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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1913
Page
5
A columnist argues a girl need not be a beauty or heir to be popular. Four qualities define popularity beauty grace intelligence and radiance. Beauty can be natural or styled while grace covers movement and talents. Intelligence means adaptable kindness and the crown is radiance, a happiness that can be cultivated.
A lament over Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the physician whose name became linked to the guillotine as the instrument of execution. The piece notes his remorse for an invention meant to ease suffering but which accelerated deaths and drew public fascination, comparing the spectacle to a theatrical display while depicting Guillotin’s sorrow at the unintended consequence.
In a Transvaal gold camp a man, partially intoxicated and driven by jealousy, attempted suicide by morphia and hanging. Sheriff kept him overnight pending trial before the acting gold commissioner who fined him two pounds for drunkenness and warned that a successful attempt would have brought harsher punishment.
Alfred Boucher faced a critical shot in a billiards match when the table by a window caused his miscue. He lunged with force and vaulted through the pane, landing on the pavement thirty feet below with a fractured skull. Spectators and emergency crews reported the accident to the London Telegraph.
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