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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
4
The Jasper News Editor announces publication details for Jasper Missouri with a Missouri Pacific Time Table listing trains such as Joplin & S W Kans Mail and local freights. It notes through car service, union depot connections, and agent A. F. Baker plus subscription rates and advertising terms.
Al McCawley announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Jasper County prosecuting attorney. His platform calls for strict enforcement of the law and urges support and influence from voters and supporters.
Ex Senator Chandler resigns as peacemaker seeking permanent exit. The piece mocks Standard Oil methods and labels opponents harshly while noting Senate dignity and visibility of the rate bill. The Good Roads issue draws attention, and a movement aims to place road funding on par with state-supported public schools.
Jasper will hold a Wednesday ceremony to honor the men who defended the flag in the nation's crisis, placing a flower on their graves as a tribute to those now laid to rest in the bivouac of the dead.
The Carthage Press notes San Francisco's calm since the fire and credits strict enforcement of intoxicants laws. It suggests that if temporary saloon closures brought order, permanent closure might ensure lasting peace and safety.
The column critiques a Carthage Republican convention’s resolutions attributed to John Flanagan for buncombe, arguing the party’s pledge on a relentless war on vice is hypocritical given local law enforcement. It notes dissatisfaction with Joplin’s officials, hints at reform movements, and includes generic ads and remedies interwoven with dated OCR prose.
Memorial Day message extols the living observance as a national school of patriotism. It contrasts life and death, praising the dead soldiers and urging Americans to carry on the heroes’ work. The piece frames Memorial Day as a civic ritual that strengthens national health and unity.
The piece honors Memorial Day as a unifying national memory. It contrasts citizen soldiers with mercenary militarism and asserts American patriotism as a guiding force in crisis. It notes reconciliation of blue and gray, unity across past conflicts, and the renewal of national ties through remembrance and flowers at soldiers graves.
Rivertor Ir postmaster Robson Founts reports a robbery and close call after twenty years of chronic liver illness. His letter credits a doctor and Electric Bitters with curing him for eleven years. Also advertised are a Western magazine, a Chicago job offer, and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve plus Dewitt’s Little Early Risers.
A Missouri advertisement quotes T J Dwyer of Graysville praising Kings New Discovery as the cure for consumption after use by a Livovia pharmacist. The notice promotes Sureat Cough and Cold cures, Webb Brow Scand tonic, Kodol for dyspepsia, and Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, listing prices and local sellers J K Schooler and Dr Schooler as distributors.
An advert text claims KODOL FOR DYSPEPSIA improves complexion by restoring stomach function. It asserts the remedy digests food, relieves heartburn, flatulence, sour stomach and palpitation of the heart, with bolded attribution to J K Schooler.
W H Graves of Medoc and Sanford Elting of Carthage praise Dr Rew's Healing Powder and Gall Cure over other treatments for barbed wire wounds harness galls and proud flesh. Sold by H F Pitts.
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