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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
7
Madame Calve, famed Seattle concert star, selects 17 year old Lois Feurt as a promising contralto. Calve personally approves and will adopt and train Feurt in Paris, after hearing her perform in Lincoln hotel.
An Irish immigrant at Ellis Island gives his name and is asked to repeat it louder. The officer insists, comparing his voice to a woman's. Pat replies that his mother was a woman, explaining the soft voice.
A short dialogue shows a father urging his son to cultivate discipline as a path to acting. An ad notes Piso's Cure for Consumption promising cough and cold relief priced at 25 cents.
A conversation shows a preacher describing his congregation as the hardest group to tire out, noting they refuse to grant him a vacation as they prove endlessly demanding for his time and energy.
In a light exchange a woman warns Ethel to tread carefully as Jack jokes that their father will be busy for hours reading the president’s message upstairs. The banter hints at a household routine and the father’s anticipated long reading session.
The article notes the appearance of a Japanese cigarette in London. It describes a product formed from broad strips of chocolate colored tobacco with a cardboard tube a inch long attached as a novelty item.
A two year old red and white steer named Bill at Swift & Co in St Joseph Missouri serves as a decoy to guide thousands of cattle to the killing chute. Brig Pebbles of the Salvation Army praises Bills intelligence and method, while a black ram is noted for guiding sheep to the same fate.
A Bombay student’s essay on horse anatomy and behavior offers humorous, plodding observations. It notes a horse’s bridled ride on the neck, the rider’s stirrups, and the animal’s grasses diet while detailing limbs, speed, and standing sleep.
A brisk Philadelphia Press quip contrasts a grouchy waiter and a customer who clings to old methods. The narrator notes one virtue in the old fashioned style: the letter writer’s friend never writes anything that stirs trouble.
Miss Mary Griswold a 40 year old deaf mute was instantly killed and Mrs. F C Smith another 40 year old deaf mute was seriously injured when struck by a Pacific electric trolley car while attempting to cross tracks in Long Beach California They had recently come from Chicago and the accident occurred Sunday.
An advertisement claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes can be cured constitutionally, offering $100 for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It champions catarrh as the cause and promotes free circulars from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and Hall's Pills. It ends noting monarchs never crowned.
Dr. Ingatz Jastrow, professor of political economy at the University of Berlin, has been elected president of the Commercial University that the Senior Mechanics' Corporation will open in fall 1906.
Secretary Root announces the American representatives to the Hague Conference Joseph H Choate former ambassador to England Horace Porter former ambassador to France and Judge Rose of Little Rock Ark ex president of the American Bar association.
In a sharply comic scene a nervous groom surveys his wedding party. The bridegroom bears the weight of a costly frock coat rental priced at 82, while his anxious entourage watches the moment with mixed amusement and sympathy.
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