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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 22, 1899
Page
2
A discussion urges protest against weighing and hand feeding of babies to detect digestive trouble. It cites superstition about infant health, argues natural feeding is best, and notes weight gain norms from birth through four months. Accurate weight records help early digestion warnings and proper growth.
A fragment summarizing lunar science claims: moon shadows reveal crater heights, Earth appears sixty four times larger than the sun from lunar vantage, and the Moon lacks atmosphere. It notes light power, satellite weights, craters number, February 1866 as moonless, uniform surface area, telescope magnification, and Moon-Earth distance about two hundred forty thousand miles, reinterpreted for readers.
A garbled excerpt notes diverse items from a late 1800s era, mentioning New York census figures of 25,674 colored people, France leading in over 60s, a Cincinnati bootblack inheriting 340,000, and scattered social reflections on manners ambition and political figures. Some phrases are incomplete or unclear.
A fragmentary 19th century tapestry of tales and reflections. It recalls three girls in Prankfortem who rise from modest dressmaking to noble marriages, paired with a medical note on aging by Dr. Lalfour about the brain and heart aging well into old age.
A Swiss statistician tallied steps for a year, totaling 8,760,800 or about 20,740 per day. He notes over 600,000 steps were stair climbs and estimates roughly ten miles walked daily to achieve these results, per the London Daily News.
German meteorologists at a Bremen meeting described balloon ascents with and without passengers. The Cirrus balloon, piloted with instruments but no crew, reached about 18 500 metres where temperature could not be measured, already indicating severe frost. Temperature trends show a slow fall to 1000 metres, then rapid decline. freezing point reached around 00 metres and the absolute zero point near the upper atmosphere, at 278 degrees below freezing.
A Pittsburg Dispatch writer notes travelers fabricate extensive mental trips by rail using timetables and guides. They amass railway literature, turning pamphlets into pretend journeys, claiming detailed knowledge of hotels, sights, and routes as if they had really traveled.
A stream of overheard exchanges captures a lively streetcar scene in Ireland. Passengers jostle for seating as an Irish conductor calls out seating moves while amid tense exchanges a character named Tom tries to recover a debt.
A handful of old kitchen instructions describe candy making with almonds and a quick turn into a buttered tin, followed by cake guidance. It covers almond candy timing, a chocolate cake method with grated chocolate and ground rice, a soda cake with bicarbonate, a German apple cake paste method, and the traditional rice cake method with butter creaming and ground rice.
A collage of dubious statistics and quips including claims about France’s able bodied men, Chinese beggar taxes, Russian rulers, and global metal outputs. It also notes Teklo’s population growth, a ship of humorous dialogue, and a string of curios about photography, lamps, and theater anecdotes, all reflecting late 19th or early 20th century sensational miscellany.
The article argues beauty blends with posture mood and self-government. It urges cheerfulness and restraint to improve health and appearance, noting emotions affect the face and skin. Mothers should teach optimism to daughters, as calm resilience enhances digestion circulation and vitality.
The piece notes distinct regimental customs in the Russian army. It cites the Preobrashenski bodyguard for favoring royally connected men, the Ismailowski Regiment admitting only fair men, the Puwhww Guards preferring turned up noses, and Guards Chasseurs with dark-haired members. It also highlights officer rank precedence, disparities in pay, and the hardships of infantry privates.
The excerpt surveys global life expectancy and odd curios, noting average life around thirty three years. It mentions a famous long bride chain at a marketplace, a hotel prospectus in Switzerland, and quips about weather, mail speed, and public figures. It ends with fragmented remarks on Rudyard Kipling and rocks on a coast.
W Besant argues in Queen that a universal penny controlled future systems will automate gas, hot water, heating, and electricity. He foresees pennies powering home comfort from heating to boiling kettles, and even cooking small meals, replacing current wasteful setups.
Miss Annie Alden daughter of Harper's editor collects dolls from across the world to show how nations dress. Her acquisitions include a Pueblo Indian doll seen as strikingly grotesque, a Philadelphia Quaker doll, a Georgia field-hand doll, a jointed Yankee doll, and many distinctive Japanese dolls, highlighting diverse national styles.
A passenger pleads to wave at the train without a ticket, the ticket taker denies her, and the woman, along with her sister Ari mita and many relatives, explains the visit and family duties while the scene ends with the ticket taker muttering about keeping his job.
A Paris report notes that legal changes in London and Paris affect barristers who avoid court eloquence. A recent act requires every barrister to obtain an annual patente or license, with payment required to secure the license. The reform aims to reduce idle barristers in the legal hive.
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