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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
3
A reflective poem condemns meanness and scowling. It argues mean conduct harms the person who harbors it, drives away friends, and replaces kindness with hate. It contrasts the joy of goodwill with the emptiness of hostile sneers and urges gentler behavior.
A whimsical meditation compares the scent of hot mince pie to the arrival of fall and winter. It praises genuine mince pie, laments dull factory versions, and argues that real pie delights sight and senses like autumn leaves and dawn light while dismissing counterfeit, papier mache imitations as frauds.
A page of history features Col Julius Caesar addressing a youth in a rainy-day toga who holds a crown. The crowd cheers as Caesar declares I will not accept that crown, noting his own shoe size to refuse the gift and strides toward Sextus Boozenus' place along the Appian Way.
A maid presents a card reading Aldebaran Sciphanus Smith. Gracious! the soubrette exclaims. They must have named him after a couple of sleeping cars.
Fragmentary lines show a slang filled exchange about the egg industry. The speaker notes the egg trust has failed while comments about hens laying imply financial or production trouble affecting involved parties. Specific names or places are not present in the readable text.
A compact piece on selling with emphasis on good temper, common sense, and avoiding overclaiming. It urges practicing rules from experience, building a personal rule set, and using logical language over jokes. It warns not to treat customers as fools and to let the customer infer merit through measured claims.
The passage extols enthusiasm as the supreme business asset, capable of driving faith in action, inspiring initiative, and spreading contagiously through a plant or farm. It claims enthusiasm boosts production, lowers costs, elevates worker satisfaction, and yields vital, dividends-paying results.
A quote attributed to Robert Brown contrasts Edison’s 2 percent inspiration with 98 percent perspiration and argues modern business success relies on 98 percent foresight and action with only 2 percent luck urging readers to take a line.
A brief motivational line from Beach's Magazine urges self scrutiny while employed. It echoes a classic test of fit by asking if one would hire a person like themselves, implying self-improvement to advance in a job.
Huey, vice-president of a major public utility, lists core duties for service firms. He emphasizes continuous service, fair rates, no discrimination, broad extension of service, and aggressive marketing of volume. He calls for sound finances, high maintenance, public spiritedness, broad administration, faithkeeping, and political neutrality.
Government statistics show limited shift from private to municipal ownership in US utilities. Only about four percent of electric power investment is in public plants, with 1 252 municipal plants mainly in towns under 5 000. Regulators rise across states. fourteen regulate water and electric services, while twenty seven have varying control.
The piece reviews a European firm’s competitive examination for filling eight vacancies with a starting salary near 1000 dollars a year, and notes Chicago interest and doubts about applying such a system in the United States due to rapid business turnover and hiring pace. It contrasts European method with American bustle and hints at broader industrial curiosities from chemistry and manufacturing.
The excerpt extols work as the supreme stimulant and declares that the will to do sustains vitality. It argues that purposeful effort drives performance, builds power, and that cessation leads to decline. It also asserts that tissue destruction precedes renewal, so active effort maintains vigor: be alive to keep alive.
A New York inventor patents an Invalids chair designed to carry a person up or down stairs. The design features handles on the back and near the bottom of the front legs to aid lifting and transport.
A Scientific American feature describes a novel coaster sled built on bicycle principles. The pine construction uses single and double pieces, iron shod runners pivoted to uprights, a hinged frame with eyebalts, and a simple seat with a drop block and pin.
In Japan an annual feast day for boys prompts paper carp display and lively festivity. The narrator travels from Yokohama to Kamakura, describing festive attire, women, and large humming kites. Kites lack tails but bear long streamers and rival factions fight by powdered glass on strings to cut opponents’ lines.
A brief dialogue captures Uncle Tom and Harry debating naming a flag. Uncle Tom jokes it is not complimentary while Harry defends the choice, noting the subject lacks sense to see the joke.
A mother asks Nettie how she tore her pron as a four year old girl, and Nettie explains it got stuck on a pall and somehow re stored itself in a playful doodle of a tale likely from a humorous column.
In a homey moment, a boy named Bobby yawns and asks his mother what causes people to have mouth stretchers, hinting at a playful family joke or childlike curiosity.
In dry forest regions experienced hunters can drink from tree vents called velns. By tapping a vine or attenuated protuberance in a willow or rugged tree, clear water seeps out. The water is purer than well water, with a sulfuric flavor and slight carbonate. The source remains puzzling yet confirms a hidden supply during drought.
An amusing home activity invites amateur artists to create pictures using only the figure eight. Two contests suit this game: one awards the funniest or most interesting image drawn with the fewest figures, the other honors those who use the most figures in a single picture.
A riddle like verse asks how twenty sardines packed tightly within a tint can be released, prompting thought on method and metaphor while keeping to a playful, compact mysterious tone.
A tale recalls a speedily made coat completed in a single day. John Coveter of Newbury England shorn at five in the morning to finished garment by half past six in the evening amid 6,000 spectators.
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