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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1902
Page
3
Price Baking Powder Co. claims superior leavening power with uniform performance. It asserts dough rises higher with less waste of flour and ingredients, and that biscuits cost less to produce than with cheaper powders, plus health benefits.
Notes from Lexington Missouri record several births including a girl to the wife of Nick Hammer and a boy to the wife of OC W Loomis on weekend nights. The column lists visits by Miss Emma Neff to Sedalia, Mrs. T Butts from Cowgill, and Miss Katy Hays returning from Leavenworth. It also mentions baseball at Lexington, social visits, and citations for home medicines advertised by Crenshaw & Young.
Mushrooms for Paris come from dis used underground quarries south of Paris near Sceaux. Galleries run 500 yards long and 30 to 150 feet deep with beds set in two rows. Quarries offer year round growing, cheap rent around three cents per meter, and superior flavor. From two and a half to three tons are sold daily, totaling about 3 million dollars yearly.
A London Answers item notes a visible rise in Japanese stature due to diet and altered bathing habits. It cites a shift from hot baths to tepid water, a rise in average neck circumference from 13 inches, and an athletic buildup increasing height and muscle over about twenty years.
A letter recalls a Lancashire curate who agreed to bury a workman killed by molten iron with religious rites. The body was carried to the grave in a wooden rail-box and laid to rest in the churchyard, despite the unusual circumstances noted in Notes and Queries.
Four of the eldest senators occupy seats 11 12 14 and 15 in the front row of the democratic side of the chamber. Mr Pettus and Mr Morgan of Alabama along with Mr Cockrell and Mr West of Missouri are the four. Pettus, oldest by years, is described as the father of the upper house, having passed his eightieth birthday about a year ago.
A harmonograph is defined as an instrument recording curves from the combined motion of two or more pendulums. It describes a setup with a wooden batten, universal joint, and a stylus tracing a harmony drawing by tuning the pendulums to a definite proportion.
New discoveries in the German war office archives reveal Biographies of Marshal Blucher. He began with Sweden then joined Prussia after being captured by hussars on August 29, 1760. As a Frederick the Great lieutenant he faced punishment for cruelty blamed on his regiment, leading to cashiering and denial of uniform. Only after Frederick William I’s accession did he return to service and later gain high esteem.
Amid heavy winter snowfalls that clogged Manhattan streets for days three curious steam snow melt ers operated by the street cleaning department were sent to clear the piles. They look like road rollers with an iron box and a boiler feeding two pipes into the box, melting snow as it’s dumped in. Each machine reportedly moved 730 yards of snow in a single hour. nine workers assisted in the operation.
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