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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1891
Page
2
A long fragmented essay discusses shifts in social roles, noting anti-Semitic sentiment fading in Germany, the expanding leisure class through spinsters, and the push for increased agricultural productivity. It critiques government red tape, praises Jefferson's early presidency, and envisions educated women shaping urban life, charities, and family welfare amid expanding Western settlement.
A World’s Fair display promises vivid Vesuvius eruptions on a screen via an optical lantern. Mr. H C Ogden of Middletown, NY demonstrates a simple apparatus with a glass lava tank and curved tubes to project lava flow and flames, enhanced by a decorative mechanism to move the apparatus and simulate eruption.
An improved soap preparation uses melted butter 2.5 kilos with an Arg mixture, chalk 180, slum Sek Ghee 87.5 grams, cream of tartar and white lead. The mixture is poured into molds, solidifies, then forms a paste with water to rub metal and finish with a dry rag.
A method from Austrian workshops describes corroding iron in hot hydrochloric acid, delivering it to mercury nitrate solution, and electroplating with zinc and carbon electrodes to deposit silver. Heating to 30 C fixes the silver. Tin coatings and tin anodes can reduce silver use, with copper acting as the tin deposition surface. The process yields cheaper silvered ironware than other methods.
Cork manufacturers seek to create a wine cork impenetrable to worms that damage corks and spoil wine. Worms bore galleries near the glass, letting air in. Methods include hot water soak, brandy soak, drying, wax coating, and paraffin sealant to block insect entry before sealing with wax.
The French government conducted tests of wan steel at 75 to 10 degrees below zero, comparing hardened and unhardened bars. Unhardened bars broke faster in cold, averaging 5.9 blows versus 14.5 at normal temperature, while hardened bars showed smaller differences. Elastic limit rose about 11 percent with cold, elongation fell 12 to 14 percent.
The proposed mines building at the Columbian fair features classic architecture with dimensions of 700 by 350 feet and a 65 foot main cornice. Grand entrances rise 110 feet high at north and south ends, with vestibules 88 feet wide. Corner pavilions measure 8 by 90 feet and a dome surmounts each. A glass roof sits 100 feet above the floor, and the cost is listed as 460000.
Prominent Sheffield steelmakers test oil hardened and annealed steel against untreated plates using a 100 pound Firth projectile. Untreated plates fractured into six pieces after deep indentation and wide splintering, while treated plates resisted breakage though cracked, with substantial but contained bulges and deeper penetration reduced.
French ingenuity introduces a lock device aimed at thwarting professional burglars who lift tumblers or insert tools to pry doors. The new system combines iron components to secure the mechanism, preventing door movement and resisting forced entry.
Fragmentary OCR text offers no complete event or identifiable entities. No resolvable people, places, or actions emerge to summarize as a news item.
Excerpt profiles Frederick Douglass as a talented mulatto minister to Haiti and a leading American voice for emancipation. It traces his birth on a Maryland plantation, early lessons in reading, escape attempts, missions in England, the North Star publication, Civil War roles, and public service including Haiti, with anticipation of further notable turns in his varied career.
Capt John Palmer of Albany New York is the newly elected Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic born Staten Island March 6 1840 he served with the Ninety first New York volunteers from September 10 1861 through mustering out July 1865. He rose from corporal to captain in the Civil War and after the war worked in fresco painting and decoration in Albany. He was a charter member and leader of Lew Benediet Post No 5 and twice led the department of New York as country commander and senior vice commander prior to his elevation.
A veteran-minded recount of the Battle of Gettysburg focusing on the Horseshoe salient, Hancock's nighttime surprise assault, and Lee's repeated charges. The narrative emphasizes the massive casualties, the terrain, and the earth stained red by blood across Brown Farm and adjacent fields.
A Lewiston Journal tale describes a Portland youth hosting friends past midnight who leave perplexed as he hunts for the morning paper on the front steps. The incident ends with the host admitting his aim in a humorous twist.
At Rocky Hill Connecticut last summer Nightoing shook hands with Former W. H. Stevens in a cordial manner. He stood in a shed at F. Wright's house with a scythe in hand when a thunderbolt struck. The bolt knocked the blade aside and threw Nightoing and Stevens apart. Stevens said the shock felt like a fountain bursting inside him with pins and needles throughout his body.
A covert group within the British Congregational Union, led by Dr. Parker, claims about 250 ministers. Their aims include challenging official church authority and forming a society named the Koinonis.
A partial fragment describes an English craftsman or artisan linked to Ely and a construction or carving project. Details are unclear and names are missing, but the reference suggests early work in a craft or making field in England.
The piece strings poetic reflections on angels, flowers, and childhood perception, then shifts to a 19th century note from the New York board of education about teachers using full Christian names. It recounts a New England family, a clumsy boots wearer named John called Precious Boy, and how the nickname “Presh” shaped identity until the tombstone bore the latter name.
A father gifts his daughter a golden casket with a rule to keep it, inspect it daily for three years, and never pass it on. After three years the key arrives and the casket opens to reveal an old parchment declaring the mistress’s eyes are worth one hundred pair of servant’s hands, teaching habit and self-governance.
Bishop Vincent recalls the first Bull Run defeat and its impact on his Galena church parishioners. A four year old girl’s faith comforts others as they ponder the horror of war. A feature notes Columbus’s mistaken measurements, with Professor Fiske discussing early geography and scripture.
An Australian country station owner watched a mother kangaroo feed her joey from her pouch while a foe stood on a balcony nearby. The brave mother steadied her young and then retreated, leaving the watcher moved to vow never to shoot a kangaroo again.
In a long public remark, Mr Gladstone stresses his faith as central to life and politics. He claims the gospel as a guiding force, notes personal gratitude that none of his family has suffered hardship, and asserts that most top British leaders are Christians based on his fifty-eight years in public service including forty-seven in the cabinet.
Next to Phillips Brooks, Bishop Walker of North Dakota stands as the Episcopal church figure with the greatest girth and height. Described as three inches over six feet, stout in build with a handsome face, black hair and beard, he is an entertaining speaker who shines in society and pulpit. Recently he drew notoriety by introducing a misgross ery car into a church service and carrying the gospel by rail through the Northwestern States.
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