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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
2
An instructional piece notes that clean, well built poultry houses still suffer from mites and lice. It advocates thorough kerosene emulsion spraying, done twice a week apart, plus weekly kerosene treatment on roosts in hot weather, with careful application to avoid harming the birds.
The article advises methods to determine a fowl's age using leg bands or foot punches, stressing records for identity. It also recommends a ten square feet per bird minimum, warning against overcrowded houses and illustrating with a 100 fowls in a 12 by 20 foot space as an example.
The Arctic Brotherhood founded after the Klondike rush forms in Alaska with lodges from Skagway to Nome and Cordova. Members above the fifty-eighth parallel resolve disputes by vote, entertain strangers, and run charitable events, including Christmas visits for poor children. The Skagway lodge features arctic trophies and a No Boundary Line motto.
Miss Mamiyn Carter was found dead in her room by rooming house owner Christ Kalmpach after she had been missing since Saturday. The mutilated face led initial investigators to suspect gunshot wounds, but death is believed due to heart failure. A letter found in the room addressed to a younger sister in Cuba hints at prior residence there.
Scientists warn that even clean looking swimming pools in clubs and tenements harbor millions of microbes. Studies at Hamburg Purdue Brown Chicago and Yale show spores and bacteria rise with crowding, turning pools into potential disease sources and prompting calls for an international bath officials conference.
Garret, a hermit and former chamber of deputies member, leaves a will awarding 2000 dollars annually to the most perfect girl judged on moral and physical grounds.
Blondy a Boston bull dog owned by the late John W Gates has died in New York and a funeral costing $1000 was held for the pet.
Frank Knight, a chauffeur for J E Beales of Bas Shora New York, learns an uncle’s death leaves him $100 000. He says he will keep driving and put the money in a savings bank while he plans how to spend it. Mrs Percy Proctor brings back a menagerie to gift among friends in New York.
A Cherokee descendant attorney in Oklahoma provokes a chaotic courtroom scene after denouncing the court and trading insults with opposing counsel. The quarrel ends with the opponent collapsing and witnesses recalling a violent atmosphere. The incident raises questions about education and conduct in legal disputes.
A commercial traveler claims the hardest name by betting five pounds against an old farmer who asserts his name is harder. The wager escalates to ten pounds before Stone and Harder are declared, as a husky hobo and a leading citizen weigh in on urban improvement plans and charity. A tale closes with a quip about a toothache and a wife’s kiss as consolation.
A Washington Star quote features a sardonically bold exchange about insults and prophecies. The speaker notes that political predictions often fade once events unfold, while a friend cites the saying that a prophet is without honor in his own country.
The judge sternly remonstrates with the smiling offender who admits to lying to gain business. The judge then sentences him to sixty days in jail.
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