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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
6
Mrs F W Goulder of Rock Island writes of relief using Verona and Peruna. Dr Mariman offers free advice to women with female ailments, promising cure and home treatment. His book Health and Beauty, mailed free from Columbus Ohio.
A simple steam technique uses a wide mouthed bottle two thirds full of very hot water placed under the injury. The suction draws the flesh down and steam pulls out the inflammation and splinter together with a little pressure.
The text notes snakes have many ribs with boas or pythons at no fewer than 220 pairs and rattlesnakes at 171 pairs. It mentions pythons can reach about 20 feet, sharks 96 pairs of ribs, conger eels 60, and a two toed sloth with 4 pairs per side.
The Excelsior geyser in Yellowstone Park is described as the largest geyser in the world with a basin 200 feet across and 320 feet deep. It remains full of boiling water with perpetual steam and eruptions reaching heights of 50 to 300 feet at intervals.
A paper bicycle has invaded the field. Paper fiber used for tubing rivals steel in strength. A factory is contemplated to produce bicycles of this type.
Native commissioner Rere White Rhinocernus Gleland reports in Sebungwe Africa that a very rare white rhinoceros continues to roam the veldt between the Sanyat and Zambes rivers, indicating a surviving population in the region.
An advertised tonic named Hest Prescription promises treatment for chills and fever in iron and re in a tasteless form. It claims no cure no pay and lists a price of 00.
A German philosopher argues that the allure of a hot sausage runs deeper than its surface appearance, linking taste and texture to cultural meaning and sensual experience.
James Johnson a 44 year old Black man dangled one foot over a 150 foot drop near St. Louis when a barbed wire fence loop saved him from plunging. Doctors revived him after blood surged and he joked about luck and a rabbit's foot.
A man named James Johnson hung by a wire loop from a cliff above the Mississippi in a quarry area near Iron Mountain Railroad. Firemen and workers lowered a ladder, secured a rope to his legs, and pulled him to safety, while a tongue twister duel between Shott and Nott is recalled in the same column.
Max Nordau lives in Paris above a drinking shop and uses Nordau as a legal surname. He spends most time in a plainly furnished study with a notable bookcase and Lombroso presentation copies, keeping up correspondence with Lombroso and writing since Degeneration while also composing a novel.
The Revised Statutes compel yearly work or improvements on mining claims, including placer claims, from location date forward until patent issue. The annual work period starts on January 1 following the claim location.
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