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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
6
A long miscellany piece notes social quirks and curiosities from Berlin to Boston. It highlights friendships between royalty and rulers, divorce jokes, sea travel, and notes on explorers and scientists. The column mixes satire with brief world and local events and opinions.
An essay contrasts early experiments by Baron von Wrede and Dr Paul R Heyl on light speed with a fatherly plea about guiding sons. It warns that mild temptations weave a web around youths, potentially ensnaring them despite many escaping, urging fathers to look into their sons eyes with care and love to steer them toward virtue.
A New Jersey inventor introduces a space saving wall mounted shoe blacking stand. It features a hinged shoe support, a braced bar, and a plate that can be fixed to the kitchen wall. Hooks hold brushes and a holder keeps the polish box.
A 1920s style appeal urges consumers to acquaint themselves with grocers and delivery clerks who handle billions in food annually. It notes vast quantities of sugar, coffee, prunes, rice, flour, and tea moving through stores to households, and questions who truly oversees what families eat.
Secretary Taft calls for keeping the open door in China to secure equal opportunity, urging U S merchants and government to support expansion and reforms in China. He criticizes current shipment practices and emphasizes long-term growth, stability, and resistance to foreign privilege. The piece also cites Bryant’s elegy to a life well spent.
A reflective piece arguing the pull of money in early career choices. It cites Andrew Carnegie as a paragon of wealth and questions what manner of life yields lasting value beyond dollars. The column critiques the fixation on monetary reward and suggests a deeper purpose for youth entering the world.
The essay argues against federal overreach, urging staunch defense of constitutional boundaries between state and federal powers. It calls on citizens of diverse views to unite beyond party lines, defend the republic, and oppose seizure of powers not granted by the states and people. The author warns delay could be dangerous.
Secretary Cortelyou extols the American payroll as the nation's defining achievement. He celebrates courage persistence and planning in business and praises the vast payroll as the backbone of America's name schools savings and global appeal drawing workers and wealth to the United States.
A Cosmopolitan essay praises discipline in modern circuses, noting no swearing or drinking, and that strength and steady nerves are needed. It recounts the German Emperor visiting a circus incognito, the landing process with the Inyer-out, and how wagons are numbered and organized. It highlights individual initiative, a medical student-turned-canvas worker rising through merit, and the emphasis on education and kindness for circus children.
Mrs John Tyler Wheelwright, recently married in Washington, sparked nationwide talk by insisting the wedding ring be worn on her little finger rather than the traditional third finger. The dispute arose from her small, chubby hand and a narrow gold band, prompting comment on etiquette and marital custom.
Cotton Smith planned the marriage ceremony and Rev. Dr. Smith consulted the bishop of Washington who approved. Washington social circles gasped as Wheelwright raised a tremulous finger at the ring fitting. Clergy debated precedent while English ritual required blessing on the left hand ring finger amid European papal orders.
Do You Know Your Grocer reveals the intimate details of a grocer's life the editor notes. The piece explains why he sends a Neitor to your kitchen door each morning and why he urges customers to join his telephone list. It suggests the telephone and order clerk help his business and service.
A satirical discussion on how the rise of labor-saving devices and telephone shopping shapes housewifely habits. A New York grocer notes two thirds of trade comes via telephone or solicitation, while many women still visit stores only by chance, leading to wasted clerks time and shifting marketing focus. The grocer remarks a courteous stance toward women, even if not fully liking the shopping dynamic.
An Indiana novelist, drawn to simple living, moved to a farm and began raising chickens. After hatchlings languished, he confessed he fed them nothing, noting he assumed the hens had milk for the chicks, a witty exchange revealing quirky rural views in Lippincott's Magazine.
A terse joke from a Mongolian judge asks how one enters the country, with a reporter inquiring if it was through an open door. The punchline likens entrance through a chink to dentists earning heaven by placing gold crowns on angels, reflecting period humor.
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