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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1912
Page
2
A witty collage critiques aviation laws, urban fashions, and political theater. Observations range from monoplane fashion to candidates’ appeals, with digressions on New York trolley cars and a Boston mayor keeping chickens. A Canadian preacher jokes about heaven versus parish life.
English actor bound himself to keep in form amid strict corset use. He laced the garment so tightly that it caused fatal pressure, illustrating extreme measures taken for physique.
An assortment of wry notes on fashion, etiquette, aviation, and society from a breezy newspaper column. Topics range from London marriages after long courtships to aeroplane ban talk and changing English aristocracy tastes, with light musings on hats and feet.
A 1911 synopsis follows Lieut. Harry Mallory to the Philippines as he and Marjorie Newton scheme to elope aboard a transcontinental train. They face a wrecked taxicab, wandering preachers, jealous suitors, and a thwarted search for a minister while passengers improvise ad hoc nuptials and comic misunderstandings unfold.
On a halted Trans American train, Marjorie appeals to the conductor to back up for Snoozbums the dog, who fell off the car and is rescued alive. Mallory confronts chaos as passengers react, the conductor capitulates, and Snoozbums is saved by a humane act.
Miss Fay Templeton praised American business men during a Ritz Carlton supper in New York celebrating her return to the stage. She quipped that husbands work too hard and intelligent wives can cure overwork, recounting a joke about a millionaire husband remarking on his wife’s half mourning attire.
Jack Northrup rescues Penelope Debrys after she is washed ashore on Sea Island. Penelope, daughter of Arthur Debrys, reveals her yacht Blancine’s crew saved her before drifting to the cove. Jack, torn between Nora Smith and Penelope, learns Nora has married Tony Pike and claims Penelope as his own.
A white albino muskrat with pink eyes was trapped in the Pierce swamp near Fairfield Michigan, the first specimen reported in the state.
Historic note reports the Eiffel Tower sinking over an inch in certain atmospheric conditions and rising again. swaying centimeters during winds. M Guillaume proposes a taut wire test and finds the wire loosens before storms, supporting the tower as a natural barometer for weather signals.
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