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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1892
Page
8
An aging observer laments the decline of the bootjack and the passing of his era. He recalls a bygone New York hotel scene with splendor and staff, contrasts it with his youth on the Albany turnpike, and notes a culture of hustle replacing quieter times as the bootjack vanishes. He fears his generation nears obsolescence.
The article notes a novel English house stove with a reversible grate that uses coal gas efficiently. It then offers room lighting and layout advice, suggesting warm colors for north light and sharp shades for dark rooms, plus patterns and lines to affect perceived height. It also mentions beer for workers and a recipe style drink with ice, oatmeal, lemon, and sugar. It discusses jewelry shells for diamond settings, marrow use in cooking, and party cakes like tennis cakes and citron twists.
A battered silver whistle once used by John Brown to summon followers is planned for display at the World's Fair. Described as a long-tailed tadpole with a slender pipe, its notes were said to guide enslaved people to underground railway paths northward to freedom.
Since Stanley returned the Dark Continent has drawn hundreds of missionaries and adventurers from America England and Germany to Central Africa. At KKwaijulula natives now welcome foreigners who build houses and other works to witness fetish practices.
A summary ofWomen win prizes and appointments and women as professionals. Mrs C L Waitnts of New York wins a $100 Herald prize for a story, Mary Surnupon Larnes named assistant professor at Stanford with husband Karl Barnes chairing education. Princess Victoria of Connaught plans U S World’s Fair visit in 1883 then Honolulu for birthday. Julia Ward Howe recalls a nine year old Italian language passion leading to fluency. Parsee girls excel in domestic cookery prizes in Bombay. Mrs P T Barney named World’s Fair Board of Lady Managers. Hyderabad hosts a women led photography studio. men in Newark Copenhagen Stockholm New Orleans show rising female photographers earning income.
A collection notes opals from Australia PanSaDiva replaces platinum for watch parts a paper hotel in Hamburg fireproof paper boards roasted coffee germicide myth and calendar invention two hundred year register old hardening steel raises rupture risk potato buttons from acids and pressure lungs contain 75 million cells depth 2406 fathoms near Cape Matapan tiny Bible from Oxford University press diphtheria bacillus factors warmth moisture darkness sewer heat outbreaks cloud experiments in Paris suggest resinous fuel could form clouds for crops or military use
The article offers household cleaning tips using chloride or LiMn weekly under sinks and for smoky ceilings, and methods to clean a teakettle with kerosene and dry cloth. It notes ants driven away by carbolic soap and red pepper in crevices. It closes with London as the first city to use coal in the late twelfth century and a man executed for violating this early prohibition.
William Von Puttkamer, once a Grenadier officer who fought in multiple wars and earned the Iron Cross, now works with the Salvation Army at a Newark men’s shelter. He seeks to dedicate his life and inherited funds to Salvation Army work after travels from Mexico to San Domingo and San Francisco.
A reflective piece on scorn, gratitude, action, and virtue. It contrasts home fireside growth with public deeds, notes dangers of misused charity, and urges study, clear conscience, and self awareness. The closing item advertises Charles Cavanaugh adding wood work and wagon repairing to his blacksmith business seeking trade.
The Creamery and Dairy is a monthly Clarksville Indiana publication for dairy men priced at $1 per year the subscription note indicates an increased rate of $1.50 per year.
The text touts years of scientific testing and positions the lenses as superior to all similar glasses. It claims experts acknowledge them as the finest and most perfectly constructed, designed to correct various visual imperfections. A trial of the Kohindor lens allegedly proves they are perfect light renewers and every pair is warranted.
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