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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1888
Page
4
Beginning March 1 1858 new rules set heating stove charges and free-use period. From May 1 st four months no charge for stoves used for heat if paid for and uninterrupted. If more than one stove per six rooms then extra stoves charged at half rate.
The lots on Kane Road south side above the tannery shift from lease only to offering both sale and lease options.
A local notice from Mt Jewett confirms an ongoing monthly gathering held on Fridays at OMeE. The pattern emphasizes a recurring community activity attracting residents and visitors each month.
A fragment shows cash asset figures including S518 and DOS 4.700920 with totals around 9,148,274 and 2,250,480 plus 2.80. Additional entries list 859 HOTS and EST 187408 with 2,595,314, indicating financial data partials.
Poem-like verse extols a motherly blessing and paternal joy. The speaker praises a child whose good night prayers are soothed by a mother's kiss and a father's smile. The sentiment places the child as heavenly near, in a gentle, devotional register.
The New York press notes a robust Spanish speaking community in the city with substantial Latin American representation. Many students attend colleges here and pursue medicine dentistry and engineering. Trade with Latin America expands yearly. goods include fruits hides timber rubber and sarsaparilla while silver and gold bullion attract global interest. From April to September Spaniards visit for pleasure or on routings to Europe, favoring upscale American hotels.
A Boston Herald physician argues city life imposes more friction on the human body than country life. He cites taller buildings and more stairs as factors, noting longer vegetative lifespans occur in the countryside due to greater rest and repose.
A Pall Mall Gazette note says electricity already serves fashion as tiny concealed batteries create sparkling effects on a lady at social events. The electric spark may seem to leap from her hair or shoulder, drawing admiring glances and implying secret devices hidden on the wearer.
The custom of flattening heads by pressure was common among Poset Sound Indians. A cedar bark hat was beaten and pressed on the forehead to shape the skull, a practice widely described by writers. Some Indians claim it caused headaches later in life, and few infants are treated this way now.
The New York Tribune notes an effort to make yerba matey, popular in Paraguay and Brazil, a recognized drink in Europe. Described as non intoxicating and aromatic, its chemical and physiological effects are likened to tea and coffee. It is claimed to suppress appetite and sustain people for long periods without food, as Brazilians and River Plate inhabitants reportedly consume large amounts for this purpose.
The Havana Car column quotes the New York World saying Cubans like Americans and welcome them, while Spaniards dislike Americans. It notes widespread tobacco use among youths, and claims Spaniards and Cubans maintain an armed truce with contrasting attitudes to visitors and money.
A New York Letter describes a French dog washer in the city earning a living by cleaning dogs. He charges 61 cents for large breeds, 75 cents for mid sizes, and 50 cents for pups, supplying his own towels while owners provide soap. He also offers flea removal at a higher special price, noting the shift toward regular pet care and the melancholy of neglected dogs.
A New Haven barber, worried over losing Yale freshmen customers, sharpens a razor and draws it across their smooth chins. The ploy makes a loud, wire-like rasp to imply stubble, leaving the youths pleased as though a mother-in-law’s death occurred, while the barber gains their steady trade.
The New York Medical Record notes skin specialists sometimes falter in treatment yet excel at coining long polysyllabic disease terms. Dr Hyde reports three cases of symmetrical and recurrent xylosis on the palms and soles with hyperhidrosis alopecia bromidrosis and a pauchauxe variant, suggesting a common skin process.
A survey of leap year beliefs across countries. Italians and Romans link misfortune to leap day, while Sicily allows vine grafting in leap year. Russia, Belgium, and Scotland fear ill effects on crops, livestock, and births. The article cites St Augustine, Joshua, and Tuscan lore about the accidental day and a demon sighted near La Chatre, with poems from Chambers and Thistelton Dyer.
The Newport News notes a proposed verb ante-pone to mean to place before in time. It argues the term is concise, formed from Latin, and preferable to paraphrasing postponed events. The idea would be captured by ante-pone ante-poned ante-poning or ante-ponement.
