16 Apr 1870
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Newspaper
Cannelton Reporter
Location
Cannelton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1870
Page
1
A miscellany of brief items notes a female broker in Chicago, the prevalence of clairvoyants in Boston, vagrant children in New York, and social mores. Obituaries announce General George H. Thomas’s death in San Francisco. A long column laments district schoolmasters and praises polite conduct and good manners.
A bank in Leride Spain stored a reserve safe with two keys. One key was missing for weeks. When a visit to the reserve was needed a key lay in the lock. Inside lay the body of a former employee, likely killed during a failed robbery when the door closed by spring trapping him amid wealth.
The article notes a method to approximate hair count on a normal head. By assuming 120 square inches of scalp and 800 to 1200 hairs per square inch, it rounds to about 1000 hairs per square inch, yielding roughly 120000 on the head.
A broker once chased many money making chances and pledged to stay within legitimate channels after hearing a friend. He kept a fictitious account of stocks he would have invested in and after three months produced a balance showing failure to meet needs, leading to bankruptcy.
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