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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1914
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text reflects a local event honoring reverence at a Powtolflee ceremony. Names and places are unclear due to garbled letters, but mentions of Jan per and community recognition appear. Further legible details are not available.
Local notes report sorghum at Kelley mill and apple butter season. Byron Wallace returns from a six week business trip in Kangor. Emma King and child visit Mrs Grim. Clyde Stephens and Fred Campbell bale for J. U. Majors. Many neighbors attend Lamar fair and visit relatives in Kansas City. Parishioners attend meeting in Boston and Monte King resumes school.
Malta Mise Lillian Maceus and family spent a day with uncle G M Mayers. Jiho Welsh and Vernie Kay traveled to Carthage last Wednesday. James Etter and sister Mrs TB Bell attended the Samar unt fair on Wednesday. Will Thompson assisted Tin Mackey thrashing a day last week and felt hurt. Ruby Jarvis visited Jasper school last week. Miss Bestie Strecker helped Mrs Percy Wright thrashers. Bud Mackey thrashed on Mr Kerrick s place this week. Percy Weight thrashed Saturday and Monday. John Carter and spouse visited hometalks Sunday. Will Clouser and Tom Patterson called on James Ellers Monday. G M Magers made a business trip to Jasper Monday afternoon. Frank Magers with Mrs M Mackey and Mrs Tite Bidene Jett went to California Friday.
Pleasant Hill community extends sympathy on the death of Grandma Davia of Sheridan neighborhood. Local residents report visits and gatherings with friends and relatives, including Patersons, Edwards, Elting, Wood, and others. Notes mention weather delays delaying sowing, and several Sunday calls and family visits across the area.
A quirky ad urges customers to shop at Crandall Bros and keep accounts paid monthly. It extols a “Happy Family” policy, warns of trouble if debts linger, and stresses that God loves people who pay their debts.
McClintock's Sunday social rounds are listed with Joe Patterson staying sat night with Joe Edwards and Andrew Greyham visiting relatives Sunday. Chas Elting and wife visited Thes Edwards and family Tuesday. Miss Bedell spent sat night and Sunday with her waiter Mrs red Powers. Mrs Thea Edwards and daughter Katherine spent Monday with Mrs Clarence Hammond. Will Tallman hauling lumber to build a new house replacing the one lost by fire last spring. Mrs Earl Loudenslayer and baby called on Mrs Joe Edwards Monday evening. Walter Moulton and son Frank were business callers in Carthage last week.
Feeding guidance outlines grain amounts for calves at various ages. A three month old calf should eat all grain offered in thirty minutes if no milk is given, with amounts varying by thriftiness. From two to six months, feed twice daily, then gradually reduce as calves age toward a year, using silage and legume hay or pasture for maintenance.
This paper offers renewed subscriptions via a club with the Kansas City Daily Drovers Telegram. It emphasizes wartime price volatility in livestock and grain and urges readers to compare values to avoid poor sales. Readers are invited to visit the office to learn how to profit from reading the county paper and the market paper.
An aged classified style ad promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills claiming quick relief from dizziness biliousness and constipation. It asserts improved digestion and a healthy flow of bile and stools, touting general bodily cleansing and liver support. The small print mentions price and seller details.
A cryptic French line claims there is nothing new except what is forgotten. The remark suggests past ideas linger, with even ancient minds attempting to steer air travel and achieving partial success.
A historical curiosity now on display in London at Madame Tussaud’s on Marylebone Road shows the Guillotine of the Revolution once used on the Place de la Concorde. The exhibit recalls the peak of the French revolutionary era and its grim symbol.
A garbled passage depicts a scene at Gore Point with a petitioner and a questioning tone from a character to his mother. The text is unclear but hints at someone named Alick and a desire regarding podiseter, with muttered lines about movement and permission.
Fragmentary prose attributed to K J Campbell expresses a bleak view of hardship in family life. The text laments enduring wrongs and the inevitability of suffering, suggesting a forthcoming reckoning or realization about life’s burdens.
Observations list ages for several trees including the pine at 709 years and other species such as silver fir 426 years, larch 27, red bean 245, napen 210, birch 200, birh 70, elder 146, and elm 100, indicating varied life spans across species.
A historic report recounts Cyne Field junior and fellow attorneys voyaging across the Atlantic for thirteen years to complete the first undersea telegraph cable. After failures and heavy losses, a 4,900,000 dollar investment yielded a 24,000 mile cable that finally lay from the Great Eastern, marking a pivotal achievement in oceanic communications.
The text notes Shakespeare aimed to write dramatic works for his fellow players and patrons in the realm, earning his keeps as a recognized playwright. It emphasizes his stature and skill to reflect nature on stage, securing livelihood from the theater.
A 19th century style instruction explains restoring faded white enamel by dissolving a spoonful of soda in a quart of boiling water, cooling the solution, and washing the furniture with an old flannel cloth to restore color.
Tagline from Newspaperdom warns advertisers that lack of ads hides business activities until visibility fades. It stresses the urgent need for advertising to attract customers and sustain recognition in a competitive market.
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