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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
4
The text traces muscular development across ages from seventeen to fifty, noting increases from 280 to 365 pounds by the thirties and gradual decline thereafter. It reflects on civilization and Circus as freeing moments, with psychologists briefly shedding their roles to feel childlike, wild lineage at play. Source is the Baltimore Sun.
Mr Ogle improves after a week of illness while William Estey attends Carthage High School. Carytown School started Monday. Mr Follmer and Tom Flowers threshed this week. Kenney Miller shows a new Oldsmobile and Fred Gresham a new piano. Mrs Turner’s sister from Lawrence County visited several days, and Mrs Karl’s sister Mrs Wolf from Illinois is visiting. Grace Greenwood leaves Monday for the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Ladies Aid meets Thursday at Salem. Families entertain and visit widely, with many relatives traveling between Carthage Alba Adrian Ft Worth and Jasper locations.
In Barton County local wheat acreage stalls as farmers report little ground tilled on a 30 mile survey. Correspondent notes widespread delays and poor conditions with Kanens also hit. Social mentions include visits by Chas Nett family and others in Carthage and Joplin. A baler mishap interrupts routine farm work.
A piece blew loose sending parts about 20 feet into the air and landing 40 feet in a hay field. No one was struck as the operation stopped awaiting parts from Chicago. A silo filler at Sera Fine's was broken when a hammer struck it.
A reflective note contrasts optimism with universal sympathy. No explicit events, but it centers on human kindness and the value of empathetic feeling across life’s wide landscape. The sentiment emphasizes the unique power of sympathy to connect people.
The passage describes a speculative, fanciful breakdown of a man's body into quantities of sugar, salt, water, and various minerals. It claims a man contains about 60 sampa units of sugar and 20 spoonfuls of salt, would yield about 38 quarts of distilled water, and includes starch, chlorides, magnesium, sulfur, and hydrochloric acid as part of the body's composition.
A college principal lectures staff on efficiency asking why a glovemaker is blamed for 90 percent quality while teachers face 100 percent standard. A teacher answers that the glovemaker can select his kids, implying selective admissions.
Advertisement notice stating readers can obtain sale bills by visiting the News office to acquire printed documents for upcoming auctions. Describes location and likely hours for pickup.
A brief note warns that grizzlies are not suitable as household pets. At birth a cub weighs 10 to 20 ounces, about the size of a chipmunk. Later bears reach 150 to 600 pounds, with some reported at 1,500 pounds, making urban domestication impractical.
Dr W B Pingree, an optometrist at N Side Square Carthage Missouri, offers eye tests without drugs and same day lens grinding. The advertisement positions him as a leading optical provider in the southwest region and invites patients to consider his services for eye concerns.
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