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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
7
A critique of women at social events where young girls mimic adult society and ladies imitate grownups. The piece notes fashionable postures, phrases, and giggles at the absurdity, comparing children’s play to adults doing society. The author laments the persistence of the same social rituals across ages.
The article notes about 7000 visitors last year to Abbotsford Sir Walter Scott's estate. It records reactions from Dr John Brown who called it ugly, Ruskin who called it the most incongruous pile of gentlemanly modernism, and Dean Stanley who said it is a place to visit once but never again.
Marion Martineau claims rubbing oil into arms plumps them, a bold ancient remedy. The Detroit Tribune weighs in with humor about men buying new suits that vanish to rag bag after a tap on the shoulder.
A Pittaburg man recalls W K Vanderbilt in Rome noting motoring woes. Vanderbilt joked a husband faced a cold reception upon return and his wife blamed Mrs Smith. The tale ends with the wife softened by a wily line that spared the husband a scolding.
A wealthy man extols a country estate as a model of nature friendly living. He boasts an artificial lake, transplanted trees, sodded dunes, lighting, windbreaks, hot and cold baths, electric fans, and year round comfort. He invites the urban reader to visit and be transformed by nature.
A wartime era poem praising the poor and humble working class. It argues wealth does not define worth and urges giving every poor lad a chance. It honors those who fought for the country and suggests honesty and effort deserve recognition over pedigree.
The article quotes Drake Wilson on bees, stating they rest in winter like workers, with big and small bees found drunk from burst grapes in vineyards. They sup till full, sleep off their debauch, and do not return home drunk, dispelling romance once tied to beehives.
A second steamer is planned for Lake Titicaca, which lies about 12 000 feet above sea level in the Andes. The first steamer, built in England, was sent out for peacement and is now being reconstructed on the lake shores.
A famed New York physician, aged 76, shares plain health rules from his decades of practice. Emphasizes temperance in all things, balanced pleasures, proper sleep, and avoiding regret over past or future. Includes a humorous anecdote contrasting modern behavior with prudence in daily life.
The piece extols refined American eating, praising Pillsbury Viton cereal as the meat of the wheat and urging purchase at grocers for 20 cents per two pounds. It notes evolving dietary standards, mentions Indian pigmy legends, and briefly promotes Mother Gray Australian-Leaf for women's ailments, plus assorted fashion and magazine ads.
Mr William Browne of Lincoln Street St Joseph Missouri recounts severe appetite loss trembling chills and profuse sweating from poor eating in spring 1902. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills he notes rapid relief including restored appetite and steadier nerves and claims to recommend the remedy. The ad promotes Pink Pills as a blood builder with no opiates. It also mentions the history of straw hats in England and a purchase by Lord William Howard for two hats.
A fragment shows a brief exchange where one person exclaims dreadful and another agrees with a terse yes, reflecting an uneasy conversational moment. Further context is unavailable in the readable text.
In Alaska miners move to divert King River with steam shovels to dry three miles of its bed and to extract gold bearing gravel. The effort reflects the territory’s determined approach to large scale mining.
In Batticaloa District hereditary elephant catchers follow herds through jungle terrain. They use a strong hide instrument to trap an elephant when it lowers a foot to drink. The animal is then restrained around a tree, leading to submission by starvation.
Preparing Needle Bocks and needie bowks should be avoided as it uses muphur that can rust bodies. A pure Gee linen or charmer foote r is recommended as a better alternative.
The Hot Lakes district in New Zealand comprises seven major lakes spanning areas from three to thirty one square miles, with numerous smaller bodies nearby.
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