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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
9
The article notes the Highland kilt is doomed as a fighting dress in South Africa and will survive only as a parade uniform. It covers various other items from 1898, including ship traffic to Chinese ports, moves in England, and German military target innovations.
A natural curiosity in China about twelve miles from Lion Chek village features a mountain of alum rock. It rises to 1,940 feet and has a base circumference near ten miles. Stones are quarried in large blocks heated in furnaces and cooled in boiling water vats where alum crystallizes in six inch layers.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, a clever mechanical engineer, left his compartment in a train and wore a workman's blouse to drive an engine from Salzbourg to Munich. The tale echoes a past Bavarian king who traveled similarly, with chauffeurs receiving generous tips after journeys.
The piece notes England continuing to dispatch reinforcements to South Africa despite claims the war is nearly over. A Frenchman warns of a possible English descent on Madagascar, while others fear Suez canal closure in a Asia war scenario. The Army and Navy Journal deems these suppositions untenable and cites war wastes requiring ongoing reinforcement.
The British death and casualty toll in Africa during the current war rose above 1,000 at Colenso on December 15, 1899, with 1,054 killed wounded or missing. Other engagements show 1,226 at Farquhar’s farm and Nicholson’s Nek, 1,782 at Paardeberg, 1,436 at Spienkop, and 702 at Stromberg. Magersfontein 902, Sanpas post 541, and several smaller losses under 500 sum to 1,363 officers and 18,128 men.
A health authority warns against extreme upside down training and violent gymnastic work. Excessive focus on certain muscles can weaken other parts, while the remedy lies in breathing correctly and adopting proper standing and sitting habits for overall well being.
A Cleveland Plan Dealer narrates a satirical exchange about a bill introducing ready made sermons and essays sold to clergymen. The dialogue mocks clergy profiteering, sermon catalogs, and a strict March 11 release date, with shop talk about weight based pricing and a theatrical inventory.
A vivid note recalls Chinese ferry crossings where animals must be coaxed aboard with force and barking crews, and carts pulled onto boats amid chaos on shore. It then shifts to Vatican Crypts where archaeologists urge opening Roman mausoleums and galleries housing Otto II’s tomb and works by Ghiberti and Mino da Fiesole.
A bachelor narrator recalls a July journey from King's Cross to York with a pretty bride to be, who learns her wedding is off after a mistaken smoking-car mishap. The two form a bond, exchange cards, and plan to meet in London, with the woman later revealed as Phyl. They see each other since.
The text notes camels cannot swim naturally due to balance issues though they are buoyant. It describes teaching them to swim with goatskins or jars under their necks. During the Beluchistan expedition of 1898 camels were lowered from ships and drivers swam to shore, riding the camels to keep heads above water.
A London paper notes varied views on the South African campaign. A widow of a fallen Tommy greets a visitor with a smile and says the war has made many lives happier and richer from newspaper gifts and kindness, claiming her late husband was “a bad un” while she is comfortable now.
Mr. Smults, new secretary of state for Transval, succeeds Dr. Lords. A little over 20 years old he was educated at Cape University and at anbridge, qualifying as an English barrister.
A Civil War cannon is to be melted and recast as a statue symbolizing peace showing a stark contrast to wartime. An era of conflict gives way to a message of harmony and renewal. The piece also notes health advertisement and a remark about alimony in a divorce case.
Miss Edma Ellis of Higingport Ohio describes years of monthly agony and side pain despite many doctors. After writing to Mrs. Pinkham she received a prophytnrophy and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, reporting no further suffering and inviting letters for details.
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