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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1897
Page
3
A fragment from Martha M. Williams published in Harper's Bazar presents a descriptive poem about the Valley of Silence. It depicts dim borders, Warder mountains, and imagery of night and nature, concluding with a solemn sense of stillness and distant guardians.
In a dim back room in Paris, fourteen men including Pulaski devise a death pact to kill the rich oppressor. Francois draws the black bean but the others all reveal white beans, making him the doomed messenger. He kills Pulaski’s target in a garden, flees to America, and returns to shoot Pulaski in a final, fatal confrontation.
Harold W. Fairbanks notes in the Engineering and Mining Journal a folded gold vein in the Julian and Banner districts of San Diego County California. The vein forms a series of rolls dipping sixty degrees overall with each roll sharing the plate dip of seventy degrees northeast and successive folds progressing downward into the hanging wall. Slates remain unfolded relative to the vein.
The porcupine gets its name from two Latin words meaning a thorny pig, reflecting its spiny appearance and pig like body.
A Philadelphia inventor created a colossal iron truck capable of hauling up to 169,000 pounds with a 16,000 pound weight and 3000 building cost. The vehicle moved massive loads across cities, using crews of up to forty horses directed by a single commander. It demonstrated remarkable endurance on rough streets, while replacing older wooden wheels and proving rail-like cable work in New York.
A collage of curious notes and trivia from an old paper, listing diverse facts about animals, plants, places, imports, writing systems, and proverbs. It includes claims about Japanese smoking, butterfly eggs, palm propagation, a Rockland game cock with a wooden leg, and many antiquated observations.
The Bureau of Statistics reports California fruit trees totaling 37 million on about 100000 acres, with apricots, apples, peaches, and pears providing vast yields. Drying now relies on open air methods using sulfur fumes to preserve color, with half a day of exposure and a two to four day cure before hot-water treatment and packing for shipment to canners.
A new fibrous material named Buenamanquina, rival to asbestos, was recently found in the United States of Colombia. It shares many properties with asbestos, is perfectly transparent and noncombustible, and can be reduced to pulp and molded, per the San Francisco Chronicla.
Mr Warburton describes a renowned Egyptian magician who uses a susceptible boy to appear to the caller’s chosen figures. The child enters a semi mesmeric state and names Lords Derby and Nelson and others, revealing visions matching Mr Warburton’s thoughts. The episode illustrates a claimed clairvoyant condition.
The Chicago Tribune quotes R M Henry of San Francisco condemning Japanese pro progressivism and a surgeon in Tokyo performing eye straightening. He describes a simple exterior eyelid procedure with a tiny slit and silk thread to make Japanese eyes straight, claiming improvements over Caucasian standards.
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