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Newspaper
Blackfoot News
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1901
Page
3
A New Yorker advises sending two small Japanese hand stoves with ginger to friends bound for Europe. She notes their value for long sea journeys and post voyage use, citing the Detroit Free Press and a friend who lost hers at sea.
The Philadelphia Times describes delicate slippers in satin suede and kid, tied with ribbons or jeweled clasps, praising their flattering lines for well-shaped feet. It notes a shift from elegant terms like charming to simpler words like attractive and boat, reflecting society’s trend toward plain speech.
Smart Jewelers spotlights the favorite engagement ring of the day, detailing a standout design that blends classic elegance with contemporary flair. The feature notes a premium metal setting, a central diamond, and intricate halo accents, appealing to timeless romance.
A column discusses empire sandals worn with empire gowns in Paris, notes the Parisienne’s critique of footwear, and mentions heelless designs favored for both day and evening wear. It also covers a jewelry trend with diamond settings. The text shifts to a recipe for halibut cutlets with a almond tomato sauce baked for an hour.
A spoof poem parodies a club of fashionable women calling themselves business women. It mockingly notes their chatter at gatherings and in public, while praising trivial restaurant fare and questioning the label business as applied to them. The piece lampoons social pretensions in a satirical tone.
Newport Landing residents thrilled by a 25 foot silvery ribbon like fish with a long dorsal fin and hairlike red fins. Local scientists identify the creature as a deep water ribbon fish, noting it may have been 30 to 40 feet long and would have looked like a sea serpent.
The piece describes a Guatemala native plant with a goose shaped bud and a 16 inch bloom, opening in three days and fading in a day. Its odor mimics decaying meat to attract carrion flies used for fertilization, while all plant parts resist insect bites.
The piece describes mantis insect combats in bamboo cages with spectators tapping the glass, a French clockmaker Le Boullat famed for freak clocks using unexpected materials, including newspaper clocks and gold encrusted designs, and a New York Herald profile of Shilluk people and prairie fire theories linked to sunlit bottles along Montana and Dakota trails.
A fee simple refers to a monetary payment given to a quack doctor. The note clarifies a financial transaction labeled as a fee, suggesting payments for illicit or questionable medical services.
A grocery stall encounter centers on a man pursuing the poem The Schooner Hesperus and the meaning of hunger. The conversation shifts from tubs and squashes to literature as the old man presses for lines while the grocer resists, ending with a meal offer and a chance to talk. The scene blends hunger, poetry, and urban encounter.
A colored man driving a limping horse argues with a pedestrian about the horse shedding both hair and limbs. He jokes that the horse may shed fourteen ailments and warns that in seven months it might run away, collapse the wagon, and kill two men unless he quits the business.
In Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for April a poet wanders into a neighbor's house by accident and meets a striking woman. He quips about being an intruder as they spar with wit, then muses on the mind of the other as a bubbling spring along a dusty road of conversation. Noel introduces himself as a writer of poems and essays.
The exchange editor and information editor spar over a joke about women, ending with a lesson from the labor editor on how to use a telephone. A New York Tribune note explains tips for clearer speech, urging readers to place lips near the instrument and speak distinctly with ample air.
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