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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
6
The serial starts with a couple from the Riddie-West set and follows years of double harness as equal suffrage shifts women's roles and new business family pressures. The Real Adventure blends romance with thought provoking issues for readers and their neighbors.
A professor dismisses a class as Rosalind Stanton, known as Rose, sits with attentive curiosity. She records his offhand joke about marrying for advice to young girls while he reflects on Rousseau and the French Revolution, noting her striking presence and reluctant amusement.
Rose, a University of Chicago student, defies a con artist conductor with a stranger’s backing and a quick descent into a stormy night. A tense encounter ends with mutual aid and a pact for tomorrow’s walk home. Chapter II follows Frederica Whitney’s hurried dinner plans as Roddy arrives soaked, revealing a birthday gathering in progress.
An article notes high altitude flight causes dizziness from petrol spray and exhaust gases, with headaches and malaise. It cites frostbite at 15,000 feet and aerosthenia, stressing that flying requires under thirty, physically fit, with perfect sight and hearing, and that fainting could endanger aircraft.
A New York auction sold 33 holograph letters and engravings related to Nathaniel Hawthorne for about 2000 dollars. The collection included correspondence with Emerson Whittier Bret Harte Browning Eugene Field and Irving. The sale highlights enduring American literary appreciation even after an author's death.
A Baltimore housekeeper touts bacon over cheese for mouse traps. She says cheese dries out and loses scent after catching a mouse, while bacon stays savory and effective. She notes twenty mice caught in about two months since switching to bacon.
Statistics from the PR public service commission show New York City traffic in the past 16 years equals the combined traffic of all steam railroads in the United States in one year. The city’s transit lines carried 840 000 000 persons in 1909 and 1 898 000 000 in 1916. The number on steam railroads last year was 1 053 000.
A social column notes trouble in a marriage where the husband is described as a rough diamond. Friends say she faces difficulties as he remains unpolished and may create a scene upon returning home to find her smoking perfumed cigarettes.
A youth asks for money to escape trouble and start over, while the father crumples the letter in his fist and questions the authenticity of such a pledge. The exchange suggests family tension over repayment and accountability.
The report claims Miss Jackson Dey says Sur Beasley pursues Sam Cooper’s heart while Miss Brown-Yaas calls Bam chicken-hearted, hinting at a social feud.
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