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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1910
Page
2
A brisk collage of notes mocks aviation’s woes and future tech, jokes about fashion trends and nightlife, and lampoons social norms. It cites airships, tariffs, a London cure for a cold, and a deluge of quirky quips on people, places, and recent events from Chulalongkorn’s death to New York’s rising skyline.
A preacher notes that young women prefer marriage to missionary work. He warns that choosing marriage may bring them into involvement with missionary duties later.
A rule restricting radium sales to scientific institutions or qualified chemists is criticized as prohibitive. At $36,000,000 per pound, the policy could drive radium bargains underground and impose hardship on the general public seeking access to the element.
In Detroit a man was arrested after shooting off firecrackers to celebrate his twenty fifth wedding anniversary. A local observer quipped that a man who marks twenty five years of marriage should have privileges.
A report notes an Oregon detective guarding the Chinese prince during a recent visit, with a note that a detective in a yellow jacket and a peacock feather would hinder secret work. The Boston Transcript adds a quip about plausible explanations for a black eye and domestic economy. A New York will provides for a young heiress’s education in practical skills.
In a humorous 1910 Nesbit style vignette, a mother asks her son to deduce Christmas gifts for her husband and Uncle Bill without tipping them off. The men debate wants and hopes, joking about pockets, elegant trinkets, and a pricey present that never arrives, reflecting postulates of gift giving and pride.
A retired judge nearly died from a fit of laughter at a joke comparing a woman in a hobble skirt to a giraffe with tied feet. In Indiana a man laughed 12 hours over trading a mule for a shaved tall horse. The piece notes humor as a safety value and questions how taste varies and misreads affect serious scenes.
A child asks how Santa will enter their flat without a chimney. The mother suggests slipping in by the basement door while a boy quips that the janitor will drive Santa out before he can unpack his sack.
A humorous dialogue from a childhood memory where Sister Sue envies a fat circus performer and wishes to hang her stocking on Christmas night, while Brother Johnnie remains puzzled. The exchange captures a playful, period voice with a light holiday mood.
The War rensburg State Normal school buys the 36 acre Mc vain farm for 7500 dollars, a half mile east of campus. It becomes a state farm linked to the agricultural department with a practical farmer in charge. It will offer demonstrations in soil treatment grain chickens hogs and milch cows as object lessons aligned with national and state programs.
Officers and enlisted men of the hospital National Guard, based in St Joseph, received the first typhoid vaccination at Maj Oliver C Gebharts office. Two additional inoculations at ten day intervals will follow to complete immunity. Afterwards the entire state guard may be vaccinated, and the unit plans to promote anti typhoid vaccination among St Joseph residents.
Missouri University stock judging team captured the silver trophy for saddle horse judging at the International Live Stock Show in Chicago, defeating rivals including Kentucky. Dean F. St. Mumford announced the win. Team members: S. T. Simpson Blockton IA, George Templeton Rich Hill, Walter Williams Belton, W. R. Heckler Dalton, T. H. Douglass Shelbina.
Shippers in Stone and Taney counties were notified that beginning December 10 freight on ties to Kansas City will rise seven cents per tie, raising the carload price to 91 dollars and 21 cents. They threaten to appeal to the state railroad commissioners if the rate stands. The new rate, 221 cents per tie, aims to cut costs for shippers, as tie cutting remains a main Ozark county industry.
The Missouri State Grange completed a three day session choosing Palmyra officers C. O. Rain Canton overseer M. V. Bashere Palmyra lecturer E A Ikenberry Columbia steward William James New London assistant steward Edward Hick Benjamin chaplain John A. Miller Hannibal treasurer Miss Lulo Fuqua Hannibal secretary Harry Lewis Kahoka gatekeeper
In Joplin Justice A. J. Earls court, J. F. England aged 75 and Mrs. Sofia Stone aged 70 wed. The ceremony proved age a non barrier to marriage as recorded in the court.
The 1917 Missouri corn crop breaks earlier marks with a yield far surpassing the 1802 record of 64,352,705 bushels. The report lists 107 241,025,000 bushels, followed by 1908 at 204,624,000 and 1909 at 272,840,000 bushels as prior highs.
W A Mitchell, master car builder for the Missouri Kansas and Texas road, reports company headquarters ordered the Sedalia railway shops shut. No reasons were given, and the closure is believed temporary.
A. E. Standon of Chicago traveled to Elsberry near Montgomery and paid R. Q. Sharp six hundred dollars, settling a loan he borrowed twenty five years earlier to start a business that failed and for which the note had long since been destroyed.
A special tuberculosis commission appointed by Governor Hadley reports that ten percent of patients in state hospital No. 2 in St. Joseph are infected with tuberculosis.
Government authorities seized forty two crates of decomposed eggs in Kansas City. Analysis shows each cubic centimeter contained 150000000 germs. Authorities move to remove the potentially hazardous lot from circulation.
Plans by state highway engineer Curtis R. Hill propose a turnpike from Hollister to Kirbyville, a distance of three and a half miles, with an estimated cost of 800 dollars.
At the Macon County Society annual banquet, John T. Harker suggested a Plaza be named to erect a monument to Senator James Green of Missouri. A collection will be raised to fund the project.
Augustus E Vaughan a 75 year old charity volunteer known as the general adviser without pay helps fallen and discouraged men on the Boston Common and at the Young Men's Christian Union. Immaculate in dress and heart he talks with his boys daily, many becoming cleaner and more hopeful through his cheerful example and books.
A brief comic exchange contrasts skepticism with a cure, told through two speakers Mr Knocker and The Agent. Knocker admits only a small faith, then acknowledges the treatment cured even that. The gag hinges on irony about belief and remedy.
A humorous exchange centers on a man who cannot get along with his wife's relatives. The father-in-law challenges the husband to earn more than his current salary, highlighting tensions over financial support and expectations within the marriage.
A man, limping and with an arm in a sling, explains to a friend that his sadness stems from an automobile accident he did not suffer. The friend asks about the cause, and the man reveals the incident involved a man who could not take a joke.
Michigan woman recovering from surgery describes indigestion and nerves, saying Grape-Nuts restored appetite, stamina, and interest in life after two months. She went from unable to work for a year to eager to work, with no stomach trouble and stable nerves. The advertisement invites readers to read The Road to Wellville and notes many similar letters exist.
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