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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1897
Page
6
A veteran captain rebukes youth for romanticizing today’s seafaring while praising old savior instincts. He recounts Captain Nutman who perished with a rescued man, a dog sacrificed to save others, and legal duty over self at sea, ending with a Swede saved by solidarity.
The widow Mullins asks Spudds if he truly wants to marry her daughter Helen. The suitor responds plainly that his aim is to be Helen's husband.
A Yankee pilot candidate in New Orleans tells the boat owner he can rely on knowing where the snags are not. The owner questions river knowledge, while the applicant insists his strength lies in avoiding snags by not knowing their exact locations.
A Kansas City Journal account recalls the 1872 Jewell county buffalo in which Columbus Palmer and his dogs chased a large bull. Palmer says he fired a shot to the forehead, killing the animal as the dogs barreled toward him, declaring the skepticism about skull shots false.
The Electrical Review describes Glatz and Lugo methods using electrolysis to remove glycerin and caustic soda from soap lye. Anode made of zinc or carbon, cathode in a porous pot, current forms sodium hydroxide at the cathode while glycerin is released and insoluble impurities are filtered out.
A New York livery stable enforces rules to keep horses calm. Only wealthy patrons’ animals are kept, and shouting at horses is forbidden. No profane language is allowed within hearing of the horses to avoid nerve and unease.
A brief note recalls an English act of 1845 requiring wedding rings to be standard gold. The law aimed to boost gold duties more than curb imitations and public misrepresentation.
A correspondent describes a multi act ruse where a man posing as Dr E L Adams of Stroudsburg visits a doctor, procures a spray apparatus, uses a forged check, and induces a wife to provide a receipt for a false debt. The scheme expands with variations toward cash payments and fake introductions. The Medical Record notes similar schemes targeting physicians across locales.
In the 1860s the Central Park lake opened to skaters and a new NY Skating Club introduced safer, booted skates. A Portland, Maine visitor in a European like dress inspired women to try skating, leading to fashionable carnivals and growing women participation in 1862-63.
A French doctor proposes feeding hens an absorbent salt of iron mixed with wheat to produce iron rich eggs. He claims hens digest large iron amounts and render it into a form easily absorbed by humans.
A London scene features a dyspepsia specialist urging a patient to chew, while the female patient calmly retorts that she was not given teeth and could barely manage. The exchange highlights comic irony and social manners.
The United States flag was saluted in Guiberon Bay France by an officer in charge of the vessel Admiral La Motte. The European hornet is larger than the common wasp with a comparable temperament. The common silver dollar measures about 137 inches in diameter.
A dignified gray haired woman exits a Broadway shop and walk downtown unaware of a large green silk spider web and red velvet spider hanging from a comb in her hair. Onlookers smile as Oriental goods display wires supplied the decoration.
The article explains a simple sand filtration system for wells to reduce bacterial contamination from drainage and cesspools. It describes center tube insertion with fine gravel and coarse sand layers, plus a pump plunger, noting sand filtration is not perfect but offers a strong safeguard and must prevent fine sand entering the pump.
University of Michigan laboratory experiments tested welded joints by cutting samples to uniform diameter. Among four specimens from each of three random bars only two failed, both lap welded, with fractures near the weld but strength close to solid metal in all cases.
The article notes that giant ancient humans are uncommon and Egyptian mummies and catacomb remains show medium size. Armor of long-ago warriors fits normal modern bodies, implying no extraordinary bulk or height. It concludes that while there were great men in the past, equally great individuals exist in the nineteenth century.
An excited man rushes into a health office seeking a death certificate. He pays one dollar after offering 50 cents, and a secretary declines the reduced fee, noting the deceased was no model wife. The exchange ends with the man insisting the dollar is paid.
The Forth bridge in Scotland requires around 50 tons of paint for a single coat on its vast structure. The area covered is about 120 acres, illustrating the immense scale of maintenance work involved.
A promotion touts a weekly paper as useful and fair with broad coverage and vivid illustrations. It claims democratic stance, no trusts, and strong reading for women, offering a one year price of 3.00 for two papers versus 4.00 separately, highlighting extensive circulation.
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