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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1894
Page
3
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A Naturalist Atchinson’s new book Creatures of Other Days surveys long vanished animals. It traces birds with teeth like the hesperornis and the dodo, Labyrinthodonts, anomodonts, and the miocene dinotherium. The saber toothed tiger of the pleistocene is highlighted alongside protohippus and archeopteryx.
Native thefts were traced to Colon and Panama where rubber bales moved by steamship lines were dropped overboard during dockside transfers. The floating India rubber later landed and was fenced after misdirection of cargo, with losses undetected until the voyage reached New York.
In a German pathological journal a report details Drs Santschenko and Sobolotny vaccinating themselves with a culture based preparation and later swallowing virulent cholera germs with no harm. They then used serum from their own blood to inoculate guinea pigs and found protection against cholera. The physicians took the risk themselves.
In Chillicothe Ohio seven years ago George Berner fought a man who used an ax to chip off part of Berner s skull. The severed bone was admitted as evidence marked Exhibit A and Berner now searches court records for the missing skull fragment.
A Chicago Times piece explains cycling shifts from low-handled racers to high-stem roadsters via adjustable bars for comfort or speed. It notes speeds favor downturned handles, upright rides suit leisurely cyclists, and showcases both riding positions. Also described are horse hunters chasing wild horses across the western plains, using tireless drives that end with rope captures after grueling hours.
A treatise asserts vegetables build strength in animals with ferocity noted in lions but vigor shown by bulls horses reindeer elephants and antelope when they follow a vegetable diet.
A New York World report describes a Napoleonic plan to link England and France with two steel tube tunnels beneath the Straits of Dover. Each tube would carry trains propelled by electric locomotives in opposite directions. Construction would use 300 foot sealed sections floated into place and joined to form submerged piers.
The plan uses two distinct tubes to ventilate a sea tunnel, preventing accidents and aerating the passage at minimal expense. Each train acts like a piston, expelling vitiated air and drawing in fresh air. Sir Edward estimates total installation at 75 million dollars, less than half the cost Schneider and Hersent quoted for a channel bridge.
In a theater scene a shipwreck shows a boat with the hero and two others adrift until a "wave" head appears through the canvas. The hero cries Man overboard and tosses a rope to a drowning man who seizes it and is hauled aboard, to the audience's cheers, thinking it part of the play.
John Mobley of North Carolina asks if a young woman in Baltimore prisons can be released by marrying him. In London court proceedings a phonograph recorded and reproduced factory noises to aid the case.
A collection of witty quips and comic lines from the era showcases playful exchanges about banks bills marriages operas and babies. Read as a budget of humor drawn from contemporary writings across journals and magazines.
The British Board of Trade records 21 passengers killed in UK train accidents in 1892, while the United States reports 116 passenger deaths in the same year from similar incidents.
A six to twelve foot diameter circular leaf from Guiana is described as a tray like leaf capable of supporting 100 to 300 pounds. The plant life is noted as a unique gift to Grover. President Cleveland has received a wooden fiber mat presented by a colored African missionary from an interior tribe.
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