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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
6
Otis of Lewis county New York owns a remarkable pig that has only two legs placed mid body like a duck. The animal though unstable on its limited limbs always reaches the trough with the rest of its family.
A concise review notes an uptick in mushroom related deaths this year with fatalities among experts and dealers alike. Scientists question weather patterns may influence mushroom toxicity while observers cite confusing weather cycles and regional variability in distinguishing safe mushrooms from poisonous ones.
Dr Thomas McKendrick of Glasgow introduces a device enabling the deaf to hear music. A phonostaph supplies the sound into a telephone transmitter, batteries under a tub carry the rhythm through water to the brain via the hands. Dr William Harvey King cites the special battery as essential to rhythm. The process involves nerves focusing the rhythm to the brain Rub Рolando area.
Dr King discusses how a deaf person with prior normal hearing can enjoy music by following familiar tunes and using heightened imagination. He notes the deaf may perceive changes in melody and derive pleasure even as electrotherapy advances remain in early stages. Researchers worldwide, including King, work with electrical agents hoping for greater success.
An October 8 kite ascent at Blue Hill observatory lasted from 9 15 a m to 9 09 p m. Kites rose through clouds with a meteograph reaching 9385 feet, pulled along three miles of piano wire under 20 to 95 pound tension. Beginning temperature 46 to minus 20 degrees at height 1750 feet. Seven Eddy and two Hargrave kites, six to nine feet diameter, kept the instrument over a mile above the Earth for three hours. This marks the most successful kite flying experiment to date.
A Chicago inventor unveils a water powered clock fashioned as a small circular box with compartments in a water wheel like interior. Water leaks between compartments driving a drum that slowly rotates, with time read from an indicator along the frame. Rewinding returns the drum to the top for another cycle.
The article explains M Chardonnet s process for artificial silk production, likening it to a silkworm feeding on mulberry leaves. Wood pulp is made into a paste, treated with acids then ether and alcohol, forming a glue like collodion, and finally forced under high pressure through tiny openings to create fine silk threads.
Charles C. Coppers of Lewiston Maine proclaims a flour barrel trap for skunks as the cleverest amateur method. He uses an inclined empty barrel over a stone with bread bait. a nocturnal skunk sniffs, steps in, and falls into the trap.
A survey of historic theory locates Eden from Josephus’s Indo river region to the Euphrates valley, with Bactria Babylonia and Canterbury portage among proposed sites. The piece notes varied opinions and concludes with a sidetrack into Speer N. J. Wine Co. grape brandy offerings and unfermented grape juice used clinically.
W J Keep of the Michigan stove company Detroit presented extensive tests on alloying manganese with cast iron at the American Institute of Mining Engineers meeting in Cleveland. He showed a manganese silicon cast iron strip too hard to cut cold yet bent to an eighteen inch radius, and a half inch square bar that held its set like wrought iron, unlike ordinary cast iron which broke.
The passage notes the smallest hogs known as pygmy hogs from southern Australia kept as curios in London Zoological gardens. It also mentions John J. Taylor’s 4100 word postal card feat, Leuwenhoek on spider thread scales, and a Harpers Young People remark on beards and fine threads.
The text endorses a malarial bitter product compared with Speer's Wine and other components like Pera-Tien Bark and Snake Root. It claims the bitters are analyzed and recommended by top chemists in the United States, inspiring confidence in their use.
The writer notes the gap between claimed piety and practiced kindness, urging forgiveness and reliance on God under all trials. It argues patience sustains believers through small tribulations and refrains from deep mourning for those who fail to repent.
A collage of humorous verses and jokes from a vintage column, featuring a reader’s failed laugh at a book, dialect bits about watermelon ripening, and quick skits about marriage and everyday life. Prominent bits include De Watahmeton's Ripen and a nightingale crack about a niggah with a milk can, plus light exchanges about weddings and engagements.
The account notes Chinese beliefs that a solar eclipse is caused by a great dragon devouring the sun. It cites a prior eclipse during an emperor’s birthday and describes mourning customs. The emperor reportedly ordered mourning until the sun is rescued. Walter Baker Co. promotes cocoa and chocolate purity and nutrition.
A tender exchange ends with a man asking about marriage and the woman asserting she cannot cook. The dialogue shifts to a humorous note about intelligence work and a hurried departure. The page also features old medicine ads and a proverb about hair care and barber wisdom.
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