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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1901
Page
3
Store buyers refuse De fiance Starch due to 12 remaining 16 oz packages. A child growth study notes boys lead until ages nine and twelve when girls surpass, then boys regain lead by fifteenth year. French law criminalizes praising anarchist crime in public.
Eight of the largest quarried granite blocks, each 120 to 130 tons, 57 to 60 feet long and about seven feet in diameter, are at Bodwell Granite works in Vinal Maine awaiting a $60,000 lathe. They will become 56 foot columns for the New York cathedral. contract totals about $220,000.
An invention designed to clean hair and dandruff from comb teeth in barber shops. A box with removable top houses a rotary wire brush actuated by a crank. Curved fingers in the box bottom remove material dislodged by the bristles as the comb passes under the brush.
The article notes trials in the Roman Campagna and in Freetown where mosquito larvae were removed to reduce house mosquitoes and malaria spread. Maj Ronald Ross reports on West Africa investigations. Staten Island tests by Health Officer Dr Alvah Doty are described this week.
Reports detail minute-guns fired at Spithead for Queen Victoria's funeral. Winds and air layers altered sound paths, with direction and speed at height changing where the blasts were heard. Inverse winds sometimes carried waves over observers miles away, yet ground-level hearing emerged later from upper-current refractions.
Professor George Forbes revived a Royal Society of Edinburgh idea that seven comets share aphelion points with a distant planet about 100 times Earth’s distance and 1000 year period. He proposed this planet’s gravity altered past comets from 1264 and 1556 causing the 1848 return to diverge, possibly linking to the 1844 or 1843 comets.
A Belgian inventor Tobiansky introduces a machine that converts smoke into bright light. Smoke is directed into a receiver, saturated with hydrocarburet, and burned to produce illumination.
The text notes Japan lacking labor protection and child and woman employment laws. It points out hat dealers source mainly from English and Italian markets with England providing stiff hats and Italy soft hats.
The note argues that maintaining schools in Porto Rico is costly given the small pupil enrollment while praising education's role in success. It extols various remedies including Gyepepeta and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and mentions a private die stamp on the bottle and a remaining balance on Grant's tomb costs to April 000.
An ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment for deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube. It offers a hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh deafness and urges sending for free circulars. The note also states the Amazon River is 3944 miles long, rising near the Pacific and crossing the continent.
An old advertisement touts a brand of cold water starch as superior for households, claiming 402 is a better buy. The quirky copy notes how women delay until late in life to slip up on a banana peel of husband, reflecting dated mischief in product copy.
Mrs H F Roberts county president of W C T U Kansas City endorses Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praising its relief of displacement ovarian troubles and related pains. The letter from Mrs N F Ropers Kansas City cites personal benefit and urges writing to Mrs Pinkham for free advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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