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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
8
A descriptive piece explains why sand mounds dot the landscape, attributed to a small rodent named Salamen. The animal digs underground tunnels six inches to six feet deep and builds sand heaps on the surface to cover the burrow entrances. The exact method of hiding the holes remains a mystery.
Eight men bound by linked boxes serve as carriers for the American Exchange National Bank. Police and plainclothes detectives accompany the line as they shuttle strong boxes between the Mercantile Gate Deposit vault and the bank offices at 115 Broadway, with daily trips continuing during and after banking hours.
An unfinished Atlanta church project showcases Scandinavian influence and a famed Georgian woman credits collective thought over individual effort. She notes that credit belongs to ideas and collaboration, not lone genius, while praising the architect Bag for artistic skill.
A Chicago Times Herald piece contrasts city land prices with rural beliefs through a Georgia talk with an artist Tom Nicholl. The dialogue highlights sky high Chicago values in dollars per foot for home sites stores and frontages, provoking astonishment and cultural humor.
Stromboli, one of the Lipari islands, has served as a lighthouse for at least 2,000 years. Its cone rises about 3,000 feet above sea level and can be seen from over 100 miles. Daytime vapor columns and nightly red flashes guide ships through the Gulf of Genoa and the Strait of Messina, making Stromboli the leading light for western Mediterranean traffic.
A Philadelphia Record recounts a life insured wife who endured eight years of worsening heart symptoms despite doctors predicting imminent death. She faced repeated diagnoses and survived far longer than expected, turning her fate into a public anecdote about resilience.
An ancient relic once owned by James II was seized during a raid and taken to Lambeth where the king’s son displayed it in a tavern. It followed the exiled monarch to France and later entered the Naples collection via Louis XIV and the Duke of Orleans before ending in the Naples museum.
A Chicago Chronicle report recalls a South Side scene where women spar over lending Paris hats and copying outfits. The article argues clothing becomes a fault line in female friendships, valued individuality clashing with social mimicry and affection.
The New York Press notes M A Dufour tested quarts like ordinary glass as it softens around 1000 to 1200 degrees. Quarts proves feasible for refractory, non hygroscopic, non gas evolving applications, with a tin filled thermometer tube functioning 940 to 600 degrees. Thick bulb walls prevent collapse from tin solidification and quartz vacuum tubes may occlude gases.
San Francisco engineer Harry R. Bostwick wins a $1,000,000 Corea contract to build a 15 mile imperial highway and extend the Coreen electric railway. The king plans to move the queen’s tombs inland after astrologers declare the site propitious, with monumental tombs and many cole sal sepulchers. A prior trolley trial caused a fatal accident and public unrest.
Workmen unearthed a sealed stove cask 90 feet underground in Walnut Ridge Arkansas containing red brown larger maize grain unlike any known today. The cask held over peck of seed to be preserved and replanted. Nearby, evidence of a prehistoric race appeared, with giants in stature. Local scientists say no current grain matches it and underground airtight sealing could explain its millennia of preservation.
A notice indicates that WO Birds will distribute an instruction document. The item outlines distribution plans and involved parties but lacks full context, leaving readers to anticipate further details on how the document will be shared and who will receive it.
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