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Newspaper
Blackfoot News
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1900
Page
6
The piece notes measuring a man by his motives and urges right action despite public opinion. It mentions a proposed French monument to Waterloo fallen soldiers and parries age jokes about women. It cites an advance Presbyterian report showing 2,300 more communicants and average $15 per member.
A Paris paper prints a witty ad: a young man seeks to meet an aged, experienced gentleman who will dissuade him from marriage. The item sits among broader notes on unions funding street railway autotions, pensions, church federation, and European affairs.
Engineers plan to move a six story brick and stone hotel in Boston by lifting it on 1,000 jacks placed on 730 piles due to swampy ground. The structure will be rolled 42 feet to its new site on steel rollers without disassembly.
Fruit exhibits at fairs show improvement due to spraying and better cultivation. The piece discusses persimmon cultivation, Keiffer pear fertilization, Illinois State Horticultural Society meeting at Champaign, and Oklahoma fruit recommendations. It also covers Clover Root Borer biology and control, plus farm education and outreach.
A report from Oklahoma Agricultural College notes the English sparrow has damaged much of Oklahoma’s grape crop this year. Birds split berries, insects consume pulp, and skin dries on the stem. damage varies by variety and ripening stage, forcing premature harvest of later varieties to prevent total loss.
A narrative of buried ships and lost fortunes off Trinidad Isle of Pines Cumberland Island and other Caribbean sites. It cites Captain Kidd era wrecks, silver bars, gold coins, diamonds, Jardine Rocks treasure and divers who struck riches, with sensational hopes for modern submarines to recover wealth.
Reports from England and the Moore expedition corroborate Mr. Grogan s claim of a massive lava flow south of the Virunga mountains north of Lake Tanganyika. A new volcano formed near the previously observed site, burying banana and maize plantations under lava with little soil formation since the eruption.
The explorer named the new volcano Mount Sharpe after a companion. Crater activity spanned multiple lava flows, one reaching thirty miles, another fifteen miles wide on the plain. Natives reported elephants killed in the Ruchuru valley. Four other volcanoes were found, Teleki to the south of Lake Rudolf previously active. Donaldson Smith nearly reached Teleki in 1895.
A reflective note on how hosting friends colors domestic life and character. It cites Landor on a person who can summon the finest company, underscoring friendship as a shaping force in a household and personal growth.
The Maine supreme court justice Haskell spent leisure time on mechanics and created several model steam engines in a personal machine shop fitted for his amusement.
An experiment station called Flussbay Laboratorium in Dresden studies river behavior using a full scale trough and a sand model to map river channels. Professor Engels oversees miniature experiments to predict washouts and silting, guiding engineering works to avoid futile dredging and keep channels clear.
A dense quotation outlines the paradoxes of high civilization. It compares self maintaining systems such as the chimney burning its own smoke and the farm producing all it consumes, to social institutions reforming rogues into honest men and even a prison yielding revenue. It likens progress to the steamers making fresh water from salt.
A New York letter notes a craze for Belgian hares with steamer shipments bringing numbers of these animals to the country. The finest bucks fetch various fancy prices in trade and collection.
J Van Denburgh and C B Wright report in the September American Journal of Physiology on how Gila monster venom affects respiration heart action and blood coagulation. They note immediate blood pressure fall from vascular dilation and possible death by respiratory failure. human venom response remains uncertain.
A reflective meditation on art and beauty. Pictures speak without words, inviting quiet reverence in hidden spaces. The passage notes painters as great divines and evokes art as solace amid life’s emptiness and vanity.
Professor J N Gomard reports discoveries from Long Island geologic work suggesting human presence in America prior to the glacial period. He based his inference on fossil and stratigraphic evidence, arguing for an earlier occupation than previously believed. The finding challenges established timelines of American prehistory.
A marble horse head and shoulders unearthed in the Roman forum is dated to the second century before Christ. Such classical equestrian statues are very rare, making the discovery notable for antiquities experts.
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