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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
7
A narrator recalls Riggs, a blind lantern dealer who sees light as a path home. The tale blends a dream of returning to loved ones with Riggs’s shop as a beacon of daylight amid darkness. The piece shifts from dream to memory, ending with Riggs’s haunting moment and the lanterns that define his world.
The Golden Penny reports gardeners now claim success in producing September-ripening strawberries planted in March. Two varieties, St Joseph and St Antony of Padua, fulfilled conditions last year and are being widely planted this season, continuing a trend from scarce early plantings.
A Times humor item warns against asking questions and being sold by a quirky incident. It recounts an extraordinary case where Al Burnett walked in his sleep and was cured by simply being given car fare. The joke hinges on the absurd answer to how he was cured.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports a unique border city where only men reside. Chinese women are barred from living there or passing the Balkan wall to Mongolia. All Chinese in the city are described as traders.
Jersey City Pennsylvania Railroad officers order trainmen gatemen and ticket examiners to stop all exchanges of kisses at station exits on arrival and departure and enforce the rule rigidly. Veteran gateman John Metcalf laments decades of service and hints at his job being at risk as crowds protest and delays mount during travel rushes.
William P. Mullen, a Rockaway beach life-saver for 26 years, rescued Lil lian Conway of Bedford Park last year when she was caught in an undertow at Florence house beach. She later thanked him, inviting him to her home, and they married. His rescues include Gen. Joseph Shelby’s daughter in Chicago in 1890 and Harris Cohen. This year he arrives with a Gordon setter trained to drag swimmers from the water by the arm.
Marconi told the Royal Institution in London that a magnetic detector improves on hitherto used coherers and could enable receiving several hundred words a minute. He noted daytime signals fail beyond 700 miles while night signals held at 1551 miles and decipherable at 2099 miles, suggesting daylight diselectrification affects distance. He asserted daylight might not cap trans Atlantic wireless to night hours, given enough sending power.
A plan to illuminate the coronation of King Edward with a chain of bonfires across three kingdoms is nearly ready. The country is divided into districts, with circulars to follow detailing all particulars. At 9:55 PM on June 26 a detonating rocket will be fired from 3,000 heights, followed five minutes later by the lighting of 3,000 fires.
The Minneapolis Times notes a growing joke about a lamp trust and urges turning it down. The St Joseph Gazette questions snuffing it out while the Philadelphia Ledger and Chicago Tribune consider harsher options, including blowing it up or resorting to gas as above.
A Richmond Virginia professor completed a 17 volume Life of Edgar A Poe. Chicago Record-Herald notes that Poe is not the only major biographer under consideration and recognizes a rival work emerging.
The northern Sahara hosts two specially adapted animals the addax antelope and Loders gazelle. The addax with spiral horns and broad hooves can move swiftly across sand and likely tracks seasonal rains across vast desert areas. Its food sources during long dry spells remain uncertain. Gazelles are desert dwellers but Loder's gazelle appears even more attuned to arid, sandy terrain.
A narrator notes Hayti as a land of extremes where logic fails and honesty surprises. He cites the daily crossing of Haitians with large sums of money between Jacmel and Port au Prince, praising an almost unique record of integrity despite poverty and rough conditions.
A French physician argues death does not occur instantly after decapitation. Blood loss comes from neck vessels while the brain remains nourished by residual blood for about an hour. Inertia then lasts roughly two hours before total death, suggesting possible delay after decapitation.
Oscar Fish won the contract for mail delivery between Eagle and Valdez Alaska. The 414 mile route carries 300 pounds per trip and two trips a month, delivering letters and few newspapers. He earns nearly $1,500 per trip or about $35,000 annually. Officials say the pay is reasonable given the dog-sled route and its danger.
Researchers report a possible vast underground mountain system in central India, about four thousand miles long and parallel to the Himalayas. Their reasoning cites variations in gravity and plumb line deflection, suggesting a dense rock mass beneath the region.
A new Broadway tabernacle at the northeast corner of Broadway and Fifty-sixth street will cost 650000 and feature a low Broadway front rising to a ten story office rear. The 80 foot Broadway frontage includes a morning chapel for 80, a main auditorium seating 1500 with rose and clear story windows, a 600 seat lecture hall with stage, a 300 seat banquet area, and a 400 seat Taylor chapel on the main level, topped by an 80 foot two tower frontage and office space above. The exterior blends with surroundings as a church rather than a skyscraper.
Passengers aboard the Diamond Special, 250 aboard, rode out a fierce morning storm between Kankakee and Gilman. A box car wedged in the St Louis line switch at Gilman blocked trains, but the wind halted the wreck. Conductor Dawson reached telegraph to learn all St Louis division trains were stalled. The train reached Springfield an hour and a half late and St Louis Union Station an hour late. Also noted: Charles M Schwab addressed the Penn State graduating class, urging practical effort over diplomas, warning trusts and praising trained young men. Schwab and wife donated $60,000 to the college.
James J. David son of Swedesboro New Jersey shipped three barrels of sweet potatoes to London as an experiment. One barrel used fine sawdust, one coarse sawdust, and one tissue paper packing like oranges. All arrived in good condition, with the coarse sawdust batch in prime shape. Locals believe Gloucestershire County sweets may become a regular side dish with American beef and mutton.
Delegates at the Normal School Association Masters of Dancing of the United States and Canada met in New York to practice new dances including a seventeenth century minuet. The convention deemed it among the season’s most fashionable dances with period costumes enhancing the effect. Sandwich Bribe Case A New Haven police board downgraded a sergeant to patrolman after he accepted a sandwich while off duty.
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