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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1888
Page
1
The article notes an unusually large supply of international exhibitions planned for the year. It cites events in Bologna Vienna London Melbourne and Barcelona with more likely, including art and product shows. It suggests inventors prepare exhibits to travel between fairs, reducing storage and replacement costs.
The steamship Great Eastern will be dismantled for timber and metal. Its vast 680 foot length and 824 foot breadth proved excessive for cable work and transatlantic runs. Other ships have surpassed it in speed and usefulness, and the vessel’s historic feats fail to justify building steamers larger than now common.
The Sun notes that London city editors oversee money markets and finance, akin to Wall Street men, while New York city editors supervise general city reporting. It cites the late City Editor Simpson of the London Times who left over half a million dollars, a sum not mirrored by New York editors.
The telegraph transformed from a single Washington Baltimore wire in 1844 to a nationwide network. The Western Union Company now has over 530000 miles of wire and handled 4394580 messages in the year ending June 30 1887, underscoring its impact on daily life and progress.
A Philadelphia kraut maker warns that tightly sealed sauerkraut can swell during fermentation and explode, likening it to gunpowder danger. He notes 5090 cabbages daily and says venting is essential to prevent disaster.
The Favannah Jews notes many large plantations across the South now lie in ruins as the land has become worked out or owners lack the energy to make it pay under the current labor system. In one Georgia district, once famed for wealth and intellect, great estates were subdivided into small farms and their grand mansions decay.
The figures show 340000 miles of track with thousands more for sidings, built at 6 billion dollars. There are 50000 engines 50000 passenger coaches and a million freight cars. Over 4000 railway patents exist and 300 million tons of freight move yearly. Companies earn 1.29 cents per ton mile and 2.51 cents per passenger mile. Half a million locomotives idle power needed. Fifty six years ago Peter Cooper ran a steam car Baltimore to Ellicotts Mills at a record pace.
The article advises beginning spring oats sowing after January 1 as conditions permit and spreading sowing from January to March. It emphasizes alternating sowing times to hedge against bad weather, using home grown seed, selecting the best stools, and using Share’s harrow or shallow plowing for efficient seed placement.
News comes of John Bass near Nashville Nash county N Y taking his own life by cutting his throat with a razor after asking his wife about wood. He had recently declared he was tired of living, a statement believed to explain the act.
A dance in York County Washington DC drew large crowds. Moonshine fueled a mid event brawl leading to pistols and shots. Jim Beam of Shelby North Carolina died from a heart wound. George Gunthay and John Philips are jailed in Columbia on murder charges.
The Cotton Exchange discussed amending by laws to allow deliveries on warehouse receipts any time during the month when classing and inspector certificates are delayed. Opponent William V. King argued it could enable market manipulation. The amendment, after prior defeats, was adopted at an open meeting to obtain member opinion.
Logan county officials appeal to Governor Wilson for state aid to quell the McCoys and Hatfields feud spilling across the border from Pike county Kentucky. Reports say the Pike county gang grows bolder and Logan citizens face threats as civil officers struggle to restore order. Military companies offer service. governor weighs prompt measures to uphold state honor.
Perry Benson of Greenville near the Air Line depot attempted death by own action hanging himself. His wife found the bound rope and raised the alarm. He was cut down, examined by doctors, and may be sent to a state lunatic asylum if his condition worsens. He cited head trouble from a past injury and claimed he was conjured, seeking release to locate a buried charm.
An explosion rocked Wellington colliery with over two hundred miners at work. Ninety or more believed dead or suffocated after initial hoisting out. Twenty white miners recovered. about seventy remain underground, with no hope of rescue. Three quarters of the miners in the mine are Chinamen. Vancouver Coal Company officials and workers aid in the aftershock efforts. cause of the blast remains a mystery.
In Louisburg North Carolina a general jail delivery freed five prisoners four of whom were penitentiary bound. They used a crow bar supplied by outside friends and left a note for the sheriff. A large reward is offered for their capture.
A reflective line about duty casting a blue sky over every man. The heart lifts with skylark happiness as it goes singing within.
Raleigh reports a lynching near Plymouth in Washington County where Patterson Spruill John Blount and Matthew Blount were taken from jail and shot dead in a woods. Four men were arrested for the December murder of itinerant jeweler Ed Dawman. one confessed and three were lynched.
A. J. Futrell of Guyton near Savannah positioned a spring gun to guard his store. Farmer Levi Edwards went around back, triggering the device and dying from the loaded blast. Futrell faces possible murder charges under law against spring guns.
Reports from Maine New Hampshire and Vermont describe a major snow storm lasting twelve hours with depths of 15 to 18 inches and up to 25 miles of ground covered. Travel blocked trains halted and highways impassable as Bellows Falls Vermont notes a three foot snowdrift from recent storms and ongoing heavy snowfall.
A large fire in Walnut Cove North Carolina destroyed Bailey and Wilder Adams Lash and Blackburn stores after a faulty flue. The blaze, starting around 1 AM, consumed extensive stock and caused an estimated loss near 50000 with only about 6000 insured.
