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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1900
Page
8
Athens market notes middling 73. LIVERPOOL market middling uplands 47-15. Sales 12,000. Tone steady. Receipts 7,000. Port receipts today 25,365. This day last year 81,941. Report from Murphy & Co New York office. Athens Ga June 4 1900.
New York dispatch reports Liverpool declined on spots and futures, causing an opening drop before a late recovery. Bulls see the move as disappointing, with market activity sluggish and most trades reversing straddles between Liverpool and New York. Receipts remain uncertain while Hester’s figures and Continental selling influence sentiment.
In Chicago on January 4 the wheat market moved on a moderate scale with a sagging tone as cables slipped and private reports cited cheaper Argentine offerings. Receipts totaled 340 cars, with weak and scattered buying and limited selling while the corn market remained dull and weaker with poor grading and no contracts reported. Provisions showed moderate activity yet declined on abundant hog supplies. afternoon trading grew stronger but stayed largely inactive.
General Corbin reports Lawton fund subscriptions now exceed 50 000 dollars with deposits in Riggs National Bank and other holdings. The total collection to date reaches well above the half century mark as of January.
The article discusses measuring solar motion via Doppler shifts in star spectra. It cites Vogel, Keeler, and Tisserand as supporting estimates ranging from about 6 to 120 miles per second. A Baltimore burglary anecdote and a quip about three rich brothers appear as lighter side notes.
A long-winded reminiscence on steamboat life is followed by a concise summary of chess origins. The piece notes chess likely began in India as chaturanga before spreading to Persia Arabia and Europe. It hints the game was designed to teach war strategy and mentions a Greek claim of Talamedes inventing it to pass Troy’s siege tedium.
Dr Crosse notes quinine helps prevent chronic malarial poisoning in malarious districts, urging five grains daily for those with quinine idiosyncrasies or slight albuminuria, alongside standard exposure precautions. He emphasizes moderation in diet and weather exposure.
A 1762 London physician Dr George Fordyce rose to fame with public lectures and a medical volume on physics. He battled drink, once blurting out a diagnosis while inebriated. After the patient praised his care and admitted her own drinking, he pledged strict confidentiality declaring he would be as silent as the grave.
A trader named John bought pumpkins from Mazoe valley natives to barter for goods. He traded about 20 pounds of preservative containing alum and arsenite, mistaken for salt. Fearing poisoning and war, the narrator left the camp and learned later the natives suffered stomach aches but no deaths.
Fresh milk is curdled with rennet then broken and pressed to form curd. Ripening transforms curd into cheese under proper temperature, powered by myriads of bacteria that consume nutrients and release new substances, driving the conversion from solid curd to palatable cheese.
A 65 degree room temperature method to make long lasting soap bubbles. Dissolve castile soap in water gently, cool, mix with glycerin in a 2 3 ratio, shake bottle, and let stand. Separate clear glycerin quid with a siphon. Bubbles four inches wide can last hours without support and days under a glass shade. Boston Transcript notes tobacco smoke enhances appearance.
A Washington Post item recalls a famous man of letters visiting Washington and dining with a naval officer's daughter. Asked if Shakespeare is interesting, the scholar replies that Shakespeare is "just simply too cute for anything" in a light, witty exchange from the social scene.
A saucy office boy delivers a calling card to a woman in a tall building, triggering a wary constable reveal. Also shared are anecdotes of humble beginnings, learning on the job, clever hints from presidents, a romance windfall, and Indians critiquing a pompous clerk.
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