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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
5
A Chicago Tally News piece narrates a middle aged woman advising a young bride to always humor her husband on small matters. The bride contemplates, then resolves to let Tom decorate in yellow, realizing his insistence shapes home life. The tale contrasts old customs with a new wife’s awakening to practical female pragmatism.
Mary recounts a comic quarrel with John over a doorway peddler and a make believe chase. She narrates imaginary events including a peddler at the door, a dog Fido, an alarm clock, and a police responder, ending with a digression on teetotalers and political ambition.
Mr Wimple sits in a boardinghouse dining room amid a surreal exchange on reality and dreams. The dialogue features Mrs Spratt, the A Y M, and others debating time space and hunger while Wimple hides his discomfort and leaves to consult Miss Pettiger about rent. In the cemetery a tombstone reads good husband good wife good son, suggesting irony about happiness at home.
In a crowded boathouse reading room Captain Seth laments failed fishing and bank woes. He compares banks to dogfish that gobble up money, while fishermen struggle, and laments hard times driving inquiry into loans, bounties, and the lure of distant studies for his daughter.
A tale of a woman torn between a lover and husband ends in tragedy. The man pursues the woman after she rejects him. Eventually both lovers are murdered by the husband who then confesses to police in a chilling, fatal twist.
A brief mused statement argues that beauty is superficial and dismisses the notion that every pretty woman is shallow.
A dramatic tale unfolds near a mission as Carita resists an Americano who seeks her rose and heart. He leaves, tossed rose overboard, and a cryptic letter hints a deadly fate as the couple parts with sorrow.
The report traces debtors imprisonment through history, noting 19th century and earlier practices in England Wales Ireland and the United States. It cites numbers held in various regions, the cost of confinement, and shifts in laws governing debtor imprisonment, with reference to legislative acts and public notices.
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