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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1901
Page
6
A health note explains that dehydration harms nerves and body functions, urging regular water intake. It suggests 5 pints daily, with meals avoiding heavy drinking, and recommends sipping 2–3 glasses before bed and after waking, plus during bath and dressing for improved digestion and mood.
The article explores cold light from phosphorescence as a scientific dream. It notes sea life causes glow and cites Ostend sand with abundant phosphorescent rhizopods described as molten lava. It recalls the Challenger voyage capturing a huge PyroSOSma with Mosely noting writing his name in fire on its surface.
As the Fourth of July nears, small boys begin a hunt for a gun that can be fired. The fragment notes a growing interest in obtaining a firearm for Independence Day festivities.
Ohio designers BK Adams and J B Simpson unveil a magazine pistol with automatic feed and hammer mechanism. A perforated paper cap strip powers the explosive, wound on a reel in the stock, and trigger pull advances a sliding block to drive the feed roller.
The description explains loading a charge and setting the hammer. Pulling the trigger drives the block backward by spring force to strike the hammer and ignite the charge. The concussion detaches the paper strip aligned with the hammer, then reload requires removing a side plate to expose the reel and feed mechanism.
The Margarita region off Venezuela remains a premier pearl fishing area. Demand has risen as prices climb, with oyster beds scraped by metal scoops and divers opening shells to harvest pearls. A French firm secured a concession to fish for pearls using diving gear.
The inventor presents a pocket cigarette maker that forms uniform hand rolled cigarettes. A flat tobacco box uses a sliding rod packer and a tube to push tobacco into preformed paper tubes, producing cigars without direct handling of tobacco by the fingers.
The Great Northern Railway reports express locomotive No 1 has reached its four millionth mile in service. Built at Doncaster over thirty years ago, it still operates with outside cylinders and single driving wheels.
A Bishop Museum party in Honolulu reports discovering a 600 foot cataract on the Watplo river in Hawaii. The cataract flows 8,000,000 gallons daily in a dry season. The explorers ascended the riverbed due to low water. The Cowthorpe Oak in England is the largest tree there and about 1,600 years old. Its trunk base measures 78 feet in circumference and it now holds around 73 tons of timber under added earth.”
The piece speaks to the power of amateur poetry to express pain with every line revealing suffering. It notes how both the writer and those connected to the writer bear witness to stories of sorrow and endurance.
The Boston Journal reports discovery of 18 New England couples who remain married after fifty years or more, highlighting enduring unions and longstanding family ties across the region.
A clock recently made shows hours halves and quarters plus moon phases and time in other cities. It is costly, so the best way to get the information is via Hostetter's Almanac for 1902. The almanac offers anecdotes, statistics, and general information and is available free from any druggist. It notes world fairs run six months, with nearly three fourths of attendance in the final three months.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Statement sworn before a notary on the sixth day. The remedy is taken internally and claimed to affect the blood and mucous surfaces.
The article lauds Texas rice expansion from Southdown Louisiana to the Texas prairies, noting near 10,000 acres harvested this season and vast idle lands ready for growth. It argues rice will become Texas wheat, driving prosperity and lower tax pressures as settlement expands.
Scientific research confirms dandruff stems from scalp parasites harming hair vitality. Prof Anna, a European skin specialist, explains the condition weakens hair and leads to shedding. Herpicide claims to kill dandruff germs and restore natural hair softness and abundance.
Milwaukee replaces customary stone with cement curbs and gutters in a trial project. Officials say the experiment is wholly satisfactory and may influence future street renovations.
A miscellany of patent medicine claims and consumer ads tout cures for cancer and consumption, tonics, oils, vitamins, and household products. It includes testimonials, prices, and brand names such as Taos Robbins, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, Atlas Oats, and Defiance starch, with snippets about postal workers and a nurse-like claim.
A windowed coffee shop near Waterloo Road hides a professional acrobats practice hall. Foreigners from Austria Armenia and Naples train here practicing contortions somersaults and flips under Mr Harry Ara while critics and fellow professionals monitor progress.
A Lansing Michigan physician endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as best for female disorders. He claims cures for ovarian troubles womb issues and even barrenness and urges readers to accept no substitute. The testimonial promises Mrs. Pinkham’s free advice from Lynn Massachusetts with a $5000 forfeit for falsity.
A Washington correspondent recalls spring fever sparking a Virginia fishing trip and a humorously pointed exchange with an old boatman. The man concludes yellow perch is the best fish, since it “seuesin’ de white shad.”
A playful exchange between Brinkerhoff and Beecroft ends with a joke about becoming a piano virtuoso and premature balding, delivered in a Brooklyn Gagle style.
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