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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
2
The text compiles scattered humorous lines and garbled phrases on summer, sports, and society from a historic Jasper page. It mentions Yale basketball, Ty Cobb, the Philadelphia Inquirer on umbrellas, and a fad of antique costume ideas along with stray notes on weather, crime, and travel, reflecting a jumble of era jokes and notices.
A sprawling reminiscence traces legendary buried riches across the United States and Canada. It recounts Flatland legends and frontier hoards from Missouri and Montana to New York Rock of Perce and Spanish sites at St Augustine, with tales of Indian routes, Tory caches, and privateer plunder. The piece weaves tall claims of gold bars, coins, and jewels hidden in rivers, rocks, and farms, noting historical figures, ships, forts, and famished prospectors, while hinting at elusive maps and surviving memories that keep the search alive.
The Grange report describes a windy city gathering with a creaky crowd and a weary pavilion. A striped car observer notes meals and a desire for access to a public event. Veterans, farmers, and townsfolk grumble as a reunion style rally is praised by the Kansas City Star.
Fragmentary readable pieces discuss a child’s fear relating to Dari words and a mother’s concern. The garbled OCR mentions fear, organization, and possible institutional ideas, with no clear people, places, dates, or events clearly identifiable.
Fragmentary OCR passage discusses money, private savings, and obligations with garbled names and phrases making precise meaning difficult. It hints at financial topics or debt but lacks coherent facts, entities, or events to identify a clear news item.
A debated issue concerns disease spreading from public laundries in New York. A physician warns that danger can be averted by thoroughly sterilizing packaging as soon as it arrives for drying. Practices exist in England and some in the laundry trade favor steam washing to disinfect.
A New York husband voices extreme accusations about his wife’s family, likening her mother to a guillotine helper and her father to Scrooge. He hints at ancestral sins within the family and questions the wife’s virtue, implying a troubled home dynamic.
The Prince of Wales conducts a prolonged stay in Paria, aligning with royal expectation and precedent. Other princes have followed similar visits, with accompanying ceremonial copies indicating official royal engagement.
A London inventor has devised a method to apply brakes on a tram via wireless signals. He is now seeking a technique to close the switch using the same wireless approach.
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