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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1892
Page
6
A compact column of miscellaneous items titled Topics of the Times surveys the day’s happenings. It comments on public figures including Prince Bismarck, praising his lasting prominence while noting detractors’ limitations.
The author muses that if rash fools tried balloon ascents as a safer alternative to reckless ventures, aerial voyages now deemed useless could become valuable. The piece argues ballooning would offer a meaningful, accountable addition to contemporary civilization.
A fragment notes Italians in Sao Paulo parading the streets and tearing Brazilian flags as brigandage shifts from New Orleans to Brazil. The quip about a future Mayor Shakespeare suggests a satirical mood amid unrest. The speaker laments common belief that people are better off in the past.
A wry note accuses a wire trust of church membership among officers and desires an ad on the Bible’s first page beside reading matter. It mocks robbery by a trust that can recite the ten commandments while taking money.
Henry H. Stanley suffered defeat in his bid for a parliamentary seat and may consider relocating to America to pursue a congressional run. The veteran candidate has a history of смен nationality switches for political gain.
A report claims a British Company of Oriental Africa expedition led by Capt Nelson killed many natives near Zanzibar. The piece challenges humane societies to condemn the act, questioning if distant violence deserves their concern and calling the conduct shameful.
Observers note women’s attire is improving toward sensible styles. The departure of hoopskirts and the bustle is praised as progress, while debates on the corset signal healthier times ahead. Dio Lewis and Jenness-Miller are mocked for dramatic rivalry.
Reports claim six to eight poaching vessels seized and twenty one Victoria sealers held, with the Coquillion and U S cutter Corwin enforcing orders to suppress poaching. Six thousand sealskins were recovered from Canadian vessels amid ongoing tensions among England United States governments. Yale graduates funded by the university face a riot on Commencement night over tuition costs, with alumni brutalized rooms and a tutor in disarray. Public opinion urged to lash those involved in the disruption.
The nation erupted over a woman who struck Mr. Gladstone with a piece of gingerbread in a noted outrage. The spectacle grew funnier when it emerged the gingerbread thrower admired the Grand Old Man, using the act as a quirky tribute.
A reader recalls a scene of a woman who baked gingerbread and kept it too long, leading to a dramatized act of casting it before a public figure. Lamented as overwhelmed with grief, she may become a historical emblem alongside Barbara Fre chaired heroines as a symbolic moment in politics.
The Railway Age highlights the huge rise in work for managers and crews during the season’s unprecedented floods. It recalls superintendents risking lives, a general manager living six weeks in a car, and relentless efforts to prevent disaster. Despite criticism, the article honors the tireless railway staff who protected public safety amid widespread inundation.
A wealthy Austrian woman has founded an asylum for mothers-in-law prompting questions about motive and social norms. The piece notes the oddity of favoring mothers-in-law while ignoring wives, wonders about funding through suffering sons-in-law, and jokes about a new source of newspaper wit.
The top-knot cutting marks a coming of age in Sia mese families with a round crown patch of hair tied with a jeweled pin and white flower chaplet. The date, chosen by family soothsayers, ranges nine to thirteen years and blends baptismal and circumcision rites with feudal coming of age.
A fragment from the Atchi oy Glebe reflects a line about people making Father Confessors of their friends. The terse note highlights social slyness in informal circles.
A select committee chaired by Tom L. Johnson investigates District of Columbia assessments, reporting substantial undervaluation and bias against residential land. They urge shifting to land value taxation to stimulate building, curb speculation, and reduce district dependence on federal funding.
The Detroit News argues against taxing industry by taxing property values equally, using a $1,000 house beside a $30,000 mansion to show why tax should reflect labor and value. It contends that shifting taxes from industry to property would boost economic activity and reduce poverty.
The St. Louis Republic notes that proponents urge World’s Fair officials to attach cards to each foreign exhibit detailing cost of goods at production, duty including brokerage, transport to Chicago, and selling price in Chicago, a move seen as reasonable and instructive.
A brief history of the electric telegraph and the Morse breakthrough. It covers Congressional appropriation in 1837, the Baltimore to Washington line opening on April 1 1845, tariff rates, stock investors, early line challenges, and the evolving perception of telegrams as useful yet mysterious.
A Paris tale recalls noblemen testing a countryman with a hoax about a headless veteran at the Hotel des Invalides. The countryman pretended ignorance yet delivered a sharp joke about lords lacking brains, turning the prank back on the pranksters with a quick wit and irony.
Jacques Inaudi a 24 year old French prodigy amazes Paris with feats of mental calculation. He multiplies twelve and twenty four digit numbers, finds square and cube roots instantly and can recite every number on a board after an hour. His memory focuses on numerical problems and algebra. He uses a natural multiplication method by rounds and additions. He can multiply two three digit sums in six seconds.
The article recounts Sequoyah, the Cherokee inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, tracing his birth in the Cherokee nation, his method of deriving written signs from sounds and objects, and notes that eighty five characters formed the writing system. It mentions the Advocate newspaper printed in Cherokee.
A description of the Kossuth party in the Hungarian Parliament composed of white haired old men who refuse to attend palace receptions. The group is portrayed as irreconcilables, with the leader signaling nonattendance when the king is to receive delegates. The Emperor reportedly respects them and Kossuth prides himself on ninety years of self support and declines pensions offered by Italy.
The passage surveys theories on the first language spoken by Adam, listing views from Goropius who claimed Dutch was the Paradise tongue to Kemp who proposed God spoke Swedish with Adam replying in Danish and Eve in French. It also notes Persian belief in three languages for Paradise Arabic by the serpent, Persian poetry for Adam and Eve, and Turkish as the angel Gabriel’s tongue.
An Egyptian dealer in mummies used an odor scent and animal skins to simulate antiquity. Demand grew as he shipped mummies worldwide while few entered his shop. A sharp-eyed critic suggested cemetery links, prompting an investigation that led to a conviction and a crackdown on the operation.
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