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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1913
Page
3
In 1765 the Virginia burgesses confront the Stamp Act, asserting colonial rights against taxation without representation. Patrick Henry emerges as a striking new leader, rallying the house with bold rhetoric as resistance to British imperial policy grows.
The National Museum houses nearly 4,000 ethnologic dolls from global tribes, notably Eskimo and South Sea Island cultures. Curators analyze toys to infer mental development and cultural traits, with some dolls valued for extreme artistry or materials like elk tooth dress adornments.
The Loire valley hosts Blois Chambord Amboise Chenonceaux Langeais and Azay le Rideau with Blois as the site where Joan of Arc raised her standard in 1429. The oldest chateau portion dates from the thirteenth century and includes the Louis XII wing with the famous pertire.
A consular report notes chestnuts substitute Indian corn for poorer French households. They are steamed in cloth coverings after blanching, sold hot in streets, and eaten for breakfast with milk or alone. Chestnuts are praised as wholesome, nutritious, and fattening, used as a vegetable, roasted, boiled, steamed, or pureed, and even made into bread by mountain peasants.
Loui C Hill 53 a full blood Choctaw is called the richest American Indian in the world with possessions valued at 6 million dollars. He lives in Harlingen Texas and owns Brownsville area ranches with an estate stretching 25 miles to Brownsville. Hill runs eleven motor cars and built his empire from 200 dollars without government aid. He is a self made man a shrewd businessman and a clever lawyer who also coaches his sugar growing and refining business. He helped blaze the Rio Grande valley settlement but declines to discuss his early days. He does emphasize the sugar price over his race or wealth.
Ian Frank Philipps a drunken steeplejack drew a crowd outside the First National Bank in Jamaica New York He climbed a flagpole and taunted officers as Patrolman Sangster attempted to seize him The pole wobbled and both officers tried to pursue him before he was finally subdued and jailed on the roof
The piece notes that about 20 million Egyptian mummies exist, with artifacts from tombs including paintings, furniture, jars, and disks under heads called hypocephali. It mentions the Rosetta Stone discovered in 1799 and Champollion's breakthrough in deciphering hieroglyphs, with progress accelerating after 1841.
A newspaper notes the worldwide flood of pins from Birmingham and other factories with daily outputs near 10,000,000 from a single mill. It explains why pins are so disposable and often end up clogging sewers as tiny items are produced in many sizes and hairpins join the loss.
A giant Dutch windmill, the world’s largest, has been completed in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Weighing in with a $25,000 cost, the mill rises 56 feet high with 57 foot wingspan and, in a three mile breeze, can pump 70 000 gallons of water per hour through a 12 inch pipe over two miles to a height of 200 feet.
Brisk tarpon fishing prompts Tampa authorities to set up a parcel post bureau on the docks. Fishermen bait to limit catches above eleven pounds, and as soon as a nibble occurs the fish is whipped into the post office, tagged and shipped northward to eager admirers.
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