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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
3
Two colored men, one deformed voodoo practitioner named James Coleman a bootblack, and James Eaton a former prizefighter. In a room they faced off as the shaman performed incantations and Eaton trembled, then both were taken to the asylum.
M Mouchon built a compact solar distiller carried on a back that yields 244 quarts per hour or 2 gallons per day enough for six to eight men. It aims to ease water shortages in Egypt India and other regions. The device provides healthful drinking water and helps soldiers cook quickly in areas with scarce supplies.
A South Indian custom described by The Indian Social Reformer involves a man who has lost two wives performing a formal marriage to a plantain tree. The tree is later cut down, symbolizing a third union deemed inauspicious and allowing a fourth marriage to a third woman.
A Yale chemistry student, aiming to prank Professor Silliman, proposed using nitrous oxide to vent his grievances. Silliman overheard and let the plan unfold until the gas was finally considered to have made the student prematurely irresponsible. The exchange highlights the experiment’s unintended social effect.
Jack tells his fiancée they cannot discuss silver and linen until their wedding trip hotels are finished, a line from a New York Journal snippet revealing travel and preparation details.
The Dead Sea lies 1,291 feet below the Mediterranean and 1,310 feet below its surface, giving a total depth of about 2,600 feet. Its highly saline water makes diving impossible and causes swimmers to float when they wade beyond waist depth.
Question and advice on throat coughs and hoarseness. Promotes Scott’s Emulsion of cod liver oil with Hippophosphites as a remedy to enrich the blood tone nerves and heal inflamed membranes. Claims to remove the cough cause and prevent lung trouble. available through druggists and Scott & Bowne.
Planters the tea cures dyspepsia constipation and indigestion. Regulates the liver. Price twenty five cents.
A tour of unlikely foods shows how taste varies by place and time. The piece notes roast elephant leg as a delicacy, tetrapharmacon dishes, raw meat practices of the Huns, Norwegian herring with sour milk, and Bombay duck with curry, citing Thackeray and Daniel Webster as observers.
A Youth's Companion observation notes how familiarity with a place or people can foster affection or contempt. The essay contrasts urban longing with rural homesickness and recalls a Boston traveler surprised by Vancouver, where locals deem the scenery simple yet beautiful.
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