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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
3
A collage of quotes and captions from essays and cartoons. Snippets reference Naples rents Vesuvius humor and social mores, a geologist’s daughter and a cat named Kitty, plus an advertising plug for Cuticura products.
An article urges readers that facial pimples signal sluggish blood and promote S S S blood purifier as a safe remedy. It notes skin disorders may follow and offers free medical advice from the Medic al Director at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
The text lists beliefs about number 13 being unlucky including menu choices leading to death within a year, births on the thirteenth, journeys or ventures starting on the thirteenth, and the thirteenth house in a row. It also notes warnings about renumbering 11A or 16 and cites Seneca on tempting fate by meddling with nature.
In a New York Central Magazine piece, Edotha Orl asks her father about vices. He says he never touches liquor or tobacco, has never gambled, and never swears, inviting him to share a candy instead.
A quirky excerpt features Farmer Corntessel commenting on big finance while gasoline prices rise, a girl with poor taste in music, and a wary note about borrowing trouble. The speaker notes seasonal price shifts and warns that sharp minds resist fools.
Dr John Michelson serves as resident physician at Hartley house a grim country estate with a haunted pool and a murder past. He becomes entangled with Isobel Sidney in a fragile engagement while Jed the butler schemes and a prison visit looms over the house.
In a tense scene, Jed hides a shooting incident as the narrator prepares letters to a lawyer and Dr. Brownell. The narrator vows to stay and warns Jed of legal peril, implying a hidden threat if harm comes to him. Jed admits the act, claiming he shot at a rabbit.
Jed admits firing at me to stop my engagement to Isobel and declares he will marry her. I expose his cowardice, call him senile and a vile old fool, while he retorts he is the more intelligent man and ridicules my simple nature as we spar over Miss Sidney and her future.
Describes how flat feet cause pain along the instep and up to the legs and back. Explains standing with feet apart and toes outward, with the ankle bending inward and weight on the inner foot, resulting in the entire sole resting on the ground.
The American Forestry Magazine notes southern fox squirrels make large nests in pine and other trees using Spanish moss and also carry cones to them. In northern hardwood forests, dry leaves replace moss and a nest with a side entrance appears. The text ends with a stray line about boys planning to whip men.
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