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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1893
Page
7
A collage of design ideas and wit compares room color choices to yellow wards and a tale of bricks repurposed as functional art. Bricks become paperweights, doorstops, ribbon weights, and sewing aids while a shift to psychological talk leads to a London Spectator reference on mind transmission.
An article extols plain color Japanese cloth a yard wide at fifteen cents noting its refined look. It also critiques gendered habits with knives and housework while praising women’s skill at finishing pointed tasks.
The Denver Sun reports Dr. Luys at Charite hospital in Paris claiming to transfer sensibility to objects. A hypnotized woman allegedly reacts to water and a photographed pin causes the woman to scream. The article notes dangers and historical suspicion.
Chicago customs officials noted a $15 000 gold shipment from George W. Sheldon & Co to pay duties arrived in $5 $10 and $20 coins. The total weighed short by about 1935 dollars of face value due to abrasion, requiring settlement before a receipt could be issued.
A humorous note about election bets paid by Republicans after a failed wager in the Sixth ward. Notable items include John T. Stone, a thirteen year old editor of the Henderson Daily Hustler, and a Whitely Indiana vault unearthed by workers. The piece also cites southeastern Oregon ranchers shifting to sheep and Massachusetts trout hatchery hopes for a bicephalous variety.
The piece traces how legendary worlds formed from distant journeys and were woven into myths by Greece Rome and later explorers. It cites Ulysses Xenophon and Washington Irving and notes Canary Islands legends of an unseen blessed land tied to promontories and fading with approach.
A reader recalls a friend who endured tooth pain after a dentist near his boarding place failed to clean the cavity and left cotton in place before filling. The patient switched to a first class practitioner and relief followed.
The text outlines early English currency from Saxon and Danish Beowulf era silver and brass, through noble copper and brass, to copper center Cambrian tin issues. It notes Henry III first minted gold coins, 1673 copper coinage reform, 1680 tin usage, 1690 1691 tin half pence, and the only pure gold coins in English history issued under Henry III.
A Harper's Young People excerpt argues that charging a student with cutting behind is unprovable. The piece notes the rider behind endures the whip while the rear hocketing student shouts cut behind and accuses the other boy to the teacher.
A New York Evening Sun anecdote recalls a little girl reciting six days of creation and asking where God keeps the entire creation. She believed a separate section called all that in the miz existed but could not be found.
Merchant praises fast passage from the Fever Islands while the ship's captain reports half the crew are unwell. The illness stems from fumigations rather than fever, signaling a health scare aboard.
A Boston transcript argues etiquette favors using a knife to cut pie while the fork acts as helper, and hand tasting is discouraged. The piece frames proper etiquette vs. enjoyment, urging the knife share and cupboard privacy for pie etiquette. A later Greensburg Record item reports Adam Robb suing Carnegie Bros. & Co. over coke oven smoke damaging crops near Larimer, with a prior trial and appeals leading to current proceedings in Cambria County.
A Paris report says the diamond may be used as a sight on gun barrels, a wartime materials advance spurred by Franco German tensions. The gem’s brilliance could guide the eye in dim light, but its practicality under soldierly movement remains unproven and may affect its adoption.
In St Paul Globe account Otto Li Haese defended the plaintiff Bertha Holas a domestic in Theodore H. Durgin’s home seeking $10 000 damages. After jury selection his opening address so moved the complainant that she left the courtroom in tears and refused to return causing the case to be dismissed.
Judge Erientrout dismisses assault and battery charges against Isaac Gross after a street incident in Reading Pennsylvania. Augustus Potteiger allegedly untied a woman's apron strings prompting Gross to confront him and knock him down. Jury acquitted Gross with costs charged to Potteiger.
The New York Press reports John D Rockefeller, a leading Standard Oil figure, has a private skating rink on a vacant 50 by 90 foot lot near his Fifth Avenue home at Fifty-fourth Street. The pond, valued at $500,000 with surrounding lots at $300,000, serves Rockefeller and his circle who recently received 100 pairs of skates.
A storm felled a tree exposing roots with Japanese cooking utensils and a hammer and club. The rings counted after cutting showed 800 years, suggesting either Japanese presence or Siwash Indian links, according to a Vancouver correspondent.
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