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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1912
Page
2
A damaged description explains a simple thaumatrope toy made from cardboard. By cutting two opposite pictures and spinning the disk fast, the images combine in the viewer’s retina. The piece notes few children have seen thaumatrope examples and suggests a quick crafting method.
Opinions in Women’s Home Companion discuss friendship as a living vow not a fixed state. The healthy minded girl faces friendships as evolving bonds, noting loyalty and selflessness require ongoing effort rather than payment, with expectations shifting over time and through trials.
The fragment discusses a historic belief that offering a handshake signaled willingness for peace or work, while refusing signified war. It notes swords and ritual hand offers in old Gallonsan culture, contrasting with modern ages where shaking hands is unfamiliar and amused.
A fragmentary line asks how there came to be so many words in the world. The speaker, Wile Lo, is referenced with partial, unclear text about leaves and turning, leaving the context and conclusion unreadable.
The passage recalls tribal myths and love tales told around campfires, mixing echoes of cautionary legends with wild imagery. It treats Native American myths as a backdrop for fear and wonder, urging listeners to sleep while pondering serpents and haunting warnings.
A discussion argues that modern dolls with exaggerated beauty replace dreamland with reality. It contends truth at any price harms imagination, and that dolls embody childish ideals of beauty and symmetry, urging preservation of traditional, lovely dolls for children.
A porch swing designed by an Indiana maker features collapsibility for easy storage and a foldable hinged footrest. The design aims to save space and ease use in tight areas.
A fragment describes a porch, paint protection, and skirts from wear. A stranger asks a child what she will be when grown, receiving the reply that she will be nothing, reflecting a terse, incomplete dialogue about identity.
A child asks why stars are in the sky and learns from a mother that Earth is a world like ours. The exchange reveals a simple, poetic lesson about the heavens as more than mere holes to let rain through.
Cry of old director of the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, Hill has resumed American excavations in ancient Corinth after typhoid forced a pause. For 16 years, he and colleagues have pursued the market site and surrounding buildings. They rely on Pausanias as guide, while noting limited U.S. funding and a buried city 30 to 40 feet deep. A hidden tunnel to a temple oracle adds to the findings and mystery.
Emiliano Zapata’s rise from itinerant peddler to revolutionary general reshapes Mexican history if his rebellion topples Madero. Though viewed as illiterate by some, he is literate, educated, shrewd, stubborn, and magnetically brave. His growing forces forced the government to deploy much of its troops by February.
The passage urges looking for light and positive aspects in life. It emphasizes refusing shadows and disfigurement, embracing pleasure, helpful, and inspiring elements to transform character quickly as taught by Orison Swett Marden.
The article warns the American Indian may disappear as natives adapt to white civilization or be lost to disease in Alaska. It urges government aid to preserve culture through the Modern Historic Records association, photo collections by Curtis for Morgan, and ongoing phonographic efforts to record music and speech for future origins studies.
Rev Herbert 8 Bigelow, president of the Ohio Constitutional convention now in session at Columbus, is a forty two year old ordained Congregational minister and Cincinnati pastor. A Indiana native and Western Reserve graduate, he has long engaged in reform movements and campaigned for public offices.
Judson Maxim predicts a coming world order with three nations: the United States of Asia including Europe, the United States of Africa, and the United States of America. He cites rapid progress by Japan and the Chinese republic and warns of future wars amid geopolitical tension. Former Senator Charles A Towns adds concerns about Colombia, Panama, and global friction among powers including Germany, England, Japan, and China.
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