A New Caledoni Clockwork Typesetter Arouses
Father Calendoli a young Sicilian monk of the Dominican order unveils a computing scale and a novel many letter typesetter device using a keyboard and pedal justified lines by foot action. The machine can compose words with simultaneous finger action and may dispense with stereotyping lowering costs. The invention promises to revolutionize printing and weighing systems by converting goods directly into money.
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London
Father Calendoli
Calendoli
Slave From Boyhood Receives Help From Pink Pills
Edn Swanson of White Rock Goodhue County Minnesota recounts thirteen years of illness starting at age eleven. After trying many doctors and patent medicines he reports relief from Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, noting improved strength and the ability to work again. The ad touts the pills as rebuilding blood and nerves with prices listed and purchase options.
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Edn Swanson
White Rock
Goodhue County
Minn
Dr. Williams
Willams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
Wood Pulp Production in Scandinavia Surges
The report notes enormous wood pulp output across Scandinavia with many mills. Mauve cellulose and sulphite works form a large part of production with cellulose supplying over half. Sulphite mills follow, while wood pulp mills export about half their production, less than sulphite and cellulose.
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Den
Orion
Trabatton
Munkidal
Uddevalla
Ottebal
Natron
Scandinavia
Petroleum on Steam Cars Experiments at Reading by Baldwin Loco
Engineering tests with petroleum on a Baldwin Vau clan compound engine on the Reading railroad show improved combustion with an oil spray below the fire door. The six mile trial proved oil efficiency, boiler pressure near 170 pounds, no smoke, and reduced coal handling during a 27 car, 661 ton run.
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Reading
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Veneering Material Mimics Figured Wood By New Machine
German reports describe a new veneering method using infusorial earth bound with color and glue. Two tall revolving posts with 24 branches each apply coats in alternating dark and light layers to resemble tree rings, then veneers are sliced from the dried cylinders.
To a Cold Beauty Poem Language Echoes in Verse
A fragmentary poem reflects on unpossessed hearts and a guarded, distant beloved. The speaker notes loyalty broken, claiming the beloved keeps her own heart while winning none. The piece carries reflective, elegiac tone centered on unattainable affection.
Grandfather’s Swear Sparked Child’s Country Snag
A Brooklyn Spanish gentleman entertaining his granddaughter at his hotel was accused by the child of swearing about the country at dinner. He denied using words in her presence, admitting only being upset with a waiter and saying “damnation” once or twice.
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Brooklyn
New York Evening Sun
Grandpa
Evils of Tight Lacing Debate
Miss Laura argues that extreme waist compression can be harmless or even exhilarating, while Dr. Smidgley insists it is unhealthy. The pair quarrel about the practice for an hour, highlighting differing views on tight lacing.
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Laura
Dr. Smidgley
Salzer Seed Co offers Red Cross wheat and monster rye
Farmers seen good yields this year with Salzer's Red Cross Winter Wheat and Monster Rye from the Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin. Sow now for 1896 growth. request catalogue and samples by sending this notice. London pawnbrokers charge about 25 percent interest.
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Salzer
John A. Salzer
Choice of Routes for Knights Templar Conclave Travel
An advertisement outlines travel routes to Boston for a Knights Templar conclave via the Nickel Pirate road, highlighting stops like Chau tauqua Lake and Niagara Falls with daylight rides and sleeping and dining cars. Tickets go on sale August 19–25 with mentions of low rates and quick service. Calahan, General Agent, Adams Street, Chicago.
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Knights Templar
Boston
Chautauqua Lake
Niagara Falls
Thousand Islands
Rapids
St. Lawrence
Saratoga
Palisades of the Hudson
Hoosac Tunnel
Berkshire Hills
Calahan
Adams Street
Chicago
Paris Declares Barnato King of Mines and Millionaire
A Paris profile praises Barnato as the globe’s mine monarch with an estimated fortune of 606,000,000 francs. The article recounts his rise from a penniless circus boy in Kimberley to landowner, diamond discoverer, and head of mining ventures in Johannesburg, now living in London and attending Cape Parliament sessions.
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Paris
Barnato
England
South Africa
Kimberley
Europe
Cape of Good Hope
Wisconsin
Johannesburg
Woman Fights Off Eighty-Pound Catamount to Save Children
Mrs George Higginbotham and her two children were alone on the Suwannee River seven miles from Cedar Keys Florida when a large eighty pound catamount attacked. The mother fought the beast stabbing it with a hunting knife then delivered a final blow to the heart as she fainted. The child was unharmed. Neighbors found her unconscious sheltering the child.
