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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1915
Page
3
The article explains bungalow features including low wide roofs with extended eaves, a small three room plan, front veranda, vestibule with clothes cupboard, and a spacious living room. It emphasizes practicality with a corner entrance, rain protection, and simple, bright interiors, plus plumbing and kitchen ease.
A former servant, Jesse Broadfoot, recalls Carlyle as kind and benevolent. She describes his daily routines and attentiveness, noting she would have stayed with him if marriage hadn’t intervened. She remembers lighting his pipe and managing his tobacco with care.
Rankin Umson has taken out patents for a dog muzzle and a muffler designed to curb barking at night. The invention aims to quiet dogs while allowing normal breathing and speaking. The device combines muzzle safety with a silent bark suppressor for use indoors.
Washington secretary of agriculture backs using federal forest receipts to finance roads trails and bridges in rural counties to spur agricultural development and ease local tax burdens. The plan would allocate 26 percent of timber sale income to road and school funds, with forests already yielding substantial annual sums for communities.
Workmen uncover a coffin containing scant fragments of human bones while digging a cellar in New Ross Indiana not near a cemetery. About fifty years ago a man named Noffsinger vanished mysteriously from New Ross and was never seen again. Residents believe foul play occurred and that he was buried in the woods where the grave was later discovered.
Public auction will sell the Milton burying ground, three tenths of an acre, a quarter mile north of East Alton, for taxes and costs. The oldest grave is John Milton who died in 1812. An East Alton drainage district assessment of two dollars was levied, to be paid in annual twenty three cent installments. J W Carey, former drainage board treasurer, has paid the installments.
Dr John H Whitbeck Cayuga health officer reports a peculiar form of blood poisoning in a limestone quarry. Fifty men struck, six in hospital, one likely to die. Disease linked to blasted stone with infection risk to horses.
The Kaiser and Archduke Broderick of Austria joined on the scene after Russian forces withdrew. They urged Austrian troops forward and praised their soldiers' valor before meeting to felicitate each other on the deeds of their men.
Yale University reports 2 007 jobs occupied by New Haven Yale students during the nine month year yielding 19 646 88 in earnings and 175 summer positions adding about 17 500. types of work range from typewriting and clerical tasks to ushers and canvassing with earnings around 300 a year per student.
A 24 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A M Carver near Morrison's campground asserts he has more names than anyone in the United States. His signature supposedly blends a Bible verse a dance and U S history. He is known to friends by Mord Tal madge Zachariah Taylor Benjamin Franklin Eleazer Poole Stewart Breckenridge Carver.
Obituary notice recalls Captain Joshua Ketcham who died in Amityville Long Island. He was highly regarded by summer residents and known for tales of the sea told aboard his boat. A joke about milk from a cow he bought for 400 dollars with twenty quarts daily illustrates his lively reminiscences. A Sunday school moment adds light to the piece with a child’s quip about Adam.
Ikey Rosenbaum tried to sell three dozen eggs for a dollar to a soft drink dispenser. The buyer counted thirty seven eggs and offered a drink instead. They agreed the buyer would treat with an EER and milk, but the exchange highlighted the mixup over the price and quantity.
A thin man and a fat watchmaker argue about layoffs aboard a streetcar. The thin man laments "Gee, but business is rotten" as he claims to lay off workers daily, while the watchmaker insists he increases staff and reveals his trade as a watchmaker in a tense exchange.
Theodore Dreiser addresses pointed criticism in a remark noted by the Kansas City Times. A theater lobby exchange features an old gentleman whose wife overhears a sharp quip about Dreiser. Mabel explains a baseball moment to Estelle with playful banter on the bat and pitcher dynamics.
An employee asks for a salary increase and cites recent marriage while off duty. The manager declines, noting the company is not responsible for accidents to employees when off duty, as reported by the Birmingham Age-Herald.
A narrator speaks to a listless drug store clerk who admits no ambition but offers a brighter alternative as a witty substitute. The exchange appears in the Newbrush Journal with sardonic humor about motivation.
In a dialogue between Crabshaw and Marjorie, the characters discuss marriage and funding. Marjorie teases a proposal plan to persuade George without incurring major costs, hinting at elopement with Judge involved.
A reader recalls a polite operator at a telephone exchange who could not provide a requested number but offered several other suitable options. The note highlights courteous service and flexible choices in the calling experience.
In a dramatic scene the heroine braves the villain and proclaims defiance drawing herself to full height. A voice from the gallery pleads and mocks the performance as bad acting.
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