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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1897
Page
4
Beamer and Deemer, walking home in the night, fled a feared encounter with a thief. They both yelled police, reached home shaken, and vowed never to talk of the incident. The next day they recounted the event, but agreed to drop the matter.
Harry Middlehouse of Girand Rapids with companion Farwell chased a 240-pound wild buck that had roamed four years. Middlehouse sprang up from a log and grasped the deer around the neck, the animal fighting back before they bound its legs and tied it to a tree. They transported the buck to Grand Rapids for a city park home.
A proposed three day and three night charity gala in Brighton aims to set a record for the longest continuous hall entertainment. Relays of musicians and dancers will perform whizzes mazurkas and schottisches with short daytime rests. The New York Journal notes the Brighton town hall will host the event for the relief of the sick poor with many patronesses including nobility such as the duchess of Teck and the countess of Munster. The lieutenant of the county and the marquis of Abergavenny head the affair, though authorship is uncertain.
Zinc wallpaper offers a cheap durable wall finish that imitates marble. A new cement binds zinc to walls, enamel finish makes it washable, and various patterns permit tile or panel effects on any surface including curved or broken areas. The material promises permanence comparable to marble or tiles with easier application.
A historic note explains that various zoologists report animals using left side actions. Parrots pick objects with a left claw, lions strike with a left paw, and even Dr. Livingstone is cited as believing most animals favor the left.
In Temescal Oakland Mary Rich, a 12 year old, keeps a vast menagerie on a fifty foot lot drawing ire from neighbors. Constable Rock seized the scene as dogs, goats, a cow, horse, and fowl swarmed the residence, while Rich claimed to raise animals for sale and live by them. She was released on her own recognizance until the next morning as Justice Clift heard the case.
The revenue cutter No. 3 was launched at Cramps yard Philadelphia with Miss Helen Shoemaker christening. Named the Hugh McCulloch, it is praised as the Pacific coast vessel, designed for long Arctic cruises, with steel frame copper-plated bottom, many water tight compartments, four rapid-fire and four six pounder guns, a torpedo tube, and electro lighting plus a powerful searchlight. It is schooner-rigged with three masts and sails for long cruises, housing ten officers and 25 crew.
Former Congressman Augustus W. Cutler was treated for appendicitis, only to have doctors discover no vermiform appendix. He recovered quickly and joked about the incident, noting a Boston man who wears a card reading My appendix has been cut out to deter unnecessary operations.
A new sun spot theory says downward currents in the sun's atmosphere expose the sun's body through its luminous envelope, creating dark spots. In geology, deep wells over 50 feet that pass through impermeable clay yield very pure water as surface impurities cannot pass through the seal.
Charles Vering of Woodwood New Jersey bets friend Chris Wellner he can eat a barrel of apples in a week. He devours 103 oysters in six minutes at Joseph Torn’s oyster saloon after drinking two quarts of sherry. Vering boasts a long appetite, claimed to have eaten a whole ham and two heads of cabbage at once.
The British turreted whaleback steamer Oak Branch lost its propeller and shaft in mid ocean. An extra propeller and shaft were hoisted aboard and fitted over eight days amid bad weather and sharks. Ballast aft was pumped out and forward tanks filled before the ship resumed voyage to Sydney, arriving safely at Sydney harbor after Shanghai to Sydney passage.
Postmaster Edward IL Hunter in Des Moines began by answering a letter from a poor girl addressed to Santa Claus asking for a doll and mittens for her brother. The initiative found more cases, raised funds from businessmen, and delivered Christmas presents to over 200 children. Carriers located worthy cases and distributed gifts on Christmas Eve and morning amid many letters from needy children.
Rev W N Schudder of First Congregational Tacoma proposes a church basement billiard room and bowling alley as an up-to-date innovation. The plan follows his bicycle rack initiative and has divided the congregation with supporters and critics likely to decide.
A German man about 60 sleeping under two umbrellas in a rose bush near Liberty Corners New Jersey. He wore leaves stuffed in clothing and claimed to have slept a year to avoid cold and planned to wake in spring. He refused to name himself and said he had not eaten for a week.
The article asserts 22 acres sustain one man on fresh meat while land used for wheat could feed 42, oats 68, potatoes 176, Indian corn and rice 176, and plantain or bread tree over 6 006 people. It notes Vera beggars with property. one wealthy beggar’s house is valued at 10 000 liras yet he begs in ragged clothes.
A London paper notes Switzerland’s vast use of mountain streams for light and power. Even small streams supply electric trams and lighting through reservoirs and long distance transmission. High head pressure enables power delivery across towns via electricity or compressed air, spurring vast development of mountainous waterways.
Secretary of the Interior will decide after appeals from McDonald and the South Dakota Mining Company over Wind Cave near Chamberlain. McDonald initially claimed agricultural land, while the company alleged minerals. An earlier Rapid City investigation found no mineral rock, though placer gold traces appeared. The commissioner ruled against McDonald, both sides appealed, and a final Interior decision is awaited. The article also recounts a Plymouth festival anecdote about Joseph Dartlett and a moral tale about two harness horses.
The United States board of ordnance used an electrical timing device to photograph the moving projectile inside the gun. A wood rod with copper rings acts as contacts to trigger plates, capturing records every 3.7 cm of travel and at times intervals as short as two ten thousandths of a second.
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