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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
1
A professor and twenty boys hear a moonbeam tell of the Man in the Moon and his wife the Woman in the Moon. The princess loved a earth prince, an eclipse loomed, and she was banished to the far side where her face now looks away from Earth forever.
Flacourt in his Madagas car history records a sublime prayer used by the people we call savages. The speaker pleads to Eternal Infinite Most Mighty Source of Light Omniscient All Bounteous and All Sufficient as life wanes and death nears, acknowledging weakness poverty and darkness.
University of Chicago scientists Dr. Jacques Loeb and Professor G. J. Lingle report that sodium chloride in blood triggers rhythmic heart beats in turtle heart tissue and may even restart beating after stoppage. They say calcium and potassium salts are not the active cause, with sodium ions driving the rhythm. The findings promise a revolution in physiology and medical treatments.
A Pearson magazine idea describes a radiophone that transmits voice along a light beam from a lighthouse to a ship two miles away. Four transmitters feed a searchlight, guiding a lamp and carbonized filament receiver to the captain. No bell signals. the light itself cues the reply.
Colonel Cody announces the Cody club in New York aiming to be the world’s greatest sportsmen organization with 55 members already and a 100 member limit. The group will gather at Cody’s Big Horn ranch each Sept 1 for a two week hunt with a point system for mountain sheep bear elk and deer. A town and railroad are planned near Cody’s ranch. The report also recounts a Pennsylvania boy, George Mahly, shooting three bears in one day near Hammersley’s Fork, bringing home the bears and earning boasting rights.
The London Daily Mail reports Lake Ngami is absolutely dry after traveler B Wilson, a South African pioneer who crossed the Kalahari, found it vanished. Once a lake it is now a swamp fed by the Okavango overflow.
The Bureau of American Republics notes a large scale deposit of rose garnet near Cuautlay in Mexico. Market prospects put its price on par with the finest onyx, due to its superior beauty. The rosalite is a white sandstone filled with small garnet crystals, though too soft for gems.
The Detroit Tribune suggests public wonder at Helen Keller's fluent speech will fade as people realize she is a woman. The remark frames Keller's achievements in gender terms, reflecting contemporary attitudes toward disability and gender.
A fanciful tale narrates Mother Cloud sending her Raindrop babies on a journey by train across Brookville Riverdale and Oceanside. Conductors Wind and Mr Sunshine guide visits to stations, where Raindrops aid thirsty cows, refresh parched flowers, and power a mill wheel before reuniting with Mother Cloud at Oceanside.
A bedtime autumn verse describes a great tree lullabying sleepy leaves Yellow Brown and Red. The leaves beg to stay through a sunny day but the tree urges them to bed. Dawn finds the ground sparkling as a white bedclothes bear returns. Children respond Good night.
A little girl named Ethel refuses more turkey at Christmas dinner saying she is more than full. Uncle John consoles her as he notes her honest recognition of natural appetites in a brief Stray Stories vignette.
Captain Charles G. Long of Company D United States Marines reports that American forces occupied the Forbidden City in Peking on August 16 to 16 o with four gates entered. The presentation notes Japanese sentries Objected but no Chinese opposition occurred and regimental colors were raised in the administration building. The entry lasted roughly 3 30 to 5 30 pm with orders to withdraw and leave a guard at the gate. Colonel Cochrane forwards the report noting it may not have been mentioned in prior campaign accounts.
Captain H. B. Smiley of the Fifteenth Infantry recounts how a phonograph aided formal talks with the sultan of the Sulu archipelago during the lead up to a U S treaty. The device helped persuade the sultan after initial suspicion, during negotiations aboard a ship.
The faculty at Columbia University has learned of a mysterious secret student group called the Black Ring. Its exact nature is unclear, but insiders say membership requires provoking faculty displeasure or performing a so called fool stunt. Some known members span athletic and social circles. No campus announcements are posted and meetings are signaled by symbols. It may be a temporary craze or tied to recent events on Morningside Heights.
Madrid corre spondent of a Barcelona paper claims England seeks cession of the Balearic islands Ceuta a Galicia port and Gibraltar extension as a reward for Britain observing neutrality in the Hispano American war. Suspicions of such moves have circulated since peace.
The governor of Crete invites bids for a number of railway bridges as progress grows under Prince George of Greece. Canea, the island’s capital, will be illuminated by electric light, signaling modernization efforts across the region.
The article notes Berlin judges earn about 1500 dollars a year, a wage considered low by English standards. It contrasts Prussian official honor with limited legal prestige, mentioning barristers cannot attend court in Berlin and recounts a foreign lawyer mislabeling his profession.
Colonel Webb C Hayes reports on Chinese perceptions and conduct in warfare describing them as not naturally warlike but capable if trained. He notes fearlessness in death, filial piety, and desire for wealth, with Chinese mobs attacking cavalry by piking horses and using improvised forks. They sit, await death, yet show fierce resistance when engaged.
A 12 by 5 foot bronze tablet presented by New Hampshire to the battleship Alabama has troubled officers. It was meant for the exterior of the forward turret under the two 12 inch guns. Workers cannot bore holes in the Harveyized steel to rivet it, risking a less conspicuous placement.
Horton Headlight cautions that dancing couples crowd too closely and urges young ladies to keep arms at right angles with the shoulder. Affection is fine, but not in public halls. hugs belong at home. The notice promotes comfortable distance for easier dancing.
Gossip claims Charlestown state prison in Boston drops mince pie from inmates diet as doctors warn it harms health and raises death risk. Authors question which other prisons supply such fare, noting holiday meals may be the only exception.
The piece surveys diverse personalities from the late 19th century era. It notes the Prince of Wales writing verse, Sir William Huggins becoming Royal Society president, Chester A. Arthur’s ascent to office, Bishop Potter lamenting canned meals, Charles M. Hays’s early wages, Henry W. Rogers’s rise from street vendor to copper king, Hoke Smith funding traveling libraries, Dr. Oscar Loew’s Tokyo appointment with a $7000 salary, Christine Nilsson’s musical mementos, Tom L. Johnson’s stance on tipping, Captain and Mme. Dreyfus’s Paris-Geneva exile, Colonel George P. Gross’s $19000 spoon tale.
The list covers the French Legion of Honor reach, Finns migration and literacy stats for 1899 arrivals, a Paris exposition prize winner with a $200,000 prize earned on $7.50 weekly wage, and a trio of social notes. It notes the tramp issue tied to railroad expansion with 10,000 nightly riders and 10,000 waiting to ride, plus three new South African war words khaki kopje commandeer. A Maine woman finds she bought bric-a-brac at a bargain, only to see the buyer be her own clerk.
The article advises rotted and fined manures for gardens and notes a heavy stable manure application can revive an unfruitful orchard. It emphasizes cool dry onion set storage, proper tree spacing, balancing wood and fruit growth, and removing sickly trees rather than rehabilitation. It also highlights windbreak planting with closely growing, evergreen trees in double rows.
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