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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1913
Page
7
A narrator riffs on lunacy and family, noting who stays visiting a patient in an asylum. He cites statistics and jokes about which relatives remain loyal, from brothers to wives, husbands, fathers, and sisters, concluding with a bleak hint about death ending visits.
An old advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children appears with fragmented lines and odd phrases about teething, gum soothing, and wind colic. The text includes a curious pun about champagne bottles and a quoted question about a feast turning mad.
A park rally draws a human mob around a speaker's platform as a local politician plans a mass meeting to save the park. Arthur Stringer comments that American poetry is undervalued, contrasting poets with Rockefeller and Carnegie, in a slice of observed conversations including a farmer and tramp exchange.
A Birmingham Age Herald item notes a visitor finding several Whistler works at an art exhibit and jokes about why a guard did not eject them. The brief captures a light social moment with no further details.
A humorous exchange at the Railway Restaurant suggests ordering “railroad frogs” to boost iron in the blood, turning a lunch suggestion into a pun about locomotive menagerie.
John M. Gilgore and Robert Reid report a twenty mile long cave in the Olympic mountains with large rooms, stalactites, lizards and snakes, a domed chamber, and bone vaults. They exited twenty miles south of the entrance after fourteen hours exploring the site touted for future study and drawings.
The captionless photo shows Louise Dresser at her summer home near Vernon picking berries. The piece notes theater stars retreat from "Closed for the Season" signs and summer haunts while the Indy White Way gleams with bright lights.
Mrs John McCafferty eighty five of this city who has been blind for fifteen years has seen an automobile and hobble skirts for the first time since losing sight Doctors had declared surgery for cataracts hopeless but the restoration of sight is reported. Aged couple re wed after divorce Philadelphia Jacob K Dim mick and Anna Rods Dim have remarried each claiming loneliness of single life.
A massive blaze at the Kearny Hat company plant on Sheridan Avenue injures six firefighters and forces 100 workers to flee. Fire crews from Arlington and Newark assist as tar in barrels bursts from a broken fourth floor window. A rooster perched above the chaos stops crowing only to flee as flames rage.
A quirky Los Angeles marriage license records Emil Oriva, 23, wed Pau Ine Oriva, 23, of Portland. The couple’s union would make his stepfather his brother in law and the bride and groom would become siblings to their own mother due to the aunt relation through marriage.
New York Henry Davis on Long Island builds two humanlike scarecrows to frighten deer that raid his garden. The animals ignore the figures, scent the hay, topple the scarecrows, and eat more vegetables before scattering the lanterns and fleeing.
A startled speaker describes unprecedented ease and awareness on a theater stage. He notes legs and body free, senses sharpened, able to see and hear everything, and even to retreat to a foyer unseen by others. He contemplates whether the experience is real or a dream.
Stray Shots weekly paper notes inmates at Fort Leavenworth military prison sue over gravy quality. They urge the cook to refer to cookbooks and avoid hot water and uncooked flour, arguing it harms digestion and shows respect for the regiment’s welfare.
A fragment reflects a subjective note about self worth and a plan to improve, mentioning a mother and the speaker. It hints at personal reflection and the idea that improvements can be effected with joint effort. The source text remains sparse and ambiguous.
A quirky dialogue hints at frog culture as a moving picture. The speakers speculate that a talking film could make the frog's creak fearsome.
A writer notes an odd summer phenomenon in ice pricing as heat intensifies. The exchange hints at market oddities and public concern over daily commodity costs during hot weather.
A terse exchange signals the deathly state of an amateur music organization. One speaker describes it as dead as a doornail, while the other asks if it is beyond salvage, underscoring its fragile, fading existence.
A guideline states a man of five feet six inches should weigh 150 pounds at forty years while the average woman weighs 143 pounds.
A columnist offers pithy aphorisms on streets and life. It notes Hasy street is closed to most, compares life to a piano with sharps and flats, and argues hard work reduces time to whine. It concludes with a critique of narrow minds making broad assertions.
In a classroom scene a teacher tests students on currency values. Harry grins and replies that a guinea is worth a dollar and a half a day, reflecting a humorous misread of exchange rates in America.
The King transforms into a four horses carriage and drives through the cattle section, illustrating a vivid kingly feat in a characteristic Punch style item. It reads like a satirical royal moment reflected in period humor.
In a lively exchange from a 1920s archive, remarks spark debate on changing female attire as styles shift. A young woman asserts independence on reaching twenty one, while engagement adds social tension.
A terse remark about Jim Jones provoking anger contrasts with a slight population rise nationwide. Washington saw a modest year over year increase of 361 people.
In a railway car a sharp voiced woman reminded Charles of a past romance linked to a pair of slippers given before their marriage. She hinted the slippers sealed their union, prompting the young man nearby to remove his feet from the seat in the tense moment.
The ad promotes Cuticura Soap as the mother’s favorite for baby skin and hair. It highlights purity, fragrance, and emollient effects that soothe irritations and promote skin health. Used with Cuticura Ointment it treats eczema rashes and itching. Free samples offered with a 82-page Skin Book from Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston.
A father tells his son that the odd spelling C O l V T a a 1 0 n e refers to an Italian word for a small chin muscle and sends him to play. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment.
A stubborn woodpecker keeps hammering a trolley pole despite effort. The bird repeatedly tries to drill a hole into the iron pole, but is met with continuous resistance.
A child asks for an ice cream sundae and a stern parent jokes that it is only Tuesday. The quip captures a playful family moment with a dry, humorous tone.
A curious condensation notes buffalo milk surpasses that of European cows. It cites a yearly industry record with high casualties, a housing plan to build 3 model homes for workers in Amsterdam, and mentions England as top patron of American goods with Germany and Canada following. It also notes Cleveland opening a men’s restaurant with a woman as cashier.
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