imagines a retreat led by flatheaded township supervisors maintaining the rear.
Readers told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. Claim includes a $100 reward if it fails. Also mentions Kodol For Dyspepsia aiding digestion and resting the stomach, sold by J K Schooler. Includes advertiser notices for district managers and product samples.
The article discusses political maneuvering and campaign material amid tariff debates. It notes watchmakers profiting from overseas sales, corruption concerns within the Republican Party, and intra party reform movements in Wisconsin and New Jersey, suggesting a clash between old guard leaders and reformist elements.
The piece argues the Republican Party is split by reformers versus moneyed interests. It notes Roosevelt and Hughes influence, a shift toward new Republicans backing inheritance taxes with confiscatory features, and the presidency siding with reformers against graft. It emphasizes a rising political war to curb fortunes beyond healthy limits and calls voters to rise to the emergency.
An old notice promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills as a gentle regulator for stomach and bowels and touts Early Risers laxative use. It also advertises an assistant manager job in Chicago wholesale with weekly pay, advancement, and no investment required.
Advertising copy promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the best baby medicine. It claims the product makes babies eat sleep and grow and notes availability in scents tea or tablets sold by Dr Schooler.
An advertisement list from Tacoma notes the Fairview magazine by Fairview Publishing Co offering breezy Western stories for fifty cents annually. It promotes DeWittes itch remedy and Kenne dys laxative syrup with claims of reliability, sold by J K Schooler. The copy emphasizes imitation as praise and markets health products alongside the magazine.
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