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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1900
Page
2
The Squoan school board in Chicago requires teachers to undergo medical examinations for certificates, deterring many applicants who fear hidden illnesses. In Vatican library news, Luther manuscripts surface and scholars note two Epistles commentaries from 1516 and 1617, predating the Ninety Five Theses.
The Ways and Means committees of the House were authorized to meet during the congressional recess to prepare a bill reducing taxes imposed at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. The committee plans to assemble in Washington about ten days before Congress reconvenes on December 6. Much of Congress will be involved in committee work during recess.
The rivalry between steam and sailing ships shows steamships with a clear edge in years of development and capacity. Yet sailing vessels persist where speed is not crucial and fuel costs are high, as wind power remains a viable option for transporting freight over long, less urgent voyages.
A German machinist who joined a firm to steal rivals’ intellectual property received a three month prison sentence. Businessmen who aided him were also sentenced to imprisonment. The article argues that inventors deserve protection against unscrupulous imitators and notes the rarity of such cases in industrial nations.
Miss Florence Leonard of Arlington Ga was locked in the Niagara Falls observation tower overnight after the superintendent forgot to close up. She had been sightseeing in the afternoon and, when no one appeared by five o clock, sought a final view before the tower was left unattended. The watchman locked up at eight, then left. Miss Leonard was found fainting the next morning.
The Niagara Falls Cataract Journal reports that Peter A. Porter highlighted a relic from the Anglo French struggle. The outline of a block house lies about two and a half miles above the falls near the old portage to Lewiston. The Nisgar Frontier Historical Society seeks its preservation as a unique authentic relic of that period.
A striking discussion outlines a future bridge joining New York and Brooklyn. It describes an asphalt covered bicycle path elevated above tracks for trollies and carriages with carefully divided traffic including pedestrian, tram, trolley, and vehicle lanes. The design allocates double trolley tracks on both sides and dedicated carriage routes to ease congestion.
A detailed description of a fakir in Byderbed Sindh performing a fire spectacle. The act includes a shady grove, ropes suspended from a tree limb, a middle height fakir stripped to a cloth, ash and water paste on body, hair bound, cloth soaked in ash mix, and a ceremonial pooja with verses and a conch blast as wood beneath is lit.
A fakir carefully prepares a ritual fire ceremony with ropes and loops then lowers himself through burning fumes and flames. He steadies himself, mutters a prayer with each pass, and ends the rite by rising, performing a final act of worship and claiming no serious harm.
Judge Walter L Simmons of Port Soo District Court forbade Emma Collins Johnson of Joplin Mo to wed J Ho Johaun a young man of Joplin whom she married two months earlier. She was divorced in one day and remarried the next. The judge warned that if she wed again soon after divorce the decree would be set aside leaving two husbands. The telegram arrived half an hour after the wedding. She was ordered to appear before the judge. Friends urged mercy but the decree stood.
Two masked men tried to force open the safe at the Globe Lavodey company office in Chiru. A blast injured one thief badly and knocked the other senseless as company workers tied and bound, while police found evidence of a failed break in and large sums reportedly inside the safe.
Mrs. Mary Bevanon of Santa Ana California fasted forty seven days beating Dr Tanner's record by seven days. After three years of stomach tremor she began fasting on a friend’s suggestion. She weighed 183 pounds at start and declined to weigh remains. doctors fear danger but report no conclusion.
The little daughter of Mr and Mrs LJ Stoner of Port Dodge North Dakota drowned after falling into a lard can filled with water. The mother heard the child struggle and rushed to aid but could not save her.
John Meyer, a Williamsburg real estate dealer and member of a wealthy family, died of blood poisoning after a pencil wound in his Manhattan office. The accident occurred about two weeks ago when the index finger was cut while sharpening a pencil. Despite treatment by top physicians, the infection proved fatal, linking the death to a broader family prominence including Cord Meyer, the late sugar refiner.
Paraguay sees rising export activity in tanning materials driven by high fiber yields from Weache for Tanning and Quisbracho partners. Industry reports note a growing demand for hard wood and related products, with strong percentages of locally sourced lapels and weed used for tanning processes.
A Maryland church sexton Georg W. Spence cherished Edgar Allan Poe’s grave near the archway of a Baltimore churchyard. His loyal dog Sailor mourns at the fence while visitors, including relatives, recall Poe and Spence’s odd devotion to the writer. The 1849 funeral of Poe is recounted by the old sexton, who preserves memories of Poe, Clemm family, and graveyard rituals.
From Adirondack wilderness comes a hero tale of Biraggio of Man Wineater who, trapped by a fallen tree while felling near Piercefield, struggles through cold and exposure. He frees himself with an ax and knife, reaches his cabin with a wife and baby, and endures pneumonia while loved ones aid his recovery, near Mercefield.
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