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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
1
In LaPorte County Indiana a bounty paid for woodchuck sc unsurprisingly shows 1,099.20 dollars spent for 5 196 pests over three months. A Pacific coast traveler reports discouraging Columbia River fishing with machines aiding labor and eighteen tons of fish hauled in twelve hours, reducing human effort to carting.
Commercial Agent Smith reports to the Secretary of State that the new American method of drying fruit, especially apples, could become a major industry. He notes in Mayence that American dried apples are widely offered and preferred for their quality and low price.
A Delaware house studies labor displacement due to power looms. A hand loom produced 60 to 80 picks per minute with 20 threads per square inch, while a power loom reaches 180 picks. Weavers now manage two to ten looms, and New Hampshire plants report a fifty percent drop in muscular labor over ten years for the same cloth quality.
An Indian visitor in St Paul drank heavily, was arrested, and a municipal judge sentenced him to five days in the work house where his long hair was cut. He blamed the punishment, avoided his tepee for a week, and fear lingered among tribes about hair being cut. Custom House official Beaulieu promised hair safety to restart visits, but months later another long-haired Indian faced a similar fate before US officers intervened to save him from having his scalp lock cut.
Dr Burggraeve of the University of Ghent argues a simple salt regimen can make people centenarians. He claims salt balances blood, strengthens health, and cites Dutch and Saxon examples, urging adults to consume two-thirds of an ounce daily to avert disease and prolong life.
A quoted reminiscence from the New Orleans Times-Democrat about youth and aging. The passage contrasts tender early steps with advancing years and suggests women staff support and fading eyesight as time passes. The tone is lyrical and reflective.
On a wedding day torn by a secret, Anabel Clifton defies a forced match. Eugene Sands flees after a hidden note reveals the truth, and Cousin Franklin Monroe steps in, becoming fiancé and husband as Anabel chooses true love over arranged fate. The town witnesses a late ceremony amid joy and shock.
A country guest, wary of pickpockets, gives a $100 bill to a hotel clerk to keep in the safe. The clerk denies receipt, prompting a lawyer to devise a two day plan that ends with the guest reclaiming both $100s and paying the lawyer a $100 fee.
Captain James Power Smith recounts Jackson's fatal volley near the turnpike west of Chancellorsville. Jackson receives multiple wounds, is carried from the field, urges Pender to hold ground, and utters his final command to hold.
In 17th century Perignon of Hautvilliers abbey led experiments that yielded sparkling champagne. The secret stayed within the abbey until presented to Louis XIV. Moet and Chandon later bought 6,000 bottles in a year, and now their firm bottles about 200,000 dozen annually.
Experiments by Fol and Sarasin in the Gulf of Nice measure daylight penetration, finding the midday limit around 1800 feet in clear weather. The report also notes developments in cold air tunneling at Stockholm and new light sources for outdoor industrial work.
A Dutch commemoration marks five hundred years since William Buckels of Zeeland salted herrings keeping and exporting them. His method helped Holland dominate early North Sea trade, earning royal statues and even Queen Maria of Hungary honor by visiting his tomb and eating a salted herring.
In 1799 the Lutine Dutch East Indiaman sank off Holland near Terschelling with twenty five million guilders in coin and bars aboard. Only one sailor survived and identified the wreck site. Repeated salvage attempts failed as sands shifted or depth increased. Ter Meulen of Terschillin formed an association to resume the task, though no specially prepared vessels have yet sailed.
Fragmentary dialogue between a pilot and companion aboard a ship at night. The ship battles waves and darkness as the pilot glimpses a distant shore and a yearning for home. The verses evoke fear, longing, and prayer amid a moonless, foam-sprayed voyage.
A collage of quips and comic lines from 19th century papers. Jests about revolvers and boxing quirks, a sheriffs motto, chiropodists debating corn, and witty exchanges from New Haven New York papers. Light social banter and mock dialogues circulate among readers.
A Havana letter discusses the use of B L P and B L M initials on envelopes, signaling kisses for feet or hands in Spanish etiquette. The piece notes differences in polite closings among acquaintances and laments improper use of B L P for a lady. A second item reports a sturgeon eleven feet long weighing about 500 pounds, caught near 3 mish City, Ore, by an Indian hunter.
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