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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
12
A fragmented OCR item mentions Vege Soneta pacing in a stance at a COPEN event with unclear context. Names and places are partially readable, but details are missing. The text shows sporadic letters and numbers, indicating a sports or performance moment without clear outcome.
A wedding shower honors the bride to be Assunta ie Bebe and the upcoming marriage to Mr. Drake. Guests include Mrs. Robert Wine Miss Hazel Carter Mrs. Augusta Manson and Miss Ward of Nevada. A pink and white luncheon followed a decoratively dressed dining and guest room with a white parasol and clematis. Activities included a contest titled How to Manage a Husband. The Book Club notes the departure of Miss Drake from their circle.
Mr and Mrs A W Malone hosted a Thursday afternoon birthday party at their country home near Jasper for their daughter Mable celebrating her eleventh birthday. The party featured blue and white crepe decorations, a table of candies, games and music, followed by ice cream and cake. Attendees included Alice Arner Helen Nunnelly Margarite Teeter Marion Scott Gwendolyn Wine Lillian Ward Marjorie Ward Bessie Elrod Frances Wells Nellie May Hammond Lorene Back Pauline Patterson Lucile Vincent Mary La Creta Magers Dorothy Rex Maxine Elrod Helen Wine Margaret Steelman Grace Crow and Cap Cann Cavenee.
Sunday School at 10 p.m with three classes. Rev F B Kinnell preaches at 11 a.m at Zion Church and 8 p.m. at Jasper Baptist Church. Cordial invitation to all. Spring River Baptist Association session at this church September 15 for three days with about 100 delegates expected.
A school day appeal urges flying the United States Flag over every schoolhouse to bolster loyalty against Bolshevism and propaganda. Local notices report typhoid illness among residents, social visits, and subscription renewals as Jasper residents share updates and attend funerals.
A manager recounts a clergyman father who urged him to stop his actor son John from taking the stage. The father later stays distant, yet dryly follows each actor’s crime by sending underlined reports to the son. Daniel Webster’s cattle color-changing fancy amused him as his cattle wore blue then red faces at intervals.
The article discusses patience money and strategy in lawsuits. It emphasizes the need for a strong cause, capable counsel and witnesses, a fair jury, and a favorable end, noting the proverb that possession is nine tenths of the law.
In parts of Brittany, teen girls appear in red petticoats with white or yellow borders indicating the dowry. Each white border denotes 100 francs per year, and each yellow border represents 1,000 francs per year, signaling the portion the father is willing to give.
A laborer named Marry Lee unearthed a metal box about a foot in diameter while helping pull down an old residence in Baltimore. Inside the rusted container he found several old coins dating to the early eighteenth century and two old flints, suggesting a buried treasure trove.
A home craft note describes mixing six pounds of whiting with cold water to a lumps-free cream like consistency. Soak three ounces of sixe in cold water twelve hours then heat and pour into whitewood. Fresh pize is essential to avoid intolerable odor. optional coloring colors may be added.
The text describes Vesta as goddess of home and fire with Nome’s oldest temple. It notes no image of the goddess inside, but a rekindled fire on the Roman New Year and continuous attendance by the vestal virgins.
Pingree Optanes in Carthage Missouri advertises glasses to relieve eyes. A same day test is mentioned with promise of quick relief.
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