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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
3
An old travel through health ad touts California Fig Syrup as a cure for infant constipation and feverish children. It claims a spoonful cleanses liver and bowels, showing quick results and urging mothers to rely on the genuine product with labeled directions for all ages.
The note requests a five reel comedy around a star who can wiggle his ears. It mentions "Welle" and asks for scenario ideas.
A reader notes that audience applause in cinema is increasing as viewers respond to on-screen events. The trend suggests moviegoers may soon be shown reactions from characters bowing at finales.
Thousands of women are urged to consider kidney and bladder health as a cause of fatigue back pain and nervousness. Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root is advertised as restoring kidney health with sample bottles offered by mail for ten cents and available in larger sizes locally.
The article explains how harvest timing affects apple quality and storage. It notes misreadings by growers and factors like variety, season, and tree vigor. Indicators include normal color, seed color, and ease of stem removal, with red color not always reliable. It describes typical single or multiple pickings to suit market needs and sun exposure.
The article traces a decline in lumber wages from prewar levels to today. It notes workers earning $1.75 a day plus board, card workers paid per log, and pulp mills absorbing about 75 percent of the log crop, keeping lumber prices volatile and jobs scarce. It cites Bangor and river towns where woodsmen once traveled long distances for work now seeing fewer opportunities.
Farmers in many districts face manure shortages and rely on cover crops to improve soil fertility. Leguminous cover crops add nitrogen and organic matter, supporting higher orchard production alongside limited barnyard manure.
A man described as U R Acrook attempted to pass a $250 counter check drawn on an Akron rubber company at a Loveland bank. The check was signed by U R B Acrook and indorsed by several banks before returning to Loveland, revealing no such account.
Juanita Clivette of New York claims to be the reincarnation of Sappho. At six she asked who Sappho was and since then has written thousands of lyrics and painted many canvases. Now fourteen, she asserts she has been and will be timeless. Her father runs a curio shop and has worked as an actor magician newspaper man and artist.
Washington engineers say rural homes burn excess coal from misregarding heating. Farmers' Bulletin 1104 recommends proper chimney size and placement, correct equipment, complete understanding of operation, and moisture in air to healthfully and efficiently heat homes. Regular dampers, avoid ash buildup, seal cracks, and maintain water moisture to improve combustion and comfort.
A jumble of small ads appears with services from cleaning and dyeing to monuments and stamps. Businesses named include Standard Marble & Granite Co 117 W Broadway Salt Lake City and Salt Lake Stamp Co 65 W Broadway offering catalogs samples and prices. Also listed are automobile dealers A & Lourvasen 447 S Main, Daynes-Beebe music, and barbers colleges with contact details.
In Montgomery California locals boast of the ostrich tree a curious twin trunk cypress forming a single silhouette on a barren beach headland. The two trunks lean apart creating the shape of a large ostrich stalking the shore beside breakwaters and Pacific surf.
A narrator recalls Uriah informing about a Labrador Mission worker and a Le Petit Nord remark. He contemplates punishing with castor castigation to deter a supposed ruse to skip work. The boy’s cherubic smile links to a biblical memory of Elisha and the widow.
Fruits vary in nutrient value with sugar acids and salts. Bananas dates prunes and grapes supply high sugar content making them nutritious. Apples lemons and oranges offer potash salts with citric acid notably in citrus fruits. Some berries contain citric and malic acids.
The text discusses eggs and nutrition noting geese provide good nourishment and the world relies on eggs from hens ducks and other birds for its supply.
The remark notes Shakespeare sought nature beyond spectacles and found truth in its plain ardor, as Drydea suggests. It portrays Shakespeare as a reader of nature, not a showy observer, valuing direct encounter over ornate display.
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