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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1910
Page
8
A visitor in a state asylum is drawn on a roof by a guide who pretends to tour the grounds. The guide urges a jump contest toward the grounds, but the visitor realizes the trick and foils the plan, saving the man’s life with quick wit.
The cavern rat is bluish with a white neck and feet and enormous eyes without iris. It blunders in bright light, starves, and dies, but in darkness relies on highly sensitive whiskers to navigate. Its diet consists of a pale yellow cave cricket, and it is blind like other cave dwellers.
The article notes Pliny’s and Ray’s old dispute over water lilies closing by night. It highlights Zanzibar’s grand Illy family lotus with ten inch flowers opening from 11 AM to 5 PM and 150 to 200 golden stamens, remaining in bloom for four to five days. It also mentions nocturnal bloomers and daily opening patterns.
The article describes the wicket gate near Elstow church as a small doorway in a large door, tying it to Bunyan and the Pilgrim’s Progress. It notes how the gate is often shown as a garden or turnpike gate but represents a narrow doorway concealed behind a tree at the church’s west end.
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A New York Telegraph account describes the first sensations in an airplane ride. Riders report no start jerk, brief nausea as ground drops away, and a buoyant lift as altitude increases. The craft leans into curves without the rider feeling a forced tilt, while wind roars and the water in a glass remains undisturbed.
A Texan writer promotes cottonseed flour as a high protein low fat additive for the national diet. He claims 64 percent protein and strong nutritive value, arguing it could aid bread costs and southern cotton profits, with science backing its potential. The Los Angeles Herald recounts the claim.
A veteran recalls Major Banks as pompous yet brave. On a very dark night a sturdy Confederate captured the major. The incident led to the prisoner's return to headquarters and the ensuing report of action and consequence.
Martinsville area reports varied health updates with several residents improving and others stable. Local events include church services by L G Fasig and J L Shuler, a runaway injuring C N Hammond, a large oil discovery on Bel lair street, and a claim of pioneer potato farming near the city.
Tornado and fire insurance offered by large firms at low rates. Salesmen touted as best for improving skills and openness to suggestions. Quirky dialogue and stray lines from Cavaliers Weekly Shining include a father and son exchange about a song and a missing son.
A New York Tribune postcard from Pavelsko Bulgaria shows Baba Vasilka at 126 with her baby Todor aged 101. The image features a flax spinning scene with a tall bearded man behind a hedgerow. The inscription claims lifelong residence in Pavelsko.
Vienna reports six large factories and three smaller workshops under high pressure to meet orders for pocket tinder boxes. Daily output runs 8 000 to 10 000 as imports are banned in Spain Portugal France and Roumania. Italy imposes a 1s 3d tax to equalize tinder box and match costs. Austrian finance minister weighs further taxation.
A suburban life column advises deep soaking lawns to a depth of a foot or more, proving watering only every week or two prevents surface watering and promotes deeper roots, reducing summer drought damage and brown patches during vacations.
A Denver physician dismissed biblical miracles during a discussion at a diaper, saying Lazarus was raised but no dead are seen now, while a clergyman and biblical scholar countered that modern medical science has progressed too far for such events.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a waiter defending courtesy while a diner repurposes his half hour old porterhouse order into a suggestion, expressing regret for prior rudeness and seeking to amend the exchange.
A jumble of comic quips about a boy named Tommy a man named Elsie and train work contrasts with a quotation from Marcus Aurelius on virtue and evil. The fragmentary text blends humor moral reflection and stray editorial lines as seen in a historic Chicago News page.
A decretal order of the circuit court of Clark County Illinois directs the sale of one undivided one half interest in land in township twelve north range eleven west. The property includes parts of sections 27 and 28 with tracts along the St Louis Vandalia and Terre Haute Railway right of way and total area about 3 1/4 acres plus 30 1/2 acres, subject to dower interests. Sale scheduled at 2 o'clock p.m. at the courthouse door by A Hollenbeck and others.
A fragment from the London Telegraph depicts a terse exchange about a written character. A man questions the necessity of praise while a woman suggests a simple statement that he stayed three months, with chat deemed the best possible character.
The Critic and The Poet discuss top English poems with Shelley's Skylark Keats Grecian Urn as leading choices. A third title is teased but not finished, reflecting a playful, unfinished note from Cleveland Lender.
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