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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
2
Louis Carle demonstrated a bold feat at Crystal Palace by driving a 14 horsepower car up and down a 210 foot water chute with a one in four gradient. The ascent took about 22 to 25 seconds, while the descent ended in 34 seconds as Carle calmly controlled the vehicle before resuming his bow to the crowd.
A rare moonlight rainbow appeared on June 19 in Georgia, seen during moonrise after a heavy rainstorm. The bow, visible for about twenty minutes, showed red and blue at its ends while the rest appeared as a light streak, with conditions near ideal and the moon a few days past full. Poulan correspondence Scientific American.
San Francisco Call Sausalito correspondent reports a six button rattlesnake found in a town business district and shot by a plumbing shop brother after a rattling hiss near Miss Collins. The snake had watched a hummingbird nest and eaten the parents. A separate Angora note mentions a Turkish coffee seller with a yoke furnace and cup urns in Asia Minor.
A deer leaped from a thicket onto a flat car as a freight train moved through woods near Thetford. It fell between the car and caboose and broke its neck. The carcass was taken to Lyndonville for exhibition.
The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle is noted as the first fishing manual printed in English, appearing in 1440 in Baclish. The text discusses early angling methods and reflects medieval fishing lore.
A collection of religious reflections urges steadfast faith in God, patriotism, and daily sanctification. It blends biblical quotes with sermons by Burleigh, Moody, and Cuyler, stressing service over self, illumination of faith, and the duty to pursue lofty aims through ordinary, disciplined living.
Dr. W. E. Delaney of Williamsport Pennsylvania treated a trapped bear on a Black Forest railway line. With no weapons he used a pint of chloroform, soaking a handkerchief to subdue the animal and release it from a steel drag. He dressed its wounds and left. the bear vanished on his return four hours later.
The inventor insists the bottle is unmistakable as a poison container and cannot be mistaken for any ordinary bottle or for any other vessel.
A man identified as Jack Moore from Brockhurst near Portsmouth, a World War I era veteran, regained speech after a bicycle accident. Four prior operations had failed. the incident triggered an immediate ejaculation of speech, and his speech remains fully restored as of the report.
A Jewish traveler from Djerba fled two Arabs near Ben Gardane to a telegraph post. From the pole he cried for divine aid and military protection, causing Arab panic as they misread the wire. They tied his donkey to the post, offered a gift, and urged the Jew to explain via the wire that restitution was made.
The report describes a pig slaughtered at Claremont New Hampshire with an iron ferrule embedded in its flesh just below the dye claw. The band shows it was there long as the other claws had grown, suggesting the pig stepped on the ferrule when small and later walked in mud forcing it higher until growth fixed it.
At the Cranston family reunion in Buckland Massachusetts Joshua Cranston aged 91 drew attention by joining the after-dinner call game. He refused to play unless permitted to do his own base running.
The Grand Magazine asserts airships will revolutionize warfare after Santos-Dumont's ascent. It argues moving airships at height could strike ships from above, with shrapnel or other projectiles, altering siege strategies and reducing need for heavy cannon transport.
A Chicago Inter Ocean item recounts a man hiring a Delphic medium to summon his dead wife Maria for $10. The seance produces a Latin phrase, which the man suspects is fake since the wife never spoke Latin in life, revealing the con and ending the purchase of the foolish rite.
The passage argues there is no definite moment of death and that death is arbitrary, noting respiration, heart activity, and brain states as ambiguous markers. It cites experiments reviving dogs after six minutes without breathing and discusses defibrinated heart circulation, suggesting death depends on whether the body or personality ends. It concludes that a man may die when consciousness is lost or during deep sleep or anesthesia.
Martin W. Littleton, president of the Borough of Brooklyn, recalls his youth and his father’s drastic shift to nonphysical discipline. He describes a ritual of removing layers of pants before a stern, lengthy lecture that deterred future spankings and shaped his regretful lessons.
A long letter from a mocked poet catalogs obsolete terms and coinages, illustrating the breadth of forgotten lexicon. The spoofed communicator laments insults from a editor, boasting about rare words such as im petiginous scrogle and synchronically, and ends noting all terms appear in dictionaries.
A Nashua New Hampshire teacher led a reading about Ethan Allen claiming Fort Ticonderoga for the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. When asked who the Great Jehovah was, a student replied, President Roosevelt, sparking a moment of silent amusement.
Secretary Metcalf of commerce and labor calls immigration the nation’s top issue, stressing distribution as the main difficulty. He cites a letter from Lawsine noting state action can provide 100,000 jobs in the field, while the western Mississippi Valley also needs workers. Urban concentration continues.
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