07 Feb 1894
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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1894
Page
1
A despatch from Shelbyville Illinois notes preliminary steps to form a new local party called the poor man's party. No nominee will exceed 1500 dollars in wealth, aiming to manage local offices with a focus on economic fairness and accessible governance.
A blend of technical notes and human interest items. Public utilities discuss coin operated telephones with multiple slots and staff. court actions involve oleomargarine seizures and injunctions. Scientific tidbits cover snake venom research and a mastodon tooth found in Kansas. Human profiles note Maj. Downie’s death and debates on when success comes, citing leaders and thinkers.
Reports detail a Highlands Kentucky farmer noting a 390 pound weighing hog and a 409 pound pig aged fifteen months. A New York hospital uses a dog's bone to repair a sixty plus patient’s broken leg with a hopeful outcome. East Greenwich England hosts the world’s largest gasometer at 12,006,009 cubic feet and 3,220 tons, outlined with coal needs and cost. Voit’s respiration apparatus at Yale aims to study metabolism to improve diets for disease. Pisa’s leaning tower, 197 feet high, 50 feet diameter, leans about thirty feet, with seven bells and a largest bell weighing 12,030 pounds.
A jumble of brief items describes a London business feature, a wages deduction for res marking, a Pennsylvania farmer and his wife found incapacitated after a cold night, a Chicago minister’s sermon turning to panic as a fire breaks out, and a singer in a concert revealing self consciousness before a performance.
A fragmented scene shows Verma Yeulliemah with a pianist during a misread verse of her song mariked. The audience sits in silence as the man glances through spectacles, awaiting a cue to proceed in a moment of awkward humor.
A dated column notes a Roman law against silk for men, praises Lady Eva Quin famed hunter who killed six tigers from a howdah, extols fencing as total physical training, quotes Mrs William Bloodgood on muscular work, and mentions Secretary Jarug of the Corean legation in Washington learning English by daily practical study of household tasks.
A collage of brief reminiscences and lineage claims features Mrs Avarilla Oliverid Cromwell Bush, Kate Wheelock the Wisconsin whist teacher, Captain Marshall Perry Wild of Portland who helped manage Dickens and Artemus Ward, and Sir Francis Drake descendants like Charles R Drake the Arizona land commissioner. It also notes odds and ends about General Butter’s enlarged burial lot, James Whitcomb Riley’s road to signing poetry, U S Grant Jr buying the Hubbell house in San Diego, Miss E Pauline Johnson reading poems in Boston, and Tyndall’s shoemaker father.
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