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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1915
Page
7
The Queen explains to Billy Be By Bo Bum how wings helped on the wedding journey but were removed when building a city. She walks him to the royal nursery where nursemaids wash eggs and grubs hatch into ants, showing the early life of her colony.
A gentleman demonstrates that a watch can serve as a compass. By pointing the hour hand to the sun the opposite point on the dial indicates south. The author notes Amalfi’s claim as the compass’s birthplace and jokes about common ignorance.
A pair of men traveled by trolley from Little Falls New York to Chicago with potential extension to Sheboygan Ray City Louisville and St. Louis. Estimated fare 20 and hotel 12 for about four days through Eastern scenery. Route traces Hudson Valley Mohawk Valley and major cities beyond Syracuse.
The article recalls leather medals used as fake honors by rulers. It notes King John of Praner paying Edward III a ransom with leather money, then using leather medals to confer honor. The practice spread as a burlesque distinction among nobility and society.
A historic home remedy list advises immediate physician contact and a stomach pump for poisoning. It details emetics, repeated doses, keeping the patient awake, and specific antidotes for poisons like arsenic oxalic acid and corrosives, plus repeated saltwater and coffee regimens until vomiting and relief occur.
The article traces the evolution of the sewing machine from early double pincer ideas by Stone, Henderson and Greenough to Heilmann and Thimmonier and Ferrand. It notes Walter Hunt’s早 extension arm concept and Elias Howe’s patent victory, while asserting Howe’s central credit in the invention.
The eccentric Lord Southey built a gold and ebony guillotine in his Paris drawing room. He prepared for suicide by triggering the knife, but the spring failed and he postponed the act. He reportedly visited the device annually for the rest of his life.
Professor Worthington of the Royal Society in London achieves exposures under three one millionths of a second using a precisely timed electric spark. The system lets operators select any stage of a splash within two one thousandths of a second. A printing machine demonstrated at the meeting turns bromide paper into finished prints at 2 000 to 3 000 per hour for newspaper and magazine use.
A traveler in Maine chats with a middle aged farmer about his 90 year old father still living on the birth farm. The farmer notes the old man is frail and has complained for months, joking that farming may not suit him.
The piece mocks truthfulness in various societies, recalling a Cairo tale where a judge ruled for Suleiman after days of camel and land testimony, only to learn a week later that the case had no ground. It ends noting that many a straight man turns to drink when luck fails.
A brisk reflection on how geography narrates human history through place names. It highlights Pike's Peak, Bill Williams River, Kit Carson era figures, and Arctic coastal terms like Hudson Straits, Terror Point, Repulse Bay, Mistake Bay, Home Bay, Cape Comfort, Navy Board Inlet, Mary Jones Bay, Resolution Island, Hope's Advance Bay and the courage of whalers and explorers in Outing.
The article surveys burial customs from wandering tribes to grand ceremonies, noting variations such as lying or sitting bodies, warriors buried on horses, and a common east west orientation linked to solar symbolism. Some groups orient north south or face different directions by gender, with African tribes sometimes burying a person away from home facing their native village.
Henry Shrapnel, famed for a deadly shell, sought royal recognition but faced funding limits. His invention, likely used in Surinam around 1804, later earned praise from Sir George Wood after Waterloo. Shrapnel received a life pension in 1814, yet his other gun mounting designs remained under cover. He died in 1842 at eighty one.
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