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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1892
Page
5
Two scheming maidens, Pauline and Penelope, plot to keep their fiancés by sharing calls and rivalrous gifts. They vow to outmaneuver each other with coordinated engagements, notes, and candy while hoping for good salaries.
In a Providence memory, Dr Howe who studied at Brown University earned fame for playful mischief more than scholarship. Years after graduation he visited ex president Dr Messer to apologize for college interruptions, only to be warned of a hidden torpedo under the chair.
In Pompeii the museum preserves casts of victims from the citys last hours. Workers at an 1863 dig poured plaster into lava crevices, revealing a life like cast of a man in his final struggle. Several bodies later reproduced, including two women in embrace called The Mother and Daughter, expressions of despair noted by observers.
London Public Opinion recounts a misstep by surgeon Eugene Sue who treated the wrong leg after a dinner with Romieu at Cafe de Paris. The pair walked on the Boulevards, Romieu injured a leg, Sue sent for a cab, cared for the wound at home, then found the error upon morning examination.
A private motor power exhibition on Lake Merritt near Oakland features a leading boat pulling seven others with a tiny generator sealed in copper vacuum bulbs. Charles Sellander directs the show as an extra Southern Pacific engineer claiming near perpetual motion with his invention.
Cor. Philadelphia Press reports a grim find in a South Dakota canyon ten miles from the border. Remains of a camp and partially eaten bodies indicate five or six in a party forced to cannibalism to survive. Three small skulls suggest women or children among the victims. Officials plan a full investigation to locate possible survivors.
The steamer Al-Ki waits at Port Townsend wharf for the Empire from San Francisco with fifty tons of dynamite. Al-Ki, with a postmaster general permit, will carry no passengers toward Juneau Alaska. A protest over carrying mail with dynamite awaits Washington reply. Harbor Master Jones orders transfer of the cargo offshore to protect the city, signaling a bay transfer rather than near shore.
A central committee meeting chaired by Herr vey Levetzony decided to invest all contributions totaling over 1,034,438 marks in the new imperial 3 percent loan. The group also postponed site selection and invitation of designs for the Bismarck monument until the Emperor William site is settled. London News.
The Cleveland coffin trust has reorganized and will raise prices by 80 percent. The notice notes bespoke coffins under personal supervision by Sarah Bernhardt, a trend replacing eight day clocks in fashionable homes, with no economy motive involved.
A resident three miles from town was bitten by a coachwhip snake and required medical attention. Rat snakes are also reported in the area as spring arrives.
A Harper's magazine description portrays a traveling band of Canadian Indians moving with furs for barter. The processions mix families or clans, with men leading, women carrying loads and children on sleds, dogs hauling gear, and gear showing torn blankets and raw meat, evoking urban slum imagery.
Engineering analyzes the steamship of the future noting that larger size increases displacement and power while reducing cargo and passenger capacity. A torpedo-boat style hull could reach speed, but would lack revenue cargo and mail space. Forty knots is possible with about 140000 indicated HP and seven boiler rooms, burning over 2000 tons of coal daily.
Professor John Earle argues that the rise of philology over grammar has led grammarians to pose as philologists and push changes to established grammar rules, introducing hybrid doctrines into modern schoolbooks.
An insulated holder for fire hoses has been invented to prevent electrical shock to firemen when a water stream contacts live wires. The device aims to eliminate dangerous shocks during firefighting operations.
An advertisement touts Krause's German Oil as a speedy remedy for chilblains frost bites and similar ailments sold by Bradshaw Thoma. A brief note mentions the world’s longest railroad progressing from Minsk across Siberia to Vladivostok totaling 4 785 miles.
A reader from West Union Oregon praises White Wine of War Syrup as a child’s relief for croup and a medicine worth keeping in every home. The note also mentions Ezra L. Taylor of Warren Ohio, longtime congressman, retiring after his current term.
An array of drug advertisements tout tonics and headaches cures from DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla to Early Risers with endorsements by Geo. D. Clarke. Also notes Baron Kelvin as newly named peer and other brief items on figures like Tewfik and Evansville hospital plans.
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