09 Jan 1895
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1895
Page
1
A collage of verse and opinion pieces traces rustic longing and urban critique. It includes a whimsical rural ode, a stern critique of partisan press, warnings against debt, a Colorado governor's farewell, and notes on newspaper practice and local business optimism.
Description of a bullet proof car engineered to deter train robbers with outward opening cages and end compartments for messengers and safes. It includes a double floor and roof, portholes, barred cages, pivoting doors, and a mechanism to trap robbers while the messenger can shoot from reinforced ends. Also notes French progress using electric power on canals and historic city sizes of Babylon and Rome.
A Princeton College party recounts the Bad Lands of North Dakota and Montana with vivid images of desolate, burning rock spires and white dusty valleys. They describe fossil hunts, noting aquatic species and giant bones amid bear, antelope, and mastodon remains, while Indians once called the region haunted. Also a humorous anecdote from Hamburg about a barrister seeking seating with a lord, and short quotes from Argonaut and Young Man's Era.
The piece describes Thomas Edison as a thinker with a calm, amiable face. It notes his slight deafness and occasional rheumatism, and praises his simple, inquisitive demeanor as he continues prolific work.
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