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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1889
Page
1
Fragments report diverse items from individuals, places, and events. Mentions include a Bavarian profits, a holograph request in Altoona, a Maine Yankee reference, an iron ore miner in Mountainville, a Salvation Army singer, a Canadian French colony, a Washington portrait valued at $10, a Cape Cod sea turtle, Boston lighthouse history, and a king of Abyssinia.
The article describes a new dynamite cruiser named Vesuvius able to unload about 1,000 pounds of explosive per minute onto targets a mile away. It argues such ships could bombard any city briefly, comparing destruction to ancient Pompeii. The piece also notes emigrant trends, immigration bans in Ecuador, and a discussion of bird population declines tied to a harsh blizzard era.
The piece discusses Cantak Purp Col of Utterburgh beginning stout railroad tie manufacture with hydraulic presses at a rate of one per minute. It claims a solved problem for fast safe railroad ties, notes European use of steel ties, and contrasts American needs. It also touches on English law, Chinese minister, and Mark Twain anecdotes.
A fractured tale describes a gold nugget found near Ashville in the Appalachian hills. Three men quarrel over the treasure after weighing it at a cabin, killing one companion, and attempting to steal the loot. The bandits' fate ends with imprisonment and death. the fortune vanishes, rediscovered only as a mystery.
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