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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1893
Page
7
The article debates future methods of flight beyond birds and wings. It notes the dirigible and steam powered plans, while predicting that the twentieth century will bring practical aerial navigation through new appliances that alter humanity’s relationship with the atmosphere.
Health officials warn against indiscriminate baking powder use citing caustic impurities in some brands. Dr Holson recommends Royal Baking Powder as pure cream of tartar and soda with safe leavening action, urging consumers to avoid cheaper powders with harmful chemicals.
A fragmentary exchange features names like Francis Nalford Mrs Smythe Smythe-Wess and Tuck with remarks about seating their partner and guessing motives. It hints at gossip and personal interactions without clear events or outcomes.
Sudden gale from the Gulf floods Mobile Alabama and parts of New Orleans Louisiana. Water covers wholesale districts as river rises to about 15 feet. docks wrecked, ships driven ashore, and electric wires down. Bridges, dredges, and plantations damaged. two reported deaths and multiple missing. Governor Warmoth calls this the worst storm since 1860.
Washatox, at the president level, signed a proclamation drawing a large Oregon forest area into a Cascade forest reserve. It covers 200 miles south along the Columbia River and 20 miles wide, including the Cascade range, and forbids settlements within its boundaries. Separately, funds for the University of Chicago totaled 815,000 with 243,000 from Ogden charity and 75,000 from John D. Rockefeller.
Richard Noble, 40, a well known Mount Pleasant citizen, was fatally gored by a mad bull near the city. The incident occurred on October 8 in the vicinity of Peath Tirrninatox, according to local reports.
Reports tally 307 lives lost across ports from Cook Bayou to Pointe a la Hache as a hurricane and tornado devastate settlements along the Mississippi coast. New Orleans suffers heavy flooding, wrecked markets, torn revetments, and damaged rail lines while Pointe a la Hache endures near total destruction.
A cable from Buenos Aires reports Admiral de Mellos blocked Rio de Janeiro and Santos to force Rio surrender by crippling trade. In San Francisco Kennedy alias Bailey is arrested for conspiracy in a Detroit kidnapping case involving an aged millionaire kept gagged for ransom. A Bowie County court decision declares over 1,000 warrants illegal.
A discussion of color changes in heated bodies from black through red and yellow to white. It notes how light emergence follows the spectrum, with violet as the first visible light at glow onset. The article includes a garden twilight experiment showing color fading and violet perception guiding insect behavior.
Public notices promote low rate harvest excursion series by the North Western Line for several western and midwestern states and Manitoba. Tickets sold August 11, December 1 and October 10 1863 with return passage within twenty days, stopovers allowed. Also announces new through sleeping car service Chicago to Seattle via multiple lines.
A montage of ad copy extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a health defender for sea travel and travel fatigue, plus claims for dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver issues, nervousness, and debility. Crowd of product boasts from various sources, with references to Johnson & Co., Hulls Catarrh Cure, and Hale's remedies.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a superior laxative that cleanses the system, aids kidneys liver and bowels, and fights colds headaches and fevers. It claims wide medical approval, free from objectionable substances, and notes distribution by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles from the California Fig Syrup Co.
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