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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
6
A jumble of topics from politics to science features figures like Rockefeller and Triggs, notes on Annenbury Monument to Whittier, and commentary on Potteries, lynching law, tenement housing, and fatigue science. It critiques public myths, labor living conditions, and a London Express brought view of ptomaine fatigue.
A feature recalls how advertising transformed commerce from a hesitant hardware store push to modern campaigns. It also contrasts labor dignity with idleness via a long poem and follows Mrs Brown's Vacation a tale of a wife who secretly enjoys a respite, returning to a refined home and a changed husband.
An English rival to Pisa’s leaning tower emerges in Bristol England. A square early Gothic Temple tower stands about 115 feet tall and five feet off plumb at the summit while stewarts retain normal relative positions with no cracks or fissures.
An advertisement from a Paris newspaper notes M. Emile Zola of Plamboeuf, inventor of spring nippers, has nothing to do with the writer Emile Zola. The public is informed of the distinction between the two individuals sharing the same name.
Dr Alfred Emerson archeologist once at Johns Hopkins and now abroad collecting antiques for UC Berkeley museum is famed for absent mindedness. A Baltimore friend recounts a lecture delay while he unpacked casts and a shirt mislabeling episode revealed eleven shirts with varied initials, including Emersons and others, sparking humor about his memory.
A burglar drilling in an office safe is surprised by a watching policeman. He confesses to being a crook but not a spy, and the mayor later discharges him with apologies. The piece ends with a paradoxical moral about allowing guilty men to go free to avoid harming the criminal classes.
In a Baltimore American excerpt a guardian figure Charon halts a new arrival at the Styx ferry with a warning to wait for the next trip. A passenger asks why the split, and the reply labels the newcomer as a fool who took the boat, preserving the voyage for others.
The Philadelphia Press quips about a polite dining quarrel where Mrs Stickler avoids blackberry pie while mourning. A modern jab notes that when an agent arrives you are not obliged to buy, reflecting old fashioned wit on ads and social manners.
Bertrand Bell of New York, a millionaire in wealth yet working as a tapeman in an Illinois railroad survey crew earning 1.25 a day, has led a striking life. Born 1877 in New York City, he studied languages at Harvard, traveled Europe twelve times, wrote for magazines, joined the Peary relief expedition, and served as a marine in the Spanish American War. Bell eschews hats and favors blue flannel shirts and drilling trousers as he learns surveying before returning to New York to pursue railroading and social élite life.
The Imperial Supreme Court of Germany ruled that banks selling stocks or bonds must refund money for securities if prospectus statements are not accurate. The case involved a banker’s optimistic stock recommendations and a lower court ruling that some statements were general business rhetoric. The high court held bankers liable for those statements, setting a strict standard of responsibility. Some politicians in the piece remark on political shifts as they discuss the ruling.
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