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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1912
Page
6
The Marquis of Queensberry recalled a London taxi tale that ends with a peer joking about life imprisonment. A New York dinner remark compares a long sentence to the driver mistaking a peer for a Commons member and shouting, I’m in for life.
At his brother's Park Avenue home in New York Gifford Pinchot listens to a political story from a reporter and laughs. He quips that he believes it but suspects many others would not sharing a cheeky parallel to an old Italian peasant remark about loving birds too much to eat them.
A Chicago family kept a butler and frequent electrician visits for a faulty doorbell. After a dinner guest complained of a sore throat, the mistress asks Sam to fetch Dobell's solution, prompting a startled response about the doorbell and old-time service.
A New York hotelier claims coffee causes nervousness sleeplessness and restlessness in a third of people. He describes relief after replacing coffee with Postum noting improved sleep and calmer behavior and mentions a woman who also benefited after quitting coffee.
Disjoint lines mention a mosque and Indian sects with scattered phrases about natives and eating, plus references to Africa and subterranean topics. The readable content is highly garbled and lacks coherent events or clear subjects.
The article notes snake like Scots pine trees at Lilliput Dorset with natural deformities. It describes edible insects including locusts cockchafer grubs and palm grubs from the West Indies Java and Australia and mentions ancient Greeks cicadas and crickets as traditional foods.
Insects have long served as food for many peoples, with locusts a central staple or luxury. Across Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Europe, locusts and grasshoppers are fried, baked, or ground into doughs and soups, cited from ancient to modern times. The practice appears in ancient Nineveh, Athens markets, Mosaic law, and regional cuisines from Arabia Petraea to Madagascar.
An article details a new hair restoration method using a fine golden wire hook inserted into the bald pate to attach living hairs. About 300 hairs can be implanted per hour and last five years, with spun glass offered as a hygienic, lighter substitute that can mimic real hair in color and luster.
The article recounts how King Leopold of Belgium avoided photographers while Queen Alexandra and King Edward welcomed them when not bothered. It notes a Spanish queen's courtesy after a photographer pursued her, with the photographer’s reply that photography funds his daily bread, prompting the queen to permit the shot.
A ruined fifth century tower on Bardser in the Irish Sea marks a memorial to thousands of saints buried there. The island’s abbey drew many pilgrimages, and burial in its soil was highly valued, with tradition claiming over 60,000 saints interred.
Four year old Brooklyn girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jobhnson Martin, can talk in Armenian Turkish Greek and English. Parents are Armenians and the child has picked up a wonderful knowledge of all four languages.
The passage strings together misheard phrases about marriage vows sarcasm on obedience and crossed fingers. It wanders through jokes about egotism and social manners and ends with a quirky note on tea and gentleness.
Ad for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound arguing it supports women during the climacteric. It cites symptoms such as hot flashes and dizziness and presents a testimonial from Mrs Estella Grinsem of St Anne Illinois claiming relief after two months.
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