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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1888
Page
1
The text argues that straw or felt hats offer insufficient protection from extreme heat in American summers. It notes sunstroke is rare in Eastern natives and that turbans or umbrellas provide better protection, which urban Americans often overlook.
The Nova Scotia coast island Sable Island is gradually vanishing. A storm in 1881 washed away a 70 foot wide strip of land a quarter of a mile long. Once forty miles by 2.5, it now measures nineteen and a half miles by under a mile, illustrating rapid loss over centuries.
The journey from London to Samarcand in Central Asia now takes eight days and twenty two hours by rail and steamer. Previously a European faced great risk traveling there, and before the Trans Caspian Railroad the route from St Petersburg to Samarcand took about a month.
A Century magazine piece recounts a sleeping writer who, driven by somnambulism, arose and penned an essay on an unplanned topic. The sleepwritten work earned her the prize she sought, illustrating how god fortune can bless unintended acts.
A compilation shows defalcations by fiscal officers from states cities and firms totaling over 22 million dollars in 1834 with no New Orleans credits. For the first six months of 1888 the New York Herald lists about 3 million pounds. The piece notes many financiers are living abroad enjoying the fruits of their skill.
On April 2 near the Westman Islands the Danish mail steamer Aura tossed a Danish letter overboard. On May 6 a French fisherman at Reykjavik found the letter inside a cod caught roughly 129 miles away. The French Consul showed it to the Aura’s captain. the letter was damaged but readable.
Major H T Brooks in the New York Triune claims there is one dog for every three people in the United States. He estimates twenty million dogs cost at least 200 million dollars annually. He notes dog food, if used for chickens, would yield a higher return and argues dogs should go.
Admiral Lord Alcester warned in London that Britain lags in cruiser quality and modern guns. He cited two French additions the Toge and the Cecilie as the most formidable vessels yet built for attacking enemy commerce, while noting France is constructing three more.
The New York Herald notes England offers visitors grand cathedrals with long restoration histories. Ipswich Cathedral dates to 114 and saw major rebuilds in the 14th and 16th centuries. Restoration of Irstol Cathedral finished recently at an estimated $400,000, underscoring public devotion to the established Church per Bishop Ellicott.
The City Directory estimates New York City population at 1 670 140 with Brooklyn and suburban areas pushing the Metropolitan district near 2 000 000. It notes a day population about 400 000 higher than sleeping room.
Congressional notes report House debates on Cherokee freedmen relief and fortification funds, a dock project on Lake Ontario, and a rejected gun factory plan. Senate moves include a Treasury deposits query, a postponement vote on a treaty, and an army appropriation conference. Friday covers pensions, general deficiency bills, and obscene mailings. Saturday focuses on Chinese immigration debate and criticism of Gen. Harrison.
In early stage of the epidemic daily deaths reached thirty in Jacksonville and Tampa, as disinfection expands with 800 workers. Fire and cannon blasts mark the effort, relief funds pour in, and Congress may grant 200000 for aid. Mail fumigation shifts to Waycross Georgia, while quarantines surround southern cities. Goldsboro North Carolina health board declares no yellow fever case, noting a Florida case misreported as infected.
The article notes coastal South American products like sugar and coffee and focuses on fabric hats and cigar cases from tequilla leaves. Hat makers braid under water for pliable fibres. prices can reach 250 dollars though locals lack currency sense, often trading labor for food and letting traders inflate hat prices.
Gorse or furze known as Ulex Europeus thrives in England and Scotland as a fodder plant. It yields nutritious sharp-pointed leaves ground for grinding by animals and has been cultivated in England for winter feed, with France long practicing sowing six pounds per acre. It offers a potential substitute for poor southern pastures and could benefit cattle and mules in harsher soils.
House spends long session on the immigration bill. after debate, it passes with Senate amendments tying the repealing clause to treaty ratification and adjourns. Senate focuses on fisheries treaty. Morgan supports ratification, Hoar opposes, Gray endorses. Morgan resumes debate before the vote and the body adjourns.
The notes report record production with eleven million copies of Congressional speeches mailed from the House folding room, the largest in a session. The piece also notes appointments of gaugers in North and South Carolina and a damages claim from Akron Ohio seeking seventy five thousand dollars for a finger loss.
A British Medical Journal correspondent notes tea’s injurious effects on teeth among workers. He observed high dental disease and rejections at northern recruiting stations, linking excessive tea drinking throughout the day to hyperemia of the tooth sacs, inflammation, and eventual tooth loss.
Sol Haas traffic manager for Associated Railroads of Virginia and the Carolinas resigns to take a similar post with the Chesapeake and Ohio road. He has been with Atlantic Coast Line and Richmond and Danville roads for eight to ten years and will relocate to Cincinnati Ohio. The Virginia and Carolina railroad sale, approved by the Chancery Court of Richmond, was bought in for Moncure Robinson and others for 165000 dollars, with a Petersburg debt of 101640 dollars. The line will stretch sixty miles from Petersburg to Ridgway North Carolina.
