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Newspaper
Burlington Free Press
Location
Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
2
In a tense club room, Pendleton explains that a secret tied to his dead father's wishes forces him to travel and entrust his affairs to Wyndham. As Pendleton signals a possible drastic step, Wyndham waits to learn the full stake and the fate awaiting Pendleton at the crucial moment.
Fragmentary OCR text references Pendleton Burr Pendleton and Wyndham with a note of death and secrecy before disclosure. Context unclear, no clear event, date, or location given.
The article details how MIT researchers Samuel C. Prescott and W. Lyman Underwood identified spoilage microbes in canned foods. By isolating bacteria from corn, lobsters, clams, and more and determining heat levels to destroy them, canning became a science, saving the industry from ruin.
Professor Becquerel endured hours of exposure carrying sealed glass containers with radioactive material in his pocket. A red skin mark appeared after ten days, followed by inflammation and a nonhealing sore. A second incident occurred with a similar tube. Other experimenters reported comparable effects. The energy from these emanations appears continuous, prompting pursuit to identify the emission source and nature.
A Seine archives find reveals a list of items found in Marie Antoinette’s dress pockets at execution. Public auction proceeds benefited Sanson. The first lot includes a pocketbook, pinchers, corkscrew, scissors, can, and a small mirror. the second lot holds three lute portraits in green moroccos, one framed. The two lots totaled 10 francs 50 cents.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii marks her sixty second birthday with multiple entertainments attended by hundreds of natives and a few whites. Three hundred guests breakfasted, a large luau follows with Judge Extee present and escorting the hostess to a tent. Food served on ground mats features pot and raw fish. Captain W O Cottle sails the Penobscot bay in sloop Yankee Nation mending shoes, with a new dog companion replacing Jip.
An exchange notes a desire to withdraw twenty pounds. A reply indicates the withdrawal can occur tomorrow with one wake’s notice, referencing Westwaster-Inclade and Mrs O Br Brady in a pointed, period tone.
Harvard observers under Professor Pickering compared old Herschel records with modern work to test changes in star brightness over a century. Colonel John Herschel aided by supplying manuscripts, enabling a full transcription and publication in the Annals. The study shows little change in star brightness, though Herschel’s photometric methods preceded later accuracy by Argelander and others.
A historical list honors famed architects across Greece Rome Italy and France including Bramante Alberti Brunelleschi Michelangelo Palladio Wren and Le Notre. The article notes the public remembers buildings more than designers and groups names by era and nationality.
The article summarizes a Saturday Evening Post piece on ear growth and heredity arguing ears keep growing with age, vary by person, and can indicate age. It notes larger ears in the elderly, persistent hereditary shapes, potential links to criminology, and a diagnostic ear wrinkle in the thirties.
A fragmentary note appears to blend playful verse on a lady’s sovereignty with references to voting and public life. The lines echo a period voice praising a mistress or patroness whose influence outlasts time and shifts in public opinion, framed by a citation to Walter Werries Pollock in Longmans Magazine.
A Cosmopolitan excerpt reflects on life as a river, the balance of good and evil, human folly, and enduring kindness. It contrasts a changeless law with error, praising love as the fairest force while noting the world’s ongoing struggle and the eventual quieting of harms as time moves forward.
A column discusses why stale bread digests better than fresh bread, noting the need to chew and moisten stale bread with saliva. It contrasts fresh bread as bolted and linked to dyspepsia, then adds a physiological lesson from dogs about chewing and swallowing bread. The piece also briefly mentions ancient bookkeeping in Mesopotamia and Mexican tortillas and eating customs.
The article notes that certain plants are affected by poisons in minute quantities, so dilute they are nearly undetectable by standard analysis. A case shows copper sulfate affecting a plant after being diluted 700 billion times. The author argues vegetation quality may hinge on trace soil toxins.
The Bulletin notes a sharp change in attire for a man once known for expensive clothing. Neighbors remark the current garb looks seedy while hinting at past wealth, suggesting a fall from status as context hints at lingering stigma and shifting reputation.
A collage of assorted quotes touches on romantic folly and money’s pull. It notes how gifts strain budgets, the slow choice of a spouse, and the constant lure of wealth. It recalls royal etiquette with forks in English history and Queen Elizabeth’s jeweled fork amid humble pies.
A veteran qudttral recounts a haunted sighting of a marine cap worn by a son on shore in West Africa, matching a fever death and a borrowed cap. The best authenticated tale features Captain Sherbroke and Lieutenant Wynward in Canada 1785, where a ghostly youth is seen, prompting Wynward to exclaim it is his brother. Reports claim the brother died at the same hour, with time zones questioned. The incident, published 1828 in Accredited Ghost Stories, is supported by notes and family testimony across sources.
Mc Clure's Magazine notes the pithecanth ancestor living with ancient elephants rhinoceroses and other mammals in southeastern Asia. It places this ancestor roughly 27 600 years ago and traces about 17 000 generations back to prehistory, highlighting the deep timeline before recorded history.
The article recalls sixteenth century fashion where men wore face and hair powder, texturing color and scent. Henry VI paraded Paris with white and red paste, violet hair powder, musk. Servant girls used sawdust as a substitute for dyed hair. It also notes a Brooklyn Life joke about greed and desire and a Kotorn belief linking turtle destruction to family death.
Rosa Belle Holt notes in a rug study that Muslims require a perfectly clean surface for prayer and must use a personal rug to ensure no contamination. The practice centers on maintaining purity during worship, regardless of the rug on the floor.
A London Telegraph report recounts a tale of intrigue as Miss Cochran, daughter of a condemned Scottish laird, disguises herself and aids the death warrant's destruction. Amidst royal intrigue, she ferries vital papers to her nurse, prompting delays and a reprieve for her father. Also noted is a Swedish immigrant story of P. T. Berg rising from illiteracy to chief engineer at Edgar Thomson Works.
An experimental study by Prof H Warren of Princeton with Patrick and Dr Gilbert of Iowa examined effects of ninety hours awake. Subjects showed fatigue, altered judgment, and unusual reactions to ordinary stimuli, with hallucinations described as chilling but non graphic. The report notes the mind’s fragility under sleep deprivation and the influence on perception and coordination.
An amusing exchange from a clipping features The Chief Delight and Crabshaw discussing a wife’s country trip and a neighbor. A sly remark about two weeks away contrasts with a Fortune Teller bit where Ab predicts money, asking for a dollar.
An anecdote attributed to Lincoln during a front-line visit recounts how a powder advertisement was spread by a preacher’s meeting due to scarce newspapers. Lincoln discusses a test powder that impressed by its fine grains, narrating how merchants used prayer meetings to promote wares and how the audience reacted to the claims rather than printed ads.
An anecdote from front lines purporting a meeting between Botha and Kitchener ends with Botha quoting a need to catch a train and Kitchener delaying. Two days later a Delagoa line train was held up and looted, far from the meeting site.
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