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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1890
Page
6
J W Felts recalls a startling incident in Cheatham County where a rattlesnake allegedly hypnotized him, drawing his body forward with eye contact and a threadlike gaze until a Black man intervened and killed the snake. The tale ends with Felts suffering a severe sickness from the encounter.
Popular science notes report two French scientists claim a new property of Faraday's disk potentially improving dynamo efficiency. Other items mention alum treating children's clothes, aluminum abundance, electric drying kilns in Ottawa, and details of the Yerkes telescope gift to Chicago University with a 40 inch objective and a 75 foot tube.
The article lists practical household tips including making mucilage from gum arabic and gum tragacanth, removing tea and coffee stains with glycerine, and cleaning brass and clothes wringers with kerosene. It then provides a detailed turkey roasting guide with stuffing, dressing, basting, and gravy preparation for an eight to ten pound bird, plus a method for preparing the liver and gizzard.
The Californian describes Yosemite Valley under heavy winter storms with swollen Merced floods and felled trees. It recalls an 1867 storm witnessed by Mr Hutchings and family when ten days of rain flooded meadows, toppled pines, and blew cedars into heaps across the ridge.
The weight required to crush a square inch of brick is stated as a range from 1,200 to 4,500 pounds.
Claude Matthews became Indiana's governor and Mortimer Nye lieutenant governor in a daytime ceremony aimed for 1:30 pm but delayed. The south corridor and stairways of the capitol buzzed with spectators as simple, imposing decorations framed the national colors beneath the skylights.
The article describes the ceremonial arrangements for the inauguration with flags draped halls South of the dome, a silk banner featuring a retreating buffalo and woodman, and the two houses gathering for the oath. Senate and House attendees formed processions, the band played, and Governor Matthews and Lieutenant Governor Nye took the oath administered by Chief Justice Reinheart as President Griffith led the joint session.
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