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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1902
Page
4
Our New Spring Dress Goods are now in and we invite the ladies to call and see them. Those pretty patterns in our front window are only a few of the many which will be found on our shelves inside. You cannot help but lay a pattern after you see them and learn the prices.
R L Roberts and Son report a new settlement near Sheridan named Doo Holdup Southeast of Drajerated Woe. Residents include Mesurs Davie Joiner Robiown and Griffin near Joiner avenue and Shutter Milk Alley. Proposals for homes and plots noted with rent rates and approval processes. Local events mention Johnson Ratenthaw trial at Judge Haughawout's court and community meetings for Prohibition and other topics.
Local items describe settling in the neighborhood, farming, and weather effects. The column lists church services, family news, travel, and various residents' movements, with farm tasks and community events interwoven in a dense period-article style.
A local notice announces a bargain sale offering 400 yards of blue calico at 4 cents per yard and limited 10 cent calico at 5 cents per yard. The seller, J D Harbor, invites customers to obtain nursery stock and plants with a promotion offering replacements at half price if damaged before August.
Parents urged to keep children in school for the full term as graduates from last year visit the High School. Claud Van Damn and Gin Sheels noted. several students absent due to a run. Clinton Teeter attended Kréiliie beads. Hogl Williams and Willie Tullman quit. Gertie Merrill also left. Now is time for review.
A jumble of old time shop notices advertises free fashion sheets from R L Roberts & Son, fresh garden spades at Bright’s, flour and feed at the Miller building corner Grand Avenue and Main Street, and various promises of low prices. Also promoted are corn chops, cream separators, and household goods. Webb Drug & Co advertises Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and asthma with trial bottles offered at Webb Brow.
A temperance piece, attributed to a W C T U correspondent in Jasper, urges readers to oppose whiskey traffic. It asserts women can influence policy, seeks non alcoholic medicines, and calls Christians to vote against liquor, urging men to join in the effort for God Home and Native Land.
An OCR fragment lists local business notices from Fairplay Missouri and nearby suppliers. It touts delivery to any city area, mentions Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and references Webb Drug & Howee, J. F. Brights, and Webb Brag & Mandeare Co. It promotes groceries, boots, shoes, linens, fabrics, and stomach and liver tablets claiming health benefits.
An old newspaper ad touts DeWitts Little Early Risers for biliousness and liver support with customer testimonial from CE Hooper of Albany Ga. It also promotes nursery stock from Stark Nursery Co and a real estate listing by A Crandall near John Crandall farm, McLane Pa.
W H Hagar praises Rush Park seeds sold by Webb Drug Co. Promotions claim bucklen’s Arone Salve heals wounds and skin eruptions with no pay required. Note mentions during earlier misprint about cat jaw. Local drugstore advertises these products.
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