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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
7
Gas light provides brighter, cleaner illumination than electricity with lower operating costs than kerosene. Acetylene can be produced in a basement and piped to all rooms, with complete plant costs comparable to a hot air furnace and no chimneys to maintain.
Nicholas Vedderman, a retired Angora farmer and curios collector, bought an old flintlock musket at a farmhouse auction. The weapon, likely pre Revolutionary War, contained a charge of two silver shillings dated 1781 wad of Bible leaves, a hair lock, and a legible quotation fragment. Vedderman notes such charges were believed to ward off witches by superstition.
Excavations near Newlands station reveal Bronze Age remains in Renfrewshire. Ludovic Mann reports a site between Kilmalcolm and Bridge of Weir with a perforated stone axe hammer, ornamented with knobs and moldings in excellent condition. The era is dated roughly from the sixteenth to the second century BCE.
Young men in Paris and London imitate current fashion by wearing pins and watch fobs featuring their sweethearts eyes. The eyes are cut from photographs, mounted in gold under glass, and integrated into jewelry as a romantic trend.
A very young seal reached the London Zoological Gardens after a string of perils. Sighted near Heligoland from an English yacht, it was chased by a killer-whale and hauled aboard the yacht when exhausted. The zoo is attempting to rear it while scientists assess its future.
A poor laboring man in Denmark has created a life saving impregnation for clothing that keeps a shipwrecked person afloat for several days without losing the garment’s properties. A coat, vest, or rug treated with the compound can sustain a person above water. The invention has been successfully demonstrated.
A historic health notice extols the change of life as a critical period for women and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as support. It cites testimonials from Mrs Hyland and Mrs Hinkle, inviting letters for free advice and promising relief from symptoms like hot flashes, headaches, and weakness.
The article notes earliest European cherry origins near Kerastat on the Black Sea by Lucullus around the year one when Europe first tasted cherries. This brief record preserves the mythic link between ancient sources and fruit introduction.
A man, Waiter St. Clair of San Preneison, reportedly killed himself in a cellar after a dispute with his mother over chopping stove wood. The incident details and exact ages are unclear from the fragment.
Richard Mormongue entered his fourth floor Rue Popinenart apartment in Paris and found his landlady had broken his pipe. He then committed suicide by jumping from a window.
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