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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1904
Page
6
Jerome records a widow wedding her twenty second husband who had buried twenty wives. An Irish farmer proposes the couple's health, quipping that he has buried three wives and wishes them luck.
A grainy note touts tea and coffee firms, urging readers to join the Kancheday Honk and India's West Coffee Estates network. It highlights that more than 80,000 persons are employed across India's coffee estates.
A fragment mentions cheap medicines and tonics sold to care for children including ether inhalants and a laxative powder sold by a nurse at a New York Children's Home. It recalls Nelson and Trafalgar Square ceremonies with wreaths for sailors of France and Spain, linking to memorial practices of the era.
A German missionary travels along his land holding canal to conduct religious services aboard a canal boat. He aims to reach communities otherwise inaccessible, delivering the gospel by traveling through waterways.
An era of luxury on the California Limited includes a porter who presses trousers while passengers wait. A novel feature offers an extra pair of trousers and sleeping comfort such as in-room libraries and electric curling irons for women, with promises of more travel amenities and a front-stage upgrade.
A note on ox tail soup emerging as a national English dish. It traces to very poor Huguenot refugees from France after the revocation of the Nantes millet. Ox tails had no market value, leading to its preparation and survival among refugees.
A concise discussion urges parents to raise courteous children who serve and respect elders. It argues mothers should teach boys to take and perform small duties, showing consideration in daily tasks and paying attention to others as part of their upbringing.
An old discussion notes that modern battleships have an active service life of about teen years, while a century ago battleships stayed in commission for most of their active period. It contrasts continuous service with shorter modern deployment.
Bert Yetter, returning from a hunting trip near Portland Oregon, faced four masked armed men aiming to rob the Spokane flyer on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation line at Montavilla Switch. Yetter resisted, fired, and was wounded in the side, while the bandits fled as darkness limited identification. One robber cried out in pain after Yetter fired toward the flash.
The House moved through a large amount of miscellaneous business on Monday, passing several local character bills and approving a forest reserve transfer from the Interior to the Agriculture Department. The joint resolution for the Washington Monument exhibition was halted by a quorum issue. In the Senate, pure food and Philippine government bills were under discussion with focus on guaranteeing income on railroad bonds in the islands led by Be Apooner.
A group of Ekaterinoslav workers burst into a municipal council session to address the council on country conditions and working class aims. The disturbance caused excitement. the president adjourned, but the spokesman pressed on as comrades cheered. A number of arrests followed.
In Silver Bell Arizona a saloon brawl left three dead and Crowell mortally wounded. Jim Fagan, a prominent local prospector, and two Mexican miners were killed after Mexicans, described as intoxicated, opened fire indiscriminately. Crowell lies near death in hospital.
Peace agreements between the government of Paraguay and the revolt forces were fixed for signing Sunday aboard the Argentine cruiser El Plata at Buenos Ayres. Juan B. Gaona is expected to be elected president after entreaty from both sides. Gaona is a banker and businessman with no prior political experience. The cabinet will include members from both factions.
A Revo Nevada dispatch reports men traveled through Will through Tonopah and Goldfield aiming to form a company to capture desert camels for freight in southern Nevada. Camels, introduced in 1854 by Major Henry Wayne under U S government orders, were once used to haul wood and salt between mining districts, with scarce rail or team transport in the region.
An international commission on the North Sea Incident plans to meet in Paris on December 20 to select a fifth admiral and outline the commission’s procedure. Real work is expected to begin early.
Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davia, a Massachusetts native and 1864 Naval Academy graduate, has been appointed to the Anglo Russian North Sea commission in Paris. He gained fame during the Spanish-American War for directing the surrender of Ponce Porto Rico and commanded the gunboat Di during that conflict. He has led several longitude-difference expeditions and was once superintendent of the naval observatory.
Admiral Fournier arrives to organize the meeting arrangements in Paris. Members are due to reach Paris soon for the initial session. Foreign Minister Debassy assigns staff to aid commission work during the forthcoming talks amid the Russian Christmas holidays.
The House of Representatives, in a full session, adopted a resolution to impeach Judge Swayne of the northern district of Florida for high crimes and misdemeanors. It authorized five members to notify the Senate and a seven member committee to present the case, marking the first impeachment proceedings since General Belknap in 1876.
The recovery of the Truckee California express office loot is confirmed by Wells Fargo officials. About $1,200 was taken, including a $1,000 package and $200 in small sums. An investigation indicates local agent G F Winters left the safe unlocked Sunday night, suspecting a knowledgeable thief. The agent’s assistant does not know the safe combination.
The Grand Council of China approved a suggestion requiring soldiers and students to wear pigtails or have closely cropped hair. The item mentions a German ruler and notes Germany has 318 statues of William I erected in German towns.
A fragmented line asks about using Schilling Best Moe and laments that not all share the same view, reflecting a casual, opinionated tone.
The city approves a 10 cent tax on each theater pass to support the Actors Home for the bereft. The measure assigns revenue to assist actors in need, creating a new municipal funding stream.
An Atchison Globe note counsels readers to minimize keys to private drawers and to burn unnecessary papers to protect privacy and security.
A fragmented message urges loyalty to a simple lifestyle and earth friendly ideas, warns against overreliance on stars, and mentions tea and a money back claim tied to a grocer.
A brief note notes a woman crying, declaring no woman enjoys crying and suggesting someone knows about it. The fragment presents an unnamed speaker reflecting on sorrow and social perceptions.
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