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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
17
A report cites Thomas Byrnes famed NYPD inspector and his mysterious Mulberry Street rooms. The tale notes grim items on display and a clever desk trap. A late night stumble on a creaking floorboard leads to a burglar's bag of valuables and a quick household stir.
A fragment notes a board at the top of the stairway in the Grigson Avellies serving a function. The readable piece emphasizes the board’s placement and potential utility within the stair area.
A health note urges avoiding arm folding to prevent a flat chest and rounded back and recommends habits like keeping the neck aligned, protruding the chest, drawing the abdomen in, and taking deep breaths multiple times daily.
An elderly passenger with a first class ticket sits on a newspaper, causing a child to plead for her fried fish to be returned. The benevolent traveler apologizes as the train halts at the girl’s station and she asks for her missing lunch.
The article explains that celluloid is a plastic made from gun cotton and camphor. Nitrocellulose is produced by treating tissue paper with nitric and sulfuric acids, then mixed with camphor and pigments, rolled, pressed, and formed under heat to create a hard, elastic material with a high finish.
Mr Wickwire mocks modern fashion plates as impossible and says many are merely photographs. Mrs Wickwire notes reproductions dominate and cites a scene where two women in new dresses walk in opposite directions, neither glancing at the other, as captured by Pixchange.
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