A St James Gazette report describes an electric furnace at Crenzot in France emitting light equal to 100,000 candles and intense heat. Observers a few yards away feel little heat, yet an hour-long exposure is said to produce burning sensations, facial redness, peeling skin, headaches, and sleeplessness. The piece compares this to sunstroke from bright sunlight and discusses radiant heat passing through air to heat objects, suggesting a new mechanism for light induced sunstroke.
Milk receipts last year in New York totaled 1 661 210 cans for cream 110 088 cans for condensed milk 75 029 cans at an average market price 341 2 cents. Cream and condensed milk tally 1 010 000 cans.
Peter Donohue, once Fisk’s office boy, rises from assistant paymaster to head of Erie railway finance after standing up to John Morrissey at the Grand Opera House building. The episode solidifies his loyalty and foreshadows his future prominence in the company.
The San Francisco Chronicle article notes extreme politeness in Japan, with elders bowing for blocks and emitting a long Ohayo hiss. It contrasts graceful youth greetings with ornate elderly formality and explains the language’s rank based verb forms from are to gozarimasuru.
Berlin dispatch explains the German army command where the emperor serves as chief, with Bavaria and Saxony officers awaiting his approval. Gen Von Schelendorf leads the War Ministry, and Field Marshal Von Moltke heads the general staff of seven divisions covering war theatres railways history geography statistics and topography. The staff can summon top engineers and maintains a 60 000 volume library.
An interview cites that Americans under high pressure suffer functional dyspepsia, while organic cases come from specific diseases. It advises eating slowly, enjoying meals, dining with others, and letting teeth help with chewing. If appetite falters, exercise to stimulate hunger. Hunger is the best sauce.
A pair of medical students debate the next meeting agenda. The first asks about the topic, the second suggests a paradoxical statement from The Epoch about a boy falling from a two story window versus a four story window, implying differing injuries.
Lilian Olcott's letter notes applause signals approval and communication across the footlights. It argues artists often have highly strung nervous systems, linking temperament to genius, while acknowledging such sensitivity brings both discomfort and heightened creativity.
The pickle industry is sizable in Fredericksburg Virginia with cucumber supply reaching eighty million units and local workers engaged in harvesting long enough to satisfy processing needs.
In Persia blood letting remains common with many ill effects, as observed by Thomas Stevens in Inter Ocean. A March morning in Las gird villagers line a ditch bank to watch barbers bleed men, usually half a pint, from arm or mouth, while onlookers await the flow and bind wounds with cotton.
A Saturday Review note surveys writing implements from quills to steel pens. It laments quills’ ink showers and steel pens’ flaws, noting paper’s superiority over older surfaces, and marvels at the constant struggle of authors against imperfect instruments.
The Detroit Free Press recounts Jack St. Maur telling tales of Lotta's vast shoe collection. The narrator describes velvet satin silk and canvas shoes from distant lands including Borneo and Sara wak. He jokes about a distinctive pair made from a tortoise shell and Lotta's mischievous reply that they are pean de pusse.
John P. Jackson writes in the New York World about Prince Bismarck’s speaking style. The stenographic report is challenged by unequal pace, interruptions, foreign quotations, and hushed endings. The observer notes the pressure of recording words from Europe’s focal figure.
The passage reflects on hidden troubles carried by ordinary men, likening them to an omnipresent skeleton in the closet. It praises the Anglo-Saxon reticence and contrasts it with more emotional characters who seek sympathy, citing Taverner in the Boston Post.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Kentucky and Missouri country horses excel for many uses but fail in cavalry needs. Racehorses lack endurance for campaigns while heavy horses lack speed for cavalry. Breeders must produce active, short coupled horses to preserve the valley’s famed saddle stock or risk its disappearance.
Dr Stephen Mackenzie, a medicine lecturer at the London hospital, advised half grain doses of Indian hemp twice daily as a remedy for chronic headaches, according to the Chicago Times.
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