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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
7
A collage of quoted opinions and satirical notes on common sense, prophecy, labor, colonial schooling, and public figures. It mentions a cigar named for Ry MacLane, a proposed mausoleum crematory for dead books, and Americanization of tropical children, interwoven with jokes about Bailey and fences with girls.
The article recalls Old Newgate and Old Bailey in London, detailing brutal public executions from earlier centuries, the mob's savagery, and the planned demolition to make way for modern courts. It notes scenes of crowds, hanging rituals, and the end of public hangings in 1868.
Bahia on the Brazilian coast has about 200000 residents living in 17000 houses. A man becomes public property when he takes hold of a public trust.
Herbert Spencer proposes an artificial apoplexy to execute criminals by rotating a condemned person on a rotary table until brain and heart are starved of blood. He claims faintness followed by permanent insensibility, then death, citing dog experiments as precedent in his book Facts and Comments.
The article notes careful interior planning for major houses, citing Edward and Alexandra and Mrs. Astor as pioneers. It highlights color drawings to preview furniture layouts and the risk to servants if arrangements are disrupted, finishing with a remark on the burden of neglected little tasks.
In 1895 Dr John Windom lives above Jackson Park and feels watched by unseen eyes from a distant house. A telescope built by Caleb Strong reveals Martian life through two giant circular windows, linking Windom to a secret invention that defies inter-reflection. A quake ends the revelation, while the final scene hints their son may inherit the telescope’s legacy.
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