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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
6
A Paris hospital reports a revived patient after a near death episode aided by an experimental device stimulating auricular nerves to revive muscle and brain activity. Surgeons describe attempts to reanimate the deceased, noting partial successes and plans for broader uses, while debates about the nature of death and related photographic observations are mentioned.
Northwestern governors unite against railroad merger of Northern Pacific and Great Northern. A Cleveland physician recounts a dramatic case of heart massage and artificial respiration reviving a man who had died from chloroform exposure, with four hours of sustained treatment and eventual return to health. The report notes skepticism and mentions other cases of apparent death and torpor in humans and animals. There is also a cholera-tinged note on Turkish troops in El Hedar mutiny and unrest in Mecca from the same dispatch.
A playful fragment from London Tid Bits notes a child admiring a spider and its web while contrasting it with a manmade top, hinting at wonder and reflection in a light, humorous tone.
A Bolton Kelway letter describes a large East Coast poultry plant built to mass produce chickens. The facility operates as a multi-story machine from incubation to feeding, cramming, slaughter, and packing, claiming superior urban buyers’ demand and rapid profits.
An elderly Viennese man died at seventy three famed as the most exact man on record. From age twenty seven he kept flawless accounts of purchases and payments. He drank 28,786 glasses of beer in twenty seven years of convivial life and raised cigars to 628,713 in his last years, averaging 13,667 per year.
Four young married women from St Bernard's in Englewood dressed as the Ormsby quadruplets at a Chicago church fair. Their husbands discovered the ruse and halted the act, ending what had been the fair's best money maker.
A royal decree in Rome mandates a national library dedicated to all publications about the American world since its discovery. The collection will span the entire scope of study and literature related to the New World.
Amos Shepard of wealth and influence drives a sleigh ride memory into a life reeled by power. Reginald seeks a simple marriage to Mabel Brewer, while a caring father contemplates a quiet home and future with the couple.
Henry Allen reports a bizarre near encounter with a large buck on a Maine road three miles from Dexter. He says the deer charged and struck his hand with a foreleg, prompting him to yell as a herd of deer fled into the woods leaving him with a swollen hand as proof.
The Neuts Weiner Tageblatt quoted by the Vienna correspondent of the London and New York Times cites private intelligence from The Hague that the opening of confidential poor parties is seriously expected to hasten peace in Boer circles.
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