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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
2
A jumble of short quips touches on alcoholism cures and quit drinking, wireless telegraphy as a life saving invention, sparrows and rats, France birth and guillotine, a Toledo woman seeking divorce, and a knot of political and social musings. It also notes a Brooklyn milkman inventing an airplane, Balkan tensions, Roosevelt in Africa, a Delware speaker, and debates on marriage bills.
Style and period voice discuss how beauty rests on health, mind, and food. It argues arteries age with mineral deposits from white bread and hard water, urges exercise, hydration, and a plain diet of coarse bread, fruits, olives, and nuts. It cites Emerson and Langtry and praises constancy of mind in beauty.
An editorial in Hospital London contends every English family has at least one weak minded member. It notes a lunacy commission report showing Insane patient numbers rise but at slower rates, suggesting partial immunity or effective treatment. Three quarters of annual certifications are first attacks, a sign of hereditary insanity rarity, with a hopeful overall outlook.
In every wife happiness lies in doing what she feels she can do and in having her own Inglenook. The saying urges women to pursue personal autonomy through purposeful daily tasks and a personal retreat, framing happiness as self directed and domestic.
The passage reflects on social roles from housekeeper to social queen and argues for elevating the homemaker to the top of the scale. It urges readers to cultivate a personal hearth, whether married or single, to gain inner happiness and to contribute happiness to the community through their life and home.
A reflective essay on human restlessness and the persistent urge to wander. The piece argues that the fever in the blood drives both rich and poor to seek change and that legislation cannot eradicate the true vagrant class.
Great engineering project in Mexico connects Mexico City to Tampico by oil pipeline. It will traverse mountains to reach an altitude of about 10 000 feet, showcasing ambitious cross country construction.
Ed mund Yates recounts in Recollections and Experiences a club walk past a New Street fish shop where two oyster tubs are labeled by the dozen, one marked by the dozen and the other by ten dozen, provoking the remark How they must hate each other by Thackeray.
In the main the hero type is found more often in wilder places than factories and music halls. The romantic fellow of the primal order is set to have in his rough makeup a healthy, enviable quality that has withered in the smoke and glare of policed and asphalted towns.
A terse note discusses a man growing morbid over the country’s political depravity if he does not adopt a godly path with his wife. The item hints at domestic moral influence and personal duty amid public decay.
Promoting careers in bookkeeping and stenography, the advertisement urges young men and women to invest a few dollars to study from home through a Kalamazoo Michigan correspondence program. It touts the ease of entry, growth potential, and a generous tuition arrangement with no upfront cost for the learner who completes courses and gains employment. It highlights the institution’s long history of graduates and urges contacting B. P. Sumption for details.
A passerby recalls a Lippincott's cartoon style exchange in Philadelphia. A laborer trenching a sewer tells Bridget he is earning alimony. Bridget replies she is spending it, then moves on with a breezy exit.
The article argues home laundry satisfaction rises with Defiance Starch. It claims the product provides greater strength so it can be applied thinner, preserving fabric beauty and wear.
A widower views a sculptor’s bust of his deceased wife and, moved by grief, asks that the nose be made slightly larger to reflect her goodness. The tender moment ends in tears as he yields to the request, noting “Her good ness” while the sculptor intones the likeness in clay.
Hy Whittlesticks perched in Dupay's store eats crackers and cheese while arguing that if Andy Carniggy supplies 6 Ub'ry to the town it would make the boys more popular. Cy Dupsy agrees on keeping provisions at the shop. The speaker emphasizes duty over self-will in shaping character.
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