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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1900
Page
3
A reflective exchange aboard a train recalls a carved initials from a country schoolhouse dated about thirty years ago and contemplates fame. The speakers, a long-haired passenger and a man with auburn whiskers, muse on uncertain futures and mislaid memory.
A scan of mixed advertisements and notices includes Wolfe's aromatic Schiedam Schnapps touted for rheumatic and digestive relief and baby colic, a New York cure-all, and a parade of patent medicines. Also notes on census figures for St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, and Warsaw, plus quips on hats, birds, and various consumer goods.
The life of Capt William H Doane who died here the other day was peculiar He spent sixty six years at sea with forty years on lighthouse or lightship service including thirty on the Hen and Chicken lightship at Vineyard Sound He was 80 and began whaling at 14 He later joined the U S frigate Constellation in Chinese waters After a fall ended his whaling career he served on a light ship in New Bedford Connecticut correspondence New York Sun
A St. Louis Republic Washington dispatch reports that Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois, applied for a patent in 1849 for an improved method of adding buoyant chambers to steamboats to reduce draft. The device could expand to hold air and contract when not needed, aiding passage over shallow bars while carrying cargo.
Ceyton hosts the largest spider studied by entomologists. The web spinner dwells in mountain districts and threads a net five to ten feet across the rocks. Support threads span five to twenty feet, forming a net roughly the thickness of a lead pencil. The trap targets large insects and birds alike.
A warden confirms a pardon petition was filed and noted for the convict. The inmate asks for reconsideration and mentions an additional request accompanying the petition with unspecified details.
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