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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1897
Page
7
A group in a hotel smoking room debates airships and the coming of new transport. A stormy Lake Erie anecdote follows, illustrating caution toward novelty, and a closing moral about conscience and quick thinking.
The article surveys U.S. presidents from Washington onward and notes their leisure choices. Washington enjoyed horseback riding and dancing at Alexandria gatherings. Jefferson loved violin music and inventive tinkering. Tyler favored poker and small stakes games. Andrew Jackson kept fighting cocks and cockfighting. W H Harrison enjoyed market shopping duty. Grant liked fast driving trotters and evening Boston games with friends.
A Montgomery Street restaurant keeper passes a $20 gold piece that appears genuine until a banker suspects foul play. The coin is found to be hollowed and filled with a base alloy, then resealed with precise milling. The ruse exposes a clever gold counterfeiting method reported by the San Francisco Call.
A Pittsburg Dispatch summary describes a cherished legend about the Chinese flag, noting a pale yellow field with a red sun and dragon. It recounts an ancient war myth where China supposedly copied Japan’s sun, predicting conquest, yet a fleet of 100000 men was lost in a storm, leaving only three survivors, questioning the flag’s meaning.
Quote from the Chicago Times Herald recalls planters in Arkansas weighing social rank by their dogs. An old man dismisses a new arrival as a “scrab,” suggesting distrust of coarse or unmatched blood in dogs and people, linking pedigree to status.
A New York Post excerpt details a guide in blue jeans describing an impressive marble monument costing $90. He recounts Miss Griggs, a sister who died, and a famed duel near the mountains with a governor among the mourners. The grave marked by pine tops hints at a sensational past.
New York Journal reports Professor Cattaneo of the Italian Institute of Science argues camels initially lacked humps. Centuries of packing and fat storage on the back supposedly created the hump through natural heredity and adaptation to desert life. Separate note recalls A J Hamlin aiding Blondin’s gorge crossing by backing rope and gear. Blondin relaxed prior to the feat.
In Indianapolis, Hobbs comes back to town after eloping with Jarley’s wife. The club then drops Jarley from the rolls to avoid embarrassment, leaving Hobbs and his partner in town together.
A quotation from Harper's Bazaar features Brown describing his wife as original. He recalls proposing and her reply, I think it's about time, illustrating a witty, era style response.
The article discusses ongoing winter navigation on Lake Michigan with steamers and car ferries operating despite ice and snow. It notes historical attempts, the high cost of ice breaking, and the risks from storms and reduced visibility, cautioning that success on Lake Michigan does not guarantee the same for the wider Great Lakes system.
Carl Schurz delivered a funeral oration for William Steinway head of the Steinway piano firm. He praised Steinway as a model of useful wealth, noting his wealth funded public welfare and he lived simply with a liberal heart, ever ready to help the worthy. Steinway’s generosity, Schurz said, made him a brother to all. Youth's Companion remarks on his character.
In a city ticket office a short man with a hanging beard demanded a time table and declined to answer where he wished to go. The clerk gave him a timetable and the man left. The incident drew a comment from a clerk about the complainant’s rudeness.
A Pittsburg Dispatch note observes growing libraries demand works on electricity, a modern branch of science with scarce literature. It contrasts rapid English language change over centuries with current usage and notes the Bank of England employing about 1,100 people with a £300,000 annual salary list including pensions.
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