19 Aug 1887
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1887
Page
1
The text portrays a man whose fate drives risky choices that damage his standing. He remains anxious that any private action could be exposed, harming his reputation further.
The English co operatives run a bank with annual transactions of 80 million dollars. They operate 1400 stores and generate 150 million dollars in yearly business. Their 900 thousand members receive 15 million dollars in annual profit. Over twenty four years profits total 50 million dollars.
The Alta predicts California will gain 2 040 000 newcomers from the East and abroad within two years. Californians, unfazed by the flux, expect booming material resources as the state may become the world’s centre between Europe and Asia.
A Scranton mine report describes mineral coal forming from an abandoned wooden prop after a long seal and rebuilt fire. Fire, flooding, and pressure transformed the wood into charcoal then a hard mineral coal substitute resembling anthracite with glassy luster.
A Central Africa traveler notes that eating fish at Timbuctos is poor etiquette despite abundant river fish. He describes rival salt and cowries as currencies colliding, with Maldive Islands and Zanzibar imports flood the native money supply. The traveler buys an ass for twenty nine thousand cowries, counting them with difficulty.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that a workman who conceives an idea during regular duties and using employer time and material owns the invention rather than the employer. The decision centers on the conception in the perfected machine, not the materials or workmanship.
Dr Andries notes a fifty year rise in lightning injuries tied to dense urban growth and factory smoke and dust. He argues that airborne impurities from industry and population amplify electrical phenomena in the atmosphere, citing his experiments and others.
President faces a tight schedule delaying city visits as he weighs routes for a Western and Southern swing. He may skip some invitations while visiting Indianapolis, Providence, Kansas City and Atlanta briefly, with a return to Washington by early November.
A humorous poultry piece recalls a red hen placed on three mud turtles to hatch alligators. One alligator eats the hen, and upon opening the creature, the hen sits on its back teeth until they choke him, delivering a punchline about persistence.
General notes report a drought prevailing in Arkansas. a Fulton Missouri boy shot his father after beating. a wellsville New York frost and 40 degree reading. Irish peddler robbed and attacked near Seney Georgia. a judge urges resignations from boodler-commissioners. jail lynching in Logan County West Virginia. several railroad and crime incidents detailed across states.
A Macon dispatch reports the burial of Thomas G. Woolfolk's nine victims at Rose Hill Cemetery in a funeral that drew about three thousand mourners. The procession left the Woolfolk home at dawn, with thirty carriages, while Mrs. Edwards arrived in tears amid a stern sermon criticizing legal loopholes.
Adjutant General West orders all Colorado State militia infantry cavalry and artillery to ready for immediate move. If a major uprising occurs the Montrose and Ouray companies will counter Utes at Grand Junction. West proceeds to Glenwood Springs and U.S. Marshal Hall may join at Leadville to request federal troops if needed.
A Toledo Peoria and Western excursion train derailed on a burning trestle near Chatsworth killing about 100 and injuring many more. Survivors escaped as carriages collapsed while reports of looting and a possible conspiracy circulated amid investigators led by J O Baker of the Illinois Society of Engineers.
Word from New Bedford notes crowds in Marion as Mrs Cleveland and Gen Greely attend church and tea. A public reception is planned at the Greely residence on Monday August 10 from 1 to 5 pm for residents of Marion and nearby communities.
Marblehead dispatch reports the Volunteer won the Morgan Cup for first class sloops in the New York Yacht Club race from Martha's Vineyard to Marblehead. Finishing at 7.10 with little wind, the Volunteer outpaced rivals by six miles as others lagged in light air.
A Buffalo capitalists syndicate purchased about four hundred square miles of timber land in Dare County and part of Tirrell County, North Carolina. The price exceeded $750,000 and the group named Buffalo City as the principal settlement. The Eastern Carolina Land, Lumber and Manufacturing Company was formed to operate the land and lumber exports to eastern markets.
A compact history of fire signaling from ancient Persia and biblical references to medieval beacons in England. It notes beacons on promontories, beacons using pitch to blaze and smoke, mounted watchers, sheriff levies, and the term personagium. It highlights their decline with the electric telegraph and recalls a 1855 Worcestershire beacon commemorating the Crimean War.
Among Chief Justice Waite's forebears was a judge who signed the death warrant of Charles I, linking his lineage to a pivotal moment in British history.
Dispatch reports a boiler explosion at the Exchange dock in Savannah injuring three men, all negroes. Engineers Grimke and Bennett and worker Tom Alexander were hurled by the blast, scorched, and in critical condition.
A guide explains how to endorse checks correctly for deposit and payment. It covers writing across the back, alignment with the face, using deposit only wording, and matching or correcting the payee name, including handling bearer versus order endorsements and the English practice of bearer checks.
The article discusses meteorite entry speeds around twenty five to thirty miles per second and cannon shots near 2000 feet per second. It explains atmospheric heating to 7000 to 16000 degrees and surface vaporization by friction. Thunderlike sounds arise from air rushing to fill the gap behind the meteor rather than an explosion.
Aggressive anti liquor verse advertising a wholesale liquor dealer and urging readers to consider the dangers of drinking. The poem condemns theft, vice and foreign importation, depicting ruin through casks and pints and taunting readers to resist temptation.
The Rev S Augustus Cole notes weekly Madeira cargo bulletins listing vast alcohol and tobacco totals for ships bound to West or South Africa ports. The ledger shows gin 960000 cases, rum 24000 butts, brandy 30000 cases, Irish whisky 24000 cases, demijohns rum 800000, rum barrels 36000, tobacco 60000 hogsheads, Old Tom 30000 cases, absinthe 15000 barrels, claret 600000 barrels, port wine 500000 barrels, vermouth 40000 cases, ale and beer 800000 barrels, cigars 1800000 boxes, totaling 38,116,000 pounds sterling equal to 6.6 million?
In an interview with the New York Herald Terence V Powderly argues education and temperance must guide the Knights of Labor. He condemns drunken workers who disrupt labor, cites a specific discharge dispute, and warns alcohol as a chief enemy that hinders both industry and harmony.
The executive committee of the State Temperance Union hails prohibition as an established fact in Kansas. The saloon is driven from the state and cities show humane homes and prosperity. Kansas urges other states to follow the example and bans the liquor trade from their borders.
Rev. T. J. Conaty argues that while capital and labor often clash, intemperance is the true inexorable enemy of labor. He says truce with intemperance is impossible and only its defeat can resolve labor tensions, more than any legislative effort.
A survey of Toronto physicians shows 82 of 111 respondents affirm total abstinence as compatible with best health. Most denounce moderate drinking, about a third are diverse, few favor moderate use. Seven agree total abstinence aids recovery, 51 see it a public benefit, with reformers a small minority.
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