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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1888
Page
1
A calf slain in Lionsville Pennsylvania had its hide tanned by noon at Charles Burkhalter’s tannery and the boots completed by the next morning. The owner wore them that day, claimed to be the quickest tanning on record. A separate note touts Mr BL’s fifteen minute sheep skin tanning invention.
The 1880 census counts 50,155,783 people in the United States. The decade saw about a 3 percent rise, with a prior decade hampered by the Civil War. Treasury data shows an inflow of 8,200,000 since 1880, signaling a strong immigration tide.
A Paris manufactured gem called vielane du cap appears unique not a mere imitation. An Eastern jeweler reports a clear sixteen carat stone with a deep purple color, lustrous and as hard as seven on the Mohs scale, suggesting potential for further chemical discoveries and new gems.
Report describes the Russian Emperor's travel by a three train system with guards at regular intervals along the line. Soldiers face outward ready to fire if approached after a three challenge. Windows at stations are ordered closed during the journey.
In New York's financial district brokers rely on a loaning system backed by securities. Banks lend about three quarters of market value, with collateral adjustments as prices move. Most money in offices covers staff and personal use. genuine robberies are virtually unheard of due to the paper-based, certificate-driven market.
A reflective tribute praises gratefulness for life and peace. It extols the nation’s glory and the decline of strife while lauding the enduring love of freedom guiding men toward a brighter future and an age of reason teaching right.
Dorothy Chenoweth tends the farm and butter dairy on Cape Ann while Jack Kendal wooes her through summer. A Thanksgiving storm tests loyalties as Fred Redlon is saved at sea by Jack, who then confesses love and plans to leave. Dorothy chooses Jack, and the Cape Ann Lights shine as a sign of their pairing.
A report on the Faroe Islands describes the annual harvest of eider down and flesh from abundant seabirds. It details two main catching methods, dragging and flaming, the dangers of cliffward hunts, and the economic role of crows and ravens in island farming despite government protections and ongoing losses.
A long 18th century extract covers a fire in 1760 destroying many buildings with heavy losses. notes on Roger Bacon, Captain McFlure, a deer- scenting Winn Parish resident, and Magliabechi memory claims. It then shifts to a Norwegian peasant wedding with bridal crowns, attire, and a brief church ceremony ending in a blessing.
A Northwestern Ohio farmer on the Kagy farm plans to farm through winter using heat from a large natural gas well. The article imagines heat-driven farming across the gas belt with underground pipes and wind-placed wells, suggesting tropical crops and harmony of diverse produce.
A Chicago Herald note describes Lake Villa near the Wisconsin line where locals use a whiskey bottle as buoyant fishing gear. They bait a minnow, toss the bottle, and as waves move it the bottle stirs the line drawing in pickerel. When the bottle dives they race to the drink, reel in the fish, rebait, and repeat.
A brief verse extols friendship with similes of nature and beauty. The piece attributes the lines to Josephine Canning in Good Housekorp ing, evoking sensory imagery of water, roses, morning freshness, and June fragrances.
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various papers including the Lowell Courier, Puck, Merchant Traveler, and Philadelphia Call. Snippets joke about knitting brows, a gun that went off, misheard phrases, and light social quips reflecting era humor and newspaper parody.
A Cornhill excerpt reflects on Arab horsemen with red saddles and high stirrups, describing their prideful display and the contrast with scientific modernity. It notes the swift Arab seat, the dust clouded gallops, and the reliance on camels and the Barbary donkey in Tangier and nearby Morocco.
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