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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1899
Page
6
A compromised OCR garble advocates national reform to improve agriculture and governance, praising federal focus on farmers and infrastructure. The text then digresses into an advertisement for a constitutional cure, touting a patent remedy for catarrh and a political note on Speaker Reed’s possible impeachment in a Chicago context.
Petra Peterson, a plain bachelor, plans to rent rooms to Jeannie Cope and her mother Mrs Cope, imagining marriage to Jeannie. Joe Franklin announces engagement to Jeannie, shocking the bachelor who jokes about marriage while plotting furnishings and a future with Jeannie.
A terse New York News line quotes playful travel banter about bringing kits, with a defiant, humorous tone. It hints at someone named Jeannie and a plan to remain in place rather than depart, reflecting light domestic or travel banter from a past era.
A partial list surveys literary women who wed physicians and medical men. Helen Mathers married surgeon Dr H A Reeves in 1876, Frances Hodgson Burnett married Dr Burnett of Washington, and Sarah Grand wed a young army doctor. Other writers tied to doctors include Annie Swan, Flora Annie Steel, Olive Schreiner, Rita, and Thackeray’s daughter Mrs Richmond Ritchie. A London sale notes Bishop Meade’s stump from a stake burned in 1865 now formed into a casket for the mayor’s daughter at marriage.
Chadron correspondent recounts the tale of William Bismarck known as Prince Bismarck in Lead City and Custer District. After fortune loss in Germany he sought riches in America, amassed wealth in the Black Hills, hid it in a cave near his home, and died without a will leaving $300,000 found by a prospecting party. his German widow paid them and plans to return to Germany to honor his wishes.
Local promotion offers the first five buyers of the Endless Chain Starcd Book a chance to receive a large premium package including Red Cross and Hubinger's Best starch, Shakespeare pictures, and a calendar. All other buyers get two 10c starch packages plus premiums. The campaign touts Red Cross starch as a modern, superior product from J. C. Hubinger with twenty five years in laundry work.
A colossal meteor recently struck the sea off Russia penetrating clay to twenty five feet. Efforts will be made to raise it for its iron and other elements. Two meteors also fell in Indiana on May 1, likely rocky rather than metallic. The piece also mentions railcar orders by the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern line and a patent medicine ad for La Grippe cure.
Quoted dialogue shows Mrs Winn offering to reveal her new hat in exchange for fourteen dollars, with Mr Join and Mr W reacting hesitantly. The exchange centers on a humorous social proposition and a monetary request.
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