30 Jan 1894
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1894
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text pieces present a poetic passage about peace, breath, beauty, and a transient moment. It references a spirit beside us and fleeting inspiration, with broken lines and nonsensical strings, implying unreadable historical verse. The readable segments evoke contemplation and nature imagery without a clear narrative or event.
Professor Botkine’s trip to Berkeley ends in comic confusion when his wife dresses the study for a bathy scene to impress visiting Canadian bacteriologist Mr. Smith. Mrs. Botkine pushes bath arrangements, only to learn the visitor is the professor’s friend’s son, prompting embarrassment and questions about science and social grace.
Rev Dr Talmage delivers a Sunday sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle with bold imagery of The Bare Arm of God. He extols divine power, denounces heathenism and Mohammedanism, praises missionaries, and foresees a victorious moral and spiritual outcome through omnipotent intervention.
The writer tours Clear Water and nearby communities praising citrus groves, tropical fruits, and gulf coast living. He argues for southern settlement, notes small groves prosper with care, mentions prices, profits, and the social mix, and shares anecdotes about locals including Joe and a Boston owner.
The South shows steady growth in new and expanded industries over the past week, with fifty new concerns and twelve factory enlargements. Notable ventures include cotton mills and machinery works in Augusta, Atlanta, and New Orleans, plus lumber, furniture, and brick works across multiple states. The tariff issue is seen as a catalyst for broader industrial revival.
The report cites Hoboken New Jersey as planning a single span of 5850 feet the world’s longest. It notes Lake Michigan depths with maximum 870 feet and mean depth about 325 feet. It mentions armored sea snail armor and a Paris Academy lightning theory. It covers rail air brakes, new sea sounding device, pink Nassau pearl, and artificial diamonds shown at a British Association meeting.
A fragmented excerpt describes likenesses between nuts fruits and body parts. Mentions cocoanut and humenekull with resemble human brain eye nose and heart in German turnips. The text links plant forms to human anatomy in a playful catalog of resemblances.
A farmhand near Abilene Texas uncovers a buried treasure pot of gold and silver coins worth 3000 dollars. President Cleveland visits Hartford to attend his nephew's funeral with Rose Cleveland and Thurber. The First National Bank of Fort Payne Alabama closes amid withdrawals but pledges full payout. New Jersey politicians dispute which senate is legal, while Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad sale is postponed briefly. Honduran revolutionists attack Tegucigalpa but are repelled with many dead and wounded. Memphis and Charleston detectives uncover plot to rob a train. several suspects arrested. A Boone County Indiana poor farm insane asylum burns, eight inmates die, one woman escapes to raise alarm. origin of fire unknown.
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