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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1912
Page
7
A collage of humorous exchanges and social scenes from a periodical page includes chatter about a graduate finding work, a party misread bid, a teacher and pupil moment, a young couple’s farewell, and a gag about elephants making piano keys. The tone recalls light gossip in a small town.
A long testimonial warns coffee harms heart and nerves due to caffeine. The writer, once ill with indigestion diarrhea and weight loss, credits Postum with curing headaches nausea and vomiting. He reports abandoning coffee for good after trying Postum and suggests readers seek The Road to Wellville.
In Choisy le Hol a massive clash ended with the deaths of Dubois and Bonnet after a street battle with police and detectives. The pursuit, amid dynamite blasts and gunfire, drew a crowd of over ten thousand in Paris. Two detectives were seriously wounded during the hand to hand encounter.
Reports from Oklahoma City indicate extensive destruction from Saturdays tornadoes. About forty-one people died and over one hundred were injured as twenty towns were struck. Butler and Foss villages were wiped out. Rescue work hampered by swollen streams and out-of-bank rivers.
Spokane report ties Joseph B. Le Master 21, assistant cashier for North ern Express to a missing case. He vanished last week after leaving Spokane Monday night and boarding a train to Canada with an estimated shortage between 1500 and 2000 dollars. Le Master joined the company in Chicago seven years ago.
The army transport Buford departed San Francisco at 9 p.m. bound for Topolobampo to rescue 1000 or more Americans seeking aid. It carries a full wireless outfit and an Army Hospital Corps company. En route it will stop at San Diego to take on Deputy Consul General Claude E. Guyant and will receive port instructions from Captain Frank I. Ely at each port.
Denver stockholders approve a 25 million bond issue with 71 percent voting in favor. Of the total, 10 million will be sold initially to fund roadbed upgrades in Colorado and Utah and to service Western Pacific bond interest. Separately, Yale students George Boupp and Samuel Winship Case drowned near Crescent Beach when their canoe overturned in heavy seas.
New York reports a benefit for Titanic musicians families will present a gold tablet to Guglielmo Marconi. Designed by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, it honors wireless signaling in the rescue. Front shows Titanic steering toward an iceberg with a grieving woman. reverse bears Marconi’s head.
A curio of tales contrasts a Maine regiment in 1862 fleeing a foraging hardship from a gander chasing a soldier to a courtroom drama where an ordinary black hat sways murder evidence. A humorous plea ends with the acquittal and a request for the hat.
A Spokane woman in critical condition credits Doan's Kidney Pills with full recovery after severe kidney trouble. The testimonial cites relief from back pain and weak health, and urges readers to remember the product name Doan's for kidney help. The ad copy also features various quips and social notes of the era.
A traveling salesman in a southern town orders two boiled eggs at a railway restaurant. The cook, a darkey, serves three and explains with a smile that one might fall, so he brought an extra egg. The tale from Harper's Weekly preserves a humorous dining miscue.
The American Red Cross issued another urgent appeal in Washington on Saturday for aid to victims of the famine and revolution in China. Shanghai relief committee reports more than 1 090 000 people need assistance and the crisis is at its worst. An estimated $200 000 is required to carry the sufferers through the trouble.
An old advert describes Marine Eye Remedy as a treatment for red weak watery eyes and granulated eyelids with an illustrated Earth package. It markets Marine Eye Remedy Co based in Chicago and pushes non patent medicine branding amid medical practice claims. A separate dialogue asks if a daughter plans to study acting and she clarifies she intends to become an actress.
Telegrams from Ascuncion report four government ships shelling revolutionaries led by ex President Jara at Villa Encarnacion, 175 miles southeast of Ascuncion. Revolutionary fire forced ships to withdraw damaged. In Alberta, Saints plan to fund rebuild of a tabernacle by collecting eggs from hens on successive Sundays.
An old advertisement promises a large trial box of Paxtine Antiseptic to any woman upon request. It touts a cleansing and germicidal toilet preparation and features a cheeky line about a girl’s kisses being like pickles, with the first hard to obtain but the rest easy.
Theodore Goulet, a former Minneapolis resident jailed in Barnallillo County on a murder charge against Policeman Alexander Knapp, escaped by sawing through his steel cage and fled into the mountains.
Vienna reports that closing the Danelles disrupts international shipping and prompts a joint effort by the powers to induce Italy to abstain from active operations in the Aegean and confine the Turco Italian war to Tripolitiana.
Federal authorities disclosed statements here that the government expects a compromise and the dissolution of the alleged CATE bean trust in Southern California.
Twenty American refugees reached Los Angeles aboard the Comos liner Abyssinia after a voyage from Mazatlan. They told of cruelty and outrage by bandits posing as revolutionists who attacked them during the journey.
A nationwide drive to fund a Washington memorial to the Titanic began with a $1 contribution from Mrs. William H. Taft. The plan caps individual donations at $1 to limit contributions.
The committee on privileges and elections reported favorably a resolution by Senator Culberson to investigate the amount of money contributed during the campaign and by whom.
Robert Lee Meade, son of the late Brigadier General Meade who led U.S. troops against the Boxers in 1900, committed suicide at his Boston home. The report notes his ranking as a former Army officer and his personal crisis preceding the tragedy.
A large fire swept the great bazaar quarters in Damascus causing several deaths and many injuries. Damage is estimated at 10,000,000.
A historical reader compiles quotes on the universal principle of treating others as one desires to be treated. The collection spans Pem. salon, Chinese, Buddhist, Mohwan, Hind, and Roman sources, noting parallels in ethical guidance and social conduct.
A garbled string of questions features odd terms like Palaam and Assyrian while probing talking animals and busy bees, leaving readers puzzling over intended meaning and context.
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