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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1896
Page
2
The Dillon Examiner prints a satirical tangling of theater lines with political comment. It jokes about actors and stage not matching conduct offstage and threads in references to figures like Lord Dunraven and Paul Kruger with a chorus of quirky phrases.
A New York World report chronicles a Siamese cat at a Dr. Derby residence on East Fortieth Street showing extreme muscle and tissue wasting. Shelter staff describe the puzzling case as observers compare it to rare medical conditions and note the animal’s odd asymmetry and stiff movement.
A garbled text fragment discusses whale shedding and crying behavior, referencing a place, a pope, and various unclear terms. It mentions a whale shedding tears and reacting with some emotion while avoiding certain fish or creatures. The passage is highly indecipherable and not clearly connected to a coherent event or source.
A chaotic warning from the New York Journal describes a large five story building fire where a police officer rescues a 240 pound woman from a burning stairway by using the fire escape. The dramatic scene includes the failed attempts to lower her safely and notes others who assisted or hindered the rescue. The tale blends sensational detail with praise for the officer and notes of personal property losses.
A Scientific American column previews a two seat reel with an adjustable gear and a quick release pulley for fast line release and a spring alarm. It also describes a tandem bicycle with side by side saddles and dual sprockets for two riders with a unique mounting and dismounting system.
The New South Wales department of agriculture confirms receipt by steamer of borble bees from New Zealand. Bees were housed in the Acetenic gardens and Linnea society grounds as medical writers question the sleep effect.
The San Francisco Examiner describes a Seattle attraction where a horse leaps thirty feet into Lake Washington, swims to shore, and is guided by a master. Spectators fill the area as the horse ascends the platform and returns to the crowd, displaying pride before resuming the run. The piece notes cold water and rough seas at times and questions the cruelty of the sport.
The article describes a new material named hoyyshite that uses tiny steel particles harder than sand. It claims crushes and grinds tougher surfaces, with three hundred tons of sand needed to do the work of one ton of crushite, and asserts dramatic efficiency gains in sand blasting and drilling.
The article notes recent improvements in eyeglasses, with two-section spectacles allowing distance and near vision. It explains upper lenses for far objects and lower for close work, with the lower half connected to the upper in a near circular arrangement.
The Peary expedition yielded a set of skins and skeletons. Prof Dyche of the University of Kansas now holds a collection that includes every known American mammal except the musk ox. He takes pride in the selection and its preparation and the honor it brings him.
In 1887 the United States had about thirteen electric railways with around one hundred cars. Now there are over eight hundred fifty lines and more than nine thousand miles of track, about two thousand five hundred cars. Investment nears four hundred million dollars and employment runs into the thousands.
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