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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
6
The Paris Post highlights a collage of witty items on society, sports, fashion, and politics. It notes football schedules amid politics, quips about hats and planes, and satirical takes on women, slang, and crime. It ends with observations on police serendipity and stuttered arrests.
Chicago wife split time between two husbands for two months using her mother as alibi. Stella Carabine-Galley, 24, and her two switchman spouses, Oscar Galley and James Carabine, faced arrest. Galley and Carabine alleged misdeeds centered on a harmonica musician and a hotel job. The case spans Great Bend Indiana and Houston Texas where another woman faced a different tragedy due to slow divorce courts.
Dr. George W. Stiles of the Agriculture Department released a bulletin showing a large percentage of oysters dumped in New York market come from waters polluted by sewage and teeming with typhoid germs. The work cites 137 illness cases traced to Jamaica Bay dredges and condemns such breeding as dangerous to public health.
Paris reports Henri Regnault's Salome sold for over 100000 after a modest lifetime purchase. The model, Marie Veronica Concetto Latin born 1853 near Tivoli in Sabine country, is recounted by her daughter in the illustration.
In Berlin police raid a cafe favored by women exposed a society scandal. A pianist was sentenced to one month in prison for her acts, while a princess avoided charges and fled patrons. The tale then shifts to romantic recollections of artists and fate, including Renaudot and Regnault, ending with a note on marriages and a artist’s death.
Chaloner of Merry Mills Virginia reports a message from the deceased Thomas Jefferson via Miller claiming hell is an intellectual and moral realm governed by justice and reason. Satan is described as misunderstood, Jehovah’s prosecutor and a royal, noble figure who rules in hell and appears in heaven.
A suggestion to name the new baseball park Kohinoor Field cites the diamondlike value of the site. The idea frames the project as a tribute to quality and prestige.
A witty remark contrasts Gladys’s riotous mob cap with a more demure portrait of her travel wear. The line hints at public taste and social tone in a light, humorous note from the era.
Five men play poker in a smoking room two days from England. After a remark about bald heads, one man reveals Mr Blank wears a wig. The others deduce his baldness and he disappears for the rest of the voyage, never returning to the smoking room.
Mrs Thos Walsh of 170 N 16th St Portland Oregon recounts two years of eczema itching cracking and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticure Ointment for about a month she reports complete relief and urges others to try Cuticura with a Skin Book sample offer from Boston.
An amusing local remark about an old farmer's almanac still in good condition from 1905. The speaker jokes about purchasing it years ago and it remaining usable, reflecting souvenir and rural humor of the era.
Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania recounts dropsy relief after using six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills noting swelling disappearance and renewed health. He credits the remedy and affirms ongoing faith in the product. Ad promotes Dodds Medicine Co. Buffalo NY and offers free household hints music and recipes.
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