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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1901
Page
3
Reported plan outlines eight Clyde built steamships of about 1000 tons each nearing completion to operate as a passenger and freight line between New York and India with a stop at Cape Town. The note contrasts common tasks for boys with the delay the wealthy tolerate.
An advertisement promises a universal medicine, Smith's Sure Kidney Cure, with a 98 percent observed cure rate for kidney and bladder diseases and women’s ailments. It offers a money back guarantee if no cure and sells the product at 6 cents through druggists.
The device is a tactile machine that lets the blind feel reliefs showing an object in different positions. It mimics moving scenes by guiding the finger over sequential impressions, creating the illusion of motion much like photographs on a screen.
A Sheffield based maker enraged at postal service delays floods the Post Office with 200 employees each day. Clad in red tape and armed with a coin worth a sovereign, they buy a single penny stamp per person to protest mailing delays.
An old advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It explains Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss and offers a $100 reward for unrecoverable catarrhal deafness, with circulars available from F J Cheney Co and local druggists.
Samuel Gibbons of Hagdenville Kentucky, at age 76, has spent sixty three years as a government mail carrier with almost no break. He began his career in 1836 at age 11 during the Andrew Jackson era known as the Old Hickory period.
A collage of old remedies and tips promotes Wolfe's Aromatic Schiegam Schnapps Garfield Tea and Wizard Oil with claims of healing malaria liver and kidney troubles. Other items advertise Huss Bleaching Blue Velvet Starch and Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer while trivia and moral quips fill the rest of the page.
A reflective poem recounts a sunny day long ago with birds in spring. It contrasts memory with present loneliness and argues a universal law of home love guiding both people and birds. The speaker recalls pigeons doves wrens and plovers and their nesting as a creed of warmth.
A tense courtroom scene unfolds as an oil mill hand accuses a fortune teller and two cooks of theft over a pin. The judge doubts the man’s word, and after a brawl the trio is fined three dollars each with twelve dollars costs. The man vows never to trust a judge of women again.
The New York Press notes Dr W H Park, a Lafayette Georgia native and physician, once in charge of Soochow hospital, studied opium smokers and their habits. It cites prices for opium cocaine and frog-eye juice, asserting Park’s knowledge of opium and its effects.
The German post office reports over 20 million cards mailed in a single week last summer, with 46 percent being tourist cards and daily postage exceeding $15,000. Berlin led with 137,000 ecards, followed by Dresden Hamburg and other major cities including Bremen at about 9,000 daily.
The article explains that white powder on nutmeg is lime dust from burned oyster shells used to protect the nutmeg from weevils. It notes mace as the outer covering of nutmeg and preferred by cooks for its color. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Highlights from the Chicago Journal summarize human symmetry and physiology. It notes eye alignment, ear height, limb strength, and the prevalence of short sight, with comparisons across hair color nationa lities and life-long eye growth.
The piece argues that American snobbery means ultra exclusiveness rather than pretense as in England. It notes the Four Hundred social sets and recalls Thackeray, contrasting American cads with English snobs while stressing distinct local usage and meaning.
The Mobile Register argues frost cannot fully end yellow fever as frost arrives late and mosquitoes stay active. It notes fever ended in late December while mild winter allowed mosquitoes to remain through March in its reasoning.
A reflection on how ideas once valued by one generation may later be viewed as misguided by the next, highlighting shifting norms and the evolving judgment of society.
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