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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
9
A historical note recalls British sailors during the Crimean War writing home with a single letter paid by a shilling. Two sailors, unable to write separately, sent a joint missive to their wives Polly and Susan promising to thrash the Roosians and return home with more wages, signed by Bill and Jack.
Courts in England move to curb rascally dealers who blind song birds for sale. The brutal practice uses a needle to tear the optic nerve, leaving birds able to drink and feed but blind. The piece condemns the cruelty and echoes Victor Hugo on humanity’s coldness.
The excerpt notes Pope and Garrith as poor figures in the witness box. Pope was summoned to defend Bishop Atterbur in 1723 when the prelate faced high treason charges in the house of lords. He admits public speaking was hard and recounts several blunders during his few remarks.
Princess Patricia of Connaught displays art at East Berks exhibition and excels in painting, tennis, hockey, golf, and horseriding. She collects uncut gems, boasting a magnificent assortment, and speaks on royal duties with democratic sentiment.
Alexandre Bisson presents a new Paris debut next week with an added scene introducing two police dogs that chase the villain across the stage and finally capture him. The dogs enthusiasm turns the pursuit into a comic lark, prompting the villain to hope the play will not last long.
The article notes anticipated use of low value aluminum coins in France by year end. It adds that Naquet’s 1871 proposal for aluminium coinage would have cost the treasury, and experts had said metal prices could not drop, yet the metal halved since.
A poor young London woman Massie was entertained by a patroness. During tea she steered conversation to private matters asking about the husband, children, and drinking. The hostess replies with pointed questions and a reveal of family dynamics.
The passage notes widespread dispute over who first invented the planing machine. It cites records showing Nicholas Fory, a French clockmaker, using a metal planer in 1751 to machine pump cylinders, believing it yielded greater accuracy than a revolving cutter.
The article reports over 6,000,000 people vaccinated in the Philippines since American control and a shift from widespread smallpox deaths to scattered cases. It notes intestinal parasites afflicting about 0 percent, with over 10 percent anemoria or hookworms, and mentions ongoing measures to combat these conditions. It adds a Washington naturalist’s fossil teeth collection from China’s drug shops, reveals they include extinct animals’ remains, and reports Austrian plans to publicly sell radium for medical use, with global recovered radium not exceeding a quarter of a pound. It also mentions land value gains on a New York parcel and a London hospital note from a mother about her two coughing children waiting in the ward.
Queensland and Victoria report limited email ostrich activity with about 2,000 birds in Australia. Inferior feathers are used domestically while the valuable plumes are exported, mainly to Germany.
In Civil War days Lincoln asked Beecher and Archbishop Hughes to aid the North. A young boy sought Annapolis, not West Point, after a letter from the archbishop. Lincoln’s gesture helped him gain a naval career, later rising to command during the Spanish American War after Roosevelt’s push.
A fragment recalls an old woman in a grocery store noting a severe wines illness and telling friends that she is not in heaven tonight only by the Lord's mercy. The scene includes a visiting minister who overhears the remark during a church townday. The tone echoes cautionary moral humor from a bygone era.
Professor Herbert William Magoun of Redfield college studies Noahs flood as a massive historical change. He argues the flood created vast seas, sunk land, and altered the globe. He notes the crust cracked during the late ice age and that life was largely destroyed, with substantial evidence but no definitive proof it was Noahs flood.
A fragment reflects a shift in opinion among scholars who once doubted flood stories now subscribing to multiple interpretations. The lines suggest doubt gave way to broader belief in more than one deluge narrative.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment depicts a quixotic exchange over the identity of Verrazzano and the Hudson River discovery. A banana seller and a knowledge seeker spar over names and eras as a crowd looks on. The piece closes with a quip about contempt of court and a boy’s slow grasp of arithmetic.
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