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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1900
Page
3
A New York Herald verse lampoons Easter Sunday on Fifth Avenue as displays of wealth and power among clubs, lawyers, actors, and society figures. A secondary tale from Youth's Companion follows Ethel and Uncle Ebby as a fire scare ends with respect for Sister of Mercy ideals.
Ethel a Bay coast girl earns the title Little Conundrum for asking many questions. She vows to imitate a Sister of Mercy, dons a badge, tends a bird with a broken leg, brings dinner to Uncle Ebby, and plans to nurse others on the Maples plantation.
Miss Janka Frankel recounts Hungary’s Holy Week rituals including the Good Friday Christ image, Easter offerings, and a distinctive Easter Monday and Tuesday water rite in which men spray or splash women with water or cologne for luck. The piece notes white robed processions, garden wreaths, and Hungary’s wedding day prominence.
The Gypsy moth a native of the Old World has invaded the United States. Since 1899 the pest has devastated Medford Massachusetts crops, shrubbery, and homes prompting state and federal actions. Officials project continued funding through 1902 with aims to eradicate the moth. Neuralgia in schoolgirls is discussed as a serious health issue linked to overwork and poor air.
A Freiden's Magazine essay argues that introducing railways sewers and machinery to China would drastically reduce its population and disrupt its food supply. It contends Chinese production cannot sustain a Western standard and warns outside influence would worsen famine and social ruin.
The earth accrues about five hundred tons in mass annually as meteors burn in the atmosphere and fall to the surface. Observers including Nordenskjold and Russian scientists agree on this steady influx from meteor streams and small planetary bodies orbiting the sun. The text also discusses bedsores in patients and preventive nursing measures.
A tall artist and a small elegant woman share season tickets at Chicago orchestra concerts. After a fall in the foyer he escorts her home and asks to call. She reveals her name Allyne and the man is Wesley Allyne, nephew of Dr. Wesley Allyn of Detroit. The rest is the old, familiar tale.
At the Paris Academy of Medicine meeting doctors agreed there is no specific cure for influenza. Dr Huchard proposed a sederhana curative treatment using quinine in sulfate or bromide forms and warned against new remedies like antipyrine. He advocated warming agents and certain antiseptics to combat the grip.
A Lake Michigan diving bell of phos phor bronze, five eighths inch thick, with three inch glass windows and iron bracing, weighed 23 000 pounds. Sent to 200 feet depth the bell collapsed under 80.8 psi, its plate glass shattering and the structure reduced to a shapeless mass. The test produced about 1 361 tons of pressure on the bell.
Dr. Frederick W. True of the Smithsonian Institution spent two months in Gewen bay Newfoundland studying finback whales. Ninety eight whales were caught, mostly finbacks, using a steam powered gun and cigar shaped exploding harpoons. The method eliminates the old hand harpoon and frail whaleboat as a deadly chase begins with a powerful gun.
A discussion of ancient historians notes Thucydides Tacitus and Herodotus praise while questioning Herodotus accuracy. The piece shifts to Old Times in West Tennessee recounting Squire Thomas Thompson arresting Joe Seahorn after a tree top standoff and a risky escape attempt.
An last year patent introduces a military Mauser with fully automatic loading. The shooter only aims and fires while the breech, spent case ejection, cartridge feeding, striker cocking, and breech closing occur automatically. Critics question practicality but drawings show a neat compact mechanism.
A Highlander on patrol fired at what he believed was a Kaffir near a culvert along the railway. The next morning Gideon Hugo Daljosephat found a pig shot, and the volunteer admitted guilt, offering Wien Sennen which Hugo rejected.
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