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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1888
Page
1
A call to action against alcohol prompts talk of a prohibition war. Science notes a global trend with India and Bengal passing a bill on ghee adulteration amid native demands.
A harsh critique argues liquor taxes worsen poverty. The speaker laments meals denied and breadless families, condemning men who quarrel over taxes while consuming whisky and harming their health and subsistence.
The article notes William Waldorf Astor as potentially the wealthiest private person if he lives long. It cites him as John Jacob Astor’s only child, inheriting two thirds of a $200 million estate, largely in New York City land expected to rise in value. He is about forty, tall and slender with distinguished manners.
The Lancet suggests sleep walkers perform actions while part of the brain remains asleep. The cerebrum is asleep while other brain regions stay awake, allowing careful walking and avoidance of injury while pursuing a dream goal, similar to waking actions.
A St. Louis newspaper quotes a writer describing Flathead reservation residents in Northwest Montana as adopting businesslike wear and wealth, with some engaging in gambling on horse races with outsiders, while emphasizing progress and development.
A twelve year old girl in the final stages of consumption was treated at Hospital Trousseau by Dr Prengraeber. He made a cruciform cut between the fifth and sixth right ribs and burned out three cubic centimetres of diseased lung tissue with a red hot iron. In three weeks the wound healed and the blood flowed healthily again.
The piece describes widows in India fasting two days each month during widowhood, suffering severe hardship as the family and society look on. Reformers urge government abolition of enforced widow hood, while officials argue change must come from within Hindu society.
Miss Mary Fearn, daughter of the U.S. Minister to Greece, writes of a ball at her father's Athens home attended by the Greek King. The king was in a relaxed mood, circulating informally, and even a collision with a middy in a wild galop drew a smile as he encouraged carefree fun.
Poem excerpt by George W. Crowell from the Clipper quotes a hope for a future golden age. It envisions a rising inspiration in humanity, a birth of grander thoughts and higher music, with nobler deeds awaiting yet to come and future triumphs ahead.
Miss Sarah Ogden, a diligent Record reporter, gains favor with Ernest Warren, owner of the Record, by aiding Jessie during a fashionably charged charity event. Her courage in a wardrobe fire win her a marriage proposal and a new social standing alongside Warren and his family.
Rev James ONeill recalls a frigid winter trek from Mauch Chunk into the mountains. Temperatures hit 16 below, then 20 below on the plateau as a sharp wind battered him and his pony. After a crushing fall he crawled to safety, was saved by a farmer and son, and woke in a barrel of spring water.
An article in a scientific journal speculates on a future without animal and vegetable foods. It envisions a toothless hairless man, reduced adipose tissue, larger lungs, and a digestive system optimized by chemistry. The piece notes science’s past feats and questions what future gains may come if such processes are applied to humans.
Walter Kempil, a German experimenter, reports that the electricity supplied by two machines increases considerably when they operate in a compressed air atmosphere, suggesting potential practical import.
A New York Commercial Advertiser reporter tours the Chinese quarter and attends a theatre show. He describes packed audience, male impersonators, lack of scenery, rattling orchestra, and stylized combat with long spears and dramatic exits.
The article notes Russia plans a three mile long railroad tunnel costing 3,500,009 dollars. It mentions Russia’s vast 15,000 miles of rail and only one existing tunnel, 700 yards long, plus diverse industrial topics from chemical colors to aluminum, balloons, buoyant reindeer skin life belts, and Swedish wood oil from stump distillation.
Captain BE Dutton of the United States Geological Survey studied Crater Lake Oregon and found it likely the cheapest source of fresh water in the nation. His party reached the lake after a three day march and lowered boats from a wagon ascent. Soundings show depths from 853 to 196 feet with potential greater depths and margins steep near shore. The surveys indicate the deepest fresh water body in the country.
The French Navy reports experiments at Dunkirk on a celluloid hull battleship that can carry heavy guns, float under all conditions, and resist artillery. If proven practical, it would render existing navies largely obsolete and shift warfare to boarding or heavy-fire to sink such fortifications.
A poem rich with farewell imagery lines address a host of cherished gifts and loves. The speaker contemplates future stars and a time when good byes may end, reflecting on affection and longing.
A collage of quips and jokes from different newspapers. A Scottish chorus of puns, satirical lines, and light verse touches on polite bowing, mail carriers, calfs head soup, salary tricks, and absurd inventions. It cites the Picayune Peoria Call Binghamton Republican New York Daily News and others.
Readers learn a brainteaser where the phrase From 880 788 889 take the number 62 as many times as possible led pupils to attempt subtraction. The correct method is division: 80 788 889 divided by 629 equals 1 400 800 180.
A New York editor writes from Nevada City about buying a small interest in a nearby gold mine and seeks current local prices. The Nevada City paper replies that gold mines in the area range from seventy five cents to two million dollars, hoping to ease his investment worries.
Robert Stewart aged 106 died in Pennsylvania after a life that included a first railroad trip at his hundredth birthday. The Washington Post notes other veterans like Simon Cameron David Dudley Field and Mark Hopkins, all aged and prominent in politics law and philosophy, yet eclipsed by the legendary Thomas Parr of London who married at 120 fathered a child at 150 divorced at 110 and died soon after buried in Westminster Abbey.
A four year old boy in New Hampshire resists chores such as bringing wood and fetching mail from a nearby post office one eighth mile away. He declares he will study and save his strength for school, telling his mother he refuses to go get the apples, risking his father’s anger.
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