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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1897
Page
8
An elderly, irritable bachelor in a four-story restaurant near Broadway berates a waiter for suggesting items he did not order. The waiter apologizes and, despite protests, serves the set Lyonnaise potatoes, toffee, Stilton, and then quietly adds the wanted sirloin steak after a brief delay.
Cassier's Magazine reports continuous rails welded end to end on many miles of United States electric street railways show excellent results. Temperature effects mainly threaten elongation and contraction. winter welding minimizes stress, while summer welding risks higher tension but welds remain strong.
The New York Sun reports Mr Biffleby describes a thrifty coastal dream of yachting. He explains buying tar to simulate ocean sounds at home each summer, then drifts to sleep with imagined waves and a tar scented shipboard scene.
The Paris municipal laboratory offers free analysis for any purchaser doubting a food item bought from a local tradesman. If adulteration is proven, the buyer is protected by law while the shopkeeper faces heavy fines, potential imprisonment, and must display a two year placard reading Convicted of adulteration.
In Enroye n the River Thames sees about 10 deaths by own action each year with around 30 people leaping from Westminster bridge parapets. Lancashire reports 87 per year per million, Paris shows 492, while Naples has the lowest at 34.
The article recounts the Martha Washington trial from forty years ago where jurors faced intense pressure from the accused's supporters. A Boston woman in disguise confronted jurors on the stairs, threatening death for verdicts of guilty or not guilty, while recounting her dramatic romance with the river captain.
A Troy family fed a stray black cat believed to bring luck. After deciding to discard it by driving five miles away, they released the cat and returned home to find the wife dead within minutes. The piece notes the superstition but reports the facts: the cat later returned.
A Cincinnati Enquirer note describes a flirtatious visit to a telegraph office. A young woman asks to add extra emphasis to a telegram noting a bracelet gift, inquiring about extra cost. The clerk approves, even offering violet scent, and she vows to use the service again for Charlie’s pleasure.
A Notes in Queries writer cites an early 18th century reference from 1706 in the Sporting Magazine showing the term snob used to describe fashionable attendees at Whitechapel races. The text notes the scene lacked key aristocrats but included “royal snobs” in a holiday gathering.
A newly found method treats marble and similar stones to impart colored shades veining or spots. Stones are placed in baths of ammonia or other solvents with aniline dyes or coloring materials. Fixation occurs by leaving stones in oil or fat substances or applying layers of the same, with heating to accelerate absorption.
Herbert Luce notes that couriers, once essential before railways and guides, are now unnecessary for self reliant travelers. Travel has broadened with railroads tourist firms and abundant books making missteps unlikely while couriers can add costs and delays. Bean found a courier offered little value in a two week Spain trip.
The article recounts the 1847 introduction of U S postage stamps, noting Uncle Stim in Sing land predated them with "sticking plasters." It cites John M Niles and Cave Johnson, and mentions Henry Shaw as the first stamp purchaser in August 1847, buying one of each value and gifting the ten to Gov Briggs.
A Century paper describes the Spreewald region just outside Berlin as a near forgotten watery labyrinth. It notes limited foreign tourism, local inns in every village, Wendish services in Burg, and historic dyeing crafts once centered there now seen only in private homes.
The article notes England's exposure to U S social bias toward people of color and records that volunteer regiments of major universities refuse admission to students of Indian or African origin. It also cites other units, including the Inns of Court battalion of lawyers, adopting similar exclusionary practices.
A French government exhibit piece described as a powerful device emitting electric rays to sea will be installed at Barnegat Lighthouse New Jersey. It is noted as the most powerful beacon on the American coast and was part of the Columbian Exposition display.
The Ganis cut a branch and set a stone in it to form axe handles. They left the wound to heal completely, shaping the tool as part of their old craft.
A Pawtuxet valley farmer near Crompton kept a flock of nearly 70 geese and goslings after shooting a flock a year earlier. He released them to graze and they flew away as a black line of wild geese returned, abandoning domestic life for the skies.
A Chicago Journal report recounts a western university professor’s claim that chemists testing foods for poison attract an odd clientele. Each year an older man brings a sample suspected of poisoning a young wife, hoping for proof, only to find no poison and pay a costly lesson.
An Australian Medical Gazette note reports a 60 year old man with two years of subjective visual hallucinations and ghostly visions due to senile cataract. After cataract removal the phantoms vanished and health returned. A Berlin tradesman with similar visions found relief after eye operation, underscoring ophthalmic surgery as remedy for such phenomena.
A report identifies green snow at three sites: near Mount Hecla in Iceland, about 14 miles east of the Obi River mouth, and near Quito in South America. The occurrences span distant geographies and suggest unusual mineral or biological phenomena linked to regional conditions.
A Boston newspaper notes the curious claim that no policemen are stationed on Boston Common except on Sundays and holidays, implying limited police presence in the area during regular days.
An old discussion traces how nations repeatedly profit from copying foreign goods, from Delftware via Dutch and English potters to modern Japanese ware. It notes how markets shift as imitators outperform originators, with Japan now challenging English porcelain on price and quality.
A Harlem landlord tired of nocturnal cats disrupting residents set traps with bells and gas tubes to dispose of felines. Cats were bagged and handed to the SPCA in batches nightly until about seventy had vanished, ending the cat problem and restoring residents’ sleep.
Dolly Madison, famed for hosting at the White House, drew admiration for elegance and tact during Jefferson and Madison administrations. Clifford Howard notes her rise to national popularity through steady charm and skilled receptions. Other items discuss bird camouflage experiments, Prague priests’ sentences, and Egyptian pyramid bones.
The Gentleman's Magazine argues genius does not require renouncing ambition or health. It lists war leaders Xenophon to Alexander the Great and statesmen Franklin to Washington, noting many reached or exceeded 70, with scholars Humboldt and others showing strong late-life productivity. The piece urges not to fear early death.
The article argues that height-based military recruit filters in Europe delay marriage for normal men during three years of service, while undersized men remain exempt and reproduce. This artificial selection, it claims, lowers future generations by favoring smaller stature and reducing overall birth rates, risking a population of inferior types in standing armies.
A New York Tribune account describes Crow Indians gathering in their finest dress to perform rain-making rituals. Two elderly men conducted prayers while a young man forded a deep river and produced a blue catfish, tossed into fire as contortions followed. Rain came that night.
In a Royal Society lecture Lord Kelvin reaffirmed Volta s early theory that contact between zinc and copper yields charge upon separation and ruled out air moisture oxidation as the cause. He showed electrification from dissimilar metals and described uranium s constant rays, though he offered no explanation for the metal s mysterious action.
A century of rising food rations tracks with population growth as supply improves faster than demand. Old agricultural measures show steady gains in provisioning, signaling broader access to sustenance amid expanding communities.
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