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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
4
The note promotes McCormick binders and mowers as the reliable choice for harvest season. It claims Jasper County uses more McCormick equipment than two other brands combined and advertises McCormick and Deering twine touted to go far per pound along with wagons and buggies.
Jasper Missouri edition notes a clubbing deal with the Kansas City Weekly Star offering both papers for 1.10 in advance. Items include a cure story for eczema and Electric Bitters, commercial club meeting details, a special W C S E C meeting at the Baptist church, and social notices from the community.
Danbury Newsman James Montgomery Bailey, famed for wit, recalls a caller seeking property near Newtown eight miles away. Asked how large the brook was, Bailey quipped that from the comb factory to the railroad bridge it is navigable for flat-bottomed eels, illustrating his playful local humor.
An old London T. P. Weekly note links looming deaths to omens seen in Ireland England and Yorkshire. Two great owls on a battlement presage death at Arundel and Wardour. a sturgeon in the Trent warns Clifton Hall fate. a Benedictine nun foretells Middleton decline. Brereton lore claims a tree trunk sighting before an heir’s death.
A satirical fragment recalls an Old Codger challenging a town’s idle citizen to run for office amid taunts about honesty and self-respect. It also cites Horace Walpole’s White's coffee house tale of a man declared dead amid bets on his fate and a church service referenced by a Sunday Mass.
Edward Curtis of Indiana, famed photographer, chosen by J. P. Morgan to document, receives initiation into the Hopi Order of the Snake in Washington. Nine days, underground confinement, fasting and ceremonies. about 150 snakes used, none with removed fangs. Indians conduct the rites with calm, as Curtis recalls.
A man asks a confidant whether his plan to marry without his sweetheart knowing the circumstances would pass the supreme test of loyalty. The confidant recalls receiving an anonymous letter from the man requesting marriage. The exchange examines love, discretion, and social judgment.
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