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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1899
Page
15
The readable parts seem to discuss comfort, a crow, distance measurements, a bond, and repeated phrases about life and voices. The passage is garbled with many misspellings, making precise meaning unclear.
Clarence Addington and 15 reporters endure a grueling Philippine front scene. A gallant ambulance mission, heavy fighting, and perilous retreat culminate in Addington’s recovered memory and a triumphant hospital update.
A court scene recalls a murder trial where a veteran lawyer dismisses a juror’s tip as grave. Separately a diving bell from Lake Michigan, built of phosphor bronze and weighing 23,000 pounds, failed at 100 feet, splintering the cover glass and bracing, with a total external load estimated at 1,362 tons. Thunder echoes fourteen miles away.
A fragmented reminiscence recounts Fitzhugh Lee's Civil War service with the Old Second Cavalry. It notes his wound from an arrow at a Cimarron engagement, his return to duty after care, and mentions peers including Albert Sidney Johnson, Robert E Lee, Hardee, and Kirby Smith. It adds Park details about Loefler’s Union service and Grant White House duty.
An odd courtroom anecdote recalls Chief Justice Cockburn examining a witness who swore the plaintiff Mr James was not at home. Counsel objected to the line of questioning but Cockburn pressed. After a long pause the judge allowed the question and the witness replied that the man wasn’t at home.
In a steamboat office crowd of young men heard an elderly veteran recounts of the Mississippi. He spoke of Bill Jones and his father, recalling life in the forties and a gauntlet run of Indians, while one skeptic pressed for dates and the veteran defended his long service on the river.
Writer for The Ve vivant Town praises fried chicken from Gordonsville Virginia depots. Carlton recounts travel memories and describes regional culinary quirks, noting how chicken pieces are served on trains and the unique appeal of Gordonsville fried chicken with leg portions favored by travelers.
A new device uses thrash whistles made of bronze between two disks of steel. The largest whistle mouth points upward while the two smaller mouths point downward. Steam passes through openings, the whistles are played in chord, and they harmonize like a piano. The second whistle is described as safe and low in pitch.
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