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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
10
A patriotic appeal urges Americans to shop early for Christmas to support a wartime effort. Uncle Sam claims he cannot spare any workers, vehicles, or ships and asks citizens to finish orders by December 5, stressing duty and urging others to follow suit.
Clyde Buerge of Company E Thirteenth Engineers writes about travel from Nice to Paris during a Red Cross drive. He notes theatre casinos in Nice and industrial Lyon, compares French and American trains and hospitals, but avoids combat details to pass censorship. He asks for magazines and signs off with three cheers for the Yanks.
Store promotes a wide range of useful gift items including gloves handkerchiefs ribbons dress material sweaters waiste furs blankets linens hosiery silk underwear table covers bedspreads and toys for children. Customers are urged to reserve toys to ensure availability and happiness for the season.
A Detroit Free Press quip notes that the trouble with the man you must know to like is his usual disagreeableness, which discourages most people from a second attempt to know him.
A provocative column questions if propriety limits a girl who acts boldly yet maintains discretion as she departs a street car in a terse social brief.
The text describes camels stationed among acacia clumps with a spy on a camel. It notes camels’ advantage in desert warfare due to waterless endurance and heavy load capacity of 400 to 600 pounds.
A quip asks why a man stretches out his hand to test rain and grows irked when a few drops fall. The almost philosopher voice teases human folly in a concise, humorous aside about expectation and experience.
A brief quotation notion noting two elements in friendship: truth and tenderness. The line reflects Emerson's view that genuine friendship rests on honest discourse and humane care between individuals.
See Dr. E. McCoy, optician with 20 years experience. All latest styles of mountings in Zylonite and shell, gold and nose mounts. Lenses perfectly ground and optically sintered. Office over Ramsay's store, Carthage. Moderate prices.
Missouri division of the food administration allows substitutes to be packed in 16 and 32 pound bags for cornmeal corn flour barley flour and oat flour to aid sale. The amendment relaxes prior sizes while maintaining the one to four rule with wheat flour. Odd sized cartons may be used in special cases with a permit.
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