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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1897
Page
4
A dated Klondike letter notes a single Alaska mosquito population covering the territory like a blanket. It warns that during summer they swarm day and night and leave gnats to scavenge festival remains, urging mosquito nets for safety and comfort.
The Eldorado lies in British territory sparking American interest as surveys may push the line to our flag. Canadian authorities insist on stable claims and discuss a royalty of 10 or 15 percent on foreign gold. Experts doubt the border matters, noting abundant gold on both sides.
About twelve hundred dealers in stamps join the American Philatelic Association for their annual convention in Boston on August 21. The hobby claims about 500000 confirmed collectors nationwide with 200 dealers specializing in rare stamps and over 100 publications serving enthusiasts. Values run high with early issues valued from fifty to nineteen hundred dollars each, and private collections reaching into six figures, such as a Bangor Maine sale of fifty thousand dollars.
A satirical read traces failed ultimata to pressure the Sultan amid Greek and Armenian violence in Thessaly. The Turks ignore protests from European powers as the sick man of the East grows loud yet ineffective, threatening to dictate terms to monarchs and emperors.
A sharp warn ing about universal get rich quick schemes travels through Northern Indiana and Ohio. A man hawks bogus gold nuggets and a stolen horse pitch to farmers forming a stock company to buy the horse while promising future profits. The notes are collected when due as the con continues to prey on gullible locals.
A Brooklyn woman lived with two husbands in the same house for two years without revealing the arrangement. One husband sought a divorce for years and finally found the other man. The woman favored the second husband and could not sustain the dual relationship, possibly ending the ruse.
English postal savings banks show large deposit growth with 1,183,236 new accounts and a net increase of 344,824 depositors. Nearly 37,084 daily average depositors and a 1,000 pound per person cap drive transfers to investments. penny cards and school programs aim to teach thrift among children.
The cash value of Missouri lead ore reached 1 987 155 dollars and zinc ore 1 831 856 dollars totalling 3 819 113 dollars. Mines operate in eight counties with 455 shafts employing 4 006 men.
The history of gold mining shows placer profits are small next to systematic lode and fissure vein mining. Placer deposits in Alaska reflect ages of glacial action and natural forces on great rock deposits. Once such a lode is found and developed, a new world wonder may arise.
Dr. Talmage frames Isaiah 9 6 as a portrait of Christ as wonderful. He contrasts Christ’s humble path with divine power, tracing Christ’s teaching miracles sorrows and victories from Nazareth to Calvary and beyond urging personal commitment. He uses vivid biblical scenes to extol Christ’s beauty and authority and ends with a bridal imagery of fidelity and eternity.
At a banquet between the French ambassador and a Grand Duke of Russia a skilled pickpocket in an official disguise relieved both parties. The prearranged signal triggered the theft as the grand duke noticed the double loss, with two watches, rings, snuffboxes and a missing toothpick revealed. The episode ends with the realization that both men were robbed simultaneously.
The St Nicholas piece by Harry Fenn recounts Lebanon's cedar country and its silk craft. It describes how mulberry trees are cultivated by lowering earth and cuttings to cliffs, feeding silkworms, and producing silks, with a bizarre practice of fattening a large tailed Syrian sheep by feeding mulberry leaves for winter meat in jars.
A San Francisco monument honoring Robert Louis Stevenson will depict a thirty gun warship named Bonaventure with Pal as bow figure and a granite plinth. Designers Willis Polk Bruce Porter and George Pipers raise funds worldwide with notable donors including Sir Henry Irving Andrew Lang and Louise Imogene Guiney.
In a Pacific station aboard a man of war, Chinese servants trained in bucket passing and fire drills helped during a real blaze. As smoke filled the fore hatch, crews fought the flames while the Chinamen stood in line, rapidly passing buckets and then dumping water over the ship’s side, just as learned.
The New York American Grocer reports hard times reduced consumption of alcoholic stimulants. Spirits per capita fell from 1.5 gallons in 1892 1893 to 1 gallon in 1896 while wine and beer also declined or stayed low, with beer at fifteen gallons per person.
A clergyman preaches hell fire to wary villagers and tests impact with a toothless gossip's blunt reply. The old dame quips that the sinners should let them gnash them as they please, illustrating local wit amid moralizing.
A fragment discusses historical aspects of a shoe with unspecified assistance and unclear context. The readable text hints at a narrative or scholarly note but provides few concrete details or outcomes.
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