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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1896
Page
2
The Mooresville guide describes Repsoa traps now on the market. The device is a small piece of soft wood with crevices sawed in it to be pinned at mattress corners. Invented by a hotel man and patented, it is claimed to have phenomenal merits.
Artificial gas is sold in London via penny-in-the-slot meters inspired by gum vending. The novel method has proved highly popular with one company taking in a ton of pennies daily and facing a backlog of 16,000 machines in orders.
A fragment discusses a so called Reeteen ray claimed to enter veins and cause electrolysis then force oxygen out of the body. It warns of ozone circulating through the system potentially ending the life of the aged and warns against remedies and gaits.
The article questions census accuracy amid global population growth. It notes potential misreporting in Marope counties over ten years and cites figures for Russia, Germany, Austro Hungary, Great Britain, and France, highlighting alarming growth estimates.
Paris visitors discuss the prophetess Mdlle Couedon whose bold predictions stir Europe. She foresees a general European war with England humiliated and France weakened, while other prophecies touch on Cuba and global politics. Spectators remain mystified by her forecasts.
In New York a tax evasion scheme uses the hotel label to allow intoxicating drinks to guests. Saloons are being converted to hotels with carpenters hard at work. Operators claim the hotel system meets the law and enables heavier liquor sales per guest.
The article notes voters face exams before recording votes and that imperial records show a substantial illiteracy substratum among British electors. England and Wales report 28,511 illiterates with 3,190,826 votes. Scotland 4,062 illiterates with 447,591 votes.
In Ireland the figures stood at 40, a51 and 220,506. The grand total of the United Kingdom shows 72,940 ihiterates in the recording of 3,858,023 votes.
The Lake Superior trade expands rapidly with the Soo canal opening 231 days last year handling 72 495 steamers and 4 740 sailing vessels and 671 unregistered batons. Tonnage through the Soo more than doubles that of the Suez in river routes. The region remains largely undeveloped, with future growth anticipated as the chief foregoer of a grander era.
The war in Sudan offers military engineers a chance to test new destruction engines. The latest British suns will be deployed with dischiv explosive shells projected ten miles. Rapid fire guns will follow, with multiple shells reaching the scene as the fighting continues.
The text depicts a bustling fairground scene with elephants and tigers on posters and life size displays. It notes vendors for movie style acts and crowds, including a boy saving coins for a future pageant dream. It hints at sensational entertainments and cheaper wonders drawing public curiosity.
A New England church weekly prayer meeting restricted members to five minutes of remarks. Deacon A, a long winded speaker, began and was halted as the chair announced time up. He then declared he would turn his remarks into a prayerful form, keeping the floor with a humorous protest. The Philadelphia Record reports on this parish event and the humorous outcome.
A Liverpool committee is formed to raise funds for a memorial to Felicia Hemans, born in Liverpool in 1793, famed for works including Hear Thee Speak of a Better Land and The Stately Homes of England.
The article accuses Spanish misrule of saddling Cuba with a colonial debt totaling 468 552 025 dollars after insurrection losses. It blames Spanish statesmen for mismanagement and calls for overhaul of governance to prevent further oppression of Cuban patriots.
A Salem South Dakota WCTU incident reports women damaging a car loads of beer in protest against temperance laws. Helena Independent recalls William Woodcock’s memories of Gen. Gibbon and the Big Horn battle with civilians, Indian fights, and field observations. Also notes a Springfield bicyclist’s winter riding record.
A critique warns that attempts at reform may fail if proper attention to an approaching upheaval is ignored. The text suggests virtue alone may not suffice and warns against entrapment in missteps.
A London suitor refused a leap year proposal and sent the proposer an outfit of grave clothes. Princess Beatrice resumes daily life with Queen Victoria while Princess Henry seeks solitude before Cimiez visit. A shoe thief in Wilkes Barre chose jail or a placard announcing I am a shoe thief and wore it in public.
The fifty fourth congress hears Teller attack the McKinley tariff and warn he will oppose the gold standard while Sherman argues for a decisive people's verdict. May days bring naval appropriations battles and party frictions as pensions and bankruptcy bills move through.
Patents issued to Indiana residents include M. J. Colver of Fort Wayne with an underskirt device, D. Curtin of Indianapolis for a hand treadle attachment, A. Frazier of Princeton for a pneumatic straw stacker, F. Kahler of Siler Grove for a noodle cutting machine, L. Richardson of Indianapolis assigned to Chesebrough and Heck for a broom, J. Schuman of Columbia City for a pneumatic gun conveyor, J. H. Watson of Crawfordsville for a rugated metal culvert, J. M. Wells and E. Wiltsie of Marion for an automatic lathe, and S. R. Jennings of South Bend for a can power trademark.
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