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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1900
Page
7
Will Merrivell, in the crowd at a city depot, thinks a basket holds a hidden baby but discovers a dog after a hurried reveal. A distraught mother storms in, accusing him of deception, while the station crowd watches the curious scene unfold. The incident ends with Merrivell and Iona Wray traveling together, hinting at a budding romance and a resolved until later.
Instructions describe making Walser dye from walnut husks to color hair or fur. Break husks, soak in water barely covering, keep in a warm steady heat without boiling, stew for three days, strain the liquid, add small alcohol, and adjust shade with more alcohol or by thinning with liquid.
A Kaffir fairy tale titled Damane and Demanen follows Demane and Demane as husband and wife living in a cave. Demane forbids cooking while he hunts, cannibals threaten, and Demane returns to discover his wife abducted and fate left unclear in the tale’s ending.
A fairy tale narrator recounts a cannibal chasing schemed prey to a cave that ends with a fatal fall into mud. Disobedience leads to reward for the rightful couple while the guilty perish. The piece notes similar tales emphasize virtue and consequences, citing honesty and the proverb about mirrors.
In Kansas seven capitals existed, but Pawnee city’s old state house near Fort Riley remains historic. Built by boomers with a two story stone structure, it hosted a 1850s legislature return from a distant prairie journey, before cholera drove residents away. Preservationists urge purchase of the ruin as a relic of early state history.
Southern French vine growers turn to a centuries old method of cloud dispersal using fifty two cannons operated by 204 gunners to bombard approaching storm clouds over 2500 acres. The Italian origin method is credited with repeatedly driving away hail and rain, funded by government agencies, the National Agricultural Society, and several wealthy vintners.
An inventor, Klecvire, patents an electric light attached to a dog collar to light a burrow for tracking foxes badgers and terriers. The device aims to illuminate underground dens so quarry can be located and hunted or killed more easily. The concept, using a lamp on the hound, has reportedly received a patent.
The article reflects on death anxiety rising with wealth and unhappy living. It recounts John Islip of London who made a Mexico fortune and, fearing death, isolated in a coastal cabin with a jackdaw. He starved isolation and died after three years, his heir aging oddly early. It also cites another fortune earner who feared every movement would waste vitality, shrinking from even slight motions in a quiet country house.
A Trappist novice, Fre Stanlewne Kear, joins the U S Army Hospital Corps for a three year term after a monastery induction in Guilsemane Kentucky. He is the son of a wealthy Austrian manufacturer and has spent nine years in the United States. He previously studied at Quincy Illinois and enlisted during the war with Bonin, serving at the hospital in Jacksonville. He entered the Trappists after meeting a hospital monk, and upon completion of his enlistment plans to return to Gethsemane for life. The order forbids talking among monks and most do not know who the U S president or Kentucky governor is. An older newspaper clipping led to his first voyage to enlist, since he had not taken final vows.
The New York Post reports a Pennsylvania law banning machinery in prison workshops has worsened conditions at Allegheny County Workhouse and Western Penitentiary. Since 1897, about 3,000 inmates have suffered, with increased idleness, disease, and mental strain amid alleged violence and crime rising in the facilities.
The article notes top modern works including Melusonier's The Angelus and Chauchard's 1814. It cites prices around 550,000 francs for The Angelus and 914? Sud MIL for Melusonier, with figures approximately 170,000 and 180,000 respectively in francs.
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