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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1894
Page
5
A writer in Popular Science Monthly explains deep sea fish risk death when rising toward the surface. Excessive pressure loss expands swim bladders, lowers density, and distends bodies beyond muscular control, causing fatal, involuntary ascent and death. Some deep sea forms are found dead on the surface from prior dives.
California ends year with population 1,500,010 and property values doubled since 1880s. The state holds top per capita wealth, $138 million in savings bank deposits, and leads in gold wine honey oranges almonds and walnuts. Mine output includes $15.0 million in gold and $7.0 million in other precious metals. San Francisco becomes the world’s leading whaling port.
New light falls on classical works with discoveries in churches and monasteries. Quintilian revived after being buried under cubbish debris in an Italian monastery. Tacitus found in Westphalia used as fuel by a cook. Justinian’s Pantheons uncovered in a cellar of a small town.
A string of witty exchanges at a boarding place features jokes about innkeeping language dances and etiquette. The dialogue touches on Miss Nice an intellectual-looking girl and a prank about a passenger lost at sea whose fate is humorously misinterpreted as a sprained ankle. The tone is light casual and anecdotal.
Explorations described by W M Conway to the Royal Geographical Society show mud avalanches in the Gilgit valley sweeping rocks and mud down gorges at two miles per hour and piling debris up to 1090 feet high. The process rapid denudation explains valley filling and regional shaping of the Himalayas.
Rubber goods makers market over twenty grades of hose from garden air lines to heavy engine and rail car hoses. Different plies and stocks determine suitability for domestic use, firefighting, air drills, air brakes, and industrial needs such as florists, brewers, tanners, and oil forcing. Some hoses are large enough for a full-sized man to crawl through.
A large crawfish was caught alive on the Guernsey coast in Europe and placed in the Jersey aquarium. It measures two feet from head to tail and four feet four inches from horn to horn, with a girth of eighteen inches.
The article notes diary use as a fashionable habit among ancient authors. Roman writers carried small tablets at their belts to note daily deeds, ensuring nothing was forgotten when recording events later at night.
The item surveys early streetcars in the United States and England, practical uses for artificial wood, a German motor using coal dust, a phosphorus lamp, a French magazine rifle, and the Polyphemus as a unique ram ship. It also notes Mr. McCorkle guiding visitors to a nursery bath room, and a brief dialogue about Lena and Hil life insurance at $49,000.
A historic defense of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a standard bearer against old school medicine. The piece contrasts violent bleeding and poisons with the Bitters’s claims to treat biliousness constipation and chills. Also includes humorous lines about cough relief and social trivia snippets of the era.
Advertises a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Names F J Curnxer Co Toledo as makers and endorsing physicians West Trusx Walding Kinnan Marvin as endorsers. States Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Price seven cents per bottle and sold by all druggists. Sample testimonials offered.
A light dialogue contrasts horse racing thrills with evolving remedies from old herbs to modern laxatives. The text promotes California Fig Syrup Co as the true remedy and notes Fiagson’s habit of preaching without action.
In London a public news room lacks a staff, papers are chained for security, yet quiet, while royal ladies, including the queen, pastime themselves by braiding straw to make hats for sons and husbands. A line about Lord Francis Hope's marriage to May Yohe appears amid varied items and a joke caption.
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