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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
7
In a Philadelphia Record snippet Dolly questions why Maude avoids new ank stockings. Polly suggests Maude is saving for rainy days, delivering a light domestic exchange.
In a Boston Transcript cartoon exchange Figge jokes about moving to make space in a flat while Fogg notes the dentist will pull a tooth. Their playful banter highlights a humorous domestic scenario with light city newspaper wit.
A jokey exchange notes Napoleon's hair selling for five dollars at auction. A bald man jokes he would pay that much for his own hair if he could have it back, prompting a playful banter about value and vanity.
A collage of quirky dialogue and clipped anecdotes. The Society Whirl concerns a request for help next Friday amid picket duty with shirt-waist strikers. Other items include a fish story with a swallowed catch and a truncated note about an airship mishap and metal contraction from a newspaper page.
In a humorous exchange a character jokes that a .com is unsafe only when its calf is missing. The other character, a she, confesses fear at not seeing the calf, turning the moment into a quip about caution and surprise.
An old newspaper fragment touts Garfield Tea for digestion and Soothing Syrup for teething children. It warns about self harm and urges better health, claiming many illnesses begin in digestive disorders and promoting remedies.
A playful miscommunication in a neighborhood chat reveals Becker explaining baseball to a girl who mishears as talking about diamonds. The exchange highlights language clues and urban slang in daily life.
A cryptic exchange asks about the status of a versatile worker. The dialogue alludes to labor associations and the broader question of professional belonging in trades.
A speaker lists possible summer destinations England Norway and Scotland with a likely choice of Punk Beach as a preferred spot. The dialogue contrasts global options with a personal, humorous preference.
An amateur writer asks how to begin selling a short story. The veteran suggests buying ten dollars worth of stamps as the practical first move in pursuing publication.
The article explains trap nests as essential for identifying individual hens in a flock, enabling breeders to track eggs laid per hen from 40 to 245 and to prevent eye eating. It describes a simple, low cost bank of trap nests, built without tops or bottoms, $0.15 per unit, and guides operation and inspection.
A man has spent years hoping to acquire a coin of value exceeding its nominal worth. The narrative centers on aspiration and the idea that rarity may eventually deliver a coveted prize.
Washington ordered Rear Admiral Osterhaus to head from Key West to Havana with a dispatch ship and another vessel after Minister Beaupre reported Havana’s conditions as race driven violence. The plan may include taking the Washington into Cuban waters amid anti negro demonstrations and widespread fear among foreigners and locals.
San Quentin California inmates caused a violent grub strike in the prison dining room Sunday afternoon. A civilian guard on the wall shot dead a striker. another inmate was wounded and an innocent prisoner hit by a stray bullet. A guard was cut, and many prisoners were hurt by overturned benches, tables, and flying utensils during the disturbance.
A busy author explains that he must write in dialect due to several letters jammed in his typewriter. The remark hints at creative constraint driving stylistic choice and prompts readers to expect dialect usage in the upcoming piece.
In Oklahoma a Tulsa man seeks to wed a daughter from her parents but the match is blocked as the girl is deemed too young. The father replies she will visit Pawhuska soon and return older, while the suitor warns she may be an old maid by then.
A happy Sewickley couple enjoys a brief honeymoon. An elderly friend jokes with the groom downtown about meals at home. The wife cooks angel food daily, prompting a light question on when beefsteak and onions might be proper after marriage.
A jumble of notes covers gasoline costs car entry politics and social curiosities. It mentions that coffee prompts divorce claims and Harvard contemplates elm care while a Cincinnati price note and a whale hide thickness remark appear among short quips.
The 1912 baseball season fails to match the spice of prior years, offering a comparatively muted proving ground for teams and players as the circuit progresses.
Washington legislation proposing a general parcels post for the United States and possessions, excluding the Philippines estimates, is likely to pass this session. Postmaster General Hitchcock urges Congress, saying it would help ease the high cost of living.
The article sets perch space by hen size five to eight inches and twelve inch spacing between perches with at least fifteen inches from walls. It warns against leaning tails on walls and suggests movable perches often hinged to the back wall as a common method.
A brief note describes foasties made from a hard part of a choice selection, roasted after being salted with sugar to a brown, appetizing finish without hand contact.
A West Side residential area child mob caused noise forenoon until an angry elderly man scolded a girl. He warned of arrest and jail for loudness, asking if she could still be president, to which she replied she is only a little girl.
Three men were wounded in a clash over a radium claim at Mina Lake on Negrit Island. Joseph Hudson of California was shot in the neck and leg, Alfred L. Rockwell of Pacific Grove was shot in the knee, and a third unidentified man was wounded and taken to Mina for surgery.
In Penn Yan a physician responded to a crash five miles from Hammondsport. He wired Glen Curtiss field for help, flew with Hugh Robinson in an aeroplane, treated the injured man, and returned to Penn Yan in under an hour.
Senate committee on interoceanic canals approved a section of the Panama Canal bill granting reciprocity to American coastwise ships. The move, expected to be ratified by the Senate, effectively settles the toll question in favor of coastwise vessels.
Fragmentary note discusses how male bird temperament affects fertility. It describes quarrelsome males driving hens away and overeating leading to sluggishness, while overly gallant males may defer to hens. Concludes with a remark on the male’s condition and fertilization capacity.
Alexander P. Moore publisher of the Leader receives gifts from friends who have raised to Lillian Russell the actress. Leader Publishing employees bought a chest of silver at Mrs. Moore as a wedding gift.
The text argues a hen has no sentiment and that her sole aim is food. It notes providing a warm, well ventilated dry shelter at night in winter enables her to be roasted.
Abraham Ruef’s parole application, supported by a Fremont editor, was rejected by state authorities this Saturday. The San Francisco Bulletin editor’s petition failed to sway officials handling the case.
A man named George An reports his wife and two babies were killed in a house fire blamed on four rebel bands near Teplice. The incident occurred Sunday as the family faced a deadly home assault and arson.
A judge recalls Smithkins whose junk shop became a fashionable antiques store on a new street. He kept the same stock but relabeled it Antiques, illustrating a changed fortune from years past.
A playful exchange questions a child’s fancy dress choice at a ball. The mother deems the idea unsuitable for a small child, prompting a humorous alternative about a condensed milkmaid costume.
If every he in the world were nailed there wouldn't be enough nails left to build houses with. The wages of arbitration should be paid as peace work.
A California physician with forty years experience extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as superior dietary aids. He claims mental work improves with Grape-Nuts and rich cream, notes digestive benefits, and travels with the products. The letter is sponsored by the Postum Company and promotes the book The Road to Wellville.
A fragmentary column rails at modern manners with quips on eggs for 15 per guineas, youth preferring baseball over presidency, climate change notes, a $300 million loan notion, and assorted zingers. It mentions a farmer regaining sight after tooth extraction, a rider breaking own leg, suffrage debates, and streetcar etiquette.
An anti vivisectionist from Philadelphia cites the English report promising to end live bait use in fishing. Stephen Coleridge is noted for a Philadelphia debate where he argued worms feel pain when impaled on hooks and mocked the opposing view as the worm’s way of laughing.
A fragmentary report notes Brimson's reaction to misfortune as he swears and devises new forms of profanity, showing his focus on cursing rather than addressing troubles. No clear outcome or full context is provided.
A humorous reflection on bravado and social pretensions. The writer notes that small dogs bark to show courage while some lofty people may be too shallow to affect real measure, implying Garfield Tes has long pushed for a remedy worth wife.
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