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18 Jun 1861
Page 1
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Newspaper
Cannelton Reporter
Location
Cannelton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1861
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment contains repeated phrases and stray punctuation with no clear event, entity names, dates, or locations readable enough to identify a specific person or action for a news summary.
The article discusses Comstock's Spader, a four-horse digging machine three feet wide that pulverizes soil and promises substantial cost savings per acre versus traditional plowing. It cites experiments on Mr. Sullivant’s farm and notes a reported eighty four and a half cents per acre laying by cost, with potential for greater crop productivity.
The snippet notes adjustments to dwellings and furniture costs with figures like three or five years and mentions a price aid aim. readable text is fragmentary and lacks clear entities or dates.
The final returns show Wesleyan work in New Wesland Friendly Islands Samoa and Fiji under the Australasian Conference, with 634 chapels plus over 300 preaching places, 81 missionaries and assistants, 244 catechists, 28 849 church members, over 43 000 day scholars, and more than 99 800 attendants on public worship.
In a Royal Institution lecture, Prof Marshall outlined locomotion rates for various animals and humans. He cited shark and salmon at sixteen to seventeen miles per hour, flies four to six, eider duck ninety, hawk one hundred fifty, worms thirty feet, racehorse forty to sixty, man walking four to five, running twelve to fifteen. He noted atmospheric pressure effects on joints, estimating knee tolerance up to sixty pounds and hip joint up to twenty six pounds.
An English sailor carried his child to be christened on the wrong arm and, after a tug of turning, an old post captain shouted End for end Jack. The sailor then switched the child to the other arm. The anecdote ends with the sailor pitching his son and heir on the other arm amid the commotion.
The Paris drainage network described as a marvel carries sun and waste water to one large receptacle. Gratings prevent blockages but reports show over ten thousand newborns were discarded into drains yearly, exposing neglect. Free Sorbonne lectures on Literature and Science aim to widen public access to instruction.
A Coma City distillery shuts down citing heavy whisky taxes. The closure prompts hope others in the country will join the move and reduce tax burdens on producers.
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