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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
5
A Wilmington ship's Amazon River voyage studies local rubber sources and native peoples. Officers meet docile, copper skinned villagers with fierce head hunting practices. They describe long bows, spears, and mummified heads preserved in huts, with lips sewn shut and battle records sewn on cords.
Miners in the Klondike region report elk meat selling at one dollar per pound with three or four dealers making about a thousand dollars monthly beyond living costs. A Denver source recalls hunters killing game and learning tougher meat may not sell, urging young men to pursue elk provisioning as a safer bonanza than staking claims. The 30-30 rifle is noted as most popular for long range, compact ammunition.
Text outlines basic recovery steps for fainting from poor brain blood supply. Advises lowering the head, loosening tight clothing, providing fresh air, rubbing extremities toward the heart, applying cold water to the face, and using smelling salts carefully to revive an unconscious person.
News notes an international mining and metallurgy congress planned for mid next June in Paris with large expected attendance. It cites consular reports on Morocco as a field for engineers and mentions infrastructure gaps and wireless telegraph experiments at Orange River in South Africa. It also reports on temperance policing in Denmark and language changes in German schools, plus Victoria and Albert Museum expansion and a description of Teeland’s police force and a policeman’s outlook.
The British navy controls six Ty-two docks for ships. Highland officer uniforms cost between 150 and 200 dollars. Old Fort Carroll in Baltimore is to be remodeled into a modern fortress. South Africa officers take bicycles, with the War Office easing transport. Omaha Commercial Club seeks a branch of the army depot near Jefferson, Indiana. General J. B. Gordon orders the United Confederate Veterans annual meeting in Louisville from May 30 to June 8. 1,240 camps are now in the association. Field telegraph engineers carry ten miles of cable in drums on carts, with current sent through the cart wheels. A London Mall correspondent argues for comprehensive artillery for the British forces.
The piece argues that guarding children against ghosts and fairies is futile for imaginative kids who will create new fears. It cites a six year old girl plagued by dreams of robbers, showing that shielding children from the supernatural may backfire and that frightening stories should be avoided.
Gen Fitzhugh Lee recalls arriving in Cuba as consul general and facing telephone operators who did not know his name. One asked, What’s that name, Fitzhugh Lee, while another muttered a xenophobic remark about Chinese people, revealing a hostile reception.
Nat Goodwin has a play titled When We Were Twenty-One. Mrs John Wood plans permanent retirement from the stage. Marie Dressler acts in a sketch named Fifteen Minutes in Shirt Waists. English reverses in Africa disrupt London theatre. Kinsey Pelle is chosen to adapt Red Pottage for drama. Jenry Clay Barnabee, Bostonian half a century on stage. James Young healing and forming a cast for Lord Byron. Maude Adams first appeared as a child with J K Emmet at East Street. San Francisco recently destroyed by fire.
A collection of witty quips on love and men and women from a New York Press style column. It riffs on heroic myths in romance and social foibles with playful, antiquated humor. Clara, age four, asks a drugstore proprietor how much chewing gum a poor girl could buy for a cent.
Reduced rail rates to Burlington and Cedar Rapids for the Biennial Saengerfest from August 9 to 12. Call on agents for detailed rates and limits.
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