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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1918
Page
3
In Mass the Galen tavern, built in 1740 and formerly hosting George Washington as a guest, will be demolished. Local officials announced the teardown to clear the site for new development.
An advertisement extols Haarlem Oil Capsules as a long proven remedy for weakness from poor diet and overexertion. It claims the capsules restore energy, combat uric acid and kidney issues, and emphasizes the product’s two centuries of use and the GOLD MEDAL brand name.
A small cost freckle and tan remedy mixes two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to create a complexion beautifier. Massage into face neck arms and hands daily to reduce freckles sunburn windburn and tan while softening and whitening skin.
A fragment reflecting on how satire tempered by civility and wit cooled by humility can produce a true punch in conversation. The line emphasizes balance between sharpness and restraint in dialogue.
A dietary guide describing uncooked cheese use and cooking tips. It covers cheese with crackers, cheese pudding with stale bread crumbs, scalloped cabbage with cheese, a cheese sauce, and a cottage cheese loaf with beans, peanuts, and rice. It also notes adding cottage cheese to potato salad and ends with a Browning quotation.
A historic cooking excerpt describes curry of rabbit with vinegar parboil, curry spice mix, tomato, raisins, sour apple, olives, and rice served with Malabar Rice flavored with beef stock tomato and cardamom. Also mentions a cheese-minted hot mush variation for nourishment.
Dr Auld describes a malaria like chill and fever from a platinum compound given to pleurisy patients. After subsiding the episode the patient showed marked improvement. He reports good results using the treatment in selected pleurisy cases with low fever.
A pair of light wartime vignettes describe humor amid hardship. A colonel, soaked on night trench rounds, is greeted by a two hour posting sentry with a joke about mist. In Washington, a Marine sergeant endures endless salutes outside the Devil Dog recruiting station.
Lord Algy questions why Lord Arthur yielded to his valet's demands. Arthur recalls the valet threatened to quit when he was half dressed, forcing compliance.
In a wartime slip, a British soldier mistakes a distant sound for the enemy while another jokes that it is merely Americans chewing gum. The dialogue captures trench humor amid looming danger.
A young girl named Dorothy sees a wounded saler enter a crowded streetcar. She slips to the floor and offers the seat to the soldier while perched on her mother’s lap. The scene reflects a child’s instinct to help those serving in the war.
A dialogue notes a public figure's patriotism by frugality. He is said to spend minimally on himself and even wears neckties gifted by his wife's relatives rather than buying new ones, a sign of restraint.
Dialogue sketches a rural scene with a farmer offering two dollars for a day’s labor and a back-and-forth over timing. The exchange shifts to a talk between a maid and a lady about a kiss, revealing tensions between employer and staff. The snippets hint at class and gender dynamics in a dated setting.
A fragment shows a bride and groom discussion with the bridegroom urged to be a sensible husband while the bride’s father comments on the marriage plan. The remark hints at playful conflict over approval and social expectations.
An officer at a San Francisco civic center found a girl gliding near a fountain then rescuing several expensive dolls from the water. Each doll bore a German trademark and the officer realized the state aid gag. A wooden leg is an amendment to the constitution.
Miss Flo Kelly of 476 South 14th Street Newark credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her three year nervous breakdown. She says after two years under a physician and trying many remedies she felt better from day one and was able to work again. She endorses the product and allows publication of her letter.
A Rumpus Ridge resident in Arkansas boasts of American soldiers fighting the Germans with fierce imagery. Gap Johnson counters by recalling his fourteen children squabbling over a sack of mixed candy brought from town.
A London Tit-Bits remark quotes a sergeant and a recruit discussing the army. The sergeant notes he prefers married men, since they supposedly require less instruction to obey, while the recruit questions the claim.
In The Kind a remark cites rumors that Satony residents are eating dog meat. The quip adds that it must be a kind of whine-er-wurst.
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