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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1889
Page
1
Observers note postal receipts and operations closely reflect country business conditions. As summer ends an upward, steady growth emerges, suggesting a gradual reawakening from a period of inactivity.
The Detroit Press argues hair length determines baldness with women wearing hats as a remedy. It claims long hair on men protects against baldness, noting no long haired man has been bald.
A laborer inventor Timmins unveils a new brake design claimed to stop a 50 to 60 car train from 30 mph within feet after full pressure. It can be operated by brakemen on top or from the caboose and supposedly locks locomotive wheels in three seconds at 40 mph. Pennsylvania authorities offered 70,000 for exclusive rights, but the inventor refuses to sell.
The article notes a seventeen year old pilot of a Caucasus river steamboat who has left school to work manual toil. It mentions widespread interest among Russian families in abandoning civilization for primitive country living, a movement Count Tolstoi supports with a daily routine of four periods including handwork and literary work. Tolstoi is described as skilled in bootmaking, wood splitting, and farm labor.
The report alleges that while Thomas Acton served as Sub-Treasurer he directed cashier Floyd to show a young Connecticut girl and her mother around the vault. A bundle of $6 million in tens was handed to the girl as a gift, with Floyd noting a temporary shortage of funds and promising to postpone the transfer. The young woman, from Foresville, hoped her father would allow her to receive the fortune in New York.
A visitor describes Ferdin Ward at Sing Sing with a carpeted cell, wall pictures, and regular gifts of boned turkey lobster salad and honey from friends. Ward helps with the prison bakery, reads novels, and speaks seldom but when he does is interesting.
Poem fragment in which a speaker recalls a moonlit kiss amid snowy streets and winter imagery. A second voice suggests a lover and a beggar-girl, with memories of summer on distant heather and a shared song. Eugene Field style.
In a snowbound California mining town a widow and her two children face Christmas Eve poverty. Miner Jack Dawson overhears their longing and gathers the camp to fund a miracle, raising eight thousand dollars and providing gifts. Four months later the widow marries Dawson, making him the children's Santa Claus.
The account notes Thomas Jefferson died at Monticello on the Fourth of July, hours after John Adams who died at Quincy. It mentions his long illness, final wish to live until Independence Day, his resignation of soul to God, and the large slave estate amid claims he died poor.
The piece extols Longfellow’s knowledge of planting corn as an allegorical guide for agriculture. It cites the Mon damin passage and urges agricultural readers to follow the guidance for a fruitful crop, recommending the work to readers like Lealih and Tome.
Towler and Van Natta of Fowler Indiana own the 2565 pound steer weighing nine feet ten inches in girth. Born May 24 1862 the animal has gained about 1.50 pounds daily since birth and displays a massive symmetrical frame with a striking white and brown hide and long spearing horns.
The estimate places domestic consumption of oleomargarine at about 10 092 00 pounds per year. The figure is attributed to omaiss over illel and reflects early production forecasts for household use.
A historical overview traces White House dinners from Washington to Cleveland, noting lavish hospitality, menu contrasts, and how meals tied to political status. It mentions Dolly Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, and Grant, with anecdotes about cheese, wines, expenses, and post-dinner routines.
Report says two French scientists discovered a method to reproduce old impressions on demand by exposing polished selenium metal to electric light. The process relies on light's peculiar action upon selenium fortified by electricity.
A collection of notes on natural science and technology topics including bee foraging, an Aberdeen Nebraska artesian well with many fish, a French lightning pattern, plant growth under artificial conditions, Pasteur’s silkworm and sheep-breeding contributions, sea air purification, stellar motion of Sirius, a new weather signaling system, and a Dublin Zoo lion breeding record with 131 cubs born since 1857.
A nostalgic meditation on the barn as a multi use space in New England life. It portrays the barn as theatre gymnasium playground and refuge from weather with limitless freedom and imagination. The piece recalls childhood joys and later memories of fragrant hay and corn across generations.
The Philadelphia Press reports Bradenburgh’s dog Koloss, nine feet long and five feet high, a giant Ulmer Danish hound pup feared to be the largest dog in America. Despite size he is gentle and prized by ladies and children, drawing police due to a street blockade.
A reflective passage traces a man's life from youth to old age. It depicts seeking forbidden experiences, learning weakness, growing cautious, losing spontaneity, and finally facing mortality as desires mature into dispassion. The poem critiques moral growth and the cost of living bravely.
A collage of wry quips and light verse from various papers. Snippets include a traveler’s joke about rent, a six street girl fearing snakes, a poet's Words That Turn, earthquake as ground rent joke, and trifles about professors, conundrums, and a would be drum major. An exchange about an archery club ends with a joke about lumber for targets.
A Fortnightly Review account visits Poukey’s Island off Asia Minor revealing a patriarchal where a single family of George rules twenty two subjects. The eldest daughter inherits all, others remain unwed. women work together while men tend five hundred goats and cultivate scarce grain.
A London telegraph note recounts M Paul Bert spurring his belief in vaccination after an incident in Havre during a smallpox outbreak. Bert vaccinated himself by inoculation after observing rising mortality and then visited Charity Hospital to confirm his findings firsthand.
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