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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1899
Page
3
Rich ard Hicks the veteran actor recalls a staged hanging at the Queen's Theatre Dublin where the rope slipped and knotting occurred during Achmet's capture. He describes a suffocating grip a flood of sensations and a later return to consciousness after two days with agony and thirst.
During the 1830 33 French conquest of Algeria a treaty was negotiated after a banquet. Houdin the conjurer performed a hat trick producing cannon balls and amazing the Arab chiefs who vowed peace rather than resist an army that could conjure ammunition. Cincinnati Enquirer.
An Austrian nobleman, famed for his wit, vowed to remain completely silent in his wife’s presence for the first year of their marriage. His vow stayed secret, leading his wife to summon a brain specialist who nearly had him committed. At year’s end he revealed the ruse and claimed the wager.
In 1348 Venice appointed three guardians of public health to stem the spread of the bubonic plague and by 1403 established a lazaret on a nearby island. Surgeon General Walter Wyman notes this marked the origin of quarantine, a term meaning forty days of vessel detention.
A large framed athletic young woman announces her intent to clean out a room and immediately begins scrubbing as reported by the Chicago Tribune in a vivid scene.
A Philadelphia Ledger item presents a terse exchange where a boy tells a policeman he cannot sell a dog, insisting he can manage without money but not without the animal. The brief line captures streetwise humor and attention to the value of a pet amid hardship.
The cotton belt pushes for universal adoption of a standard 24 by 54 inch square bale. Galveston maritime group adds that bales larger than standard and under 25 pounds per cubic foot should incur ten cents extra freight per hundred pounds. Uniform bales could raise shipment efficiency and lower freight.
Chicago bride tells her mother that her cruel husband drove her to flee. She recalls late night concealment of a beauty mask, then entering his bed, frightening him who threw a pillow, leaving all in tears. The tale appears in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Philadelphia Times describes finger configurations forming numerals from I to X and beyond, using both hands with thumbs at right angles to map symbols like L for 50 and C for 100. The Louisville Post notes a fireman aged 65 whose hair changed from white to black after exposure, the transformation occurring after intense cold and prolonged heat.
A humorous claim traces a man’s shift from abolitionist to slaver after marriage in 1865 to his wife’s father. A college friend recalls a 30 year silence and a paradoxical confession. Cartoonish quips contrast medical authority on paralysis with a tongue tied joke. A Chaonian salt spring legend links gods to guiding the gods.
The income tax in India is levied on all incomes of £33 and upward, and then only one man in 700 comes within its scope.
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