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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
2
A miscellany of witty remarks and social observations from Jasper Missouri touching aeroplanes airships and future tech. It laments money troubles praises home rule notes emperor Franz Joseph Carnegie fund and Wright brothers feats while offering humorous quips on hat fashion and romance.
A narrative recounts a phosphorus episode aboard a ship where a crew mutinies over meat from a steer killed by disease. The narrator uses a hidden electric pistol to threaten officers, then seeks mercy as the crew rebels and the captain and mate are shocked by a buzzing battery.
A boy nicknamed the angel child recounts a shipboard visit to France where he befriends the crew, uses a pocket battery, and triggers a wild, dangerous prank that shocks sailors and ends with the captain pardoning him while he longs to see his father. The tale blends bravado, fear, and wartime intrigue on a Transatlantic voyage.
A playful exchange features Him and Her debating a nickname, with Her calling a misnomer Yeu and suggesting it makes You resemble a goose, in a light moment captured by the Chicago Daily News.
Readers learn of Western Canada grain yields and profits for settlers. Wheat averages about 20 bushels per acre with many 50 to 86 bushels per acre. oats and barley excellent. A Pincher Creek farmer nets about 19.65 per acre. Lands suit grain, grasses for fattening cattle and dairying. New homestead rules offer 160 acres free plus 160 more for 3.00 per acre. Leslie Shaw calls Western Canada’s development vast. Canadian land prices rising. Americans increasingly flocking to the region. settlers concentrated near Moose Jaw and Regina.
Colombia's only iron foundry, La Paradera in Bogota, operates on a small scale smelting native ores and remelting iron for casting. Inland there are several commercial deposits, and near the Caribbean coast an ore body is being drilled by American engineers.
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