Parody and perplexities from a Paris Post page
A jagged collection of notes and quips from Paris Idaho showing assorted musings on war, politics, science, and society. Snippets mention a Hindu hypnotist, Kipling neutrality, a doctor’s death from drugs, spidering jokes about water, cobras as medicine, and a French claim to giant strawberries.
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Rudyard Kipling
The Mystery Uncle Theodore in a New England House
A man and Ruth Crosby host a housewarming in a New England town. Ruth's Uncle Theodore, a troubled former bank clerk, is mistaken for a danger as the narrator confronts him in a struggle, locking him in the cellar until Ruth's arrival.
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Ruth
Theodore
FE Bomo
Caugi Ruth
Alya
Crosby
Advice to a Girl on Love and Self restraint
A poetic guidance urging caution in romance. It counsels bearing faults in men, resisting jealousy, and avoiding shallow displays of affection. True hearts may dissent, but restraint, patience, and measured affection are advised while pursuing genuine affection.
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Hearta
Mystery Telegram Sparks Family Dinner Revelry
Ruth and guests confront a mistaken telegram about Theodore as a mysterious man is found in Ruth's cellar. The revealed stranger is Mr Webb, a whist club member and Alice’s fiancé, who calms fears and joins the family album tale.
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Ruth
George
Theodore
Huth
Mr. Webb
Webb
Alice
Fori Allod
Hddi
Xorena
Snake
PAMED FIGHTERS OF INDIA
A native officer writes on Indian soldiers noting the Bikhs Jats Dogras Pathana Gurkhas of Nepal as brave fighters. He praises their qualities while European officers in Cirkha regiments admire their men and their Hindu origins.
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India
Bu‘Topo
Punjab
Nepal
Eagles Build Nests and Catarrh Cure Ad Blend with Miscellany
A collage of notes on eagle nesting habits in Scottish hills and a patent medicine advert for Hat's Catarrh Cure by J Cheney Co Toledo. It mentions nesting sites, eggs' timing, and seaweed as a breakfast food with nutrition notes. The ad promises free treatment literature and lists remedies for cold and congestion.
Old Fashioned But Still In the Fashion
A patient overcomes chronic dyspepsia by switching to Grape Nuts and cream, eliminating fatty foods. Before recovery the sufferer weighed 98 pounds and endured sour stomach and frequent vomiting, but after using Grape Nuts the person gained to 125 pounds and regained health. The testimonial credits Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and advertises The Road to Wellville booklet.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Wellville
Fatal Music Hides a Real Curtain Tragedy
In a small town a touring actor Richard Mansfeld known for strict precision collapses during a supper scene in A Pert flan Romance. The visiting doctor character calls Stop the music as the Baron Chesnut dies on stage, drawing a grimly ironic curtain.
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Richard Mansfeld
Mansfield
To Time O Time Bowles Poem Fragment
Fragmentary verse by William Lisle Bowles pleading for time to ease sorrow and grant rest from grief. The speaker contemplates a peaceful evening and hopes time alone can cure a wounded heart as memories fade with the day’s end.
Culture of the Rose Across Civilizations
The passage traces the rose in ancient records from Coptic manuscripts to Indian myths and Egyptian flora. It notes Roman era gardens and contrasts artistic ref to roses, finding no clear rose motif in Rome art or Egyptian hieroglyphs, while Japan mirrors Egypt with roses but lacking a rose song or living song.
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India
Egypt
Rome
Japan
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