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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
6
A canvasser meets Major Crofoot who pitches the Great American Dietary Sausage Company. The scheme touts rapid profits, a $5 to $15,000 ground-floor investment, and a dubious factory plan, while pressuring the man to invest his dollar and sign over terms, ending with the annoyed canvasser wandering off.
A long anecdote on intellectual humility. A college president loses a manuscript to a fire and later deems publication fortunate, since the loss validated that his conclusions were wrong. Two geologists in Longman’s Magazine recount a rival’s fieldwork and a stone rolled to test a theory, revealing it was two hundred feet too high for his hypothesis.
A San Francisco item recalls Henry Fielding’s quip to Lord Denbigh about preferring the spelling Fielding as his branch knew how to spell. The piece then notes a quirky stat that about 24 in 100 women are stronger with the left arm, with women more often evenly strong than men. It adds peas and beans are highly nutritious, packing carbon like wheat and double the muscle forming content.
A Dallas Texas struggle at The Times shows editor William Steritt orchestrating a union style walkout to force higher pay. The foreman and crew join Steritt in a two week standoff, drinking and bargaining, ending with the printer returning to work and the editor steering editorial gains.
The text warns against purchasing farming land with small thin trees and favors land thickly covered with timber as a sign of good soil. It notes that sparse, short trees signal poorer land. It also mentions a stray chimpanzee from Central Africa reaching as far north as Morocco, described locally as a hairy man with four bands.
A Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent explains that Chinese widows may choose a second husband or a widow’s arch at death. American missionaries, including Dr H N Kip, are pictured near such an arch. Archs honor deceased individuals, are built by friends, vary in elaborateness with wealth, and stand up to about 25 feet, with stone or wood construction secured by mortises and wedges.
A Watsonville merchant, Lee Yuen, marries Shitako Kawamura, a Japanese maid, in what is claimed as California’s first mixed Chinese Japanese union. The story highlights race tensions as the couple faces prejudice and a legal landscape that labels Japanese and Chinese as Mongolians, fueling commentary from both communities.
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