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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1913
Page
4
A letter argues Rep. Koelsch's proposed bill would force medical exams for men seeking marriage, pushing violators to neighboring states and leaving innocent women at risk. The author calls for universal enforcement to protect future wives and fathers.
A dramatic clash between a six foot shark weighing 142 pounds and a seven foot jewfish just off Santa Monica pier ends with both fish dead. Crowds watched as gaff hooks hauled the exhausted combatants onto the dock after an hour of brutal exchange.
A brief moral noting that poverty is not shameful but discontentment is. compares hardship at sea and small inconveniences to personal restraint. Quoting Charles H. Spurgeon on modest desires and enduring poverty with patience.
The text traces how compulsory education binds children to the state, prompting officials to ensure physical readiness and extend maternalist care. Visiting nurses doctors and school meals emerge as state support, with ideas of reimbursing families for loaned children during schooling.
A wry adage compares fish to potential suitors, noting many remain free in the sea while few would approach, implying courting success is uncertain and selective. Multiple colorful metaphors paint a lighthearted view of dating prospects.
In Bugersville a pair of hoboes arrive at the Williams home and one is jailed after a confrontation. A dream of gold leads the jailer and judge to seek treasure under a crabapple tree, but a sand box yields only sand and both men are publicly ridiculed.
A terse notice directs travel to California with low rates to San Francisco and Los Angeles. It mentions a limit of April 1 and advises contacting a U S agent for rates and further particulars.
An old advertisement warns against mercury based tonics for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F P J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and ingested to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It touts genuine product guarantees and offers testimonials, with Hall's Family Pills also advertised for constipation.
A quoted anecdote portrays Napoleon Bonaparte unable to decipher his own notes. Las Cases recalls him lamenting the unreadable script and remarking that his scribes must later interpret his written words. The emperor jokes that his writing is so unclear even he cannot read it.
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