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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
3
A humorous tale from the Rock Island Union recounts Stuart Robson gifting $5,000 to bridegroom Lawrence Barrett's daughter Felicia. She reports the recipient cried silently, while Robson recalls his own emotional response lasting an hour after signing.
Nathaniel Miles of the Swan trawler Hector recounts a wreck off Kilronan on the Irish coast during a storm. With life belts on, the crew fought the surf while the captain and officers stayed aboard. two dogs belonging to lighthouse keeper B. R. Jeffers leaped into the sea and dragged the crew ashore, one of several rescues noted by the London Daily News.
Robert Henri derides millionaires who flaunt wealth by buying art at ridiculous sums. He recalls a Chicago sausage maker who asked Whistler for a price to paint him in oil and jokes about supplying the oil himself.
A humorous note on Mike Maginnis decorating his saloon with an inscription that changes over six weeks from Old wine to drink Old books to read Old friends to trust Old wood to burn to Old wine to drink Old books to plead Old wood to burn. Mrs Blunderby criticizes Miss Gabble as a scandal mongrel in the Boston Transcript.
In a Washington Star cartoon, Plodding Pete laments two days without a square meal. A resolute woman releases her dog Towser and implies the dog shares in the hunger, delivering a sharp daily-life moment.
In Delhi a vast durbar honors King George and Queen Mary as ruler and consort of India. The ceremony features 90,000 troops, royal robes and Koh-i-noor diamond, a spectacle of native princes and elephants, and a display of imperial gifts for Hindustan.
Rosita McMullen's Sundown ranch era ends as rival Madigan Lane and outlaw Johnny McRoy clash at a Christmas wedding. McRoy shoots first, vanishes into chaparral, and the Frio Kid becomes the feared figure of the prairie. A later raid ends with a fatal shot by a sheep herder as Santa Claus costumes and a Christmas scare unfold.
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