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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1899
Page
3
A jumbled OCR page blends satirical remarks on a seasoned politician with a flood of patent medicine promotions. Ads tout Seething syrups, Peruna and Red Cross Starch, plus lifestyle quips about fashion and travel rates. Notable names include Dr Hartman and Congressman Botkin amid generic commerce blurbs.
A speaker contrasts damp housing with a claim that dampness is an advantage, stating fire risk would not be likely to burn. The exchange uses period tone and formal rhetoric to debate housing conditions and safety.
A humor page recalls grandpa days of plenty on river fishing with big catches and slow streams. A short sketch shows a country youth facing police exam, with his mother and grandmother offering wary, humorous guidance.
In Tard Lock, two men debate misfortune and taste, one lamenting trading a horse for a bicycle a golf outfit and now an automobile while the other mocks the climate. A bald man notes thirty seven years in the city without a falling out, while his companion points to the baldness.
Inference Washington Star notes a neighbor questions a new boarder. Farmer Corn tessel quips he does not know and jokes the man may be a baseball umpire because of the enemies he’s made in town.
In a Philadelphia North American report a defendant argued a year for stealing cigars was harsh. the court clarified the punishment applies to smoking them, not merely theft, highlighting a legal twist in a local case.
The tale recounts Mr. Chubb claiming a forty seven minute catch weighing twelve pounds. In a humorous exchange Mr Roach asks where it is and Mr Chubb explains he discarded the fish on account of heat and distance, tossing it back along the way.
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