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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
8
The piece explains Missouri voters face a November 5 constitutional amendment on single tax. It argues the plan eliminates taxes on bonds notes mortgages automobiles stock and personal property while taxing land value and corporate franchises. It warns taxes would shift from cities to countryside with similar revenue needs, favoring city tax relief but raising rural costs.
In Kansas City stock yards the week shows a mixed cattle market with medium class steers higher by 25 to 40 cents due to grass inflows from Kansas Nebraska and beyond Cow and heifer supply tight while quaran tine steers hold. stock steers and feeders ease 25 cents to 50 cents amid large grass-fed supply Prime cattle steady and firm. Hog prices firm top 8.70. heavy hogs around 4.70. sheep and lambs weak 15. Readers note a Colorado grass steer sale at Gunnison priced 8.50 and 7.35. pasture steers 6 to 8.50. stockers 4.30 to 7.40. County shipments and weather threats may speed fall movements. Market correspondent A. Rickart notes overall trend and cautions buyers as cattle volumes rise.
A satirical 19th century style verse narrates a child describing inner machinery and a father doctor figure misusing a boy. The speaker compares himself to a clock with springs and gears and recalls being forced to swallow castor oil to grease the internal cogs. The piece ends with a reflection on the burden carried by a small boy and a clipped escape from the stiff town.
Typhoid spreads from an infected patient via excreta that contaminates surface drainage water. Surface water reaches springs wells and streams, then foods and utensils, transmitting infection to people. Preventive Medicine questions invited at University of Missouri Columbia. J E Dowell editor involved in Missouri anti single tax movement.
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