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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1899
Page
2
Vienna July 6 recounts a perilous ascent by a lone aeronaut in the Pennine Alps aboard a silk balloon. A sudden gust ruptures the balloon. the basket and car plunge while the sky remains clear, the fall described in vivid details as the pilot gauges height and survival odds.
The narrator recounts a perilous ascent in a balloon toward the pole, misjudging wind currents and bursting the balloon. He describes a dramatic fall toward Vietma, losing ballast, a near-death leap into a city square, and landing with minor injuries after whisky revived him.
San Francisco correspondent reports a remote California Bay settlement where 100 men scorn matrimony and run the town of California City. Mythical mayor Crowell presides as bachelors boast they need no wives, while a visiting woman is told she cannot land. The interview with Alonzo Bates and other residents depicts a self-contained world of seafaring bachelors, simple meals, and a vow of singleness to preserve peace and monastic budget. The tale ends with the narrator noting the bachelors’ conviction that harmony would fade if women arrived.
The article explains a historic Chinese legal concept where if a criminal flees after a murder, his immediate family can be punished in place of the culprit. This coercive rule seeks to compel the deceased or fleeing offender to be brought to justice, though it appears harsh and unusual by modern standards.
The damaged text references a large famine impact with up to a quarter of a million people affected and widespread guile. It mentions religious appeal and moral political pressure, but the overall meaning is unclear due to OCR errors.
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