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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1915
Page
6
Robert and William discuss marriage and whether love alone justifies the leap. William urges careful choice, asking for six concrete reasons and stressing companionship, shared work, and lasting fit beyond infatuation. He advises writing a checklist and waiting if unsure.
Germany used carrier pigeons to carry miniature cameras for battlefield photographs. Invented by Doctor Neubronna the device weighed about 2½ ounces with a 2 inch focal lens and produced 1½ by 1 inch images. Some models took eight pictures in sequence or used two cameras with forward and rear lenses. The exposure was controlled by a rubber bulb releasing the shutter after a timed interval.
Gerald Stanley Lee argues that nations can be more noble than any single person and that collective moral momentum elevates virtue. He compares solitary virtue to national unity, warning that shared hate or love amplifies intensity, shaping a nation's nobility beyond individual measure.
The family head demands an end to extravagant spending while his spouse retorts that his playing golf every afternoon slows money making. The exchange hints at household tensions over finances and risk of conflict.
An exchange questions objections to sport shirts and their comfort while noting wearers’ confidence in their appearance. The dialogue lightly critiques the idea that comfort overrides style and implies bold self-perception among wearers.
More than 400 cities and towns join a nationwide program by the Bureau of Naturalization to eliminate the hyphen and educate candidates for citizenship through public schools. The plan is to connect applicants with classes, inform them of benefits, and promote night schools while involving wives and civic groups.
Eli Avery, said to be eighty four by family records, proves spry by constructing a cement retaining wall around his home in Goff Kansas. He mixed the concrete and did all the labor himself, reporting remarkable endurance for his age.
Sergeant Major James Deaver United States Marine Corps retired in Seattle after thirty years service with wealth over one hundred thousand dollars. He saved carefully invested in Seattle realty and homes his family resides at 4226 South Alliat Street overlooking Puget Sound.
Maria Behan eighteen-year-old of Marinette Wisconsin believed to have wandered after a dream in which her three sisters burned to death in an orphanage. Physicians say the sleep dream triggered her erratic train ride toward Green Bay and police in Wisconsin and Michigan searched for her.
W M Puckett of Trigg county captured a five and a half foot bull snake in Hopkinsville. The snake lay in a horse trough attempting to swallow an artificial egg placed in a hen's nest. Puckett used a string and noose to secure the serpent.
The suit by Frederick Gustav Schritzel and John Gross seeks to enjoin Niels Peter Sorensen from further dealings in the Treasury group Zacama North island of the Solomon group and Green island of the Cataract group. Plaintiffs claim rights to Sorensen’s claims, urge disclosure of later contracts, and seek U S government intercession with Great Britain to clear title to the islands.
Peter La Morte, once a ragtime performer in New York and London, arrived on the Matsonia en route to the Royal Naval Academy. He married Princess Katrarrna, daughter of a Maori chieftain, and was appointed chief of a Hawks Bay tribe.
Harvey Wilson of Kansas City shot a buck he could not disentangle from another stag locked in combat. He killed both animals, claiming a mount, but was arrested for possessing two bucks. The incident occurred along Thunder River’s north branch on Thunder Mountain, Crivitz.
Mrs. Almeric Paget organizes and outfits massage camps in London. Miss French, daughter of Gen. Sir John French, leads one camp. Reported benefits include relief for wounded frontliners and men with shattered nerves.
A short scene from Holland's Magazine shows Willie coaxing his aunt to act as engineer while he acts as conductor. He orders her to pull out and to chew the rag, claiming they are five minutes late, before his parents forbid him from playing near the tracks.
A Glasgow hawker touring the provinces could not uncork his cure all mixture as his corkscrew vanished. A gentleman in the crowd cried I belong to Glasgow and lent his corkscrew, supplying the needed tool.
A young man enters a hatters shop and asks for a return on a necktie bought days earlier. The clerk notes the tie is worn and the customer admits wearing it last night during a failed proposal to his date. The shopper insists on the return despite the wear.
A brisk dialogue between Mrs Willis and Mrs Gillis opens with a jab about domestic science lessons. The judge remarks the humor lies in how the daughter avoids washing dishes rather than learning new dishwashing methods.
A husband notes his wife’s appearance and she responds with humor about the hat. Their exchange shifts from compliment to playful banter about how the hat suits her.
A Philadelphia Ledger item quotes a magistrate rebuking a husband for a brutal assault on his wife while the accused quips that prison would break up their honeymoon, illustrating a darkly humorous courtroom moment.
A Missouri town minister phoned a grocer and ordered a dollar’s worth of meat to be sent to his house. He added that if no one is home, the meat should be poked through the key hole, a remark cited by Harper’s Weekly.
A man recalls taking his father to a new musical comedy last night. The father enjoyed the show greatly, saying the jokes transported him back to his childhood days.
A Brooklyn Citizen quote contrasts Katherine and Kidder on language of flowers. Katherine asks about meaning of American Beauty roses, and Kidder quips that a fool and his money are soon parted.
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