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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
2
A collage of garbled dialogue and snippets of vintage column humor cites childhood slang, weather oddities, and coastal tales. The piece mashes reminiscence with clipped anecdotes including a whale story and a cyclone exaggeration, ending with a wry nod to old newspapers.
New York based umpire Jim Johnstone notes that baseball crowds and theater audiences alike have been kinder than they used to be. He recalls provincial touring troupes profiting from audience hostility and describes a Paint Rock one night stand where cabbage and potatoes rained on The Broken Vow while the hero endured long speeches and missiles.
A critique of Latin prescription writing and professional secrecy in medicine urges public demand for a transparent code of ethics. It argues patients should translate prescriptions to know what they ingest, enabling informed choices and avoiding repeated visits and fees. Jerome on Colored Evidence compares tainted papers to a physician’s faded Latin notes. A five year old’s church lesson ends with a child joking about walking on water as a trick.
The Utah Consolidated Gypsum plant at Levan Utah signals a growing gypsum industry while ore strikes emerge at Basin Wallaces Idaho and near Centennial Wychan. Major mines like North Star, Petit and Bear Creek push toward production as new coal and oil prospects spark regional activity.
James R. Keeler of Cazenovia says back and kidney pain began about fifteen years ago. He used many remedies before Doan’s Kidney Pills, finding relief from the first box and full recovery after two boxes. He recommends Doan’s to his wife and friends. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A Massachusetts judge postponed a case after receiving a letter from John Quincy Adams stating he is detained for Isaak Walton and cannot leave because the fish are biting. The anecdote highlights Adams delightful fondness for fishing and gentleness in legal affairs.
Sir William Crookes and Professors Krowalski and Moscicki of Freiburg university report a new method to extract nitric acid from the atmosphere. The process promises commercial use in industry and agriculture and could transform the nitrate industry and world food supplies.
A Kentucky negro earns double wages as a hodcarrier by carrying 40 to 50 bricks per load and balancing them on a board on his head as he climbs to the tops of high buildings. Estimates suggest 21,000,000 acres could grow rice in Louisiana and Texas, with a potential crop value of 400 million dollars.
A Dakota woman reports years of twitching and cold feet due to coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee, her symptoms vanished and she sleeps peacefully through the night. She endorses Postum as worth its weight in gold and points readers to The Road to Wellville.
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, cites benefits from darum wheat, wheat-testing machines, and granite potash extraction. He envisions cheaper, widely accessible products, recalling a boy’s price observation in a grocer’s store and a desire for fruit.
A Tennessee mother credits Cuticura products with curing her child’s stubborn eczema after a physician’s treatment failed. She reports rapid healing in six weeks and no recurrence, and also notes another child’s poison oak sores healed in three weeks using the same remedies.
Colleges are viewed as high insurance risks with expected rate increases. The report cites 784 fires in college buildings over eighteen years, causing about $10.5 million in losses and a heavy loss of life, averaging more than $13,000 per incident. The piece also notes sperm whales can stay underwater for about 20 minutes before surfacing to breathe 50 or 60 times over roughly ten minutes.
A fragmented Victorian style column mixes a comic vignette about Jamie who refuses to wash his face until morning, with diverse anecdotes and snippets. It notes a boy’s stubborn bath ritual, a hotel tipping debate, a copper theft joke, a father teaching sewing, a marital farewell line, and social musings on Circassian harems and male vanity with light tone.
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