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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1911
Page
5
A Russellville Arkansas resident describes severe kidney damage with dropsy and heart palpitations. After two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills she reports full recovery and urges others to use the product when backache and urinary issues appear.
In a clipped dialogue style, Mr Sunfish notes Mr Black Bass failed to join the police force while Mr Eel counters that he faced a color line during recruitment. The exchange hints at civil rights themes through underwater characters.
Mrs Selby of Redondo Beach California lauds Cuticura Soap for her five month old prize baby noting no sores or chafing and attributing the baby’s health to the soap. She endorses the product in a dated testimonial as part of an advertisement collection.
A Baltimore reader testifies that a fifteen year old girl recovered from Green Sickness after using Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter claims two doctors misdiagnosed and endorses the product for female troubles and painful irregular periods.
Samuel Johnson, a Logan county farmer in Guthrie Ohio, wins a $50 bet by crafting a full day menu from unlikely plant foods such as broom corn, kaffir corn, alfalfa and cowpeas. His meals include alfalfa muffins, broom corn whisky, kaffir corn bread and cowpeas with soy beans, ending with a note on milo maize syrup demand.
The report describes alfalfa leaves ground into a meal used in meals and as a potential breakfast food. It notes a national pure food inquiry found alfalfa used in cigarettes by cowboys, with 27 percent tobacco and 63 percent alfalfa. Elderberries yield a wine that is aromatic but non intoxicating.
John Philip Sousa defends ragtime against Dr. Gruener who claimed ragtime induces hysteria and insanity. Sousa argues ragtime attracts listeners to classical music, not drives them mad, and rejects claims of widespread mental deterioration from ragtime.
Berlin reports a multi nation scheme to make the Rhine navigable from Basel to Lake Constance. Three southern German states and Switzerland back dams and locks to carry large barges, with major engineering challenges at the Schaffhausen falls and Laufenburg. Estimated cost about 10 million dollars, shared by Baden Württemberg Bavaria Switzerland and Austria.
Louis Raion, Hungarian musician from Far Rockaway, played a haunting air in Morning Side Avenue area attracting police. He argued the tune compelled him to play. arrested after continuous performance, discharged by Magistrate McGuade with promise to stop street playing after 5 pm.
New York reports residents near South Beach Staten Island say a gull swallowed a bass leaping from the water a hundred feet offshore. The bird struggled sea and sand, then died with the bass still wedged in its throat, a photograph supporting the strange tale.
In St Louis Rev J E Dillard argues heavy meals and worn autos on Sundays tire people so they skip church. He cites Sunday fatigue as a factor in reduced worship attendance and urges reform of local routines to restore churchgoing.
Pasadena records a baby boom with sixteen births at the Pasadena Hospital in 24 hours and possibly a dozen more born in private homes, ending a citywide baby famine.
Thomas Irvar of Weymouth Massachusetts laughed at a Boston comedy age causing a ruptured blood vessel and death reported in local papers. The incident highlights unexpected fatal outcomes from laughter.
Senator Duncan A. Fletcher of Florida shares a sleeper with a stranger of the same name on a Washington to Florida train. After a humorous misidentification the train wreck occurs an hour later, killing the stranger in the lower nine berth while Fletcher's car remains undamaged.
The article outlines four main methods for aiding consumptives among workers. In Albany Elmira and Binghamton unions support dedicated pavilions or hospitals while Hartford New Britain and South Manchester fund welfare for consumptives with employer and union contributions. Separately tuberculosis care exists under the International Typographical Union and the Printing Pressmen and Assistants union. Massachusetts Illinois and others report voluntary corporate care for affected employees for a limited period.
A snippet shows Marie and an aunt discussing blessings and a former sweetheart amid a courtroom tone. The dialogue moves through affection, bitterness, and a judge, with references to prejudice against women taking seats in crowded cars.
A cautious person reflects on rare private impulses that surface in quiet moments. The note suggests inner tensions between public prudence and personal curiosities without explicit detail.
Scribbleigh asserts England suits writers seeking perfect English. He says writers become expressions of their environment and that the language spoken there keeps ideas in pristine purity. Lord Miggleton agrees buoyantly with the sentiment.
A quirky note shows Binks eager for up-to-date tech by attempting to get his parrots a wireless cage. The brief hints at a playful domestic scene with a hint of novelty gadgetry.
In a tense moment the subject hints at a concealed matter as observers question whether Gladys can keep it hidden. The exchange leaves ambiguity about the true nature of the issue and potential consequences.
A fragmentary clipping from Eugene Lebanon Kansas mentions various medicines and a claim that one pill helped a patient recover from a disease. The garbled text cites Hood's Sarsaparilla as a radical permanent cure and urges readers to obtain it.
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