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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1908
Page
6
An English officer appeals to Althaus, a scientist, to visit England with urgent letters about Lucy Smith. Althaus, absorbed in platinum and iridium research, promises to depart at once, noting metals lack life unlike humans and that scientists fear orthodoxy. The reply is terse and clear.
Professor Althaus arrives with a plan to aid the ailing Lucy. He warns secrecy and selects a barefoot boy to assist in a staged clairvoyant experiment aboard a yacht using a magical ink and a circle of lamps. The boy witnesses visions of a woman and an old man, then escapes in fear.
A large company distributes a 200 plus page illustrated book to every new hire. Quizzes test mastery of the entire manual with dismissal for ignorance. President says publishing costs about $2000 and plans yearly updates. New workers are told to study before doing any other tasks.
A country boy recounts passing his uncle Jim’s stock yards where hundreds of pigs stampede looking for food. The hogs were excited by a woodpecker tapping on the fence, a trick the uncle used to lure them to feed, since the boy had lost his voice during a cold.
The London Globe departs on a satire of press inadequacy as an editor rails against careless contributors. He piles rejected pieces into a waste basket and condemns misspellings, punctuation errors, and double sided sheets while an office boy demands more copy.
The young artist presents a new work titled Waiting For the Tied depicting an old ferryman awaiting a runaway couple leaving the parsonage. A friend lauds the piece as a fine painting in Chicago News.
A brief passage notes a woman on the street who favors automobile veils. Thompson from next door enticed her into his car yesterday, frightening her so that he let her out at the first corner.
An old agricultural claim states that sowing rape in a field infested with perennial thistles will annihilate the weeds. The method is presented as a simple cure for repeated thistle growth harming crops.
The narrator recalls Alice Coale's engagement to Tom Martin and the ensuing ruin from Tom's debts and disappearance. Pursuing clues, the narrator traces Tom to Honduras via library reads on Central America and rubber, retrieves Mrs. Coale's money, and returns to reunite with Alice, ending with a shift from friend to lover.
A historic snippet recounts ancient Egyptian prosthetics by priests, a French tobacco monopoly profits tale, needle threading tips, a colossal Etna chestnut, Paris fashion morals, otter and farming quirks in India, a sparrow caught by clams in York Pennsylvania, a rheumatism prevention tale from Captain Dibble, a silent chess room in New York, a Augusta Maine panics tale, a Texas funeral misquote, Italian hay fever sleepers in Pittsburgh, an elopement comedy in Barnesville Ohio, and a farmer’s wary blessing on a runaway fiancée.
The Chicago Post notes President Roosevelt leaves office in modest means with salaries spent and royalties from his writings likely to fund his days. He plans to work after the White House, pursuing exploration and hunting as sources of income, while avoiding corporate positions.
A large brown bear owned by Count Schoenborn escaped his cage aboard a train en route to Saxony. He smashed egg boxes and ate 112 eggs, opened butter casks, smeared himself with contents, and raided market poultry, geese, ducks, and fowls. He drank cherry hampers and sampled cheese at Halle before officials fled. The train was delayed as the bear was recaptured.
A historical remark states men may lose 6 000 grains of moisture per hour through perspiration highlighting extreme fluid loss in early physiology discussions.
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