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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1911
Page
7
The text discusses a gim mel or linked ring formed in parts to resemble a clasped hands ring. It notes women prisoners being addressed by first names in English prisons, unlike men who are named by numbers.
A winter evening Alpine village tale follows a young man with a banner reading Excelsior who cannot pay for rooms and disappears, with theories about his job. The next morning his body is found near a mountain. Separately, Mary feeds a lamb at school until the teacher ejects it, then the lamb is sold at the rising market.
A ten-year-old boy in a Chicago school declines to sew, arguing it may be beneath him while the principal cites George Washington as an example. The boy answers with quiet uncertainty, saying time will tell.
A historical note traces the origins of lightning conductors from ancient cautions of fire from the sky to Virgil's epic imagery. It cites Dtvisch of Bohemia 1754 erecting a tall conductor, removed after a drought sparked superstition, and questions Franklin's 18th century awareness of the prior device.
Cherubini, famed jealous composer, attended a rival’s premiere. He praised a weak third act duo to avoid having it cut, explaining that his apparent approval was a ploy to keep the piece intact and his rivals unaware of the chink in its armor.
A recall of how travelers' tales are often sneered at by stay-at-home readers. The piece cites James Bruce in 1770 describing Abyssinian raw meat eating and Paul Du Chaillu in 1861 detailing gorillas and dwarfs, later vindicated by later explorers.
The article notes cork was known to Greeks and Romans and used widely though Romans did not record linoleum. It adds glass bottles with cork stoppers appeared around the mid fourteenth century.
A coroner’s verdict from India blames a tiger for a man’s death with the blunt claim that the man died of tiger eating him and that there was no other cause. The remark underscores a dramatic, if peculiar, conclusion in a distant case.
The test involves opening the tin and inserting a bright steel knife into the contents for a few minutes. If copper is present even in tiny amounts, it will visibly deposit on the blade, proving the sample’s contamination.
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