The London Court Journal outlines Colonel Vogt's The European Armies of the Present with France at 2,051,458 troops plus territorial forces, Russia at 1,422,405, Germany 1,493,690, AustroHungary 1,035,955, and Italy with militia totaling 2,387,332. It notes Britain at 781,677 including militia volunteers and Indian forces for a vast defended area.
A Dress excerpt notes admirers of blue eyes due to a view from a connoisseur who claims many railroad men pilots and others chosen for keen vision have blue eyes. It adds brown eyes are beautiful gray eyes denote intelligence and hazel eyes suggest musical talent with gray as most common and violet rare.
A shooting affray outside St Johns Episcopal Church in Knoxville Knox County left three men wounded and one fatally. James F Rule city editor of the Knoxville Journal and his wife were approached by John West William West and a man named Goodman. Rule exchanged words with the group after a Journal communication about Dr T A West. West brothers attacked Rule with fists a pistol was drawn and fired multiple times. John West was mortally wounded Goodman wounded Rule sustained a wrist and shoulder injury while securing a scalp wound. William West fled. The community backs Rule with William West arrested.
Fire at Newark Ohio caused 150000 dollars in damage. Buffalo Rubber Company Buf falo New York with proprietor George D Barr failed. Susquehanna Virginia fire destroyed two hotels five residences and a business block with loss 30000 dollars. Barbour Thread Company mill in Allentown Pennsylvania damaged by fire amounting to 380000 on mill and machinery 85000 on flag containing 4800 bales of Irish flax. Milwaukee brewers announce discharge of 3000 workers January 26 if they do not leave Brewers Union No 9. York Pennsylvania large building housing York Daily Publishing Company D H Welsh clothiers and R F Pollock jeweller burned with 850000 loss. Pittsburg Pennsylvania defective flue caused eight hour blaze at C G Hussey 42 Fifth avenue Arling Sons merchant tailors Heeren Bros manufacturing jewellers loss 800000. New York City sees disastrous fire in Dry Goods section on Broadway with loss 2000000.
A New York Times note warns that doctors profit from public panic over throat troubles and cancer after reported scares surrounding Germany’s Crown Prince. It recalls a past kidney disease scare among actors where several sought exams, two died of Bright's disease, while others found no illness.
The article notes Japanese apprentices begin training early and master crafts thoroughly by adulthood. Skill follows hereditary lines with many artisans tracing lineage to founders across generations. A carpenter in Fulkui boasted twenty seven generations. a paper maker in Awotabi, Echizen, traces back a millennium, with references to Corean visitors in early history.
In a courteous yet firm exchange, Miss Smith rejects George Sampson after he declares he cannot marry. He acknowledges her honor and promises to remain a brotherly friend, then leaves into the night.
A House bill by Mr. Wilkins of Ohio would let the Secretary of the Treasury issue fractional silver certificates in 10 15 25 and 50 cent denominations to be treated as legal tender for all government dues. The President has sent to the Senate nominations for Commodore Bancroft Gherardi Rear Admiral Captain William E B Fitzhugh and Henry B Robeson. A naval judging party travels to Richmond to assess machinery for the navy including buoys for the Texas. Senator Butler leads Dakota statehood efforts and will introduce his bill in the Senate with remarks.
A New York Tribune report describes Capitol pages trading autographs for money. Pages in the Senate and House compete over fees, with the latest union agreement setting standard rates and dividing profits.
Mr Charters White presented to the Gdontological Society findings from decalcified dental tartar on stone age remains. He identified vegetable tissues, corn husk fragments, fish tooth tips, fruit cells, wool, feathers, cartilage, and other organic remnants, suggesting ancient diets and prompting further study of ancient teeth.
A total abstinence group named the Swedish Blue Ribbon Society, with fifty two members, was recently formed at Manchester Massachusetts.
The article offers a simple method to make Indian meal gruel for invalids. Mix two tablespoons of Indian meal with cold water to a smooth paste, stir into a pint of boiling water, and simmer half an hour while preventing scorching. Adjust thickness with water, season with salt sugar lemon juice and grated nutmeg, and add a tiny butter piece if allowed.
Guidelines for arranging wall decor to suit rooms with many pictures. Emphasizes quiet wall colors, simple textures, and affordable options like cartridge paper frescoes or printed wallpaper. Advises finishing moldings, using a narrow cherry or gilt trim, and avoiding overdecorated spaces. Detroit Tribune guidance.
A collection of kitchen instructions and recipes listing items such as milk and flour preparations for puddings and crusts, lemon jelly fillings, meat croquettes, beef loaf, sponge biscuit desserts with orange and lemon, warming over leftovers, pumpkin milk soup, and fried potato croquettes with egg and cracker crumb coating.
A retired hound in Nelson County Kentucky, once nearly blind, regains sight after children place spectacles on his nose. The dog resumes lively behavior, fetching and joining the chase when his lenses are set again, wagging his tail at his master.
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