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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
9
The item reports that blue rays from mercury vapor lamps can sterilize water, killing bacteria within two minutes at close range, with practical tests using a nine ampere lamp in a cask. It also notes incidental court anecdotes, antiquities, railway openings, and various scientific curiosities and travel notes from the period.
An overview tracing the guillotine’s origin to France and Scotland, mentioning Dr. Guillotin’s influence, initial experiments on corpses, and early executions. It covers the instrument’s names, public reception, notable cases including Charlotte Corday, and estimates of deaths during the Reign of Terror.
An old gentleman tests a suitor by feigning objections to his plan to marry the daughter. The youth calmly asserts his resolve and finally earns consent, praised for his pluck and steady nerve.
A Yorkshire private asylum chaplain asked a fellow clergyman to preach to inmates during his absence. The sermon touched on Africa India and heathen practices. A listener cried as the preacher spoke of the Ganges offering. A caller remarked warmly with a biting retort about the preacher's mother.
Crude OCR fragments describe Horace Bixey, an elderly Mississippi pilot, linked to intemperance. The text recalls a drowning scene after a man soaked in river water for half an hour. A witness notes the victim’s lips moving and a plea to roll him to remove water.
The article recounts Mr. McKinley praising a federal program begun in 1906 to mark Confederate soldiers graves in northern prisons and hospitals. It notes the challenges of identifying remains, incomplete war records, and estimates of Confederate casualties, alongside broader postwar reconciliation efforts.
The piece argues that employment chiefly shapes character before wealth or titles. It condemns idleness, warns against swindles in ads, and praises self-help, hard work, and initiative as routes to opportunity and advancement. It cites examples from Cunard Lincoln Galileo and notes luck favors the active.
A poetic exhortation by Blanche Allen Bane urging escape from restraint to follow a seductive wet road toward the sea. The piece contrasts youth and longing with the safe inland life and promises of new joy if one chooses to depart.
An elderly man converses with a nurse about distinguishing twin boys in a baby carriage. The exchange plays with pronouns and pointing, highlighting the confusion in telling the two infants apart in a humorous, didactic exchange.
A conversation describes two beings placed in separate rooms with one in each location. The method relies on observing which is in the other room to assign positions. When asked if one could be in the house and the other away, the girl insists they could identify the in house one by looking and thus know the other is elsewhere. The old gentleman moves on.
The article recounts Thomas Moffat, then consul at La Guayra, refusing to sign a report declaring La Guayra’s sanitary condition perfect during a bubonic plague outbreak. He recalls local authorities’ anger over his stance and compares their policy to a dangerous brake error, using a reformulated parable about a brakeman and engineer to illustrate persistence and risk.
A fragmented look at congressional life features remarks by Payne and Cannon, notes on ambidextrous writing by senators, and vivid sketches of lawmakers like Tillman, Simmons, Daniel, Gore, and Tawney. It narrates ceremonial moments, speeches, and the interplay between House and Senate figures in the Capitol atmosphere.
Fragmented remarks critique bachelor life and social mores. The writer argues against teaching boys to earn their living, suggesting reliance on others’ money and calling for quick success through ostentatious displays.
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