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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
2
The Jasper News discusses tenement poverty in cities, citing New York tenants’ January 1 rent strike amid sub letting, rising costs, and eviction delays. It argues social upheaval from crowded housing, seeks out solutions, including relocating migrants to open lands and reforming landlord practices.
A reflection on the Sphinx as a feat of supreme imaginative power and execution. The text compares artistic achievement with a late 19th century policy debate, noting Germany might fortify Heligoland with about 7.5 million dollars, linking imagination to strategy.
The Guatemala railroad from the Gulf of Honduras to Guatemala City and on to the Pacific is seen as a sign of potential prosperity and stability in Central America. Its completion could shift regional traffic patterns, affecting Panama Canal activity due to increased competition from routes farther north.
A London dispatch reports that at a Newton Abbot Devonshire meeting led by Mrs. Pankhurst a farmer in the audience rose to propose marriage. She coldly replied she was not there to answer personal questions. The farmer persisted saying a husband would be useful to her.
In a cozy room Peggy and John Morton clash over Pete Thompson's secret romance as Morton reveals he has found Mrs Morton. Peggy resists, then confronts the mirror image of her future self, leading to an emotional confrontation about love, loyalty, and fate. A mixed tableaux of domestic chatter and flirtatious tension closes with Morton's bold disclosure.
New York plans a world sized dining complex on Broadway with 8000 seats. A syndicate has raised 1 million dollars. The ground floor will host the restaurant for 4000 diners, while the roof garden will mirror the Versailles Trianon gardens with trees turf a fountain and a 50 foot lake.
A Georgia senator, one of the tallest in the senate, draws attention for his upright hair like a fighting rooster comb and a habit of clutching his pompadour with his right hand when excited, as if tugging at his scalp.
A playful archival note calculates that if the boliers of the Cunard liner Mauretania were stacked end to end, they would create a column 517 feet tall, contrasting with the ship’s 647 feet length.
A Harpers Weekly contributor argues Anglo Saxon speech shows conquest, noting Italian reaction to English terms in Rome and quarrels over usage like tramway versus local words. The piece cites patriotic backlash from professors and students over Latinized terms and cultural shifts.
Miss Bessie Farrell, president of the Young People's Christian temperance association, praises Peruna as a valuable nerve and blood remedy. She claims it rebuilds worn-out health, aids digestion, and strengthens young mothers, with Dr. Wartman prescribing it to many women and receiving grateful letters.
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