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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
8
An English court ruled the engagement ring is no longer the woman's property after she broke off the engagement. The woman kept the token as a souvenir until the court intervened in the case reported by the Savannah News.
A printer uses the slang phrase down to brass tacks to indicate finishing the last, most essential work after exhausting the types in the case. It signals reaching rock bottom or the limit of effort in setting type.
The Yates and Wood families express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness after the death of their daughter and sister. They also thank Jasper area friends for sympathy and flowers for Mrs Ethel Wright and honor the relatives. Additional thanks from Dora Guilloyes and the Kitterman and Wood families for kindness and floral tributes after their father’s death.
Mrs May Marrecews highlighted in church notes as presiding elder preaches at Galem next Sunday. Sunday School returned in rain storm. Wheat harvest delayed by daily rain. Vernon Matthews reports Jefferson Highway near Jasper best road. Mrs Owen of Jasper visited Mrs Rice. Tom Brock and family with Ralph Berry. Fred Goddard hedging in Valley Blauth wheat field. Mrs Vernon Matthews and children at Mrs Blauth's. Everette Miller and wife of Carthage with Mrs Tom Flowers. Miss Ruby Bull with Mrs Rusk. Arch Rice buys new threshing outfit.
Miss Zoan Andrews is mentioned among residents. Sunday visits include Jess Miller and family at George Redmond's and Chas Stansberry with Fred Rex and family at Jack Stansberry's. Many others named as visiting relatives and friends around Lebanon, Carthage, Jasper and Will Lyman’s group gatherings.
Miss Minn Yates dies suddenly drawing mournful notices from neighbors. Harvest report notes wet fields slowing work as farmers discuss back to the soil movement. Local residents and families are mentioned with visits and daily routines amid the harvest scene.
Mrs Harry Hille Mrs 8G Keys Miss Flesher and Mrs O Thompson finished the Red Cross course in home hygiene last Saturday. The class was conducted by Mrs McKanney of Carthage. Fourteen ladies commenced the course but all dropped out except the four named.
The office records a baby girl born to Meredith Grouch and wife, 15 miles west of Jasper, on Saturday June 21 and a baby boy born to Brice Sutton and wife, 6 miles east of Jasper, on Tuesday June 24.
Japan's mild climate makes it a popular playground for residents of East Indies, the Philippines, and Stratftas settlements. In hot summers they flock to mountain resorts, drawn by extensive tourist services and up-to-date facilities.
A review of a historical list shows musicians and other professions with higher shares of lunatics, ranking editors and writers lower. Civil servants, clergymen, and army men also appear in the following positions.
The Knnaus City Star notes a humorous headline about improving a boudoir cap by adding wrinkles to the cap itself, not the wearer, suggesting a playful fashion tweak. The piece frames wrinkles as a design element rather than a flaw in the wearer.
Gluten is the main nutritive element in all grain flour and varies by wheat variety. Hard wheat contains more gluten than soft, and flour from which starch has been partly removed is favored for diabetic use.
The phrase John Chinaman as a designation for Celestials appears in a 100 year old London letter to the Drury Lane theater committee, cited as an early usage. The note places the slang in a historical theater context, linking it to British publication from a century ago.
A reader jokes about death notices while perusing the page, asking if her Uncle Bim has died yet, revealing a morbid curiosity in the public listings.
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