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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1898
Page
2
Medical experts warn premature burial is rarer than feared and note decomposing bodies distort coffins. In Vienna, thimbles and wires test the deceased before burial, with a bell that has rung once. A doctor argues testing bodies before death certificates is unnecessary but praises the Vienna practice as wise and worthy of wider adoption.
A party of gentlemen returning from a city visit at a large hotel seeks ice water but finds a malfunctioning bellboy device. After toying with the dial and asking for champagne, they catch staff off guard with a demand for plain water with ice. The tale from Galveston News documents their misdirected prank and the ensuing exchange.
Yonkers Statesman reports a reader sent a poem on a fifty dollar bill to the editor. The editor kept the note but did not recognize the bill’s value, returning it after the exchange.
A tall circular stack in Llanelly rises 400 feet from base to summit. The top cap weighs 27 tons and 720000 bricks formed its construction. The structure visibly bends in gales.
The New York Sun describes how cargo shifts on ships, steamboats, and trucks when jolted on slopes. Experienced truckers unload shifted top cargo to resecure loads before continuing journey, ensuring safety and proper delivery despite rough handling.
A young businesswoman shows off a cushioned divan in her flat that is actually a reinforced coffin box sent from Florida with a mahogany coffin. The owner explains the coffin box was gifted by a boarding-house acquaintance who came into money after a grandfather’s death.
A Kentucky mountaineer visits the Cumberland ridge seeking a week’s stay while scouting timber. He learns of Widow Tackett who offers room and meals for two or three men with a famed pie that inspires strong, humorous praise from the locals.
A group of literary men in a famed New York chop house share witty banter as a guest, an old southern black man, passes his hat around the table. Each man contributes a token, drawing a humorous gasp when the hat returns. The gentleman jokes that the hat made him feel thankful and the man departs richer for the moment.
The import of marble to the United States has nearly stopped with only occasional cargoes arriving. Once a steady flow from Italian quarries fed Philadelphia, but now granite dominates buildings and cemeteries. Granite lasts longer, polishes well, and resists rust, unlike marble.
Comic exchange shows a lady offering bread and butter while a boy refuses fear of a thief and asks for plum cake. The punchline references a canary in a city newspaper item reflecting humor of the era.
A thwarted evacuation scene unfolds as a woman refuses to descend a crowded fire escape citing oversized shoes while a partner urges flight. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports intense public safety pressure and fear of a deadly blaze.
A Wellington Chinese trader known as William Joe Gett once a Chinese interpreter issued a four page red ink statement of causes of bankruptcy. He laments endless troubles and inability to pay creditors with analogies of a fish in a dry pond and an engine without coal.
The New York Post reports manufacturers are exploring banana flour as a durable, nutritious bread base rivaling wheat flour. As whole wheat popularity grows, banana albumen may quickly gain consumer approval for future bread products.
A comic exchange between a doctor and patient about pills. The patient claims to have followed orders by taking the same pill repeatedly, explaining he wasted no pills because he could not swallow the first one. Vim.
The New Orleans Picayune quips that a wealthy man easily calls his physician “My dear doctor” yet hesitates to greet his solicitor in the same familiar way, despite the solicitor’s equal professional fee.
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