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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1916
Page
4
Local residents visiting towns include C F Rex in Joplin and Fred Goddard in Carthage. Many travelers listed: Mrs H F Pitts and S B Lawson in Joplin and Carthage, Charley Kitterman at Lakeside, Dyson Roberts and other locals in Carthage and Jasper. Court jury duty, moves, and family visits noted along with post office updates and a Sunday gun restrictions reminder.
A sermon extols contentment with one’s lot and denounces materialism. It argues the happiest people are the poor and warns against equating wealth with happiness. Religion is praised for teaching self-acceptance while condemning the belief that money guarantees joy.
The Washington Post notes that the notion of a pyromaniac acting from insane impulse to start fires has been largely disproved. Firebugs feigning incendiary urge lack sane history and cannot satisfy alienists or insurers seeking genuine irresistible inclination.
A women page column argues married life would improve if husbands obeyed wives' whims as readily as they pursue their mistresses. It notes the double standard and jokes about a bachelor feeling hunted by a burglar with a flashlight.
The celebrated poet An Easy Mark Lessing often lacked mind. He left a handful of gold on a table to test his servants honesty. A friend asked if he counted it, and Lessing confessed he forgot to count.
In a humorous tale from the Wisconsin Quarter, a hungry alligator reportedly swallowed a boot with a pint of corn liquor inside. Observers later saw another alligator near a tree, believed to be the same one responsible for the boot incident and the vessel it accompanied.
A quotation from Bishop Thorold discusses the great limits on usefulness. It identifies pusillanimousness and ambition as twin hindrances, arguing that people fail to try because tasks seem small and because they fear little payoff from effort.
A young Sunday school teacher held the attention of all pupils in the primary department including a boy who often looked around. His chin in hand he watched her closely and then remarked that her eyes resembled their cat, interrupting her eloquent moment.
A public speech praises education as the most successful social enterprise. It asserts the public school system is funded at about three quarters of a billion dollars annually and that education is the leading industry from any perspective.
Mrs Grant welcomes a new baby at her house. Ehner, returning from a litter of day-old kittens, ponders whether to see it. The exchange hints at local gossip and family news in a lighthearted community note.
A fragment shows a humorous exchange where a speaker jokes about carrying a lady's slipper and masks a mistaken phrase about needing bags to match. The odd line hints at a domestic mishap and a mistaken name Cloderellas TM in a lighthearted recount.
A compact aphorism on transient beauty by Hannah More. The roses of pleasure fade quickly and do not keep the sweetness once beauty wanes, a reflection on fleeting charm and loss.
Claude L. Hill and wife have the sympathy of many friends in the loss of their baby born Monday night. The little one lived but about two hours. Walter Dodd traveled to Lawson Missouri this week to attend a large hog sale at the J. M. Andrews farm and had his herd of Spotted Poland China pigs vaccinated Monday.
Daily Thought urges hope as dawns from Jetre Scott. The Hard Task quotes a judge noting many men who prize physical strength cannot even hold their tongue. See The News for report cards.
A report asserts that the oldest known human habitation is in North America, bolstering anthropologists who argue that the continent was the earliest home of the human race. The finding provides encouragement to researchers studying prehistoric migration and settlement patterns.
The Maine Historical Society in Portland preserves the gavel and desk once used by Thomas B. Reed during his tenure as speaker of the U S House of Representatives. The items were donated by the children of the late Thomas Donaldson.
A New York Evening Sun idea suggests labeling trunks with a red marker such as ribbon or a cord to instantly identify one's bag among many. The tip emphasizes peace of mind and convenience in travel by making baggage easy to spot for luggage handlers.
Sloan's Liniment offers quick relief for neuralgia dull throbs and sore muscles. Easy to apply and penetrates without rubbing, it soothes stiffness from rheumatism gout and sprains and even eases minor injuries for children. Get a bottle today at HFP Pitts 250.
J Fuller Gloom complimented my distinguished ancestor Alfred Tennyson to Tennyson Daft who, upon learning I am a descendant of Lord Tennyson, exclaimed Good Lord in a burst of emphatic astonishment during a casual city chat.
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