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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
3
Observers lament that singing has faded from daily work and play as industrial noise grows. From sailors and peasants to office workers, communal song declines while crowds gather for operas and phonographs, leaving only professionals and a few public performances to carry the tune.
A Scotsman and an Irishman on holiday share funds with strict spending limits. The Irishman resists giving back more than agreed, prompting the Scotsman to sneak nightly into the Irishman’s pocket to reclaim funds. The ruse ends with a humorous confession of the daily purse swap.
An Indianapolis woman suggested to a black yard worker that he should marry. He replied that after seven years of marriage he needed a rest, implying his first wife had died and his status changed again.
A patient frets about not pulling through while a young doctor reassures him by recounting a past illness. The patient questions the doctor’s expertise, joking that a good physician made the difference for the doctor himself.
Fragmented dialogue hints at two extreme traits of a dog described as opposing forces. The speaker asks about the extremes while noting gravity and general behavior as opposing ends.
A club seeks two men with red blood for an upcoming meeting speaker lineup. The choice prompts a debate over fit, as one member asks why such selection is needed. The reply notes the pair would match well with their pink tea theme.
The wild grapevine is praised for its sweet odor and versatile growth. It can create a dense hedge on a fence or be trained over trellises, shade trees, or along fence rows and is transplanted in late fall or winter. The blue grape with rich fruit is noted as especially attractive for home grounds.
The article emphasizes fertile friable soil for flowers and proper spacing for verbenas petunias phlox and other blooms. It advises mowing clippings to improve lawns filling low spots with soil, avoiding shade trees close to houses, ivy dampness myths, potting-root pruning, easy geranium and coleus propagation, pruning balsams for strong stems, and deadheading to extend bloom.
A reflective column praises cargo boats as England's backbone in wartime, noting their steady labor, resilience under submarine threat, and role in sustaining allied supply lines. It contrasts British maritime efficiency with American rail disaster rhetoric and describes Liverpool's Mersey Docks and Harbor operations and funding model.
The author tours Liverpool’s Mersey Docks and Harbor, Manchester Ship Canal, and London docks, noting wartime shipping resilience. He describes Mersey’s scale, governance by a cooperative, and swift cargo operations, plus Manchester’s canal-led inland port success and rising dividends.
A miniature water garden is practical and requires less attention than a flower bed. Use a two half barrel, wooden tub, or potting box with pond mud or loam and well rotted manure. Plant nymphae root, keep water two to three inches above, then replace evaporated water.
Lima Peru Americans find El Comercio defense of being in German pay. The paper admits im peachments and says 1% columns are for sale to anybody proof and German. It adds only Germans showed interest in the proposition with articles and pictures attacking the allies printed as paid advertising without marks.
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