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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
6
The garbled text references power, distance, and a village edge near ice. It mentions maximum limits and the word Antage as a possible misspelling. No clear persons or organizations are identifiable.
A garbled old text hints at physiology and nerves, describing blood, skin, and thrill in broad terms. It mentions lines, inevitabilities of emotion, and scattered references to professors and objects, without coherent narrative or clear events.
Readable fragments show a short local item with names and places obscured. The text hints at a community notice or brief update without clear events or dates.
In a New York Recorder tale, divers smugglers pursued by inspectors recount daring diamond concealment tricks. Gems hidden in hats, parasols, baby dolls, false bottoms, and even a hollow cane show how illicit stones slipped past guards. A famed Yankee smuggler used a footbath ruse to ship jewels, only to be caught by a tireless inspector.
Long treatise extols cod as a noble fish and national staple, contrasting sea and sport fishing. It offers a housewifely method to prepare salted cod by broiling then soaking in hot water, repeating saturations, finishing with butter and pepper, credited to J. Albert Stowe.
Advice on preserving refrigerators by avoiding odor retention from lids due to defects or pierced zinc. Tips on dusting windows daily, using whiting on glass and spirits of wine for shine, and packing wardrobes and millinery with newspapers cloves and bags to deter moths. cautions about tarred paper and odors.
A traveler recounts sleeping feet foremost on a ballast row to avoid head injuries and swelled head sensations, arguing knees give way better in sudden stops. The narrator claims personal experience with about ten collisions in years past and notes the safety logic of body orientation during crashes. An ocean racer burns around £13,000 worth of coal each voyage.
Popular science notes discuss pine and spruce pulp challenges and the superior white paper potential of spruce. They compare poplar for softness and lower chemical needs but weaker strength. A new money-recording stamp records name date and received amounts, ensuring a receipt cannot be issued without internal recording. The lightning impact on a circutory system near Berlin is studied by Dr. Nicolai and Military Medical Gazette.
The article notes that beyond mechanical and heat effects, life is at greatest risk from circulatory damage. Dr Nicolai highlights tree-like skin markings as a sign of blood vessel obstructions and observes how metallic projections on soldier gear influence injury patterns.
The Fortnightly Review describes the United Alkali Company plants at St Helen and Windes as a lurid, furnace lit world of caustic pots, chlorine chambers, and raging heat. About 15,000 workers endure constant exposure to caustic fumes, lime dust, and gas, suffering respiratory disease, tooth rot, burns, and fatigue.
Harper's Weekly describes a French Canadian village as orderly and devout with strict curfews and few taverns. It praises locals for loyalty and craftsmanship while noting limited emigration to new lands and preference for stable, long term employment under English or Scotch bosses.
A critique of conformity notes that about a third of people copy others in beliefs and actions. It argues social pressure drives church, theatre, and daily habits, making many unnecessary acts common due to friendship and family influence. It questions the wisdom of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
An aging telegraph operator recalls thwarting a midnight burglary. He slept poorly on the job and planned a wakeful rig to alert him to trains. A masked burglar entered the waiting room, shots rang out, the operator wounded the man and killed him in self defense, ending his railroad career. He resigned next day and opened a store in the East.
The piece argues that a perfect circular full moon is rare or never seen. It explains the moon's orbital tilt of 5 degrees 8 minutes 47 seconds and the need for 180 degrees longitude from the sun for a full moon, noting that the moon is seldom a perfect disk except during central solar eclipse alignment, quoting a contemporary astronomer.
A brief note discusses the long standing belief that burial places are haunted after nightfall. It cites observers who claim the ghost idea existed before Noah’s Ark and mentions Syeun Ovid’s view that spirits sometimes leave graves to haunt those they may devour.
The article surveys brain weight variation by climate, notes tuberculosis prevalence in mulatto descendants, compares milk digestibility across species, discusses influenza causes and transmission, and highlights Pfeiffer’s research on bacillus behavior, emphasizing ventilation and antiseptic measures as prevention.
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