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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
7
A collage of humorous observations and global curiosities. Notes on China and Corea in decline, a fiancee hair mishap ending an engagement, the pursuit of wealth, and jokes about royalty. Civil and rail matters hint at broader social trends and reforms.
The article discusses state limits in Russian medical education, naming Moscow, Kiev, Kharkov, Dorpat, Warsaw, Tomsk, and Kazan caps to roughly one thousand students yearly. It also recalls Dr. Gruby of Paris and his unconventional cures via exercise and behavior, not drugs. It closes with a satirical note on a private letter hinting at second wives affecting shopping influence, illustrating mercantile assumptions about domestic dynamics.
The Queen maintains a private submarine cable from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle used to communicate with her ministers. Charles L. was kept nearby for a few days before his trial and execution.
A historical note traces the decline of the old fashioned practice where a single woman named Miss Smith sent formal compliments to a Mr Jones and accepted invitations with civility. It highlights shifts in social norms and courting customs from a bygone era.
A prize money story reveals a forged debt and a teacher's past. Margaret discovers her beloved professor Charles Hay is innocent of a later charge, while a former pupil's honesty and a benefactor's wisdom reshape trust and romance. The tale traces forgiveness, revelation, and a lasting romance born from moral choices.
A Chicago Inter Ocean item explains how a long trusted chair is displaced by a newer one. The narrator details how, after a fault prompts repair delays, a different chair gains appeal and becomes preferred. Eventually the old chair is restored but fails to recapture former comfort, illustrating the dominant power of habit.
A medical journal warns stamp collectors may spread tuberculosis via moist stamps. A worker who prepared stamps for sale inoculated guinea pigs with stamp-water. eight died with TB lesions. Children should avoid moistening stamps with mouths and foreign stamps should be disinfected before adding to collections.
Dr Mendel of Paris advocates a new bronchitis treatment by delivering medicaments directly into the respiratory passages via a curved syringe into the tracheal conduit. The solution, containing volatile vegetable essences, warms the chest and eases breathing hours after administration, killing microbes as it evaporates in the lungs.
Dr Mendel reports a month long program of daily ten cubic centimeter injections that enter the blood and affect the lungs again. In fifty patients, including forty five with tuberculosis, coughing and expectoration ceased, appetite returned, sleep and strength improved, and weight increased. Throat and chest readily accept injections, which do not upset digestion or require stomach harming medicines.
In Paris high prices are paid for fine hair, up to 250 dollars per pound, with most supply from Brittany. Peasant women and girls sell hair to traveling merchants in exchange for shawls and garments, while a mother is shown covering her daughter’s scalp in a net. The piece also notes philologists planning a Latin dictionary and cites Facelati and Forcellini as standards from 150 years ago.
A world traveler in Northern India describes monkeys as almost human in behavior. He recalls a morning breakfast spectacle with a noisy street chase, crows clashing for food, and temple simians nursing infants as a Christian mother would. He notes monkeys snatching travelers’ hats and a morning field May dance by a forest troop.
A digest of legal precedents: equality of taxation, inheritance tax exemptions, and due process. Notes cover Drew v Tifft on tax equality, Nos folk v Young on street assessment without hearing, Stanton v Singleton on mining contracts and specific performance, Tompkins v Chicago St Paul Omaha on railroad depot authority, and Crown v Kramer on tied votes for justice of the peace, with a note on a tied vote decision.
An excerpt discusses how a mature oak lifts water during months, contributing to evaporation and rainfall. It notes forests act as reservoirs with ferns mosses and mould feeding springs and brooks, highlighting forest influence on balancing precipitation and drought. The text then shifts to an unrelated line about a marriage campaign.
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