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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1901
Page
7
An old railroad man recalls a past Baltimore and Ohio railroad explosion in West Virginia where a locomotive blew up due to low boiler water. He watched from behind the second engine as the crown sheet failed and both engineer and fireman were killed, noting the absence of visible white steam in the smoke and dust cloud.
The New York Post outlines economical home teeth cleaning by mixing chalk with ground Castile soap in a ratio of seven to one to create a toothpaste. Flavor with wintergreen or peppermint if desired. It recommends a bicarbonate of soda mouth rinse and plain salt and water as a safe antiseptic fluid, noting many advertised preparations are unnecessary.
A young English traveler, irritated by St Malo customs officials, planned a clever retaliation. He smuggled a ferret in a bag, provoking a swift, dramatic reaction as a douanier reached in. The scene, described with wry humor, ends with a note that revenge is sweet.
In early California two Scotchmen migrated west. One carried a thistle, Scotland’s emblem, and the other a small swarm of honeybees. Years passed and the coast suffers from the thistle while the western slopes reap honey’s sweetness.
A compact excerpt notes that daily practice shows fatigue plays the largest role in promoting or permitting disease, more than any other casual condition, as stated in Sir John Paget's memoirs.
In the San Pramises Bulletin a quip asks if Squires is a camera fiend while a wife’s snapshot frames him. the Chicago News notes few reach the top as progress slips away under rapid advances.
A vivid travel sketch describes rural and urban scenes in China. A richly dressed woman rides a donkey beside her husband, followed by a long hooded chair and often a magistrate or grandee. Shrieking wheelbarrows dominate street traffic, despite jokes about grease and superstition. The bishop of northern China reportedly traveled thousands of miles on a wheelbarrow.
The article explains Baptista Porta as the inventor of the first camera obscura in the mid sixteenth century. It describes how a dark room with a small hole formed an inverted image, later improved with a glass lens and a mirror to produce brighter, erect pictures, noting the modern camera evolved from this simple device. It mentions camera obscura still used on hillsides for landscapes and describes the modern camera as a refined form of the original.
George Horton notes shopping in Athens is lengthy and elaborate with the oriental price game. A silk costs a dollar a yard, buyers offer thirty cents, merchants rage and haggle for hours, and a final 05 cent concession pleases some patrons before they depart swearing never to return.
A caller confronts a real estate dealer asking for the recipe to own a home. The exchange turns odd as the caller seeks a method to dis possess a temperamental cook, insisting money is no object. The Washington Star documents the peculiar dialogue.
The Boston Transcript notes Edith and Fred are interested in each other and have played golf together three times without quarrels except for a few times when Fred was clearly in the wrong. Bertha warns Edith to keep quiet about their relationship.
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