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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
7
A ParisianName Joe Ca choo faces spelling woes at a small town post office. The clerk admits unfamiliarity, prompting a sharp quip about selling the post office to someone who can spell. The anecdote bluntly captures cultural misperceptions in a rural community.
A horse dealer lent a horse to a solicitor who mistreated it and killed it. The dealer demanded payment. The solicitor refused cash and offered a bill at a long date. The lawyer drafted a promissory note payable on the day of judgment. The sheriff declared the note due tomorrow, calling it the day of judgment.
A Toledo Blade collage jokes about wedding rings dating a woman's marriage length and quips about summer returning, a doctor predicting a year of life, and light lines on fishing Nimrod and a cashier’s relative. The mix includes pithy musings and social observations from the era.
Sizable ad invites women with any form of female illness to contact the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for confidential help. Letters are read and answered by women, with privacy guaranteed, and no testimonial published without consent. The offer emphasizes a long-tested, empathetic correspondence network and a free 800 page Text Book.
G G Harootunian of 1147 Dewey avenue is described as the "pest man" of Los Angeles for arranging eleven marriages as best man. He claims about 620 Armenians live in the city with around 200 eligible men and only two Armenian girls, noting his matchmaking led to multiple English-Saxon unions and 12 children.
In Brooklyn New Jersey six charred bathing outfits once worn by Alma Beaumont known as Odiva the diver were shown in court against Emma Adams wife of manager Charles Adams charged with malicious mischief. Adams claimed she refused to launder the outfits which were later burned after her husband washed them and left them to dry. the magistrate released Adams for lack of proof she started the fire.
Neighbors reported a noise and a possible burglary at 1759 West Twenty-third Street. Police, led by Officer Joseph Hoffman, found a sleeping infant in the back room with a smiling nurse and learned the intruder was a newborn child destined to be a policeman, not a burglar.
Untutored women join informal games with newsies as players on the city hall lawn in Detroit. Use a tobacco pouch ball and bare palms as bats. An incident ends with a pitcher catching a ball that hits a Widow hat, tagging a runner between third and home.
Two German professors Emmerich and Loewe claim egg shells increase resistance to time’s blight and boost body, brain, and heart strength. The piece cites Phil Hale and Eustace Miles, links to old hair removal folklore, and jokes about sea witches and egg prices.
A Monroe Wisconsin mother recalls a six week old with a widespread itchy rash. After trying remedies, a sample of Cuticura Ointment and Soap led to improvement and a full recovery with hair regrowth. Advertisement notes free samples and Boston address. The text also includes a fishermen tale about returning home with a bite joke.
A fragment from an old column contrasts New York City’s evolving skyline with casual talk of politics and social satire. It references a self-made politician mocked for nine coats of whitewash from committees and hints at suffrage era debates about matrons voting.
Dialog fragments show a wife proposing a ball game and a plan to call if the home team loses. The text also mentions a telephone at the grounds and temper, with various quips about marriage and privacy. An ad for Winelow's Boothing Syrup for teething children appears.
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