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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
6
A gifted writer famed for not recognizing his wife wrote a love tale printed in a popular magazine. Friends say the piece mirrors the writer’s own life with a beautiful young woman, Miss Blankfort. A man confronted the author, who calmly replied he needed the money.
The W L Douglas Shoe Co recently dedicated a large new administration and jobbing house at Montello as part of its moth manufacturing complex. Open house ran from 11 am to 8 pm with a Mace Gay Orchestra concert and a Boston caterer attending guests. The two story, 260 by 60 foot building houses the jobbing department on the first floor and offices above, with a full stock of shoes and findings and a sample room wired for telegraph and telephone service.
A Minden Louisiana Signal Intoxicants In Vegetables piece mocks public work under female supervisors and laments street cleaning by three women bosses. It notes supposed dangers of vegetables, citing a veterinarian-like inventor warning of intoxicating effects from vegetable meals on youths.
Denver physician Dr. Patterson, a Rush and Washington Medical School graduate, confessed to a $20 forgery and a morphine addiction. He framed crime as a battle between heredity and environment, saying he aimed to be the greatest criminal but fell to habit and poverty, detailing a lifelong fascination with crime and his gradual descent into theft and burglary.
Henry Henninger of Milwaukee wed Miss May Martin of Chicago in a courthouse ceremony by Justice BV Orvis. After the pronouncement, the groom pursued a kiss but the bride resisted fiercely, shielding her face. They wrestled briefly as witnesses laughed, ending with the groom declaring victory and the bride departing in disgust.
A late 19th century advice piece urges brides to mold their husbands before habits form. It likens groom manners to jelly, saying wives should guide, feed, and steer partners toward what they like and need, using intuition over pretended knowledge to ensure domestic harmony.
Travel advertises five daily trains via the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe system from Colorado to Kansas City St. Joseph Chicago Galveston El Paso and Mexico City. Reduced rates offered. C F Warren G A A T and 8 F Ry 411 Dooly Block Salt Lake City Utah.
The Methodist Recorder from London notes social change as the publican, brewer, bookmaker, and theater audiences diminish. People become less frivolous and more earnest, signaling a reforming mood.
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