New Stock Stocked with Many Fine Goods
Local shop announces a broad new stock with many nice items. Staff invite customers to visit and view the assortment, hoping shoppers will discover favorable prices and quality selections.
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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1915
Page
7
Local shop announces a broad new stock with many nice items. Staff invite customers to visit and view the assortment, hoping shoppers will discover favorable prices and quality selections.
Overcoats of high quality priced five to three dollars below naval price. Store invites you to visit and judge fit and style firsthand. Stock also features Boys' Suits and Overcoats, sweaters, Mackinaws, pajamas, and night shirts. Wide assortment promises full head to foot fittings.
The piece mocks overblown retail hype and social chatter about a champagne toast for a vessel's prow. Uncle Eben quips that polite news costs nothing while a savvy water intently persuades tips, hinting at restraint in promotional ceremonies.
A reporter violated the court for several days without filing a story and asked why no crime coverage exists. The judge replies the constable may be getting laxative, implying lax enforcement.
The article notes many plant pests including a familiar rose-bush destroyer and a wheat eater called the green lug. It cites 1907 losses in Texas and Oklahoma equivalent to over a thousand million loaves of bread.
A Federal Company machine for car mat production uses 1000 ton pressure to vulcanize and stamp mats for front and rear compartments. Six mats load at once, enabling high output. A major car maker placed a 100000 yard order.
The sea otter holds the most valuable fur, with the Russian sable second and the silver fox close behind. Skin size makes sable much more valuable despite other factors.
A brief, humorous note from a Boston Tran script describing Dorothy visiting when a hostess's dog approaches, panting in front of her as she quips I'se not a doctor, dogsie. The line captures playful regional dialect and a light rustic moment.
A historical table lists nations with most centenarians. Romania and Pulgeria lead, followed by France, Great Britain, Germany, United States, and Bulgaria. The United States, with 100,000,000 population, shows under 100 centenarians. Bulgaria reports about 3,300 centenarians among 4,000,000 people.
An old narrative portrays a young man boasting of sacrifice to wartime service. He claims to have sent four cousins and an uncle to the army, three nephews to the navy, and two aunts to the Red Cross. The piece reflects wartime patriotism and family duty.
In a brief exchange at the depot restaurant a man complains there is only caviar sandwiches on the menu. The waitress responds that coal dust is not shown in the offerings, highlighting a humorous contrast from Puck.
A letter from Atking Oklahoma claiming the town jailhouse is shabby and unfit for anyone to stay in, urging improvement. The Chroni cle notes residents should demand a more respectable facility.
The Amazon River runs about 60,944 miles with origins within 70 miles of the Pacific coast and flows eastward across the continent completing a vast continental drainage.
A new English invention features an upper deck that can detach from the hull and float independent when the vessel sinks, providing emergency buoyancy and potential survival advantages for crew and passengers.
Uncle Eben remarks on the paradox of job seekers reading every part of the paper except the help wanted ads, suggesting many miss the opportunity to find work. The quip highlights the irony of attention shifting away from the scarce, actionable notices that offer employment.
When there is perfect sincerity and each person is true to themselves the pursuit of highest rectitude will bring prosperity. The author urges universal honesty and self alignment as the path to prosperity.
A Women’s Home Missionary Society group visited Lamar on Monday October 24 spending the day with Mr. and Mrs. Chatten. They were greeted at the depot and parsonage with autumn decorations and carnations. After visiting the town and church they enjoyed a sumptuous dinner then toured sightseers before returning by evening train to Jasper.
Kansas City pastor Elder J Crutcher conducts revival at the Christian church each evening. Church members urged to cooperate and join the singing. First MBS Church schedule lists Sunday School at 10 a.m. with Gus Campbell as superintendent, worship at 11 a.m., sermon by Dr W F Jones, district superintendent, Monorth League at 1 p.m. Long service at 7 p.m. with pastor's sermon on the "Vive Kings."
Charley Kitterman tended the Lee Chambers soda fountain Tuesday evening while Chambers visited a barber for a bath.
A historic quotation from Woodrow Wilson extols America's wealth as arising from unknown inventors and originators rather than the famous and powerful, stressing renewal comes from the ranks of the unknown.
A Constantinople housewife gathers kitchen refuse in a kennel outside her home to feed the roaming dogs of the city rather than placing waste in a dustbin. The practice reflects urban dog caretaking habits in a crowded neighborhood.
Ford Madox Hueffer argues in London Outlook that only four tailors cutters in the world can produce satisfactory trousers, and these four reside in the administrative city of London.
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