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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
11
A narrator tours an oil field shooting a well using nitroglycerine torpedoes. He describes a shooter’s rig, go devils, anchors, and an iron magazine, then watches the shot from a distance as a go devil fails and a squib blast frees oil, sand, and water with a thunderous roar. The piece notes the danger and the shooter’s careful work habits amid the grim humor of oil country life.
A St Louis railroad worker recalls a camp poker game where the professor, a quiet showman with piercing eyes, hypnotized Slick Williams. The professor held back, then outplayed Williams with a slow, authoritative command, winning the entire pot of about two piles before vanishing in the rain, leaving Williams dazed eight hours later.
Emma Brainerd Ryder describes the Dosera festival seen by a girl in India. Hindu reverence for horses and bullocks includes ornate decorations, pujah worship, and exchanges of plant-based gifts. The narrator details Raja the Arab pony bedecked with flowers and the practice of giving bakshish to the coachman with a rupee.
The No 6 Tamarack shaft will be bottomed by year end or January 1901 barring accidents. Begun August 1895 it will reach one mile in depth surpassing the Red Jacket shaft and be the deepest mining shaft in the world. Heat from depth already oppresses miners. This sinking is cited as a premier engineering feat in mining.
Uncle Sam transfers sixty eight million dollars in silver from the old mint to a new steel lined vault at Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets Philadelphia. Silver is counted weighed bagged sealed and loaded into boxes for daily shipment by United States Express Company with heavy guard and police cooperation.
Archer Brown discusses the iron and steel industry’s future in America, weighing growth projections from Hewitt and Atkinson. He notes rapid expansion of steel use in construction, shipbuilding, and war preparations, with U.S. plants scaling to meet global demand as industry evolves.
A New York Sun report by Gifford Pinchot warns that California’s Sequoia and other giant redwoods face near extinction as lumber interests harvest vast timber. It details groves from Calaveras to Tulare, age estimates, reproduction challenges, and the vast waste from logging practices now endangering this world heritage.
Berlin adopts reduced fares for electric street railways with a penny rate across the whole line from year start. The measure, backed by imperial sanction, aims to attract residents with low incomes to the capital, arguing cheaper living costs than provincial cities.
A terse reflection from Tom Masson in November Century contrasts perceived chances with true chance. A bald man’s haste and mutual misreading between Joy and Grief frame a parable about sight and insight. History and the Novel debate identity, pride, and difference in concise mock dialogue.
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