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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1894
Page
6
A collage of war commentary on Korea and Brazil, a rescued tale of a Philadelphia pastor and a capsized yacht, a machine to clean candy, a Boston pet monkey turned wild, and notes on artificial gems. The piece touches on martial law in Rio, Chinese and Japanese marksmanship, and the illusions of precious stones.
English firm Doxford and Son built the Turret Age whaleback for ocean traffic. The vessel, 311 feet long with a turtle back deck, features a cruiserlike superstructure and starboard steering gear. It carried 3,200 tons of cargo from Sydney and could discharge in about thirty hours, amid reports it may ease coal famine traffic to New York.
The article profiles John Jacob Astor as the wealthiest American seeking a nonfinancial distinction through literature. It notes his Harvard rank, two years of work on a science based romance set in the year 1000 A D describing journeys to Jupiter and Saturn, the apergy concept, and aims to spark public interest in science, with earlier school writings at Concord’s St Paul’s.
The article traces early watch fashion from 1477 Nuremberg eggs to eggs pears gourds and birds skull shapes. It notes Morgan the collector with a cow horn watch firing a pistol each hour and the Earl of Stanhope with a jacinth egg diamond set piece. By about 1620 watches began to take their later familiar forms and then fashion shifted in the seventeenth century.
A perplexing dream unsettles Mrs. Samuel Buffing of East Greenfield Ohio, waking her with a star and imagining she rose from bed and crushed her skull after being drawn from a well.
A curious four legged chicken sighting stirs local interest as residents report an unusual poultry anomaly. No official explanation yet from agricultural authorities or local farmers regarding how the extra limb appeared.
The United States and Canadian officials compare eighteen baking powders, highlighting Royal as the purest cream-of-tartar and strongest with 160.6 cubic inches of leavening gas per ounce. Other brands average 111.5. Royal’s lead claims greater economy and purity, with lower inert matter than rivals. The piece also notes global curiosities from a museum tortoise to a Damascus sword and telegraph woes in Australia.
Great Northern Railway announces largely reduced round trip fares from St. Paul Minnesota to Minnesota Dakota and Montana points for travel on August 11 25 and in October. The offer covers the season harvest periods with discounted fares to several western destinations.
The Madras statue marks were interpreted as rebellion but appear to imitate deity markings, suggesting a devotional rather than rebellious intent. In Mississippi, Mrs. Jefferson Davis plans to lease Beauvoir estate to place responsible tenants there.
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