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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1907
Page
6
A fragmented ad style piece touts Dean's Kidney Pill for back pain and general malaise. It cites Mrs. A Holman Stillwater Minnesota claiming relief, then includes a quip about a piee of household mischief, a moral vignette, and a later anecdote about a mother and children with advertising imagery and a claim of curing various ailments.
A letter from a Philadelphia reader discusses overeating and craving while hungry, blaming coffee and tea for nerves. The writer notes trying doctors and Patent Office remedies, but after using Postum from Battle Creek cocoa brand, reports steadier meals, better nerves, and reduced coffee use, recommending it to friends. The passage promotes The Road to Wolfville by George W. Mead and cites Postum Cereal Company.
Readers tour Mount Vernon as sunlight spills over brick walls and ornate pickets. Guides describe Washington’s era rooms, Lafayette visits, and the famed banquet hall while noting modern guardians and generous patrons shaping the estate’s upkeep and gardens.
An operator notes that deaf individuals deeply value the telephone. She shares anecdotes of deaf friends hearing clearly on calls and urges readers to encourage deaf acquaintances to try calling. The piece emphasizes natural, full conversations and social connection via phone.
A writer notes that many top grade Chinese teas do not leave China for export. Tea specialists in Europe and America obtain samples via firms in export centers, but these unexported teas are not for sale. Rare specimens are kept for comparison, with only one known outside source supplying the trade. Prices run from 75 to 100 dollars per pound.
The excerpt urges cultivation of a true sportsman’s spirit away from gambling halls and public saloons. It stresses Sir Galahad like ideals, sane minds in healthy bodies, and disdain for loud talking and swaggering conduct as befitting a gentleman.
A Springfield Republican exchange concludes women gossip more due to greater free time not stronger inclination. A male reader notes a man can best a woman gossiping seven days a week.
A guest admires a china cabinet and comments on the unusual cups. The hostess notes the display represents samples of the cups they have collected in the last two years.
The article notes that ninety nine year leases originated in England and gained popularity after a law in Queen Elizabeth's era limited ground or building leases to 100 years. It mentions a slight earlier 14th century statute in the Minnos code that set a lease length limit, later declared unconstitutional.
In a recent school exam, students gave humorous and quirky responses. Lines include gross ignorance being 144 times as bad as ordinary ignorance, anchorite defined as an old hermit who anchors himself to one place, the liver called an infernal organ, and vacuum described as nothing with air tucked out into a pickle bottle.
A renowned Edinburgh officer famed for wit hires a hearse after his mother’s death and ferries her to the Highland family burial place. He then returns with the hearse filled with smuggled whisky, joking to a friend that he only took away the body and brought back the spirit, a somewhat macabre pun.
Burton notes that the heavens and earth are in perpetual motion with the sun rising and setting the moon changing courses and the stars moving. He argues this continuous motion is for observation and to teach that we should always be in action.
Popular Mechanics notes a new London job where workers use a keen sense of smell to detect gas leaks. A detector inspects pipes and fixtures, charging 18 cents per leak found, with some men earning about 15 dollars weekly.
A writer contends that physical traits in English people are evolving rapidly. The description contrasts a tall graceful woman with refined features and soft tread with a broader, firm-chinned woman who strides purposefully.
A metropolitan dining scene is scarred by dull speeches at a banquet. The bored diner complains of the agony and even contemplates leaving the event, describing the evening as a torment within a city famed for its grandiose yet tedious excess.
A historic notice notes that deaths by self harm among Negroes have increased rapidly each year since emancipation, contrasting with the near absence of such deaths before emancipation and highlighting a troubling new pattern in the community.
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