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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1903
Page
6
Max Roth, a Kiondike miner, carved an ivory chess set and a walrus tusk board showing Arctic life. The artwork features miners washing gold by the Snake River, a polar bear hunt, Eskimo figures, and a Nome geld ring, all depicted in bold relief within a polar milieu.
A photograph shows California’s steam tractors moving large houses on wooden trucks. Often powered by over a hundred horses, the tractor can relocate homes a mile or more in a day. The example moved a house a total of fifteen miles.
An edition of Chouo-Korou in Tokio claims Japanese people stay small due to lifelong squatting on mats rather than sitting on chairs. The editor argues this limits blood flow and limb development and cites taller boya today versus ancestors as proof. He urges government action to ban wars to raise stature of soldiers. There are about four hundred recognized bowling clubs in Scotland.
The Seven Stars in Manchester claims a three century history with a wood beam dining room and soot-darkened upper chambers. Visitors are told by the barmaid that Guy Bankes and his comrades toasted Gunpowder Plot here. The inn features medieval style windows and a roof renewal.
The article discusses an odd electric arc image not a puzzle and notes the photo shows a bright center with radiating Herzlan waves traveling in all directions. It mentions a difference between electric lighting and wireless telegraphy and lists university counts for several nations including Germany and Italy.
A travelogue notes young women on a frostbound island wear black cloth masks to protect their skin from constant storms and sand driven by sea winds. The custom, long established, gained new attention when a photograph was finally taken.
A remarkable two man stone quarry project builds a five ton elephant shaped hive with a cas tle on its back. The stone hive features rustic pearly stone texture glass windows and small honey maker entrances at its base for bees to enter and exit.
M. Jorehemin, assistant to the Havre mayor, earned praise for rapid ceremonies. He reportedly joined fifty one couples in wedlock in four hours, a feat described as unprecedented in France.
In drought prone Kumaon a Hindu fakir suspended by the feet swung by a partner to pray for rain. Ashes and mud covered both, but no rain fell for weeks. The Riviera exports Gowers about 3 million dollars yearly, with two thirds heading to Ireland.
In a West Point Norfolk cemetery for colored people a plain grave bears a colossal Apollo Belvedere bust instead of a marker. A Norfolk artist’s plaster cast was spared execution by a servant who refused to kill the statue, later revealed to be the preserved headstone statue now towering above the grave.
In Southern California professional fumigators, using prussic and hydrocyanic acids, enclose infested trees under tents for gas treatment. Crews of six workers, fifty tents, and heavy equipment complete each operation costing about 1500 dollars per outfit. Prices per tree run about five cents, with firms investing in top gear and expertise to battle the season’s pest.
Maypole customs fade in England and America with Knahuro in Yorkshire clinging to the pole last raised in 1847. The event featured May 1 repairs, white dressed young women, and flower gathering songs once widespread until bans by Parliament reduced the practice.
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions a bird described as wingless and tailless with garbled names and stray quotes, noting Vita and a photo reference. Details are unclear, but the snippet hints at a curious antiquated bird description in a vintage publication.
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