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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1904
Page
5
A reader wartime era piece describes Corean women as vocal and bold, praising upper-class restraint and critiquing Corean fashion and gender norms. It notes Nippon’s cultural influence spreading through Corea and remarks on boys’ hair and gender perception in a provocative, dated tone.
The excerpt notes aboriginal prowess in dodging missiles with quick eyes and agile limbs, using a narrow shield as a shield against fast cricket balls. It contrasts skill with danger and mentions drifting night shadows and shifting glares, reflecting a fragment from a broader 19th century piece in the Star.
Dr W Wedding at Technical College Berlin reports osmium lamp tests with two groups of six lamps on 220 volts. Group 1 27 volt lamps show average life 2853 hours with candlepower dropping from 30.1 to 23.7 and energy use rising from 1.46 to 1.78 watts per candlepower. failures occur at 520, 3724, and 3940 hours while three lamps remain after 3973 hours. Group 2 six 25 candlepower lamps average 1479 hours with candlepower down from 26.1 to 19.9 in 2198 hours and energy per candlepower rising from 1.27 to 1.75 watts.
The sapfish or headfish is common near Santa Catalina Island. It has an oblong deep body, very thin or compressed with no tail, a rim of movable flesh. Its skin is hard, coarse and scaleless, covered with slime and many parasites thriving on the fish.
The current debate centers on metric versus traditional measures. The yard and pound are defended as Anglo Saxon standards while the metric system positions length by the meter and mass by the kilogram, with the yard defined as a fraction of the meter.
A Northwest Indian outsmarts English supervisors through quick thinking and a clever exchange. When offered pay to kill a calf and finish work, he asks for a quarter and proceeds, later explaining his strategy as “Me work head work.” The tale ends with the Indian noting his clever work method.
Gaelic is a living language for about 1 million of Ireland’s 4 million people. Of these, over nine tenths also know English. around 65,000 speak only Gaelic, mainly in remote western villages. It is used by Scottish Highlanders and descendants in the U S, Australia and Canada, with two large churches in Boston regularly preaching Gaelic.
The piece notes a curious taste in many nations for distant catches, as West Indies and Central America prefer dried codfish from the United States and Canada over plentiful local fish. Huge freight shipments bring cod to tropical ports each year, while locals can catch finer varieties at home.
Excerpt from Ernest Crosby’s Swords and Plowshares exploring whether dying for faith differs from living by one's beliefs. It questions what it means to live out truth daily and confronts doubts from friends as the speaker weighs devotion against bravado and pride.
A homeowner admires a new mansion’s library and asks the architect to “touch up” a portrait by adding a fez on the depicted gentleman’s head. The humorous exchange ends with the master saying the decorations must not be spoiled and asking for the artist’s retouch.
In a humorous yet pointed note, Mrs Frisbie sues her husband for divorce alleging repeated household trespasses. She cites curling pins, worn shirts, and borrowed collars as minor irritants that escalated when he rifled pockets and took her mail unseen after hours. The exchange hints at deeper marital strain.
A Franklin Grove Illinois man suffered a cut on the leg from a runaway bicycle leading to a four year stub born ulcer. Bucklen's Arica Salve cured the wound and is praised for burns scalds skin eruptions and piles. Sold for 25 cents at Ww. H. Baugh’s Shoshone and W. V. Torn’s Hagerman.
In Clingfeld Essex, a new owner arrives with wife and servants to the parsonage on horseback and pays homage by blowing three horn blasts. He bears a hawk and his servant a greyhound for the rector that day. Chicken, oats, and bread are given for hawk, horse, and greyhound. After dinner the party departs following three more blasts.
The Valley of Mexico spans seventy miles by forty five miles with Lake Texcoco just east of Mexico City. In 1629 floods raised the lake, drowning thousands as waters reached three feet over streets for more than four years. A vast drainage canal now obviates this danger.
Fragmentary poem fragment describes roses after rain and nature’s renewal with singing birds and bright tears, mentioning Stanton and shifting weather imagery. The text presents a jumbled, partial lyric scene focusing on mood and renewal.
The article states that wheat harvests require about 1,000,000 men and 50,100 teams for three summer months, with 10,900 women needed to prepare fowl for workers. Overall harvest labor in the United States is estimated at 1,520,700, excluding farmer residents.
A reflective piece compares the pursuit of nutrition to the fountain of youth. It notes that science drives dietary experimentation and ponders a future where casual diners order precise grams of protein, fat, and carbohydrates. The author envisions writers and creators ensuring adequate nitrogen, phosphorus, and calories daily to fuel epic endeavors.
An English pork packing firm paid no less than 50000 dollars for the Brandenburg method of curing hams while a special chutney mixing method, originally bought for a few rupees from a Hindu trader, changed hands several months ago for 37000 dollars.
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