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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
7
An item notes Salt Lake Business College offering free division materials and invites inquiries from prospective students. It references Uncle Eben style humor and a brief mention of a nurse product used in New York homes, along with a short note on southern irrigation growth in Texas and Louisiana with numerous rice-paddy stations run by irrigation firms.
One mile west of the University of Notre Dame the institution offers Greek Latin French and German and grants a Regular Collegiate Degree after full studies. It features a Conservatory of Music a European style Art Department and preparatory courses for academics. Gymnasium under a Boston normal school graduate. Courses include Bookkeeping Phonography and Typewriting. Summary includes needlework and catalog request address Salt Lake City Utah.
A jumble of historical notes surveys towers, pyramids and the Babel myth. Estimates vary wildly while authorities like St Jerome and Calmet offer figures from 4,000 paces to 21,000 feet, amid digressions on languages and ancient instruments such as the rabab of Palestine and its single-string bowed frame.
An advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Ease softens tight footwear and soothes swollen hot or aching feet, ingrown nails, corns, and bunions. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free trial by mail to Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY. A probate notice notes an unmarried woman's estate of 625.75 distributed among 39 heirs in Indiana with the largest share 75 dollars and the smallest 3.09 dollars to grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
An testimonial from young women praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for menstrual relief and renewed health. The letter mentions Miss Elizabeth Caine and Miss Euzasero Carre, with a promise of $5000 for genuineness and a request for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
The king declined an offer from a leading American paper to write an article titled How it Feels to Be Crowned, despite the price being substantial. The decision is noted in a Punch commentary.
An ad promises one hundred dollars reward for any illness that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It extols P J Cheney and Co as trustworthy, mentions Toledo wholesalers West & Truax and Kinnan & Mai, and touts internal catarrh treatment with testimonials and universal distribution by druggists.
A child named Alice is said to be saying her prayers at bedtime. Her petition expresses a wish for God to make all the bad people good and all the good people even nicer, reflecting a simple, hopeful moral yearning.
John D Hicks of New York extols saving as a virtue and a practical tool for societal progress. He cites Bowery Savings Bank as a monitor of vast deposits, noting 140,600 depositors, including many children, and argues savings funds fuel water works, schools, churches, and local development.
A Bradshaw Castle note contrasts the Times with the New York Press. It mentions the Times printing 170 copies per minute, 32,000 daily circulation, ads worth 550 dollars per page, 475000 dollars yearly in duties, and a staff of three on site. It recalls the Times’ first issue on January 1, 1788 and compares to 45 years earlier.
It is proposed in France to establish a court of justice run by women and for women to handle cases beyond male jurists. This would relieve man judges from sex specific disputes such as dressmakers suing clients and lessen reliance on expert testimony in such matters.
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