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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
6
A fragmentary column of witty quips on social foibles and era business, including jokes about wigmakers, color blindness, gate money, and salaries for teachers, plus notes on royalty, wealth, and the nascent automobile trend. Mentions King Edward VII, Duchess of Marlborough, Vanderbilt, and the Peabody News.
A mixed column notes a Scotch firm sending workers to Buffalo Exposition to study American industry. It also surveys Amelia Barr on celibacy and the rising respectability of unmarried women. The piece then highlights a Census Bureau health bulletin on urban health gains, rising life expectancy, and sanitation advances improving public health and reducing disease nationwide.
A lighthearted exchange in a Swiftly worded tale has a good-natured Swede answering a bride’s plea about Ina’s cooking. Ina responds with shy humor, saying she is a good cook if others don’t interfere to help. The quip captures playful domestic banter.
Belgian pigeon wins the 700 mile race from Burgos Spain to Brussels in fourteen hours marking a remarkable endurance feat for the avian flyer.
A lyric poem praising the light of home as a guiding, benevolent force across life and aging. It likens home’s light to divine grace and to the enduring presence of loved ones, culminating in a vision of heaven’s gates ajar and the home light shining beyond.
George Morton, a kindly bachelor, awkwardly bears the weight of past rejections as two Foster sisters wed. After a playful rice toss and a long, unspoken love for the brides sister, Millie, a young debutante reveals Morton is the “blind blundering idiot” who truly loves her.
A Detroit Free Press note laments fading childhood skills as modern youths lack knowledge to craft simple devices like kite tails, water wheels, wind mills, or cornstalk fiddles. The speaker plans to write a book to preserve these crafts before they vanish.
A camel can carry 400 pounds and travel forty miles daily, working from age five to thirty. An ox can bear up to 200 pounds on its back and travel no more than twenty four miles per day.
Miss Abbie Alfrich daughter of Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is engaged to John D. Rockefeller Jr. heir to Standard Oil fortune. The match sparks Eastern society chatter as Rockefeller plans to pursue dancing, while his Baptist Bible class teaching is noted. The Alfrich father's career as a Providence businessman and former political figure is highlighted.
The report notes Miss Aldrich may add millions to Rockefeller’s fortune in a romance regarded as a love match. The bride-to-be is described as a social leader who values gaiety, while Rockefeller’s reputation centers on leading Bible and dancing classes, signaling a path to social prominence.
An American heiress, Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, sues a Paris dressmaker and Infanta Eulalia of Spain for conspiracy to block delivery of eight gowns she ordered. The case arose after the Infanta saw two dresses, the dressmaker promised two other outfits gratis, and Yerkes demanded the full original lot be delivered. The suit raises international notoriety but not war threats.
A meteorological kite rose to 1900 feet at the American Observatory Blue Hill, claiming the highest altitude in America for kites and balloons. Four and three quarter miles of piano wire formed the line, with very dry air and freezing temperatures at the peak.
In the Gomerville Journal a comical exchange features Hicks and Wicks debating the worth of salt for Freableigh. The banter centers on the value of character and effort, reflecting small town humor and social wit.
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