The Delaware peninsula centers on peach basket production from April to August. Factories employ hundreds, nailers earn about $1 per hundred with 150 to 200 per day. Baskets have twelve staves and four hoops, costs total around three cents, retailing 4 to 8 cents. Half bushel sizes rise in popularity. many baskets ship to Northern dealers and growers.
Akron Ohio leads in match production with Diamond and Miller plants generating nearly 100 million matches per day. If laid end to end the output would stretch about 3000 miles and eight days’ production could encircle the globe. The two factories also consume over a thousand tons of weipa paper annually for boxes.
A German paper describes methods to gauge hemp rope quality by appearance and texture. Indicators include hard yet pliant rope with silvery luster, dark colors from fermentation, brown spots from damp spinning, and potential frauds such as poor hemp inside or short fibers.
In Kershaw County D C on Wednesday Henry Shropshire and wife visited a church with their infant, leaving two other children aged six and eight at home. Returning three hours later they found the house burned to ashes and the two children dead. The father fainted and authorities investigated the shocking loss.
Gen Harrison is fifty five. Prohibitionist drift after Abernathy retirement in North Carolina. American party nominates Curtis of New York and Greer of Tennessee for President and VP in Washington. New York Democratic State convention set for Buffalo September 12 to nominate state leaders. Greenback party calls for September 12 national convention chaired by George O Jones. Tariff strategy discussed between Blaine and Carlisle. Texas Republicans prep tough push in wool regions. Connecticut Democratic convention names Bulkley for Governor. Shook of North Carolina endorses Finger Democrat, a GOP setback. Wallace writes Harrison biography. Hensel profiles Cleveland and Thurman. Harrison vacationing at Middle Bass Island. New York reports 1,200 Republican clubs with 200,000 members.
The Red Sea hosts mother of pearl fisheries extending along its length. About 300 Arab boats, eight to twenty tons, open and undecked, with lateen sails, operate in two annual seasons. Divers aged ten to forty face little risk, diving in calm seas at seven to fifteen fathoms. Glassed petroleum tins aid eye sight, but shell find has fallen ten to twenty percent in ten years per the New York Star.
In Charlotte North Carolina the criminal court tries Ann Robinson colored for the murder of Millie Peed colored. Anon Wallace and Miles were involved in a dispute after a church fellowship that night. Robinson stabbed Peed four times in the neck and breast with a pocket knife. Peed died after walking a short distance. Jury finds manslaughter. Judge Meares sentences Robinson to 15 years hard labor in the State penitentiary.
Pittsburg Broad Axe editor T. J. Smith uses sensational headlines to summarize the Indianapolis convention. He labels the gathering a negro Democratic hell and a red-hot time, alleging schemes to win the negro vote and a chaotic, disgraceful meeting with brimstone imagery.
The Lake of Constanz spans about twenty miles by six and touches Switzerland Baden Württemberg Bavaria Austria. The Council of Constanz sat from 1414 to 1418 and, in a stark period, burned John Huss for heresy in 1415 and Jerome of Prague in 1415.
President Cleveland signed the Charlotte public building bill and the Statesville project. Wake Forest College hires F Sledd of Virginia as professor of French and German. Local Methodist preachers meet at Rutherford College. Mrs. Vance vacationing at Gombroon near Black Mountain. Graham’s cotton mill operates round the clock. a Baltimore firm buys stock. Sheep ranches established near Asheville. A violent assault attempt in Alamance County ends with suspect jailed. Forgery charges surface against James Woods of Statesville. Matilda Griggs found near death after eleven days away. John W McKinnon found dead in his Montgomery county store with a shotgun.
A collage of curious items follows: wild dog dens near Yellow Springs Ohio. a 16th century tale of Sergeant Moore and Henry VIII. a hollow walking stick for cigars in England. a New York Catskills boarding house for coughing children. a flea with one eye and hard life. a Detroit toboggan slide ending in water and requiring swimsuits. a postal card from Bolivar Pennsylvania dated February 28 1887. Sahara artesian wells bringing more fruit trees. Paris dogs with sugar pockets bells and bracelets. Primus Jones heavy watermelon in Baker County Georgia. Petaluma hen eggs hatched by a quail. Canton Georgia cows tangled horns needing horn trimming. a 64 inch bicycle as largest wheel. a Texas Nilema firm making a six foot seven inches stand.
The Geiser disaster reports 93 passengers and 70 crew on board. At about 4 AM a collision threat led to a sharp shock and the ship’s side crushed in. Seven cabin passengers survived. 14 steerage survived. 17 crew members including officers survived. total deaths reached 132.
Fragmentary report describes a world Young Associations gathering titled Christy sion at Ad islag with Sweden cited. It mentions revolts driven by a lacking wagon delivery, a garrison at Metzova angered by non receipt, burning houses, looting shops, and killings of Christians.
The Minneapolis Tribune reports on methods to destroy locusts using kerosene and tar. Farmers describe ditch traps with straw, tar pans, and canvas saturated with oil to burn or suffocate hoppers. One barrel of kerosene treats about 120 acres, with each farmer allotted oil for pest destruction.
A fragmentary transcript presents a broken exchange about a bicycle incident. The text shows characters Mandie and Mr. Geelip perceiving fault and mortification, with the miswritten phrase suggesting a fall or accident.
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