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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
6
A survey of playful and pointed observations on modernization, science, and society. The piece lampoons tech dominance over death risks, archists, and fashioning nations while noting travel, medicine, and education shifts. It references the Samoa-Schley inquiry, balloon plans, Canadian emigration, and a jokey attack on traveling salesmen.
A Chicago meeting of Congregational ministers hears critic Blanchard attack on wealthy parishioners and urges clerical equality. The piece argues churches largely governed by moneyed boards face corruption and that riches distort church leadership, urging a shift away from wealth in governance.
Peter Gruber of Rochester New York owns a unique suit crafted from 125 rattlesnake skins. The four color varieties black brown yellow and gray form a striking ensemble with rattlesnake head buttons and stuffed eyes on hat and stick. He values it highly and claims it is the only one of its kind.
An Oxford don famed for scholarly abstraction at a London dinner becomes lost in thought. He wakes to find his fork in the plate beside a portly woman, then quips My bread, I think, prompting a gentle public grin at his absent mindedness.
An old Philadelphia Press line contends national wealth lies in the soil, with a farmer agreeing little has been gained locally. A quip follows, noting a lighthearted term for a blond woman who dyes her hair as a “self made blonde.”
King Alphonso XIII of Spain is being trained in warfare. Col. Larigo spends most waking hours with him teaching military tactics and maneuvers. The course includes gymnastics and has helped the delicate boy become a sturdier youth.
The article catalogs longtime educator Miss Anna Lyle’s fifty years in Philadelphia schools, philanthropists Claus Spreckles and Phoebe Hearst funding universities and halls, and Lewis Elkin’s unprecedented two million bequest to aid disabled women teachers. It also discusses New York and Cleveland school experiments with bathing and free text books, including costs, plans, and parent book donations.
The Church of the Holy Communion in New York launches a plan to create a $100,000 educational endowment. The fund will pay educational experts to train teachers, fund department heads, and compensate qualified volunteers lacking full remuneration. The goal is to raise teaching standards for Sunday schools.
A collage of light humor and quips from newspapers, featuring exchanges about vanity, tailor bills, Wall Street missteps, family antics, and witty serveals. It blends jokes on reform desire, reporters, and clever dialogues about love money and daily life in a period voice.
A Berlin manager for American Tool compares wages and tool costs with U S operations using identical machinery. He finds American workers, for the same wage, produce 25 percent more output. On a per man basis German output is two fifths of American. In Breslau a shoe factory using American machinery improved German performance by hiring eight American pieces workers, pushing German workers to within 10 percent of American output.
A Starkey prairie resident in an isolated Blue mountains valley is forced to dance a dog across the dark as a neighbor menaces with a revolver. Bullets whistle nearby, driving escalating pace in a tense frontier scene near Pendleton Oregon.
Misa Elfen Purdue aged 21 is dead at New Westminster B C from an overdose of oil of cedar. It is believed she swallowed an ounce by mistake and died soon after in agony as officials investigate the incident.
Washington December 10 Senator Hoar of Massachusetts introduced a joint resolution authorizing the president to negotiate with civilized nations to punish attempts on the lives of chief magistrates. A separate resolution providing seventy five thousand dollars for transportation and installing a government exhibit at the Charleston exposition was approved.
A Boston newspaper reader uncovers a vintage ad for H. Rogers offering dress services for ladies on assembly or ball days. Those who engage him must notify a day ahead, and if they opt to cancel, they pay half price.
A Washington Star quotation contrasts fame with emptiness. One man calls fame a bubble, while a friend suggests the idea of grabbing it could turn it into a dirigible balloon, reflecting humorous view on ambition.
In a playful exchange, Simpkins faces a remark about being rejected by a girl who owns a $500 dog. The Detroit Free Press records the light banter reflecting social mores and quirky humor.
The text argues that dictionaries reveal how others misspell English and show how little vocabulary each person absorbs from the language, suggesting a small personal lexicon compared to the whole.
A humorous fragment shows a mother asking a remorseful Johnnie if he is sorry about stealing a cooky. He sobs and answers that he is glad he did not take two, concluding the brief exchange with a childlike moral.
Fragmentary item notes a weary mood and a line about violence and a college professor over a drink. It references Lucas and Feer’d, with a mention of LL D and Ohio State Journal. The readable bits imply a satirical or editorial tone rather than a straight news event.
A dramatic exchange unfolds with He declaring he cannot express his love for Muriel in words while she insists true love speaks to her father. The scene centers on Hidden feelings and family approval shaping the couple's future.
In a fragment from a 19th century tale, a professor at home and a child named Dot discuss a puzzling item from reading. The dialogue centers on deciphering what a cryptic phrase might mean as a pun or riddle appears in the text.
A historic note describes flies as nearly invincible, enduring prolonged immersion in water and exposure to sulfur odor and disinfectants. It claims only turpentine, chloroform, ammonia, and washing can defeat a fly.
A brief scene shows Bridget reassuring her mother about her sister’s new living arrangements. Bridget reports the sister’s happiness with the place and notes the family’s unusual trust, adding that they do not lock up anything.
The piece contrasts harsh patrol duties with grand charges, recounting patrols near kopjes where Boers lurk behind rocks. It describes the fear, vigilance, and near-constant risk, noting the lack of glory for those shot on patrol and the strange thrill of narrowly escaping danger. It also notes R P McLennan riding 830 miles from Dawson City to White Horse Rapids.
A Washington Star report describes two shoppers on a streetcar negotiating prices. They boast about finding bargains and resisting clerk attempts to push higher prices as they recall chasing cheaper ties and pulling off a confident, assertive bargain.
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