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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1913
Page
17
The text outlines four traits to gain popularity: beauty grace intelligence and radiance. Beauty may be physical or style driven and grace covers movement and skill. Intelligence means adaptable kindness rather than brilliance. Radiance ties them together as a cultivated happiness that enhances all.
The article recalls M Guillotin the physician whose device intended to spare suffering became linked to widespread death. He mourned the unintended blemish on his life as his hair whitened in sorrow. The piece notes public eagerness for speedy executions like a theater performance.
A man in a Transvaal gold mining camp attempted suicide after jealousy. He drank morphia and then tried hanging but was stopped and jailed for the night. The acting gold commissioner fined him two pounds for drunkenness and warned that a successful attempt would have yielded a harsher punishment.
Alfred Boucher faced a crucial shot in a billiards match when the table top near a window proved fatal. He struck with effort and missed, crashing through the pane and landing on the pavement thirty feet below with a fractured skull. Spectators reported the violent accident to reporters at the London Telegraph.
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