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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1900
Page
7
A fragmented poem praising a national leader and duty, urging steadfast resistance to tyranny. The text extols a commander as the guiding force of history, invoking devotion and civic virtue while lamenting oppression and the desire for unity at home.
In a 1880s memoir style tale aboard a sleeper bound for the Pacific coast a group of travelers recalls a case by Mr Shortwell the company chief detective. Shortwell explains a wave of robberies on sleeping cars from 1883 84 and recounts a mid journey confrontation with a suspected thief aboard the train near a station.
An American conductor recounts a robbery aboard a sleeping car near Minneapolis. A cattleman and a hotel buyer lost about 3700 in paper money hidden in an envelope. A suspect named Carlin was tracked through detective reports and indictments, with a bizarre follow-up about a man known as Franklin the Kangaroo Man who had surgically created a chest pouch to steal money before being exposed and jailed.
A Memphis Sclinitar account recounts an elf hill man claiming the fastest shave ever witnessed in Texas. He describes wearing a full beard, then a sandstorm whipping sand into his face and shaving his whiskers clean in under a minute, leaving him smooth as a boy.
A quoted inventor describes a method to pass time on trains and buses by focusing on a mental exercise to imagine spending large sums. The piece captures his casual talk about killing time during daily commutes and his confidence in the idea as a patentable breakthrough.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions vague figures and a rocking chair motif with scattered numbers. The text lacks clear names, dates, or places, making precise identification impossible from the readable content.
Ranger Whig and Courier recounts a near-death drift on Eagle Lake when a snowbound sled and otter fur haul plunged toward open water. The driver woke to a black gulf, cut free only to crash on Pillsbury Island rocks, realizing fear was nearly as fatal as drowning.
The piece notes London’s famed gambling houses in 1724, led by the Cocoa Tree and White’s Club. It recalls large stakes with tables holding tens of thousands of pounds, vendors in ornate attire, and players disguising emotions with leather and straw hats, as described by Saturday Review.
Consul Plumacher of Maracabo reports large elk spinning spiders found in Venezuela palm trees. Some produce white some yellow silk. Silk used for handkerchiefs. expert notes cannot be commercially valuable due to upkeep and risk of swarm. A specimen and report were sent to the agriculture department for further study.
A jumble of notes recalls Rat Portage in Ontario where portage by canoe shaped the town name, plus tall tales of the bighorn and explorers. It includes a Los Angeles Times anecdote of a child declaring his father sells talk, a Borodino battle note, and Civil War survivors’ pension figures.
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