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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
7
A historical look at drydock procedures from keel placement to hull inspection. It explains flooding to float a vessel, bracing, and pumping out to rest the ship on keel blocks. It covers scraping, painting, and testing hulls, plus the challenges of copper sheathing and iron corrosion in drydock care at Liverpool.
The scene shows Moses and Prior adjusting a figure labeled Napoleon to reveal Cesar. The artist claims it resembles Napoleon, while the manager misreads the inscription as Caesar. Moses rewrites the plate to depict Alexander instead, clarifying the mislabeling as czar Alexander.
The cocoanut tree in Druid Hill park's palmhouse reaches 50 plus feet needing guy ropes and may need cutting soon. Gardener W D Hamilton raised it after planting twelve years earlier at Patterson park. A nearby date palm has 20 foot leaves and 8 foot circumference. both praised as finest specimens in the conservatory. Also London reports say morphine habit remains prevalent among the upper and middle classes with many advertisements for treatment appearing in Morning Post.
Reports from St. Petersburg and other cities attribute recent wholesale arrests to liberal doctrines rather than nihilism. The detained are mainly educated elites seeking greater press freedom and representative institutions, while dictatorial powers for General Tcherevin are seen as a response to growing discontent.
J W Henderson of Maynard street South Acton Massachusetts urges readers to inspect Royal Regal and Queen air ranges with wire gauze doors and order now before winter. He mentions Hub brand ranges furnaces hot water heaters steam heaters and windmill pumps with service available from Henderson KE in Acton.
A circular letter bars flying machine patent applications unless a working model shows actual ascent. The issue cites impractical devices, while Harvard freshman Everett Bumpus, blind since age six, pursues a literature-based path to journalism. The Forum discusses American historical figures and frontier identity.
Mr. Wiley of Lewiston recalls John the Baptist's locusts then reveals a real pod he found in Central America. The five inch mahogany pod yields a yellow musty liquid when split and mixed with water to make a nourishing drink.
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