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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
5
Local notes report several residents traveling and visiting nearby towns for events and family visits. Burglars broke into Stockgrowers’ Mercantile Co store using a file and coal chisel, stealing shoes, a revolver, clothing, and waist sets. no suspects named.
The article discusses unusual lightning flashes that leave a yellowish green or reddish afterimage on the sky. M Touchet notes the retinal and external images differ, likening the glow to a meteor train or incandescent filament, and cites a 12 April photograph showing a ribbon like glow from incandescent air gases.
Fragmentary verse speaks of four winds and release of ashes with lines praising a beloved presence. The damaged phrasing includes references to freedom, love, warmth, and sweetness, ending with a signature fragment Frances Dis.
Louis A. Julien led a large New York orchestra and once sparked a fire alarm during a Fireman’s Quadrille. Theodore Thomas, his former violinist, staged Terrace Garden tricks in 1867 provoking police misreads and a comical chase as he improvised amid shrubs and trees.
A Chicago Record Herald quip mocks marriage guidance by advising a patient man endure a long engagement, detach from friends, deny a latchkey, invite a mother in law, and grind feelings with nagging before applying love, sympathy, tenderness, forbearance, and patience.
The oriental tale of Sindbad the sailor is linked to the legend of St Brendan the Irish saint who sailed the ocean for seven years seeking Eden. Brendan’s journeys included islands of Sheep and Birds and a great fish named Jascon. Easter encampments on the fish and birds frame the myth, which appeared on maps and a Spain Portugal treaty, possibly spread by Irish monks in the ninth century.
An Australian customs officer recalls a tale of Mingo a sturdy Java man who served as office boy and ex soldier. At a dance Mingo brandished a lit lantern and clock to silence guests stating the time 2 30 which led to guests quietly leaving.
A fragmentary verse piece recalls toil and travel as a harbor scene unfolds. The narrator mentions sailors and music that outlasts warnings, with imagery of voices and Christmas star tales, attributed to Bert Sand and W. Gillian in Success Magazine.
Mr Keele a customs worker and war veteran relates a 1664 case where horse blankets for troops were stolen and sold to an Irish resident nearby. When confronted the suspect denied theft saying the blankets belonged to him. The judge clarifies the branded initials U and B stand for United States and the man explains U for Michael and B for Sfo- Carthy.
In a 1823 notice from Athenaeum a middle aged, sober, good tempered widowed or single woman is urged to reply. The advertiser, not rich or young, seeks fit companionship and property, skilled in innkeeping or brewing, open to moving to the countryside and willing to meet at 268 Berwick Street Oxford Road. Respond to W. W. at the listed address.
The piece describes a mood called aft of the blues arising from nervous system poisoning from food toxins. It notes a slugg ish liver may fail to block harmful substances and that laughter can lift the mood by speeding blood oxidation and stimulating elimination organs.
A reflective verse fragment recalls childhood rides past distant towns and churches. The speaker envisions shady lanes, sunny meads, and marble stones in a village church, hearing ancient bells, the choir, and musk from censers as memory calls him home.
The passage argues that humans relish overcoming difficulties and chasing the nearly unattainable. It claims that struggle enhances value, making the top fruit seem sweeter the higher the climb, and that love is nourished by hindrances in the path of exchange.
Trollope kept a watch before him and authored 250 words every quarter hour. Longfellow translated the Inferno in ten minutes daily at a standing desk as coffee boiled. Buffon claimed he could think only in full court dress with sword nearby.
A boy, son of an American mother and English father, learning English history from his father, becomes intrigued by England's kings entombed in Westminster Abbey. He suggests to his mother that their next London trip include tombing the abbey, a playful coinage mixing visiting and sightseeing.
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