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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1905
Page
2
A mixed page notes home distillation of water using two bottles and a cork, argues left-handedness deserves equal training, recalls the legend of the white buffalo, and offers kid friendly science and wordplay items. It includes jokes about famous names, beetle sextons, lightning rods, talking toys, reading worn coins, and proverbs.
An easy kid made steam engine using an old baking powder box as boiler with shellac varnish, a pinhole exhaust, and a large hole plugged with cork. A wire axle supports a grooved wheel and a paddle wheel built from a pill box and cardboard slats. The device sits between two uprights, uses water and an alcohol flame, and can be expanded with a grooved wheel or a small spool.
Report from the Zambesi regatta shows English influence brings Sport to natives with mixed results. An eight oar race collapsed after an elephant stampede, a boat was bitten in half by a hippopotamus, and a crocodile race ended with the reptile swallowing its jockey. Sailing contestants met hostile tribes and the deadline could cancel further events if boats fail to appear. Experts warn several more river festivals may occur before extinction of the tribe if mortality trends continue.
Prof. Goldschneider of Berlin argues that keeping heart and arteries sound is the key to youth. He warns against abusing alcohol and tobacco and overexertion, promotes moderate exercise, fresh air, balanced work and sleep, and constant movement for the old and young alike.
A reflection on charm showing sincerity as the key to lasting popularity. The piece asserts that genuine propriety outshines artificial affectation, noting that truly high status individuals need no pretense. It cautions that insincerity invites judgment and envy among acquaintances.
A Lucey Larcom verse reflects on eternal peace beyond memory’s tremor and the limit of mortal grandeur. It urges souls to widen their orbit toward God, seeking love as the only earthly burden carried into Heaven and inviting the Spirit to enlarge lives.
On opening day a teacher spanked a pupil named Billie amid a nursery dispute. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Grant, a school board member, confronted Miss Harrington demanding the reason for the punishment. The teacher stated she aimed to administer discipline as any educator would.
A major pipe and fitting manufacturer explains how iron pipe shows heavy rough scale and a dull rough appearance, while steel pipe has light scale with tiny blisters and smooth white underlayer. Steel resists flattening, fractures with a fine grain, whereas iron pipe fractures reveal a coarse fibrous pattern.
A fragment from The Reader magazine presents a mournful verse by L S Chandler Moulton lamenting distance and separation. The speaker longs for near companionship while questioning if the beloved senses the dawn and offers comfort beyond the speaker’s reach. The text shows garbled OCR errors.
Dispatches describe Abdul Hamid’s Friday Selamlik ceremony in Constantinople. Thousands crowd the park across from Hamidieh mosque as a 12,000 to 15,000 strong garrison halts the road. An anxious public watches while bodyguards, aides, and the sultan traverse in a phaeton amid cautious security and ceremonial display.
A detachment of six men carrying dispatches near Red River to Camp Supply fights Kiowa and Comanche tribesmen. Two scouts Amos Chapman and William Dixon, four cavalrymen, endure 36 hours under heavy fire with four wounded, one mortally Private Smith. They hold a trench, kill over a dozen enemies, and are praised for bravery during dreadful privations.
An English traveler in a London Times letter recounts how tea was first prepared in Europe. He notes early methods varied, with some attempting a spinach like boil, but tea settled into a sweet infusion with milk or cream. In Portugal, lacking milk, tea was brewed as a simple infusion with sugar. He describes grinding tea leaves in a coffee mill to make a finer powder that yields more flavor per ounce.
In 1833 Sir Henry Bessemer, then 20, exposed forged government stamps causing massive losses. He devised a simple dating method to stop the fraud, rejected a key post, later pioneered the Bessemer process, and earned a knighthood after saving the country millions without reward.
A Lancet writer argues that doctors see hidden tragedies in crowds and must read signs of illness in faces and gestures. The piece contrasts the red faced merchant with his prosperity and the pallid patient in need, noting compensation in doctors who glimpse both suffering and the patient’s potential vitality. London Mirror.
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