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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1891
Page
15
The article explains the traditional method of making perique tobacco torqueta, including leaf preparation, doubling, pressing in heavy boxes, fermenting in a windlass setup, and aging six months to a year to develop aroma. It notes annual production around 19,000 carottes of four pounds each through 1890 and cites wholesale doubts about modern methods matching the old technique.
The king of Siam keeps his temperate retreat in a marble basin pavilion built of inch thick plate glass. It sits in a large basin and fills with water until the pavilion is submerged. ventilators allow airflow while the walls remain invisibly sealed. This unusual cooling method is noted by a newspaper exchange.
A busy oyster season looms as planters report over a million bushels of shells laid down locally. Major players like H. C. Rowe & Co and Ludington & Co top producers with beds in Stratford Norwalk and Bridgeport. Shell value runs about eight cents per bushel, signaling strong industry profits despite scarce clams and lobsters.
A party led by Charles Everitt in Stroudsburg encounters a den of rattlesnakes. They kill thirteen. about twice as many escape. Dead snakes total 142 with combined length over fifty feet. This odd field incident was reported by Port Jervis Union.
In Stegebems a family named Vanden Eynile lived on their estate with six years of secrecy. Louis, the missing brother, was found in a cellar heap of straw and described as an imbecile after returning from service. The burgomaster, officials, and a doctor witnessed the revelation. the siblings were arrested and Louis sent to an asylum.
A letter from a man in Narragansett Pier extols local women and their seaside fashions with white dresses caps parasols and lace. Also reported is a $17,000 gold doubloon find after a farmer unearths it while plowing near Southerland Springs and a Waynesville family known for many fingers and toes and seven hoes requested in a hardware store.
A Milwaukee Sentinel note questions Sunday only bans on games at the Desplaines camp meeting. It says the directors allow croquet tennis and hammock sitting any day except Sunday, and view the Sabbath ban as odd given youthful Methodists.
Two boys about twelve years old swam from Chandiare basin to Leana Island nine miles away, claiming success amid a Montreal Times report. A separate note mentions fast bicycle trials on the Weston river near Timcold, with a district race and river ride connected to a Daunt event.
An OCR fragment shows assorted agate ads and testimonials for eye salves, tonics, cough remedies, and Castoria style child medicine. Mentions of De Witt’s products, Davenport Drug Company, and various promotional lines appear with minimal coherent narrative.
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