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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
2
A Jasper News column advises young workers to adopt the employer's perspective. It urges aligning efforts with company aims, understanding problems, and becoming a small but essential wheel in a larger machine. Insight into the boss's methods is presented as key to career advancement.
The article notes five point stars on the Great Seal and presidential seal, six on the House seal, and five point stars on the current half and quarter dollar obverse. It observes the dollar’s reverse copies the Great Seal minus clouds and questions why flag stars differ from coin stars in heraldic origin. It mentions colonial coinage as the source for most stars on coins, while the flag follows Washington’s coat of arms with three five pointed stars.
A private letter praises rising kindness in public discourse as essential to democracy and reconstruction. Collier’s Weekly endorses charity as a reform ally and urges kinder explanations to curb intolerance. Also noted are royal honors for Dutch sea captains and crew in the Hook of Holland wreck, plus Oxford student Curzon’s scholastic success contrasted with Rosebery’s rustication.
A Columbus period piece arguing to examine foreign missions dispassionately. The author commits to a grounded, independent study of missionary work across denominations, noting salaries, costs, and the public debate. He visits boards, studies funding, and plans field reports to reveal what missionaries actually do and earn.
In Tunisian bazaars a merchant shows a $6,000 carpet he flings into the air so it settles slowly. The filmy weave traps air bubbles large enough to hold a man, a wonder to prospective customers in the teal storehouses of delight.
A contemporary notes that cigar consumption reflects prosperity. Cigar manufactories have doubled output in eight years, with 1905 06 production at 8,070,673,649 compared with 4,063,169,097 for the year ending June 80, 1898.
A petite widow describes the dilemma of attending seven social events weekly and returning home at dawn, needing sleep to keep her mind sharp enough to prevent trouble with the telephone and the wolf at night.
The mosque of St. Bella in Constantinople still carries a strong musk scent after centuries. Musk was mixed into the mortar during construction, explaining the lasting fragrance without any perfuming efforts.
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