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George Higginbotham
Higginbotham
Suwanee
Cedar Keys
Fla
Mrs. Higginbotham
Amused His Stomach Burro Clip Sparks Word Play
A burro owned by three children was clipped but kicked when the groom reached its stomach. The mother noted the clippers tickled the animal, prompting the daughter to correct to amuse. The mother retorts that the clippers amuse the stomach.
Notes of the Day and World News Snippets
Guatemala exports about 20 million dollars of coffee yearly with shipments in English and German bags. A Philadelphia trolley sign urges riders to stay seated till stop and exit with the direction of travel. A Bronte museum will open in Haworth near the church and parsonage. British dock work at Gibraltar employs 7000 men to house the largest warships. London hosts a portrait exhibition with Velasquez Holbein Gainsborough and Whistler. A farmer near Sandwich Illinois finds a deer's horn while plowing. An Indian arrowhead remains fixed in a rib. Kansas wheat record may be replaced this year by apple crop value. An American reports Ibsen’s court-ball decorations in Norway. Watt and Boulton’s Soho foundry in Birmingham, idle after 133 years, will be dismantled. A hunter, Curry, starts a beaver farm on Geneva Lake near Cartie on the Canadian Pacific line, with twenty seven beavers thriving.
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Guatemala
England
Germany
Philadelphia
Bronte
Haworth
Gibralter
London
Grafton Gallery
Velasquez
Holbein
Gainsborough
Whistler
Sandwich
Kansas
Union
Ibsen
Norway
Matthew Boulton
James Watt
Soho
Birmingham
Watt
Curry
Geneva Lake
Cartier
Canadian & Pacific
Doctor Diagnoses Ailments From A Hair Twist
In Pittsburg a doctor boasted he could diagnose by a single hair sample. Two young men pranked him by offering a horse hair. He wrote a prescription charging $25. The apothecary read it as oats and water, then the joke ended when the animals were turned out to grass.
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Pittsburg
Don’t Drag Your Feet and Restore Manhood with No-To-Bac
An advertisement urges men to quit tobacco to regain nerve power and vitality. It promotes No-To-Bac from the Sterl Remedy Co with a guarantee and money back offer, listing New York City or Chicago as contact points.
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Goole
Sterl Remedy Co
New York City
Chicago
Arsenic Demand Sparks Odd Store Exchange in Town
A man entered a druggist’s shop asking for five cents worth of arsenic to poison a dog. The clerk, noting the motive, declined the sale with a wry remark and a nod to self harm, leaving the customer unsatisfied but the clerk unharmed.
In the Old Days Aunt Prudleigh Declares Modesty
A brisk exchange contrasts old fashioned modesty with modern swimwear as Miss Up to date teases Aunt Prudleigh about today’s bikinis. The playful clash reflects changing social norms on attire and propriety.
Nickel Plate Offers Low Rates to Boston with Forty Routes
Tickets onsale August 19 through 25 with longest return limit. Service strictly first class including sleeping car space reserved in advance. For details contact J Y Calahan General Agent at 111 Adams street Chicago.
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Boston
Knights Templar
J. Y. Calahan
Adams Street
Chicago
Proof of It
The judge notes that after Snaggs' first wife died he married his cook, while the major quips about his domestic tastes.
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Snaggs
Low-rate excursion to Boston via Nickel Plate road
Tickets go on sale from August 19 to 25 for a low rate excursion to Boston. Through trains with palace sleeping cars and dining cars offer unexcelled service and day coaches with colored porters. For details contact J. Y. Calahan, General Agent, Adams Street, Chicago.
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Boston
Nickel Plate Road
Palace
J. Y. Calahan
Adams Street
Chicago
Catarrh Sufferer Praises Hall's Cure
W. H. Griffin of Jackson Michigan reports fifteen years of catarrh relief after using Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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W. H. Griffin
Jackson
Michigan
Hall
Robin Superstitions Across Scotland and Legends
The piece describes local beliefs about the robin's song affecting the ill. It recounts a Scottish legend of bronphud du meaning burnt breast, red from flames and a winged drop of water quencher, and another tale connecting the red breast to attempting to pluck a thorn from Christ's crown.
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Scotland
Bronphuddu
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