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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
7
A dramatic monologue portrays a distressed parent questioning a wounded youth after a brutal incident while shifting to a broader critique of contemporary behavior. The piece contrasts youth violence with public folly, highlighting a generation's entanglement in games, sport, and cynical modern manners.
A satirical overview of political life contrasts Leaders shaping Principles with the Public Mind and the Choice of the People, the Campaign against Opponents, and a Platform drafted by eminent gentlemen. It notes the fleeting memory of platforms and the essential role of Voters in politics.
Kentuckian argues the mesmerist is an impostor. Majiah says no, claiming the man made Junnel Souah drink water and smack his lips afterward to prove his trick.
A teacher of physiology says the eye lens resembles a small onion and a student asks if the number forty five is the onion that makes us cry. The exchange blends humor with a lesson on eye anatomy.
A bachelor admires a wartime game program as Maiden's Prayer is misread as Mendelssohn's Wedding March. He buys the program the next day, a playful note on love and self‑perception in print.
Horace E. Bixby renowned river pilot and teacher of Mark Twain died at his St Louis home at eighty six from apoplexy. He steered the City of Alton to a famous $70,000 voyage and mentored Clemens during the river days spanning Civil War service and the Anchor line era. His diary and career captured both myth and memory of Pacific Mississippi steam boating.
Philadelphia man Thomas Keepfer plans an experiment to transport live fish 14 000 miles from Siam to the United States in large freshwater tanks aboard a Hamburg American liner. He envisions selling edible fish alive for households and retailers to reduce ptomaine poisoning, citing Chinese steamers that carry fish long distances with minimal loss.
Russian count Count Orloff and his bride faced a police halt after a Chicago Safe and Merchandise Co. suit alleged he failed to pay for a typewriter bought December 19. Detectives halted their wedding supper plans as bonds were signed.
Reports from Abyssinia indicate adventurers arming tribes in the Sudan between northern Uganda and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. French made rifles stamped 1879, many appears new, with tribes drilled and disciplined under Gallas and Arabs during recent British operations against the Anuaks.
Paris society circles embrace the newer slang of the Apaches with both French and foreign participants learning ergot rich argot. Slang dictionaries sell at kiosks as society women take lessons for high fees amid interest in the Paris underworld tied to motor bandits. In New York a man fears hydrophobia after a pickerel bite and sends the fish head to a institute for testing.
Mrs Ellen Clark, the Louisville poet referenced, sees her burned cottage ruin after a fire of unknown origin. Her home, moved by river or canal plans years earlier, faced removal for Uncle Sam’s canal route, prompting her remark that Nature would remove it. Federal agents paid $150 eventually, and she now taunts them from the ashes.
Seven Kansas City lawyers traveled to a fishing resort for a weekend and swam without clothes. When returning to camp they discovered the clothes of Judge John C Pollock of the Kansan federal court were missing.
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