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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
3
A Scottish invention named the Thistle promises a near perfect milking machine using vacuum in teat cups to draw milk into a glass receiver. It claims gentle operation, primed for large herds with minimal labor, and attention to cleanliness, with trials at fairs highlighting its novelty and potential factory manufacture.
The article highlights Frederic Remington as a sculptor best known for The Bronco Buster in bronze, nearly twenty inches high, showing a bronco rearing while a cowboy masterfully restrains it. It also notes portraits of Barnato the Kaffir boom king and Miss Alice Holbrook with Barnato, plus a humorous street scene about a tramp seeking charity.
A playful essay analyzes Paderewski hair with quirky science, estimating 200 000 hairs averaging five inches in length and a total potential length of 100 000 000 inches. It notes color variations from light orange yellow to old gold, a large square head, and hair strength, with humorous musings on market value and souvenir appeal.
In Rochester New York workers install the Myers American ballot machine for the upcoming election. Voters press a separate button for each candidate and the tally appears at closing. The plan aims to speed results to newspapers within fifteen minutes and test the device for broader use.
Foreclosure sale of the historic Roslyn paper mill in Jamaica is reported. The mill was among the first in the country and was visited by Gen George Washington during a tour of the United States, who reportedly spoke highly of the paper making process and may have made a sheet with his initials on it, later destroyed by fire. Five shipping companies operate passenger routes from England to Cape Town.
A midshipman from the Monitor fight, later Rev. Robert C. Foote, becomes rector of Grace Church in San Francisco, one of the city’s leading Episcopal parishes. He served as a Confederate captain, then joined the church after the war. The snippet also mentions a Chicago restaurant placard about waiters and a light anecdote from Bobby about tongue at tea.
A clerk says a hate draws the line at bloomers and Evanston hostelry bars bloomered bicyclists from dining there. Doubt there will be suits as owners persist in excluding bloomers, a grave matter denying a lady admission to a public dining room for preferring bloomers.
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