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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1889
Page
1
Items note aluminum for dental use gaining favor and electric ignition revived for cartridges. Barnard reports comet tail loss. Edison backs electric current for painless therapy. A German analytical balance debuts. British ironclad reaches 17–18 knots. Deforestation progress and cementing iron methods noted. volcanic-like meteorite section acquired by British Museum.
David Andreas Saslehner owner of the Hunradi Janos died recently while on a venture. He built a national cloth sun house in Budapest selling home goods. Louis Kosuth acted as clerk briefly, aiding growth. A peasant brought a scented water sample, Saslehner bought the farm for one thousand gulden per acre, started a factory, and the water became popular with a red label. Sales reached four million annually, making Saslehner a millionaire several times over.
The article describes royal dining across Europe with ornate gold table settings in Italy and lavish French influenced menus. It highlights Grand Duchess of Baden and Queen Victoria favorites including soups beefsteak salmon preserves and sherry served from a silver cup. The page notes candlelit tables, epergnes, and a distinctive mastic colored square dish.
A medical expert argues that standard embalming methods have little value in preserving bodies. He contends simple washing and fluid injection fail to prevent decomposition and that aggressive injections merely hasten removal from sight. The expert supports his view with the belief that older practices effectively remove decay.
Rev Dr Talmage denounces strong drink as a national blight, detailing its destruction of name, home, health, and souls. He cites personal ruin stories, hospital scenes, and hellish thirst, urging repentance through Christian grace to end the bondage.
The piece argues that true value lies in personal existence and effort not in inherited training. It critiques custom as ignorance, praises self driven learning, and claims educated people bear responsibility for wickedness, while noting adults must unlearn to grow. It ends with the line Sturdy Oak.
An American company gains exclusive rights to manufacture paper in Venezuela for twenty five years amid high tariffs. The article describes Yucca plant fibre processing to produce fine pulp and silk adulteration fibre, outlining cultivation, whipping, and machinery steps used to create ultra-fine threads for paper.
In 1791 in the Muskingum valley Ohio Mrs John Bush defended her husband during a frontier raid. An Indian seized the gun and shot him at the door. She struck the attacker with an axe wounding him and protected the doorway as bullets pierced her clothing. Neighbors arrived too late to save the two children but drove off the attackers.
A Chicago Herald excerpt notes how some animals possess backward and forward vision. Greyhounds judge when to double in hare chases, horses with no blinkers respond to drivers, and a timid raphe-like creature uses forward and rear sight to defend via precise kicks.
A new rock salt deposit in Ontario near Goderich is described as a major find. The discovery was made about twenty years ago during a petroleum boring at a depth of 1010 feet, with the salt extending over roughly 1200 square miles.
A Chicago Herald writer narrates the Adirondacks as a retreat from city life. He describes vast lakes, remote camps, and luxury lodges with Anson Stokes’s extensive St. Regis complex and rugged guides. A deer-hunt mishap with a hotel belle adds a light, romantic note to a frontier wilderness portrait.
A reminiscence recounts Billy Edwards, the former American lightweight champion, visiting Paul Smith’s boat excursion. The crowd recalls his boxing prowess as he spars with local guides, while residents observe fashionable visitors and the Adirondacks’ intrigue.
The account notes the wealthiest Japanese homes showing restraint in furnishing. A salon twenty five by fifteen feet features a low platform with an Imari vase, a valuable kakemono, twelve blue satin cushions, two rows of futons, and three standing lamps. A folding screen protects against drafts as the sole furniture.
The text describes mud springs or volcanoes in southern California near the Gila River valley. It notes circular mud pools several feet below the surface, discharging carbonic and hydrosulphuric acids, with caves that rise and sink, very hot temperatures around 125 degrees. It also mentions a new Berlin consul general William H. Edwards remaining single for love of Nellie Grant Sartori, and Edwards' upbringing with the Grae family.
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