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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1894
Page
2
The City Times notes debate on whether Mars is inhabited and how modern science uses spectroscope data to infer water on Mars. The piece contrasts ancient speculation with contemporary methods, claiming knowledge grows with advancing astronomical machinery.
The account details the killing and processing chain for turkeys or fowl. Birds are hung on a platform, their mouths washed, blood cleaned, and placed with water in troughs. Workers, mostly women and girls, perform scalding, feather removal, and final cleaning before freezing and packing in ice-filled barrels.
Gossip traces Cissy Loftus's short reign over society as she drew many suitors including peers and wealthy baronets with incomes around £10,000 a year. The chatter centers on a youthful, consummately eligible heiress whose marriage seemed a distant prospect amid a flood of proposals.
A Worcester Spy report describes a stamp exhibit featuring white porcelain plates with lake like edges and cleverly arranged 2 cent heads in a circle around the center. The stamps appear applied by ingenious devices, using all denominations and colors with spray like borders, and water staining suggests weathering on the plates.
The Belgian government issues colored badges for season ticket holders to show the ticket type and travel class. The system aims to simplify identification as the number of season ticket holders rises with nightly and weekly passes.
The piece argues for keeping about a dozen hens per 10 by 10 feet space, noting smaller flocks are cheaper to feed and easier to manage. It cautions against large flocks, cites profits of $2 to $3 per hen in small flocks, and emphasizes regular care and family involvement. It also includes odd, humorous lines from a boy about hens and poultry life.
A fragmentary ad style note urges women to write for relief and claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound offers twenty years of success. The text features a San Francisco address and promotional language about women speaking daily.
The New York Advertiser notes that a plant's odor changes with its life conditions. Soil moisture, temperature, sunlight, and growth alter perfume. to mimic another's scent a plant must share species and life environment, including similar leaves.
A New York World excerpt explains sleep begins at the feet with senses fading in a fixed order. Eyes, taste, smell, hearing, and touch diminish progressively as slumber spreads from the extremities to the brain, with touch often least dormant and smell returning last.
An old man lectures Sunday school on design and the human body. Philadelphia health reform women expand a street cleanliness experiment, repeating New York's effort on Twelfth Street between Chestnut and Walnut around the Century Club.
Miss Isabel Darlington, daughter of West Chester ex-Congressman, has passed the preliminary exam and is registered as a law student in ex-Judge Thomas Butler’s office. She previously served as her father’s private secretary during his Washington tenure.
Witty exchange with Captain Schalk depicts a joke cure for seasickness. The captain promises a sure remedy: lie down in the shade of a full leafed tree and the discomfort will depart.
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