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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1888
Page
1
A watchmaker asserts that the dense web of telegraph, telephone, and electric light wires in big cities disrupts accurate timekeeping. He notes that manufacturers are exploring ways to counteract magnetization affecting watches that were previously reliable.
Two patients with gunshot head injuries were treated with advanced antiseptic methods and refined surgical skill. Both were discharged as convalescents, illustrating dramatic improvements in casualty care that would have meant certain death years ago.
A Camden Ohio woman has a bizarre case where gold bars or needles were allegedly taken from her body at different times. Doctors propose she swallowed a gold coin long ago which dissolved in the stomach juices and circulated, later precipitating as solid pieces in the bloodstream.
Rev. A L Hillman of Atlanta owns a Taliaferro County farm with a large alum rock. He sunk a twelve foot shaft and carved a niche for water. The well reportedly cures rheumatism for visitors who descend into the shaft, with many claiming strong alum taste and perceived electrical effects.
Amid the Charleston quake a young couple courting in darkness faced rising dust and jammed doors. The man leaped to a plaza window and, in panic, splashed into a water-filled plant box while shielding his partner. He cried to face death together as the tide rose toward the windows.
A Vienna carpet merchant owns over three hundred ancient woolen and linen cloths, many tomb fragments stretched on cardboard. The items include a unique full Loman toga, embroidered dresses, and knitting work. Egyptian double chain stitch appears common, with blue check patterns echoing over a millennium ago.
Frant Leslies describes a dense Lower Manhattan quarter along Broadway to Cherry Streets as picturesque yet filthy with tenement stalls, decayed produce, and mixed immigrant populations. Health inspectors raid wagon loads of rotten food amid eager vendors and volatile street trade.
Poetic meditation urges harmony and giving over conflict. The speaker contrasts selfish living with renewing life through generosity, noting mortality and common fate. The verse invites laying aside scorn and walking together, favoring shared kindness over solitary strife.
Jessie Burke and Reginald Turner reunite after a year of separation sparked by poverty and a heartache family crisis. Reginald returns by yacht, finds Jessie on a seaside rock near the Cape Benson lighthouse, and they confess their love as the lighthouse beacon shines above.
A museum manager explains the demand for freaks as curiosities and notes new cases of wealthier exhibits. He cites examples of freaks like Albert Stewart and Lou Bowen who marry well, arguing the public favors unusual appearances over authentic traits. He also discusses Barnum, fraud perceptions, and the publicity machine behind exhibits.
The column surveys season style notes for women including hats feathers gloves and laces with mentions of beads embroidery and parasols. It also reports on women physicians in New York and wealth distributions for British nobility along with a detailed critique of Siberian exile life and the forced labor system.
A descriptive line notes Lord Churchill making sixty gestures per minute during speech, contrasted with a woman describing her new hat to a close friend. The quotation captures social chatter on mannerisms and fashion talk.
The text argues that residual tension and pressure in the crust from uplift and mountain-building cause earthquakes. It notes that slight fracturing and settling along faults disturb the crust, producing shocks. Volcanic districts with removal of magma add further stress, as seen in the Andes where earthquakes are noted on a grand scale.
The piece describes elephants attached to the British Indian army in Burmah carrying seven pound guns on their backs to move artillery where roads are absent. It notes unloading by tripod and tackle, and contrasts ancient and modern uses, including myths of Asiatic elephant superiority.
A peculiar tree on Hiero Island in the Canaries is described as a fountain tree that continually pours water from its foliage. It sits in a pond and acts as a reservoir and water source for locals and cattle. The tree is about nine feet thick, with wide laurel like leaves and evergreen growth. A north side cistern supports water distribution with assigned duties and rent free housing for the caretaker. Two hundred bluebirds were found dead at an electric light in Bay City, Michigan.
Long ere Columbu in the Kreeze unfurled his sail the setting voyage began. Strange canoes circled his flagship while the ocean carried waifs to Europe and carved trees unseen by man. Yet no waif emerges from the vast dark, for all ventures end in the grave. the edge remains hidden.
A parody parade of jokes and witticisms from various papers mocks fashion, poetry, business, and social quirks. It highlights a violinist’s pose, a boler maker, a hair elixir pitch, and playful lines about earth love music and empty promises.
The engraving on steel forms plates of two hundred stamps. Two men, a man and a girl, and three squads print on large hand presses. After drying, stamps are gummed with a potato-based mixture, dried again on steam racks, pressed between pasteboard with hydraulic presses, then cut by hand. Damaged sheets are burned. five hundred thousand stamps burned weekly. Counting sheets aims to prevent pilfering. twenty years without a lost sheet.
The Boston Herald notes Rev. James L. Hill of Lynn sent two stamped postal cards in opposite directions on a world race. One route San Francisco to Japan via Brindisi and Liverpool. the other to England then home via Japan and San Francisco. Cards were restamped in Kobe to circumvent old methods. the west-to-east journey finished eight days faster for a total of eighty five days.
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