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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1905
Page
6
An expert explains that health affects nail growth, leaving visible ridges and slopes after illness or injury. Sudden fevers create abrupt edges, while gradual illnesses like typhoid produce gentle inclines. emotional strain also leaves distinctive marks, detectable after growth progresses past the lunula.
A Chicago Chronicle excerpt recounts unusual checks hung above a bank clerk’s desk. A sawmill owner’s $250 lath check was honored, a cuff check helped an intoxicated actor pay a fine, and a linen collar bet rowed $5. The piece suggests banks honor odd but valid instruments.
A botanical friend recalls a past remark about the apple Eve might have eaten in Eden, describing it as a small oriental fruit fragment about a third of an inch in diameter and bitter, suggesting wild Eden fruits vs cultivated varieties could have altered mankind's fall.
A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, newly arrived from Germany, receives rowing lessons. The coach explains that backwater means to use the oar in the opposite way. The scholar tries, lifting the oar and placing the blade as instructed, though comprehension is limited.
A disjointed dialogue fragment shows a passenger asking about occupation with phrases Map maker and soldier cited. A reference to Chicago Tribune appears, hinting at a newspaper context or dialogue about editors or publishers.
The article recalls George Parker Bidder born 1806 in Devonshire as a child prodigy whose rapid calculations amazed scholars. It details his education at Camberwell and Edinburgh, his engineering work with Robert Stephenson on the Birmingham railway, and his later role in Parliament before dying in 1878. It also mentions Ze rab Colburn born 1804 in Cabot Vermont, Jedediah Buxton born 1707 in Elmerton Derbyshire, and their extraordinary mental arithmetic feats and brief life notes.
A Boston Transcript piece compares elephants to students, noting their memory and learning limits. It recalls a circus elephant trained to bow and walk past babies, and another that refused tricks after a baby keeper’s death, ending by wrecking the circus.
A train starts as a shirt sleeved man shouts Smith along the platform. A curious passenger leans from a carriage. a blow is struck. The attendant queries the passenger, who asserts no one called him. The incident ends as the train pulls away. London Telegraph.
A 19th century note describes white hearse and robes at children’s funerals and the common use of white badge bands and sashes by mourning families. It compares US and English practices, noting widowed and unmarried mothers often wear white adornments.
A Scribner's Magazine travel sketch recalls the old caravan routes from Homs to Hama, noting 5000 years of passage by camels as French engineers lay a new railway road. The journey contrasts ancient tombs and tell mounds with improving but fragile wheat fields and unique stone houses in a fertile yet evolving landscape.
A collection of wry maxims on honesty vanity and social behavior. The speaker mocks common disputes and generational mores with blunt observations about marriage dressmaking doctors and parental discipline. The tone echoes a period newspaper quote from the Atchison Globe.
In Sheffield England a four foot fish proved its appetite by swallowing a massive mass of netting over two yards long and fourteen inches wide. The supposed liver proved to be the entangled netting, leaving the mystery of how it was swallowed unresolved.
In prehistoric times stone weapons shaped like hearts were made by early peoples. In Scotland they are called elf-bolis and thought to be charms or fairy works. When the central projection breaks, they resemble a lover's heart. London An sewers.
A fragment from a Southern Farm Magazine suggests using a thin film of tasteless oil such as olive or pea oil on cider stored in a cask to prevent spoilage. The oil forms a surface layer that blocks air access and slows acetic and putrefactive ferments.
The piece outlines the box office treasurer duties behind theater scenes. It explains selling dynamics, price pressure, and the demand for higher priced seats. It highlights psychological tactics, time pressure, and the need to balance owners and managers with public expectations.
The article portrays Ivan IV as a paradoxical ruler who mingled brutal torture and public executions with glimpses of reform and leadership. It notes his delight in punishment, his fearsome reputation, and moments of calculated mercy, including plans to spare 180 of 300 condemned, alongside praise for his early statecraft and expansion of Russia.
The article recalls how campaign pride used portrait buttons dating to Queen Anne era and Dr Sacheverell controversy. It notes buttons, letter seals, playing cards backs, fans, and even tobacco stoppers and crockery bore caricatures and heads of the doctor.
Native Porto Ricans fashion a range of useful and ornamental items from palm leaves gourds coconuts and island woods. They carve canes knives and baskets. Senoras and senoritas excel at drawn work and lace creating fine needlework.
A Swedish girl arriving from the old country attended an evening service in Duluth. The minister, noticing she was a stranger, shook hands with her at the close of the meeting, and Bald indicated he would take pleasure in calling the man.
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