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Newspaper
Lehi Banner
Location
Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
6
The excerpt presents a nautical scene with mutinous crew and a captain exposing flawed diplomacy as the ship's chap captain Jones negotiates with French hosts. Dialogue reveals tensions between authority and crew loyalties amid a tense aboard voyage.
The scientific crew of Europe, aboard the Nipison in transit to New York, suffer shipboard tensions as the cattle ship Abbitibbe jams steering and misfortune delays passage. Captain Joseph Prowse of the Nemagosenda asserts authority while experts clash on deck after seasickness gives way to practical surgery en route.
Excerpts depict rough dialogue among sailors debating heredity and science, then sketches of children imagining future lives from carpentry to circus life. Included are remarks about whalers, knowledge, and a Harvard professor’s view on the limits of universal knowledge.
A remark attributed to Herbert Spencer shortly before his death mocks heavy study noting most people would choose simple meals over complex books. The quip contrasts gad liver with cod liver oil and a chapter from Principles of Psychology.
A retired farmer, Nicholas Vedderman of Angers, found a relic muskets charge prepared for witches execution. The weapon dated to before the Revolutionary era held two silver shillings dated 1781, wadded with Bible leaves, with a rusted barrel and a paper containing an elegiac quotation. Vedderman studies such curiosities and notes colonial gunpowder.
Bronze Age remains from Renfrewshire resurfaced near Newlands station with finds of a perforated stone axe hammer richly molded. Archaeologist Ludovie Mann, F S A Scot, notes further site between Kilmaicolm and Bridge of Weir and highlights the well preserved artifact and regional discoveries.
Paris and London youth flock to a fad of fob watches and scarf pins featuring their sweethearts eyes. The eyes are cut from photographs, set in gold under glass, then mounted in jewelry as a romantic, risky keepsake.
A very young seal was brought to the London Zoological Gardens after a chase from a grampus near Heligoland. The seal tried to reach a passing steamer but was caught by a yacht crew and hauled aboard. Zoo staff attempt to rear it, though success is uncertain.
A London Answers note describes La Fourm an ant themed life insurance by Pretich manufacturings towns. The plan pays 4a a month and £200 to heirs if death occurs before age 8, with benefits increasing with age to £102 at 61. The scheme hinges on the idea that younger death harms children more than later life.
A Padiham volunteer nurse sergeant's hen laid a remarkable egg bearing a clocklike flat side. The dial resembles a clock face with twelve evenly spaced ruined sections, evoking Roman numerals in a striking illustration reported by the London Telegraph.
A London Mirror piece quotes a Lancet essay noting physicians see hidden suffering at street corners. The medical man reads signs of disease and doom in ordinary faces while offering rare consolations and vigilance amid urban prosperity and poverty.
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