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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
2
A collage of social quips on fashion, politics, and daily life. Notes on Bohemia’s parliament, Italy’s Thanksgiving, Canada’s lobsters, and London telegraph hiring, with jokes about cities, uniforms, and old warships. A satirical snapshot of early 20th century concerns.
A Kansas City man lost 1700 in his trousers and pledges to avoid such carelessness. He aims to accumulate another 1700.
A woman nearly drowned in the Chicago river when a daring instinct led bystanders to act. The incident underscores fashion risks and the need for safer attire in swift water emergencies.
Dr Adolphus Knopf warned three percent of U S school children are tuberculous costing $75 million yearly and called for free dental clinics and timely health checks. He cited crowding and poor diet as roots of broader disease among city youth.
G C Johnson of Germantown Pennsylvania and Miss Helen Johnson of Philadelphia eloped to wed in Minneapolis. The couple told Clar efce Williams the marriage license deputy that they decided to run away and marry as neither had prior marriage.
In Alstaetten St. Gall a wolf-hound traced a killer from a torn cloth to a ball at the village restaurant. A teen Regina Staebbler was murdered after a breakup with a man who confessed once found by the dog and confronted with the cloth fragment.
Seventeen year old Lydia Madison, described as very pretty, cannot hold employment and has disappeared from home. Her widowed mother Mrs Mary Madison has asked police to help locate her.
A Lakewood reader shares a tale about a boy and his mother as she finishes a story for her child. The boy declares he would not work to support his mother if his father died, reasoning that they have a house and pantry items that will not last forever until a husband is found. The exchange ends with the mother conceding.
In a playful exchange Mr Monkey-Yes orders imported fig leaf bathing suits from Ujiji for Mrs Monkey-Yes and Jocko. Mrs Monkey-Yes replies with enthusiasm about fashion and a Congo season look.
A large woman demands a warrant from the prosecutor claiming her husband deserted her. The official, seeking a reason, intones he understands the motive as he begins to draft the warrant.
A garbled passage suggests an aviator losing work and a melodramatic tale of travel to Italy. It mentions a young excursion girl, a turkey limb remark, and a distant romance. The tone hints at social pressures and domestic routines amid looming uncertainty.
Toronto delegates from the Methodist church league meet to plan a nation wide drive against immoral and suggestive stage plays. Clergy and lay members from across Canada attend the annual temperance and moral reform meeting in Toronto.
About 150 Bank of England printing department boys were dismissed after a dispute over a new time clock. They marched the square, claimed pay was docked for lateness, and argued machines delayed checks crucial to note production. Bank officials said payments would continue and no wage policy changed.
Rev Dr Walter J Shaniey of St Peters Danbury leads a new movement to end sending flowers to funerals. The initiative, endorsed by New Haven Catholic clergy, prohibits carrying flowers into churches and into Catholic cemeteries under church jurisdiction.
A man and a woman registered as Mr and Mrs W Inthout were found dead in a local Calgary hotel room with revolver shots. Letters in the man's pocket mention a brother in Free Water Oregon and the woman left a letter to her mother Mrs Louis Columbus in Paintsville Kentucky.
A Mor ton's Gap Kentucky woman shares two years of severe backache and female disorder symptoms. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports full recovery and resumed daily tasks. She invites others with doubts to write for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A fragmented column mocks regulation of affairs and aviation mishaps, lampoons old orators, notes autumn weddings after summer romances, and jokes about Japanese fashions and infant farewells. The piece blends whimsical social commentary with jittery wartime tone.
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