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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
3
A Philadelphia Record snippet mocks fashion cruelty as a man laments endless beauty changes his wife endures. He jokes red hair must pair with green eyes and pale skin, while a beauty expert risks unsettling his eyes and temperaments, seeking peace in changing trends.
A historical note profiles Louis de Bouffers nicknamed the Robust famed for unmatched strength. It also announces a land opening in Uintah reservation with registration from August 1 in Denver and Grand Junction. Colorado Midland Railway offers the route to the reservation and a booklet with land details.
A Boston Herald writer recalls Daniel Webster living near the district of the narrator in summers and returns to a tale of a butcher suing Webster for a meat bill. Webster, frequently negligent about small payments, told the irate butcher after a later meeting to sue him as often as desired but not to harm him.
Cameos are gems formed from precious stones with two distinct layers of color. The darker strata create a background while the raised object is left in relief by carving away surrounding material. The gemyx is commonly used for this purpose.
Do it now if you plan a trip this summer. I can provide full information on low rates with plenty of options. Trade mark The Santa Fe Railroad. Warren, Anes, F. Fay, Salt Lake City Utah.
Statistica of Divorce reports divorce per 10 000 marriages in various regions and nations. New Zealand 116.6 per 10000, South Australia 20, Queensland 30, West Australia and Tasmania 41, Victoria 1244, New South Wales 273.3. Canada four, United Kingdom 11, Norway 16, Austria 43, Greece 60, Belgium 1, Sweden 87, Cape Colony 98, Netherlands 103, Germany 165, France 180, Roumania 204, Switzerland 432, United States 612.
The first turner societies in the United States formed in Philadelphia and Cincinnati by 1848, with New York Turnverein starting soon after. Ralph D. Paine notes in Outing that by 1850 about ten societies flourished, leading to a national turner union.
A Fergus county petition to Governor Toole seeks a full pardon for Milton O Howell serving life for the murder of Thomas Roll ing. Howell’s attorney W E B Cort had the corpse exhumed to prove the victim was not shot from behind, leading to commutation and a historic clemency push across multiple counties and Texas origins.
An historic meeting in Oyster Bay on Saturday saw Russian and Japanese envoys greeted warmly by President Roosevelt. He hosted a luncheon where both sides mingled as comrades, and he proposed a toast expressing hope for a just and lasting peace between the two powers and all mankind.
A violent battle between Hip Sing Tong and rival Chinese societies erupted at a Dover Street Chinese theatre in Manhattan. Three Chinamen were killed, several others wounded, and many injured as gunfire tore through a crowded venue. Police arrested numerous Chinese district residents afterward, and the Hip Sing Tong allegedly opened fire using concealed large revolvers, triggering chaos as patrons fled.
John A. Logan Bell, 28, shot and killed his stepfather Joseph Bartlett, 65, in a Sunday confrontation over a quarrel at their fruit business. Bartlett wrested a weapon, struck Bell, and Bartlett’s wife was briefly struck. Bell retrieved a rifle and fatally shot Bartlett in the breast. both men were taken into custody.
Dispatches describe a simultaneous Japanese advance from Kuanchodary against Musarlet and Pistsabang passes while north columns face pressure from a Russo detachments, with Russian losses noted as insignificant. Japanese ships sighted near Peter the Great bay near Vladivostok, and Chinese reports claim active Japanese trade efforts in south Manchuria with over twenty business houses established at Yinkow and 5,000 Japanese settlers and traders moving forward.
In Hattiesburg Mississippi two Black assailants killed city convict guard J Gisma during a Friday morning incident near a bridge. William Horn fled while George was captured along with Ed Lewis alias Brock who helped escape shackles. Brock was whipped for information and then a mob removed two Black men from jail and lynched them at the bridge under streetlight.
One man died of yellow fever at New York detention hospital on Sunday marking the first shipborne summer case and second death. William B. Smith, pantryman, removed from the steamer Advance from Colon last Thursday, died with an acute fever. Seven others remain under inspection as Health Officer Doty notes no US fever districts involved and Panama supplied the cases.
In Portland a jury in the United States district court reported to Judge Da Haven after more than forty hours of deliberation that they could not agree in the case of the United States against Congressman J N Williamson Dr Van Gessner and former United States Commissioner Marion O Biggs charged with conspiracy to suborn perjury tied to securing part of the public domain. The jury was discharged. A prior trial also ended with the jury being discharged after almost two days of deliberation.
Our earlier note on the phrase I shall be a lady in Isaiah spurred many readers to search the Scriptures. Some failed to see the point, while one respondent admitted reading straight through and then bet a theatre box based on the Daily Chronicle’s statement.
A sensational description recounts how a young woman feigned death three times to fraudulently obtain life insurance. Her elder uncle manipulated banks by insuring her life under secrecy, profiting as she appeared to die, then collecting from nine companies before fleeing to the continent with a fortune.
Prof Okakura Yoshisaburo, author of The Japanese Spirit, describes the Japanese ideal of womanly beauty. He emphasizes a height around five feet, fair skin, well-developed limbs, a head of long jet-black hair, an oval face with a straight nose, large eyes with brown pupils, a small mouth behind red lips, white teeth, and long eyebrows forming two curved lines above the eyes.
Abraham Lincoln told a person sent by a senator that he had mistaken the intruder for a gentleman. He dismissed the visitor with a curt remark, saying there is the door and bidding him good day after an oath.
A mother from an Ohio town touts her year old son who, from age two, eats only Grape Nuts three times daily with milk or cream. He allegedly never falls ill, has a fine complexion, and remains content after his meals. She credits Postum Company and the booklet The Road to Wellville for his health.
Henry Cabot Lodge argues in Header Magazine that over thirty years ago American history was largely absent from higher education. Students studied Greece Rome England and Europe, but not the United States, reflecting an era with little emphasis on American history.
In Monticello Minnesota on August 7 W Moore asserts that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his Bright's Disease after doctors warned of death within a year. He describes severe swelling, weakness and a near-fatal prognosis before starting the remedy and emerging in good health, as he proclaims himself as sound as a dollar.
Northern Arabia experiences a winter season with cold rains and occasional frosts, contrasting the region's notorious heat and unhealthy reputation.
A curious piecemeal notice extols “Mother Gray” as a New York based remedy for women and urinary weaknesses. The piece hypes monthly cures and a mail sample offer, while a separate claim from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat estimates 600000 traveling men generating 1,800,000 new funny stories monthly.
The article notes a tea cost of about three tenths of a cent per cup and mentions Schilling's Best Tastee weekiet. It also reports Ape Weare Spectacles an ape at Breslau zoo successfully operated on for cataract, becoming the first of her kind to wear spectacles.
A brief notice claims most drink inferior tea and promises refunds if customers are not satisfied with Sekallling's Bek product. The quirky ad frames a consumer warning and a money back offer to attract buyers.
A 418 carat white sapphire, claimed as the world’s largest, was reportedly taken to Berlin from Brazil by four mine owners. Also note a quack cure ad and a lunar superstition urging movement only under full or new moon for prosperity.
A man loves a woman because he cannot quite understand her while she loves him back despite his bookishness and unreadable ways. The lines hint at mutual affection rooted in difference rather than sameness.
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