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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1895
Page
1
Murdlerey Glix pleads not guilty to a murder he has confessed to, a paradox emphasized by the era's editorials. The piece features sharp commentary on Governor Hogg, oil interests, and public policy, including a skeptical note on endorsing inventions like the kinetoscope and its use in sports like prizefights.
A dentist could fix a tooth with one hammer hit or better with a small hammer and repeated blows, illustrating that in advertising the same principle yields longer lasting results. The comparison emphasizes gradual, repeated action over a single effort.
The sun’s role is described as small by contrast yet it provides light heat and sustenance to Earth. A small amount of type can deliver an intelligent article yielding value and merit.
The London Saturday Review argues Russia favors France to open the Dardanelles rather than any republican affinity. It doubts a czarist dislike of republics will change, predicts Russia may prevail at Constantinople, and urges England to remain vigilant and benevolent.
The Connecticut automatic gallows executes prisoners by their own action. John Cronin, a brutal murder convict, stepped onto the platform and the device shot him five feet into the air, breaking his neck instantly. The operation is noiseless and deemed superior to the electrical method for being painless and time-saving.
San Francisco clergy organize to purify the town as reform movements sweep the Atlantic coast toward the Pacific. The piece notes reform aims attack economic conditions and trusts, with criticism of lax attorney generals, monopolies, and business morals, while acknowledging selective purification of city slums and hypocrisy in high society.
A Weather Bureau witness can challenge testimony by showing darkness or visibility issues. The Opel divorce case in St. Louis demonstrated the clerk’s ability to cast doubt on sight evidence, suggesting the Weather Bureau’s expanding role in courtrooms may eventually cover its expenses through witness fees.
The Ey e of the Yiethm experiment is tried in Jamestown North Carolina where Mrs Winslow and Mrs Davis were killed. A microscope is used and multiple observers claim to see a burly man image in the eye. They fail to photograph the image due to light exposure but insist the impression existed and describe a large, roughdressed man with a long shabby overcoat. If repeated they believe a photograph could be captured.
An opinion notes inspector Shen would adapt to photography and microscopists, while automatic telegraphy could transform policing. It argues postal telegraphy awaits free competition, warns monopolies keep electricity costly, and urges adoption of automatic transmitters to lower prices and curb rate hikes.
Seven daughters of millionaires face troubles as a young woman with a $3,000 allowance struggles to cover debts. After her father refuses a loan, relatives consider a benefit with amateur musicians and readers. Tickets cost $2 to help liquidate the dressmaker’s claim.
A Center ville resident questions Mrs. Petar Rickets about her son Jeems, who says he is doing well yet reveals a critical flaw. Jeems arrived from Boston with a colored shirt and white collar, planning to look matched, but the narrator suspects his finances and propriety have fallen behind due to his washerwoman woes.
A wartime anecdote explains how the phrase eat crow arose. A Pedergl soldier shot at a crow whose owner forced him to eat crow after an unloaded gun mishap. The soldier later ate more crow, was confronted by his captain, and replied that they dined together yesterday.
The text notes that from 4000 to 700 A D embalming was practiced in Egypt and estimates that about 730,600,000 bodies were embalmed, with most of them still concealed.
In a pictorial stamp series Mexico portrays industrial progress from man and mule to canal, steamship, railway, and modern manufacturing as a visual timeline of national development.
Geraldine Campbell a fifteen year old heiress of Inchmaran resists all efforts to temper her Highland spirit. Her grandmother envisions a grandown future, while Jerry favors outdoors life, ponies, and freedom from drawing rooms, foreshadowing tension as she nears the world stage.
The diary-like reminiscence recalls young Queen Victoria playing chess with the King of Belgium, relying on Lord Melbourne and a courtier for guidance. It notes the challenge of having queens on the board and awkward questions from the monarch, ending with a remark on advisers and statecraft.
A fragmentary tale recalls a birthday party incident as a narrator hints a witness names Lt and a girl Nell. It pivots to a boast about a colossal gold claim and puzzles over how much gold would fit a cubical mass revealing a caution about national worry.
The Detroit Free Press explains a method to find day length by doubling sunset and sunrise times. For example on June 21 in this latitude, sunset at 7:30 yields 15 hours of daylight and sunrise at 4:30 yields 9 hours of night, totaling 24 hours.
A hostess runs a winter night sport with peanut hunt games. Guests hide and find nuts placed around the room then compare counts for prizes. Variations include carrying nuts or potatoes with a teaspoon between rooms, awarding a winner and a booby prize.
A balloon maker experiments with a kite shaped like a bird to ride the wind. It uses winglike two right angled triangles curved outward, a paddle tail, and a light wood tail support. The design relies on undulatory wing motion and tail balance to ascend with the breeze, resembling a fluttering flag’s motion.
An Anderit Shinplanter is mentioned with a nine penny shinpla dated April 1777. The item appears among Baytow leaves with likely authentication by John Dunlop of Painang. The fragment hints at old currency and a printed warning about an ape side the warnhee WMDo coulitrfelt o denthy.
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