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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1888
Page
1
Great Eaplanus promises luck for buyers with a twenty day general reduction on men's youths' and boys' suits slats caps trunks and gents' furnishing goods. The sale at M. Jackson & Brother includes Fraley Street and North Clarence Kane Pa with prices described as below cost.
A playful verse envisions a sunny day of sailing to the sky with a beloved companion. The speakers plan adventures among clouds and stars, teasing the man in the moon and chasing gleaming stars in a cheerful, childlike fantasy.
A Texas cor respondent describes Harrison Davis’s mule ranch near Sherman Grayson County where Frank the tamer breaks Mad Ranger a wild sorrel. Using ropes slicker and careful technique Ranger endures a prolonged struggle then is saddled and ridden after an hour of control on the prairie.
An English lecturer argues eggs are a neglected wealth mine for agriculture. He claims eggs command high prices, sustain nutrition, and have broad uses from food to medicine, with hens and ducks yielding steady profits and even shells valued as carbonate of lime.
The New York Sun reports on a warning about the crown prince’s health and appearance. It notes Prince Wilhelm’s crippled right hand and deformed little finger, and describes efforts to train his horses and conceal the flaw.
A St James Gazette correspondent recalls Pekin sights such as the clock tower and Examination hall, noting occasional openness, the observatory with carved dragon supports, and a disagreeable local character. The narrator describes a parasol maneuver to clear crowds and reflects on the city's odors and uneasy interactions.
Ascola Democrat reports a joke about a talkative wife who falls into a tub of cream. The wife narrowly escapes drowning as her chin churns forty pounds of butter before she is rescued. Uncle Esek notes happiness as a learnable art.
A British government push seeks to cultivate edible oysters along Tasmania’s coastline and is described as engaging with local authorities and entrepreneurs to advance aquaculture plans. The reports note exploration of methods, funding, and regulatory steps amid growing seafood industry interest.
In Atlantic Monthly the Siamese wife is described as energetic and practical. She endures a missing husband rumor, remarries, and maintains order at home while displayed in vivid, unromantic detail. Her sturdy, dark appearance contrasts with the harsh realities of raft life and commerce.
An Epoch reflection by E. M. Hardinge critiques the Normal college chapel gathering. The writer laments pale, dull eyed, weary girls with flat chests and round shoulders, arguing that vigorous womanhood is sacrificed to schooling and wonders where the rosy cheeks and spark of dawn have gone.
The New York Graphic notes laws against defacing scenery reduced advertising painters from roaring gangs to a disciplined local force. Once perilous winter-night daubing on inaccessible crags gave way to organized work with owners receiving payments for each location. Bohemian excess is no longer tolerated as authorities regulate the practice.
A New York miner known as Ferocious Fred joins a bold scheme to sour Homestake Mining by stealing filtered gold amalgam from the flume water supply. He climbs in yearly, then floods the chute at night, but a recent flood drowns his effort. Fred is injured, loses his loot, and returns to New York defeated.
Proctor notes that Quetelet's infant weight figures are unreliable and incomplete. He cites averages showing a newborn's weight at one twentieth of adult weight and details on weight gain in early life. Proctor adds that Quetelet missed a law linking weight change to height growth, observed as slow or negative weight gain during rapid height increase and faster gain when height is steady.
A Moscow correspondent to the Cleveland Leader explains the extreme cold climate where wood dominates as the principal commodity and employment source. Rivers near St. Petersburg show continuous wood traffic with barges unloading as navigation stays open. Wood fuels heating year round and even in August one may need a heavy overcoat. Vegetation struggles for warmth, with rare warm spells raising temperatures to around 70 or 80 degrees.
Dr. S Weir Mitchell famed neurologist and novelist declined $500 for an article on learning intended to launch a magazine promoting a proprietary medicine, as reported by the New York World.
A freak natural formation found in western Australia comprises nine fine pearls fused into a Latin cross shape with seven in the shaft and one on each side of the second pearl. A fragmentary theory suggests a sea-related origin but the event remains largely unresolved.
The piece notes Gauchos as from Spanish families living on the pampas of Argentina. It describes their culture as disciplined by priests, with children baptized and burials carried to consecrated ground. The narrator remarks on their mix of wildness and order in rural life.
Italian military balloons tested at the Champs de Mars with Duke de Leuchtenberg Gen. Fed croff and Count Pe cori present. Each 250 to 600 cubic meter gas bag folds compactly and is deployed by a long cable. Gas prepared in Naples and carried in eight foot tubes at 105 atmospheres. Two telephone threads enable ground observers to communicate with the aeronaut. Multiple trials successful.
A well dressed man at a restaurant confides to a neighbor that a Russian tea, prescribed by his Russian doctor, has become his daily habit. He drinks six to twelve cups nightly, has gained fifty pounds, and warns it is dangerous as it opens pores and tingles from finger to toe.
Edgar L. Wakeman's letter recalls John Walton and his wife in Portland aged over 90. He recounts the 1807 burial of Commodore Edward Sieble, noting musicians came from across the country but could only play one piece, a wild Irish jig, turning the funeral procession into a lively street concert to the Eastern cemetery.
At the New England Woman Suffrage fair a novelty table offered an intellectual salad. Lettuce leaves of green tissue paper bore a poetical quotation. for five cents a leaf could be taken and the author guessed to keep it. The dish cost ten cents and raised 12.53 dollars for the treasury, provoking amusement reported by the Chicago Herald.
A reader quotes a child asking for stories about naughty animals and fun behavior, prompting a farmer father to mix natural history with imagination to teach moral choices through animal tales.
A Portuguese inventor named Guimaraes is credited with a new repeating firearm called the Archimedes that allegedly requires no powder or compressed air. The device is described as a clever arrangement of mechanical parts and priced feebly, with uncertain specifications and benefits.
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