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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1872
Page
4
A motivational piece urging readers to seize opportunity without begging. It asserts fortunes come from self effort not patronage, encourages taking responsibility, pursuing suitable work, and relying on personal resolve and faith in God rather than relying on others.
An Internal Revenue circular outlines papers and documents for which stamp duties will be abolished after October first. The list includes contracts, affidavits, leases, deeds, insurance, bonds, certificates, bills of lading, promissory notes, powers of attorney, probate, receipts, and other legal instruments, with many items to be exempt in the future.
A Turbot gift from a Dean’s friend leads a servant to deliver the fish rudely. Swift rebukes the rude delivery, offers to teach manners, and swaps places in the chair. The Dean then makes the servant bow and present the gift, but the servant cites thanks and asks for half a crown. The Dean laughs and rewards him with a crown.
The piece critiques Democratic fraud accusations after a North cronaes overthrow and compares 1872 and prior election figures. It cites Professor Blyden’s find of a Mohammedan Arabic university near Freetown and reports girls studying the Arabic Bible as alleged textbook usage by authorities.
Long extract details frozen milk handling in Siberia and a pastry method with sugar biscuit, cream candy, scent powder, and delicate pudding. Also includes recipes and notes on charcoal purification, butter refinement, and a political reform roundup with Captain George May and others in 1860s America.
A historical note lists about 30,000 Jews in London with 2,000 in Christian churches. It cites 20,060 Jews in Berlin as converted, and 28 Christian Jews from a university group. Europe totals 3,431,700 Jews with 20,000 as converts. England’s Episcopal Church has about 100 ministers of Jewish birth.
The American Builder presents a simple method to produce sand paper from common windows glass. Glass is ground to varying fineness, sifted over glue spread on paper, allowed to fix, then loose glass is shaken off. The result is inexpensive sand paper of improved quality for carpentry.
Scientists from Europe test reactions of molten iron with bare skin in Bonn and Paris laboratories. Experiments show finger exposed briefly to 2,750 degree liquid loses fine hairs but nails remain intact. Wet skin may aid safety, though not essential according to Boutigny.
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