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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
8
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt reproduces entries from a seventeenth century American planter’s account book. It lists payments for hair work, tooth drawing, cloth garments, trims, stockings, calico, and ribbon, including prices in pounds, shillings, and pence, and notes on fabric and garments for a wife and household.
A simple economical substitute for a night light is prepared by piercing irregular chestnuts with a needle to create holes then soaking them in oil for twelve hours. The soaked nuts are intended to be lit as a makeshift lamp.
The text describes preparing a chestnut with a drilled hole filled with cotton threads as a wick. Place it in a glass of water so it floats, then light it. Ensure the chestnut stays upright in the water and adjust the wick placement to avoid water contact, so the lamp lasts through the night.
Explorers high on Parag in Mindanao, Philippines, found a gigantic five petaled blossom weighing twenty two pounds. The immense bloom measured three feet across and arose on low vines. It is identified as a new rafflesia species named Rafflesia shadenburgia after Dr. Shadenburg.
A Northern Pennsylvania professional rat catcher, called to another town, left several ferrets in a neighbor's care. On return he found that carelessness allowed multiple ferrets to escape from custody.
An 1840s vignette contrasts a magistrate's rebuke of a caretaker and a rat catcher with Hawthorne facing job loss. His wife offers practical support, fetches Pen, and urges him to write, illustrating resilience and the era's domestic partnership. The piece ends with a brisk exchange about value and cash.
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