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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1923
Page
7
The American Tree Association urges careful tree choice, urging planting of longer lived species like oaks and sycamores. It asks communities to join the tree planting army and report planting efforts to avoid streets and towns filled with short lived trees.
An old advertisement urges mothers to give sick children California FIG Syrup laxative. It claims to relieve constipation and bilious fevers, says it sweetens the stomach and stimulates liver and bowels without griping, and warns to insist on genuine product with proper directions.
A summer celebration at Sault Ste. Marie honored Etienne Brule as the first white man to see the Great Lakes, with Gen. Sir Arthur Currie unveiling a memorial cairn to Brule and Grenelle. The pageant, based on Longfellow’s Hiawatha, featured Ojibway actor Zhadi as Hiawatha and Miss Waubenoss as an Indian queen, recounting Brule’s travels with Champlain and the lore of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Georgian Bay.
Timeline lists key discoveries and events from 1603 to 1669 including sailing St. Lawrence beyond Montreal, founding Quebec, Lake Champlain, Lake Huron and Ontario, 1628-1629 war and Quebec surrender, and Radisson Groseilliers explorations leading to Hudson Bay Company's charter.
A brief note on the guillotine’s origin during the French Revolution and its misattributed inventor Joseph Ignace Guillotin born 1788 died 1814. It recounts early executions in Paris on April 26 1702 and August 21 of the same year, and clarifies Guillotin’s role. It ends with a literary anecdote about a first folio Shakespeare valued at $30000 found in an English mansion.
In a melodrama style scene, Pearl Travers outbids Deering for a Central Building stock pendant from swindler Etheridge. She doubles as a thief and heroine, escapes a room trap, crashes after a pursuit, and returns the emerald pendant to Mrs. de Lissa as Deering presses his bid, with a cliffhanger ending.
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