Bright Spring Yet to Come Seen Through Town Notes
May brings sun and local happenings across Jasper Missouri with visiting kin, moved residents, and community updates. Names include Curtis, Schowers, Iseansuo, Turner, Owens, Ballard, Siedner, Tseemann, Hatfield, and others amid weather, letters, and small-town events. A rural economy note lists flour, feed, and coal supply at Jasper Elevator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Ted
Isaac Schowers
Dtr
Mike Iseansuo
Martin Tsenman
Altma Siedner
Reacher
North Star
Ma Stivner
Sieriden
Immune From Seasickness and A Lighter World
A Boston surgeon notes deaf people rarely suffer seasickness due to ear nerve control and reports early trials using cocaine on cotton to dull hearing. He quips that the best cure is to feed the fishes and forget it. A London reader argues coal loss makes the world lighter and proposes a royal commission to study the solar system impact.
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Boston
London
Briggs Signs With Skewer in Office Pen Mixup
In Trenton New Jersey State Treasurer Frank 0 Briggs, rushing to meet a creditor request, used a wooden skewer as a pen to sign a check. Chief Clerk Wildrick alerted him that he was wielding a skewer not a pen before he completed the signature.
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Trenton
N. J
Frank
Briggs
Hig
Wildrick
Mr. Briggs
Chamberlain's 75 Cent Offer Sparks Debate
Fragmentary notes reference a controversial bid or price action linked to Chamberlain, with scattered phrases about buying, merit, and a possible market or policy context. No clear names, dates, or locations emerge from the legible text.
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Frost’s Old
New York
Gio Jubosen
Goiza Fullmer
Martin Tseemann
Pittsburg
Kansas
Mr Covert
Jasper
Dublin
Allen Weyer
Ed Seybold
John Kelly
Liss Hatfield
Coon Crevk
Leiss Hatfeld
Jasper Mo
Lerryra
John Alevisor
Sam W L Beck
John Haines
GB Wape PM
Dewey
Fred Switzer
Alba Mines
Monday
Orin
Buster
Mary Betey
Carthage
Tom Flower
Dot Howard
Vernon Matthews
Poston
Jones
Goff
Sam Jones
San Francisco
Harry Pringle
Webb City
Mr Woods
Cartervillas
Lebanon News
May Sherman
Webb
Mary Rex
Nellie Line
Emma Smith
Milly
Lora Strawn
Dick Hern
Leon Rex Hins
Fred
Mra Armstrong
Arthur
Pervberon
Dapple Rage
Jack Cook West
Follmer’s Place Weet
Depot Jasper
HE Walton Trust CO
Butler, Mo
Walton Trust Company
Bates
Vernon
Bar- Jasper
Cedar
Dade
Polk
Missouri
New Jersey
Chamberlain
Dom Dees
Shield Brand
W. Stratton
Rock Island Implement Co
McCormick
Opera House
Jasper, Mo
J. A. Cozatt
Burgner-Bowman Lumber
C. W. Johnston
Chas
Davis
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