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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1903
Page
2
A Caldwell Tribune column blends satire and social commentary on politics, labor, class, and culture. It touches Roosevelt Bayonne taxes and German soldiers while praising religious education, motherhood, and civic duty, urging work as moral force and defending hissing as expression.
At an American Irish Historical Society banquet in New York a chairman told a coal joke. On returning from Europe he wore a handkerchief over one eye and an Irish customs officer quipped about duty, saying there is coal in it and you must pay duty on that.
A Boston Herald writer extols the Pecos River in New Mexico as a lifeline turning barren desert into fertile land. Damming created a 10,000 acre lake, waters spread over the desert, and about 200,000 acres were made habitable. Cattle and sheep herds expanded as settlers moved in with prairie schooners.
A daughter of Dr. W. Seward Webb began pig farming on Shelburne farms near Lake Champlain with a $20 stock sow. She earned 60, 200, and 300 dollars in her first three years, leading to her father buying out the stock for 700 dollars. The piggery became the farm’s most profitable department, selling 200 pigs last year at 250 to 300 pounds each, at prices above market due to quality. The operation is a model with a pine and cement interior and iron fixtures.
A San Francisco Chronicle account recalls Dr. H. M. Harris, “Little Doe,” who ran perhaps California’s first dental office in Grass Valley during the gold rush era. Tools were primitive a rock forge, bowlders as chairs, and fillings of gold nuggets amalgamated with mercury. Fees were one half ounce of gold for extraction and double for fillings, with Sundays often used for work.
Daily during his claim work Dr Harris treated patients but his pursuit of gold and his want of business slowed his practice. As settlements grew he handed over his work to later arrivals and departed without leaving his client base without care.
P W Williams a Detroit telegraph operator owns an old cowboy hat he would not sell for 100. He rode with President Roosevelt on the 1900 western campaign and had Roosevelt sign the brim. The hat now serves as a valued autograph album with signatures of many distinguished men and a record of states visited.
A compact home ironing kit explanation lists a canton-flannel bosom board lined with muslin, a small steel hairiron style iron that heats and holds heat, a front rest, and an asbestos holder to prevent burns. Priced at 18 cents, the design includes a flowered cloth bag, a strap, pockets for flatiron and wax, and braided edge finishing.
An account of a municipal partnership between rival cities Liverpool and Manchester to stabilize the cotton trade. The piece notes clamor for fair play and the push to unite diverse groups in a bid to strengthen an emerging cotton empire while balancing regional interests.
Fragmented OCR style compilation presents verses including Little Orphant Annie and One Day Nearer Home. Names like James Whitcomb Riley and references to biblical imagery anchor a mixed-poem page. The reader sees nostalgic stanzas about cautionary tales and Christian faith.
The London Chronicle notes a Times reprint of a Jan 7 1808 advertisement by Mr Simpson of Woden Croft Barnard Castle declaring attendance at the Saracen's Head Snowhill to recruit “young gentlemen.” The piece compares this to Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby and cites James Abernethy’s 1897 biography and a 1834 diary fragment as parallel evidence of cruel school life and Mrs Smith as Squeers’ counterpart.
A reflective essay traces how steam power reshaped history from Watt's 1709 patent to modern transport. It contrasts brave figures with nature’s trials, notes how tools like the telephone and cables alter daily life, and hints at a broader social impact while warning the piece itself limits such speculation.
A fragmented feature notes a debate among aspiring actors about posing as dying for stage effect. The dialogue flips between mockery and instruction as an old actor guides a novice on how the pose should convey intensity and character, referencing Shakespeare and theater lore.
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