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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1896
Page
6
In a dusk scene on the West Side a poetically described woman named Ethel McFadden contemplates noble deeds for the suffering victims of greed. A domestic line from the kitchen interrupts, while the narrator notes her saintly, angelic look as she dreams of action.
A Reverend Samuel Barber discussion on how spiders form their web lines, proposing a direct propulsion mechanism rather than air convection. He cites experiments with sheets of paper and lit candles showing lines forming through midair, suggesting a vertical anchor and swaying motion as a possible cause.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recounts a senior woman bragging she never winds her watch, claiming it never fails and shows no damage from drops. The group questions the mechanism and she notes she never looks inside, prompting astonished admiration.
The Peckhams report spiders detect objects distinctly up to about one foot. Beyond that, a fly in a web may escape detection unless its movements reveal it. They also note spiders have color and smell senses, but weakly developed.
In Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham York Earl Yitzwilliam owns England's largest private house with 176 rooms and a vast income exceeding one million dollars annually. The article notes the mansion's scale and its potential value if not for its costly upkeep.
The New York Sun reports a Chicago woman voicing rights demands for sleeping car passengers. She rails against locked toilets and curtains, urging basins and private space while recounting travel woes from Chicago to New York and Ogden to San Francisco.
A detailed tour of the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works describes raw materials from Brittany and Cornwall to America, the grinding and mixing of porcelain clay, plaster molds, and the throwing and turning on wheels. It explains firing in multi-tier seggars, glazing, repainting, and the aging process, noting the gilt painting uses pure gold ground with mercury and turpentine.
Jim Barry recounts a Maine encounter about 40 miles north of Greenville where he and a companion surprised a wounded lynx at a caribou carcass. After failed gunshots he clubbed the animal, which then struck a leg wound, and a final gunshot ended the fight.
A roundup of cyclists including Otto Ziegler who broke his arm again, E Bald admirers optimistic for next year, Ray Macdonald mulling quitting circuit racing, Charles O Gassley riding 102 miles in seven hours in Ohio, Stocks the English rider near tandem records, Arthur Zimmerman open to a $5,000 unpaced match, and Louis Gimm reportedly mentally unbalanced after his 24 hour track record. Also noted: R L Jefferson’s 6,574 mile London to Irkutsk feat. side slips and cycling safety musings. Brooklyn bicycle rooms and new wall racks. a Brooklyn cyclometer watch combo promising $5 sale.
A San Francisco Argonaut anecdote recalls Louis XV era policing when Desfontaines exposed a D Argenson escapade. The royal officer rebuked the pamphleteer while warning of harsher penalties, and the writer replied he must live. The lieutenant coldly answered he did not see the necessity.
Wit from a 19th century Indianapolis Journal exchange noting that Tommy-Paw’s gunpowder was imagined by the Chinaman but gained real deadly use only after Christian nations adopted it. The brief remark juxtaposes myth and modern warfare with humor.
A collage of quips from multiple papers on bicycles and the “new woman” era. Jests reference riding, fashionable danger, and social change as satire of early 20th century manners and mobility.
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