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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1894
Page
4
The article outlines summer fashion with outfits for women, focusing on materials, lace, and maternity shades, plus new habits and decor in social life. It covers night robes, dresses with lace, embroidery, and color schemes, as well as hints on age guessing and floral decor trends seen at recent events.
Mr. J A Corcoran of Jersey City completed a windmill driven electric lighting system. The device lights twenty four incandescent lamps in his home using a belt driven dynamo and storage batteries. An eighteen foot diameter rotor at twenty miles per hour yields about three horsepower, with steady current across speed variations. The setup suggests wind energy could supply home lighting and water pumping, with wide applicability if proven reliable.
A speaker rails at impropriety of a woman carrying a pocket book in public and argues for her rights while critiquing male control. The discussion shifts to a proposed electric railway between Shoabune and the Great Falls area, backed by New York capital, promising extensive power for mills and manufacturing and a forty mile line. The plan would boost Shoabune Bulls into a leading frontier transit hub amid speculation of rapid development and economic uplift.
Rewarding longtime Pullman Palace conductors and porters with golden insignia for ten to twenty five years of service. About 90 conductors and porters expected to receive bands. Ten and fifteen year tenures numbered among the staff. four seafaring shifts and lengths noted for tenure groups. William Coaten referenced in transit between Denver and La Junta.
fragmentary OCR notes recount Judge Caldwell allegedly manipulating a Wheeler HL Peelham rejection for the U S Supreme Court. The text cites various telegraph messages, the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line, and named figures including Senator Wilson of Iowa and Peekham, with conflicting claims about who influenced the decision and what telegrams said.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a fundraising sled event and ongoing cooperation efforts. It references a tenant and a month, but multiple names and details are unreadable, leaving only vague hints of organizational involvement and timing.
A letter from Mrs FL Taman of Manton Michigan praises the Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery, claiming healed womb symptoms after a year of use and four bottles plus two of the discovery. Other notices describe relief from uterine trouble, headaches, and weakness, with gains in weight and renewed work ability after following the same regimen.
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