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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
3
Professor O H Hitchcock of Dartmouth will accompany Peary on his forthcoming expedition and conduct a thorough study of the geology of England.
A group led by Thomda McEntree of Lacon Illinois forms a stock company with ten thousand dollars capital to start a cat farm producing cat skins for sale. They plan to raise cats and rats in a feeding cycle and anticipate starting with 100 cats and expanding to near one million cats in four years.
A proposed globe of at least 150 meters diameter will depict every country on five interior floors at the Paris Exposition. Visitors would travel between nations via electric railways, effectively touring the world inside the giant sphere. Allen’s Foot-Ease advertised as a foot comfort powder cures swelling bunions and hot tired feet and eases tight shoes.
Father Kenelma Vaughan an English Catholic priest has been gathering money in Spain for the new Westminster Cathedral. In Biscay alone he has raised 24500.
The heliograph uses sunlit flashes to send telegraphic signals without wires or batteries. A polished mirror and shutter are directed from an elevated site to a distant receiving station, using Morse-style codes for letters and figures, with reliable range around 100 miles in clear conditions.
The New York Post notes cowboys favor the sombrero on extreme plains heat, arguing that keeping sun off the head with folds and a wet handkerchief inside a felt hat provides cooling and protection more effectively than a thin straw hat.
A government note describes the chaparro tree of Colombia reputed to resist fire on savannas where fires clear vegetation. It stands up to twenty feet with thick bark. The piece also reports on a French balloon experiment lifting sensors to ten miles to analyze upper air, finding atmospheric composition near sea level despite lower density.
Box Traxotaco California special reports about seventy million dollars in new Klondike gold fields though the region remains only partly prospected. Men returning from the camps back claims of Arctic danger hardship and fierce battles for wealth. Their stories are told with bags of gold dust and nuggets as proof of the lure and danger of the frontier rush.
M Phelps quotes his cousin Alfred Swineford of Mar duatto Michigan who says he never visited the Yukon but believes in a great gold abundance. He cautions that anyone venturing there must risk life amid hardships beyond imagination.
The Fifty-fifth Congress adjourned without day after the Dingley Tariff bill passed the Senate and was signed by President McKinley. Vice President Hobart attested the Senate’s passage, Speaker Reed acted for the House, and the bill became law at 4.04 p.m. The proceedings included currency commission actions and cabinet acknowledgments. London notes add a bicycling craze with 91 million wheels in the city.
A wing bureau statement shows Oliver Dullard Coisned at the United States Mints produced 21,209,701 coins in the first fiscal year. Seigniorage profits to the Government totaled 86,286,104 dollars, with profits transferred to the treasury as coinage progressed.
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