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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
2
A collection of wry observations from Jasper Missouri highlighting oddities and remarks on politics, science, society, and international quirks. It juggles topics from India bee towers to Edison work hours and European affairs with humor and satire.
A humorous column sketches German banter and a tail chasing horse tale about Herman Schulz, a Rochester trader. It recounts Elsie Schulz misreading an invitation, plus a yard-long anecdote of a trick sorrel whose ears signal balks. A Denver divorce note blames sneezing for a wife’s legal action.
The New York Evening Post editor Godkin rebukes his young city editor for attributing a boy's death to a home conflict and a premature inclination to marry. He warns he will quit if the paper repeats such cruel phrasing.
Collier's Weekly and the Minneapolis Journal discuss public sympathy and urban cleanliness. A widow with triplets receives $1000 to start a shop and soda fountain, illustrating how readers respond to mercy, while Rome and Hamburg examples show sanitation reducing disease and cholera.
The data show Germany released roughly twice as many new titles as France in a single year. In 1907 Germany published 30,074 new books, highlighting a substantial publishing volume gap between the two nations.
The article argues that trademark marks protect consumers by holding manufacturers to quality. It cites Hoe and national brands to show brand responsibility and warns against dealers who push other brands. It notes National Lead Company offers a free blowpipe test to verify white lead purity and guarantees.
A humorous exchange shows a visitor asking to see the editor while the office boy checks if the caller is a contributor or a gentleman. The vignette captures newsroom etiquette and social tone of the period.
Mme Napoleon Duceppe from Montres Quebec recalls how her three daughters suffered eczema on the backs of their heads and an infant with skin folds that bled. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment four to five times, all were cured and the infant’s neck folds healed by the next morning.
A chaotic column mixes comic dialogue about a mouse and a choked man with an advertising pitch for Red Cross Ball Blue. The text also jabs at morality and promotes Lewis products, ending with a wink at luxury lounging and a product pitch.
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