Vast and Varied News Snippets From The Era
A collage of reports covers currency and taxation in England, census updates in South Africa, and a Canadian court verdict. It notes telegraph order costs in the UK, immigrant settlement schemes near Caldwell County, a German artist Adolf Menzel’s iron foundry scene, and a Mount Eval epidemic of hypnotic trance dances. Also included are reflections on public health and longevity from George E. Waring, Jr., and Dr Stephen Smith.
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Adolf Menzel
Metize
Tonga
Mount Ehbal
Galidiana
The
New York Tribune
Belgium
Indiana
George E. Waring, Jr
Stephen Smith
The Limited Express
On a cold January night attorney J Weldon Bradshaw rides northbound in a train chair. He confronts his hard life as a successful business man and glimpses his younger self in a window reflection, recalling his mother’s warning that experience is sorrow and life must be lived for others.
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Broadway
J. Weldon Bradshaw
Alan
Atem
Fie
Weedon Bradshaw
First to Do Learn Self Mastery Over Wrath
A poem advises patience over bluster and pride. It urges self control to weather fate and obstacles, noting time will set things right if one waits. It compares wind and frost as forces shaping success and warns against pointless tantrums.
Weeden Bradshaw and the Train Disaster
A moral tale follows Weedon Bradshaw as youth, love, and money clash. After neglecting a former sweetheart for wealth he faces a fatal train wreck where a hero's sacrifice underscores the cost of a life chasing money. The crash tests Bradshaw's aging conscience and leaves him to ponder lost opportunities and higher purposes.
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J. Weedon Bradshaw
Weeden Bradshaw
Weedon Bradshaw
How Paper Barrels Are Made
English manufacturers perfect paper barrels rivaling wooden ones in cost and use. Waste paper and cardboard form most material. cardboard is boiled, beaten, pulped, rolled, joined, dried, and hooped. Barrels are waterproofed with linseed oil rosin or varnish for food use. Standard size 16 1 2 by 28 inches. cost about six cents versus thirty four cents for wood. Waste pulp is recycled.
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Washington Star
The Rule of Proportions in The Human Figure
The article describes a proportional rule for the human figure: total height equals six times the length of the foot, the head measures one-tenth of height, the hand from wrist to middle finger is one-tenth, and the crown to nape is one-twelfth. It references Greek statuary and notes deviations affect beauty.
Illusions and stage tricks in ancient and modern shows
Prof Otis T Mason discusses why humans love illusion from Chippewa mystery men to Punch and Judy London shows. He describes a staged seal capture illusion and a counterfeit scalp of blood and dagger tricks, noting belief in magic persists even among civilized audiences. A Connecticut asylum case tells of a man convinced his legs are glass and he must stay indoors.
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Otis T. Mason
Washington Star
India
Hole
Ius
Connecticut
New York Recorder
Perilous Tree Climbers in Australian Native Practice
A historical account outlines Australian black fellers skill at tree climbing using handmade notches and a stone hatchet. It describes tree height, smooth bark, and the sequence of steps to ascend, including notch placements and grips, with notes on preparation and restraint before climbs.
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Continent
Australia
Ike
Africa
Gaiety of the Japanese and Sympathetic Pain in Amputated Limbs
A composite notice discusses Japanese playfulness and the rise of a kinder kindergarten system, noting their holiday culture and learning through geometric wood puzzles. It also retails Dr Bailey recounting a war era amputee case where leg toe cramps caused agony until corrected, illustrating sympathetic pain in the missing limb.
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Washington City
J. M. Bailey
Gainesville
Polk
Atlanta
Forty
Georgia
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Not Strange After All First Tramp Sea Money Remark
Two tramps discuss luck and wealth quoting a regional dialect line about making money from any task. The exchange contrasts ambition with skepticism, reflecting humor and street wisdom in a compact dialog.
Pearls of Thought on Prosperity and Character
A reflective passage notes how prosperity bends love of life, the influence of parents, and the value of unselfish loveliness. It cautions that pursuing weak ambitions harms a better life, and contrasts friendships with the wicked against those with the good. It treats gratitude, obligation, and the worth of health and reason.
Indian Executions in Creek Nation Described by Agent Bennett
Leo E. Bennett, government agent for the five civilized tribes, recounts the last Creek execution to a Washington reporter. The condemned sat unbound as two shooters chosen by the prisoner killed him with rapid, precise shots to the heart. Bennett notes larceny penalties and hints at challenging federal court habeas corpus. Seminoles are noted as the only other civilized Indians who execute.
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Leo E. Bennett
Five Civilized Tribes
Washington
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Light Horse
Fort Smith
Porter
The Bad Lands: Vast Fossil Rich Desert in the Dakotas
The Bad Lands or Man Driven Terrains span 60 000 square miles across the Dakotas Wyoming and northwestern Nebraska between the Platte Forks and Cheyenne River. Geologists believe miocent era lakes once covered the area, forming canyon mazes with raised formations like towers arches caves and monuments. Dr Hayden noted sunset lighting turning ruins to luminous cities. Unsuitable for farming and poor for grazing, the region holds a wealth of fossil remains especially horse bones in soft clay layers.
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Dakotas
Wyoming
Nebraska
North Fork
Platte
South Fork
Cheyenne River
American
Plaina
Hayden
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Cenrel
England
Montreal
Canada
Ned
Tibet
United Kingdom
Cape of Good Hope
South Africa
Russia
United States
Caldwell County
North Carolina
BY Charlotte Rogu
Ile
Tle
Bradshaw
Sam
Frank Lessie
Castoria
Samuel Pitchers
G. C. Dageon
Lowell, Mas
J. F. Krecamen
Conway
Irk
C. Sure
Hamton Wagon. Co
Binghamton
N. Y
J. M. Cunningham
Indiama
Paragon
T.z. Selle
Selle
MarUyvier
Annona
Fry
Bruggiste
Penne
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