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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for headaches indigestion sour stomach and foul gases. The copy promises a cleansing effect overnight with a benefit lasting months and notes the product is gentle for children.
An attorney cites the rule never to tell more than one knows in a case where a man on a court register is claimed dead. Opposing counsel seeks proof, and the responding lawyer offers corroborative testimony of the decease. When asked how death is known, the reply is unclear and hinges on an unproven assertion about burial about a month ago on suspicion.
An advertisement claims a Cincinnati authority can remove corns painlessly using drops of a drug called freezone. Applied directly to the corn, it allegedly relieves soreness and causes the corn to lift out root and all as it dries and shrivels. A small bottle is inexpensive and available at drug stores.
Anole a Slav washwoman who works a day weekly in a South side home shows an ear for music despite no formal training. A piano tuner spent about six hours trying to restore the instrument upstairs while the laundry runs below. Annie, after work, tells her employer she cannot bear the parlor piano, saying it is a rotten piano player.
A reflective maxim notes it is as easy to appear pleasant as to wear a sour expression. It adds that losing due to one’s own ignorance or carelessness is more mortifying than losing because of another’s dishonesty.
Guidance for planning a dairy house near a barn to avoid odors, with emphasis on location, drainage, materials, lighting, ventilation, and durable floors. Describes equipment setups for three uses: bulk selling milk, cream or butter production, and on farm bottling, including cooling tanks, separators, churns, bottling lines, sterilizers, and insulated refrigerators suitable for small to mid sized herds.
English author Stanley J Weyman argues that modern warfare makes successful peasant revolts impossible. He contends machine guns cannons and airplanes crush uprisings, and only external aid from equally armed nations can break despotism. He cites Ghent Liege and Antwerp as examples of cities yielding under superior firepower.
The New York Times reports a forthcoming diagnostic hospital to serve as a modern substitute for the family physician. It will assess unidentified ailments, refer to specialists if affordable, or return patients to primary care with a full diagnosis and treatment plan.
The article explains pattens as early footwear raised on a base to lift wearers above mud and water. Once a fashion for the rich, they spread to the poor and appear in literature and ballads as symbols of urgency or mock haste. References include Dickens, Ben Jonson, and Farmer's Old Wife.
The speaker distinguishes smartness from intelligence, noting many smart people exist yet intelligence is an observable trait. Smartness is shown by a person, while intelligence is visible to all. The distinction highlights how perception differs between personal skill and universal evaluability.
Field headquarters tallies 2443 miles of railroad rebuilt or repaired and 590 miles new, 150 miles albline cables, 30000 miles of telephone wire, 10000 new buildings, 200 miles narrow gauge track, 10 bridges for 2040 miles of roads. Work credited to 120 engineers, 200000 laborers, 100000 mules and 40000 wagons, carried on 18 months despite artillery, avalanches, snow, rain, and material shortages.
The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society is one of the world’s largest manufacturing enterprises with factories across England and its own farms dairies and creameries. It owns substantial member homes and, with Scotland, produces hundreds of millions in commodities yearly. Its tea warehouse distributes 25,000,000 pounds of tea annually from its own tea lands in Ceylon.
The bureau of soils cooperates with cement mills blast furnaces and wool-scourers to recover potash as a by product where commercially feasible.
A pithy reflection notes that deeds carry greater significance than speech and urges honoring God through everyday conduct rather than ritual words. The quote emphasizes practical piety in common life over formal expressions.
Quote on wealth and effort contrasts temporary gains with lasting expense. Advocates consistency in spending and labor, suggesting steady discipline is wiser than chasing fleeting profits. The fragment hints Franklin’s view that building lasting value is more feasible than quick, easier temptations.
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