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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
2
A Potosi Journal item compiles assorted wry impressions and quips on topics from Chicago cemeteries to butter prices, pie censorship, and cannibal islands. It mentions dirigibles over Holland, middlemen in farming, and a St Louis woman’s deathbed dog request, ending with a cannibalism note about missionaries.
A Massachusetts blind singer soared in a balloon to enjoy a fresh sensation and set a new ballooning record. He did not remark on the moment earth dropped away. A New York dispatch notes wedding rings are passe and smart young matrons wear fewer or none due to crowded collections.
A new treasury order bars the European starling from entering the United States, joining the mongoose and English sparrow in a restrictive fate. The piece quips that for Americans, the starling’s fate is reversed, as it cannot get in rather than out, framing the policy with dry humor.
The passage depicts fear among expectant lovers amid a fatal microbe scare. It describes how investigators intimidate couples, turning kisses into elusive acts, and invokes Swift to question the invention of kissing.
A man collapsed and died while shopping with his wife in a department store. The incident prompted speculation about how such tragedies affect shopping habits and whether women will continue to bring husbands along on shopping trips.
Several firms were fined $10 under prose cutions by the government for selling coffee marketed as Modia or Java that did not contain the named coffees or berries. The small fine was intended as a warning rather than a deterrent.
A group of censors will decide what is proper in bathing attire, a task that may tax the judgment of a solo man.
As spring arrives, many two year-old calves struggle through alkali mud in the prairie states. Cowboys devise a rough method using a pinto pony and rope, aided by a seasoned vocabulary, to pull them free. The scene captures the season's bustling calf addition and rugged work on the range.
Theodore Roosevelt delivered the Romanes lecture at Oxford on June 7, speaking to a large audience about Biological Analogies in History. He argued that evolution in biology mirrors shifts in nations and civilizations, urging historians to use scientific methods while recognizing complex differences.
Jefferson City report details a 20 year old counterfeit operation at the Missouri state penitentiary. Two long term inmates Lee J. Jayne and Joseph Vail were arrested after a dispute over spoils triggered the raid. Molds, a furnace, and counterfeit coins were seized. Governor Hadley planned pardons to allow federal charges.
Roger S Pease, veteran American glassmaker, predicts in ten years homes built of glass will offer sanitary fixtures beauty durability and low maintenance. He envisions concrete foundations wired glass walls ceilings roofs and tile floors with colored, permanent finishes that require no interior painting. Glass walls can be dense like slate yet hard and durable, and roofs of similar glass will resist heat and cold as patents expire reducing costs.
The article traces how pejorative labels such as the League des Gueux and sans culottes were reappropriated into symbols of pride. It notes Flemish nobles, French and American soldiers, and revolutionary France, showing how dishonor can become honor through historical reinterpretation and calendar reform starting September 22, 1792.
A reflective piece urging workers to embrace Beecher's warning that worry, not work, harms people. It contrasts the idea that work is healthy with the toll of constant anxiety and misdirected fear, warning readers to frame the message as a desk reminder.
Federal court here named receivers for the Jones Dry Goods company of Kansas City Missouri a major retail general merchandise firm in the region. The action places the firm under court supervision as the receivers take charge of assets and operations.
Business failures for the week ending June 2 in the United States were 160, down from 200 last week and compared with 191 in the same week of 1909, 225 in 1908, 155 in 1907, and 162 in 1906.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr and Eleanor Butler Alexander obtained a marriage license and announced their wedding set for June 20. The official notice confirms the license issuance and upcoming nuptials in New York.
New York Central halts planned improvements totaling 5 million dollars and calls for cancellation of a 3 million dollar steel car order. Government injunction suit is blamed for the decision.
In Galveston Texas federal court orders halted an advance in freight rates. All trunk lines operating in Texas were ordered to cut expenses to the minimum following the decision.
Fresno California prize fighter William V. King received a two year penitentiary sentence after a Christmas quarrel left A B Russell dead when King knocked him down.
James R. Keene, famed horseman and financier, told guests at Cedarhurst that his passion for horses has comforted him his whole life yet never disrupted his work. He contrasted that with a young father who boasted of a two year old horse, saying maternal pride for a child should not be equated with equine brilliance.
An English farmer walks to vote with his son. A heated dispute with a friend turns physical until the boy shouts, Hit him in the watch, father, that'll cost him something, prompting a pause. The incident blends political debate with a child's quick wit.
A Suffolk schoolmistress described a coal mine during a lesson to engage students. A boy asked whether that job made her hair black, prompting a brief, humorous exchange about appearances and work.
Sapleigh and Miss Keene discuss electricity and its wonders. A barber navigates from one scrape to another, as dialog reveals curiosity and humor about modern science and daily life.
A mother reports improvements in her children after changing from potatoes with coffee and meat to fruit Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum. The baby recovered from teething stomach and bowel trouble after using Grape-Nuts with milk. Read The Road to Wellville in the packages there’s a reason.
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