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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
5
Dr Augustus Waller reports experiments testing if animal tissue is alive by passing current through tissue and linking to a galvanometer. He notes a backrush in living tissue, absent in dead or sterile tissue, with eggs showing development and revived moisture affecting desensitized tissues.
Massachusetts is smaller than Vermont by area 8825 vs 9565 square miles, with Vermont among several tiny states. Texas dominates in size, while Alaska dwarfs all. Other items discuss St Johns bread fodder trees grown for cattle feed and a surge in provincial Russian press initiatives.
The piece notes two classes of people profit from inventors speculators and brokers. It cites a Washington case where ten patents yielded near a million dollars in a decade and describes odd non patentable inventions such as a pepper box police club and concealed dagger fan.
An European cost comparison shows France spending about 1.5 million dollars yearly on 800 senators and 684 deputies with salaries of 1800 dollars each, while the United States pays 2.5 million in salaries to 90 senators and 360 congressmen. Britain funds parliament without salaries. Germany costs voters around 100 thousand annually. Italy pays no salaries but 420 thousand in total costs. Other notes cover Holland salaries, Austria’s two chambers at 800 thousand, and various per diem and mileage rules, highlighting wide differences in pay and expenses for lawmakers.
A Paris paper reports a French inventor isolates disease remedies in honey by confining bees to medicated flowers. Each swarm yields honey containing the desired drug properties, promising treatment for influenza coughs indigestion asthma and other ailments through this indirect method.
The Duke of Devonshire owns the largest emerald in the world known as the Devonshire emerald. It was purchased by the present duke’s father and has stood for years as the rarest gem of its kind.
Mrs. Jessie Higley of Niles California received a dream that yielded a valued offer of at least 5000 dollars for a home invention. She designed a brass clasp that fits iron bed posts to hold drapery, enabling quick removal for cleaning, and has secured patents for the device after drafting it from her dream.
Baterwsoré Company of Baltimore adapts suburban lines to carry funeral parties to cemeteries. A dual-compartment car named Dolores holds caskets in a vault with a glass door, twelve seats in the main aisle, four in the rear, and two private family compartments. Rentals range from $20 to $25 per interment.
English jewel thief Houghton, after a recent diamond heist, was traced to West Bromwich and fled through the country. He hid in a wolf cage, punching back as guards tried to seize him, while the wolves ignored him and intimidated the keeper and a constable moments.
A narrator watches a gypsy dancer in a Seville dancing hall, describing an intoxicating sway and glittering gaze. The scene unfolds in vivid motion, with music and a turning whirlpool of movement as the dancer coils and gestures with precise, hypnotic flair. Arthur Symons is cited from the London periodical.
Wyandotte Michigan man J.T. Weatherwax recalls his father and sister dying of consumption and his own illness a pneumonia attack with a stubborn cough. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with restoring his health after an extended struggle and weight gain. Trial bottles free. Guaranteed bottles 50 cents and one dollar at Wm Robinson & Co.
An ad promotes 6 percent farm loans with optional payments in multiples of $100. Also mentions F. W. Exep & Co. in Peoria Illinois and a Woolner Building address. The rest appears to be miscellaneous text on taxes, heraldic costs, and letter frequencies with no clear connection.
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