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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1900
Page
6
A vivid Civil War era style scene recounts French cuirassiers charging Prussian lines. Amid cannon fire a headless rider, still urging his horse, inspires terror as the cuirassiers are repelled thrice. The astonishing vision is described in stark black and white terms.
A fragment outlines a popular science view that volcanoes are not burning mountains but holes in the earth ejecting material, steam, and reflected light. It then recounts a Beau Brummel anecdote from Captain Grownow’s reminiscences about 1815, noting Brummel’s fanciful dress and the boast that his boot blacking is made with champagne.
A fragmentary report claims a long held superstition about death and bodily health has been substantiated by advanced medicine. It suggests illnesses confined to the limbs can be cured, challenging traditional beliefs about mortality and physical decline.
Readers puzzled by Vittorio Emmanuel III as the third. The explanation lies in a earlier Sardinian line where the grandfather, the second Victor Emmanuel, retained the title when moving to the Italian throne, making Italy count the first as second and the second as third. New York Times.
A retrospective on Robert W Gardner of Quincy who invented a governor for steam engines half a century ago. The text notes his early work as an apprentice, later purchase of a small machine shop, and numerous patents for governors and other notable inventions.
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