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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1907
Page
7
A Brooklyn Eagle feature describes a Padua torture chamber of a thirteenth century tyrant Ecetino ruling Verona Padua Vicenza and Brescia. The article recalls gruesome devices including a skulls display a feeding table for captives and a wax hand on a chopping block to evoke terror.
The Caytoma silver mines in Peru sit at 14 000 to 17 000 feet, likely the highest. Spaniards mined them in the 16th century, possibly earlier Incas. An English firm plans a hydroelectric plant at 15 000 to 16 000 feet, using a Santiago river waterfall and Lake Huaillacho as a dry-season source, with power transmitted by a three mile cable. Air pressure up to that height is eight and a half pounds per square inch, and water boils 24 degrees below standard.
A Delta county farmer found a feather bed in his yard on Tuesday morning. He traced it to a man in Hopkins county whose home was destroyed the previous evening by a cyclone. In Madison New Jersey a new crop of hothouse figs is announced as a novelty. Fresh figs are about the size of a large strawberry and sell for 5.7 per dozen.
A French gentleman seeks a wife for his nephew, reaches his wife’s name on a matrimonial agent’s list. He notes “desirous of a husband between 28 and 38,” blond preferred. He rushes home to tell his wife, who calmly explains the entry is her own name, from a winter illness when doctors warned of the worst.
Irish art should reflect native culture and language. Yeats argues that Ireland must develop its soul and school of art through its own artists rather than relying on English or foreign teachers, warning that an external teacher would be a dangerous experiment.
A concise aphorism on the superior man urging slow measured speech and earnest conduct as guiding principles for personal virtue and leadership.
The past days bring extreme heat with many prostrations in Cleveland. Drowned in Muskegon after a lake boating accident. Typhoid resurges in Pittsburgh. Floods drown over a hundred in Trikala. Several deadly incidents across the United States and Europe, including a police suicide in San Francisco amid insomnia fears, and a large shipyard strike near Detroit ending after arbitration talks.
Nevada mining news reports frequent rich strikes across camps including Good Springs and Pearl Idaho. Talks of Utah coal preparations to avert a winter famine, a Lincoln County ore rush, and major shipments from Goldfield, Mountain Home and Morgan County. Copper, silver and lead-silver mines show high yields with new concessions and deeper drilling planned, while prospects near Ketchum and Pocatello emphasize copper and gold potential.
A teacher explains the maxim Return good for evil to young scholars. A pupil jokes that the teacher would be struck again to obtain another apple. The snippet also promotes CASTORTA, urged as a pure remedy for infections, warning mothers to resimne bottles.
A garbled OCR fragment lists scattered names such as Preece and Gleason, with odd phrases about circles, entrance, and faces. It mentions attempts to fix an average map and to reduce an estimate by half, all within a fragmentary retail or notice-like context.
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