04 Nov 1903
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1903
Page
1
A seaside rental find delights with promised artistry yet falls to comic chaos as a professor landlord decorates with old family portraits. Venus of Milo sparks a curtain clash forcing the professor to strip walls, leaving the cottage in solitary artistic exile.
A rural community touts a woman preacher whose duties include visiting the sick funeral rites and baby baptisms. A timid German visitor seeks to marry, balking when he learns she already has a fiancée, revealing village attitudes toward a female minister. The tale is paired with an Arab proverb about shared poverty and a twist of fate.
The article traces borax from Herodotus era to recent mining sites in Italy Asia Minor Thibet and Peru Bolivia Chile and the Sea of Marmora. It notes deposits in old dry lake beds and volcanic regions yielding boracic acid and crystallized borax, with prices once ranging from 50 cents to a dollar per pound and continued production by English firms amid expanding global demand.
In a Nature letter F H Glen reports that a radium bromide tube wrapped in black paper and held three to four inches from the eye in darkness produces a general illumination sensation. The eye feels filled with light, whether eyelids are closed or open, likely from widespread fluorescence of eye tissues. Holland Curtains: a cheap cleaning method is proposed using bronze stumps to rub the blind fabric flat on a table, restoring brightness without washing. A child's question and letter-writing motive appear in a brief anecdote.
A vintage advertisement promising a new remedy from Dr Kinc for consumption coughs colds bronchitis asthma pneumonia and related ailments. Claims no cure fee and offers trial bottles free with price 50 cents for purchase. Includes obsolete spellings and a list of illnesses.
A penniless young woman living in a high room endures hunger and cold while typing hopeful pages. She clings to a worn mother’s medallion, faces a two month past-due debt, and finally pays a broker with the saved money, sending a mother’s portrait to a collector for his daughter.
A curious piece explains the May fly ephemerida. It spends one to three years underground as a nymph before emerging to live at most one day in daylight. It cannot bite or eat, yet fascinates scientists like Prof. C. B. Davenport of Chicago for its brief, bright life and aquatic metamorphosis.
An illustrated description accompanies a detailed plan of a piggery and poultry house basement. It outlines the layout, including a west entrance, a four foot wide room, partitioned by pickets, a trap-door in the floor for litter, a trough below, central roosts, two nest-boxes, and a sweepings chute into the pig pen.
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