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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1897
Page
7
Miscellaneous utterances and snippets including foreign tongue placenames as Mull hamlet and Welsh parishes, German coinages, and odd historic terms. social quips about language, culture, and a humorous street scene with Maggie and Chimmie. a bickering couple overheard about pennies and postage stamps.
A collection of brief notes discusses Lord Kelvin on molecular motion and reversibility, a backward kinetoscope idea, and a quote about a bicycle world tour. It also mentions Nazareth’s many European supervised institutions and the fate of the Justinian pandects from Amalfi to Pisa and Florence.
Dialog shows a mother questioning Ed about stealing cake, Eddie denying, Elsie taking a piece and asserting innocence while a child confirms witnessing or not. The exchange centers on a domestic dispute over cake and truth.
Sorosis elects Mrs. Hall as president in New York on Monday with formal rites. A light moment follows when retiring president Mrs. Helmuth receives a poem from her husband. The playful verse mocks Sorosis while signaling Mrs. Hall’s new leadership and Helmuth’s playful triumph.
Two Prussian physicians Oldcagge and Jurman tested hydro bromide of scopolamine as a hypnotic for insanity. Hypodermic doses from 0.603 to 0.015 grain induced sleep lasting 3 to 10 hours, with patients calmer on waking. Effects strongest in maniacs, less so in acute typomania. in chronic insanity action evident, but in delirium tremens the drug only weakens the patient with no hypnotic effect.
Landscape painter William A. Coffin urged a woman's society to plant more trees along streets, noting verdure improves beauty and Sanitary benefits. He cited Paris’ six months of verdure and suggested chestnuts and maples to improve views until thoroughfares are rehabilitated.
A well managed orchard can yield multiple times the land value and labor costs, but neglect leads to ruin. Cultivation is essential to feed trees, keep surface soil active, and prevent weeds. Clover should die on the surface and shallow fall harrédwing plus one to three summer cultivations suffice.
In Sing Sing Art Students league art class Willie Muggs was severely punished for drawing a caricature of his teacher. The incident is reported by the New York Journal with brief notes on the disciplinary action and context within the school program.
A German colliery shows coal dust on a metal wall catching sun heat and igniting, with ash indicating long burning. Ensilage processing from corn stalks preserves green fodder via lactic acid fermentation, keeping two years or more, improving cow digestion. The article cites Romans and Go ffard reintroduction 400 years ago.
A Buxton quotation emphasizes that energy, invincible resolve, and a fixed purpose distinguish the powerful from the weak. Talent, circumstances, or opportunities cannot substitute for a relentless determination that drives action toward death or victory.
A description from a Boston Budget notes a tree whose growth on one side is matched by a large branch or two smaller limbs on the opposite side. Roots mirror this balance, keeping the center of gravity perfectly maintained.
The article outlines Crete’s turbulent history from legendary kings Rhadamanthus Minos and Idomeneus to its later independence and eventual conquest by Rome in 68 B C. It notes Crete as a maritime power famed for Persian and Peloponnesian War mercenaries, isolation from invasion until internal strife, and a long, alternating tale of autonomy and subjection.
Peter Carter relates how Theodore L. Cuyler was steered toward the church by his mother whose faith and influence opposed a legal career. A European exile prompted study at Princeton Theological Seminary and early preaching near Ludlowville New York convinced him the ministry was his calling.
In a New York Weekly excerpt a captain scolds a stowaway who fled home and sneaked aboard a vessel. The boy explains his sister began piano lessons on practicing scales, and he thought ships had pianos. The captain laments the risk of onboard improvisation.
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