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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
8
A nisan thrope laments empire, while a traveler recalls Hawaii and Mauna Loa’s eruption, contrasting emptiness with grandeur in a Washington Star quotation.
A fragmented palm of Christmas issue content references railroad literature and a humorous digression on health fashion. Includes stray mentions of prominent names and a stray ad for Hall’s Catarrh Cure with testimonials and price.
The New York Evening Post reports millions of dollars in gold move via mail each year. Banks and individuals ship $1,000 to $10,000 parcels in registered bags from the West, South America, and Europe, with armed guards and strict registry checks. The system, praised for safety and low cost, sees increasing annual totals, from 26 million in 1897 to 42 million last year.
One of the last of his kind, John Padgett, lives remote from Hig Pellow men, in the woods of Lutes County Indiana, far from habitation. He traps mink and other furbearers for a living, surviving as a lone trapper in secluded woods.
The fox living near the cabin survives on game and garden crops. Strangers are eyed cautiously until the hermit trusts they pose no threat. His greeting is a cordial Howdy Mister. Those favored gain free passage toward paradise, while civilization pushes him deeper into the forest living free from intrusion. The only visitors are the grinders who buy his fare.
An aged hunter born to the forest has spent years with only fogs as companions and shows little desire for urban life or ongoing contact with people, choosing solitude over constant social ties.
G B M Harvey recently appointed manager of Harper & Bros born Peacham Vermont March 16 1864. He began newspaper writing as a youth at 14 and early roles included Springfield Massachusetts Republican at a low wage. He later moved to Chicago and New York City to focus on newspaper work. In 1893 he edited New Work before resigning to promote electric street railways. He organized a syndicate that bought the street railway system for 14724000 and held leadership roles with multiple transit and financial firms. He is a member of numerous clubs and hunted societies.
An old piece recounts a Cornell mechanical engineering training requiring seven trades, including blacksmithing. A practical tale follows of a student who resented the leather apron but later welds a mine shaft component, saving a mine and earning respect. The text shifts to social critique on marriage, highlighting a spoiled wife and assertive self-respect, then a jab at amateur photographers seeking proof of love from a captured image.
An 1880s era piece explains how soldiers often leave behind improvised wills as they face battle. It notes pocketbook forms, the tendency to delay until danger looms, and cases where dying men scrawl directives, such as leaving all to a spouse, with testator wishes generally honored. It cites examples from Khartoum and Afghanistan era campaigns.
Wills of two soldiers were found near a rock with blood letters reading to mother. The War Department verified the wills as valid and ensured proper distribution of the property to beneficiaries.
The Memoirs recount a rainy night duel ruse by Prince de Ligne and Comte de Segur at Rue de Bourbon, ending in laughter rather than arrest. Reports note apples and trade shifts involving Leavenworth, Kansas, plus dispatches on packing for export. Also covered are breathing exercises for lung strength, Bolivian bark shirts, Lord Kelvin’s solar age estimate, and quirky kitchen quips.
A fragmentary tale covers harsh January travel in Tomsk with 19,000 sleighs passing the city. It describes caravans of 50 to 70 sleighs, sometimes 200 to 400, each group hauling bales and hay, with horses fed on the move and crews sleeping on sledges despite extreme cold.
Fragmentary lines hint at a humorous dialogue about a Crushed Cereal and mistaken identities. The text references a character named Baglini and other unclear names, presenting a playful, unfinished scene with mock confusion and wordplay.
An article decries lack of early care leading to lifelong constipation and harm from laxatives. It promotes drastic remedies like patent pills and asserts mothers should avoid them urging use of Cascara, with dubious claims about purifying blood and restoring health.
A visitor reports a remarkable six toed family the Wiggins in Klimble County Texas. The grandfather known as Mexican Bill has six toes on each foot and his wife, now dead, also had six toes. Their children all have six toes and many grandchildren possess six or seven toes. The family is locally known as the Sistoe Wigginses and the visitor believes the trait runs in earlier generations.
The text traces the dahlia from its origins in Madrid and Mexico to early European use as a vegetable. It notes Spaniards finding it in Mexico, its introduction to France and England, and the difficulty of popularizing a new food. It explains the double dahlia’s greater popularity and cycles of fashion for single versus double forms.
Remarkable salvage tale follows the steamship Milwaukee after it went ashore at Port Site rol near Peterhead last autumn. The fore end was damaged beyond floatation, so the ship was cut in two and the stern towed to the Tyne. A new bow was launched and connected, with the two parts restored to near original alignment. The vessel now appears intact and strong, with the junction barely detectable.
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