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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
11
The author recalls life at The Barn in India where a thatched roof leaked mud during rains and predatory insects invaded daily. Mosquitoes, ants, white ants, and beetles ravaged furniture and clothes, with walls taped and floors plastered with cow dung after eviction rituals. The struggle against infestation wore on the narrator.
Readable text recounts Benjamin Axelrod, 15, famed for stowaway feats on the Arconia voyage from Brooklyn to Europe. Immigration Commissioner Robert Warehorn oversees his case amid fears of another escape as another stowaway endures restraints aboard. The tale notes Axelrod’s capture, brief escape, and return to confinement aboard the ship and port facilities.
An Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society address recounts vivid vivisection crimes. Dr Charles Bell Taylor cites accounts by Brachet Shaw Latour and Weber detailing eye removal ear cutting dog torture and brain experiments to illustrate alleged scientific brutality.
Leonard Roede of Quincy Illinois marked his 108th birthday in good health and active mind. He claims to have seen Blucher Wellington and Napoleon at Waterloo and, as a youth, served as a messenger for Blucher carrying a document to Wellington on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. He holds a German Wanderbuch noting his birth date January 21 1400.
Nearly one hundred women visited Washington for the annual call on Congress urging that woman suffrage be extended. Speakers included Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton and Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt with remarks on suffrage progress in South Africa and Canada and praise for Britain. Delegates pressed for action while men and lawmakers listened in the Senate and House hearing rooms.
Anderson Ind. Special J T Ferris, superintendent at Sefton Manufacturing, reports a lifting wheel that screws into the air to rise and moves forward or backward by traction. A wood prototype flew apart in a test but proved the principle, with steel versions planned for further trials and potential air or water lifting use.
A woman in Washington and one other, using a secret method, creates artificial fruit so lifelike hundreds mistake it for real. Davie, wife of an electrician, reportedly refused offers for the recipe after a Japanese visitor who admired her work shared the receipt. An attempted chemical analysis in Washington failed to reveal the contents.
Boston Herald notes Montpelier Vermont produces clothespins by the millions each year using steel wire springs. The firm makes 100000 or more clothespins annually and a wide range of clips for papers bottles and carriages. The clothespin is a household staple worldwide.
Boston Herald recounts how John Sharp Williams, the Democratic House leader, repeatedly forgets social engagements due to momentary mental lapses. After finally deciding to attend a function, he forgets again, then is reminded by family and the day unfolds with comic self identification in a mirror gag.
The fragment discusses a school setting with jokes about exam papers and a Harper’s Weekly writer collecting ideas. A peculiar tale describes two kinds of cork and a confused remark about a primate and “the wife of a prime Later.” The text shows garbled OCR and unclear specifics.
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