SORDID SIDE OF LIFE IN A FRENCH VILLAGE
In a July sunlit Normandy room a 92 year old peasant lies near death while her son argues over bringing in La Rapet to watch her. The nurse clamps down on profits as the doctor pressures care. La Rapet, a scheming watcher, exploits the dying woman for money until a staged death scene ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honore
Normandy
Mother pRaper
Parbleu
la Rapet
Honore Bontemps
France
Bia
Pardi
Romemps
la Repet
Bontemps
Sabe
Ife
Olga
Raising a Pole How to Erect a Tall Upright Pole Safely
The article describes two methods to raise poles from sixty to a hundred feet using a tripod of poles, ropes, and a pulley system. It covers hole preparation, anchor placement, rope tactics, guy ropes, and safety notes to prevent earth collapse and ensure controlled lowering.
Dressmaker Bills Reveal Napoleon Court Spending
A French antiquarian uncovers dressmaker accounts from Leroy that show Josephine spent about 30000 dollars annually on outfits, more than Marie Louise or Queen Hortense. Napoleon's mother did not buy through Leroy, preferring dresses from her daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Leroy
Josephine
Marie Louise
Queen Hortense
First Peanuts Shipment Marks Market Entry in 1784
The first peanuts reached markets when a Virginia consignment of ten bags went to New York in 1784. Since then the United States now sells over two million bushels annually to its market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
New York
United States
Gas from Sawdust Lighting Denerunto Mills
In Denerunto Canada sawdust gas is produced in retorts heated by wood fire. The gas passes through lime purifiers and coils, then to burners giving about eighteen candle power. Two tons of sawdust yield 640 cubic meters of gas with a residue of twenty kegs of charcoal from 100 kegs of sawdust. A man and boy run the small plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denerunto
Canada
Paris Mission Plans to Madagascar With Twelve Experts
A plan in Paris calls for a twelve-member expedition to Madagascar. The team includes two geologists, two doctors, two mining engineers, two botanists, two surveyors, two ethnographers, and more to study soils diseases mining and culture on the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ictence
Madagascar
Paris
Where Carbon Boils and Spiders in Burma
Articles cover scientific curiosities from 19th century research. Topics include carbon boiling in electric rods per Prof Sylvanus Thomson, walnut wood trade with Germany, daylight effects on smallpox skin per Dr Finsen, and Eugene W Oates’ spider garden in Burmah. Additional notes describe helium in water, and an extraordinary meteor photograph taken by Mr P Butler in England.
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Sylvanus Thomson
Eugene W. Oates
Burmah
P. Butler
Nightabridge
England
Butler
John EB. Lewis
Ansonia
Gonn
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Germany
Wiere
Finsen
Copenhagen
Norway
Apringa
Black Forest
Pyreness
Lockyer
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