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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1891
Page
2
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a strong remedy for torpid liver and impure blood. It claims cures for Scrofulous skin and scalp diseases and even lung scrofula when taken early with a fair trial. It promises blood purification, appetite improvement, and protection against fevers, urging purchase by druggists and "money back" if not beneficial.
Andrew Lang recalls his age fifteen awakening to poetry through Scott, Longfellow, and Tennyson while noting Coleridge and Shelley. A discussion follows on a Sri Lankan inheritance dispute showing minute property splits fueling litigation, with a vivid example of a one-ninety-ninth share.
Mrs Gaswell describes sudden wealth while shopping in a $5,000 dress loaded with diamonds. Neighbors misjudge their finances as they visit Antique Design Co.’s grand store, amid vague chatter and social misunderstanding.
A medley combines a William H. Hayne verse on a tyrant king with reflections by Edith M. Thomas on flower scents and tactile sensations. The king’s death by murder contrasts with a realm’s charitable ruler while flowers yield fragrance, touch, and memory across poetry and prose.
Chambers Journal notes earthworms die in salt water and their eggs are harmed by prolonged exposure. Eggs are enclosed in leathery cocoons, sometimes impermeable briefly, possibly letting cocoons cross narrow sea water on floating tree roots. A single Mediterranean/North Sea earthworm exception is recorded.
Readers at the post office overwhelmed clerks with questions about mail arrivals and departures. To help, a Bureau of Information was created with friendly clerks. Now a second sign declares No stamps sold here to curb stamp requests alongside information inquiries.
The article notes two New World earthworms with greatly enlarged tail bristles that form hooklike grips, enabling firm soil retention. It contrasts this with expectations of limited intellect in worms, while mentioning Romances' findings on Sally the chimpanzee raising views on animal intellect.
In a London Tit-Bits tale a wager between two farmers revolves around holding a wasp. One rubbed chloroform believing victory certain, but the rival knew male wasps do not sting and used a male. The crowd watched as the chloroform faded and the stinging risk ceased when the first man released. The other collected the prize. Immigrant arrivals to the United States in 1890 totaled just over 405,000, more than the populations of St. Louis Baltimore or Boston. An early 1891 surge added sixteen thousand arrivals in the first quarter compared with 1890.
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