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Nanaimo Semi Weekly Mail

Location

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Date

Jun 27, 1896

Page

3

State Chemist California tests Royal leavening power exceed others

The Royal fulfils all requirements, with tests showing greater leavening power than any other brand.

California

Romance of the Telegraph and Fellowships at Rome School

A history of long distance telegraph routes from London to Teheran is followed by notes on mountain dangers, staff hardships, and winter isolation. The American School of Classical Studies in Rome offers three fellowships for 1896 97,: 600 300 500, for arts graduates to study under school supervision for ten months starting Oct 15 1896. A brief note on the field naturalist defines expertise as combining observation with species habits and anatomy.

London Lowestoft Ngland Emden Germany Warsaw Romne Odessa Caucasus Tiflis Persia Tauris Teheran Bushire Persian Gulf Beloochistan Kurrachee India Russia Asia American School of Classical Studies Rome GOU Atherica

Satan in Harness and Other Oddities from Dougherty County

A long feature mixes a sensational tale of Sam Williams known as Sam Satan who supposedly yoked himself to a mule and performed feats of strength in Dougherty County Georgia. It blends with notes on Dr Charles Sedgewick Millot and a science article about growth and a French Academy explanation of fog horn acoustics and sirens.

Georgia Sam Satan Samson Ligo Sam Williams Sam Satan Charles Sedgewick Millot Harvard Medical School Boston French Academy of Sciences

Whispers of the Gone and a Viennese Whip Artist

A fragmentary page mixes verse about the dead by Louise Chandler Moulton with a Vienna dispatch on Piskslag, a whip virtuoso performing intricate feats. He cracks two long whips to music, cuts through calfskin and apples, and even snatches a coin from a bottle without breaking it, wowing audiences. A separate Western Virginia folk dialogue recalls romantic schemes and threats of violence amid rural courtship.

Vienna Piskslag

How Sand Hills Grow by Marrum Grass in Norfolk

The London Spectator explains how marrum grass seeds stabilize drifting sand to form dune hills. A wet lake near Holkham Bay became dry after grass roots took hold, gathering sand into rounded hillocks rising about 20 feet above high water, built by the grass from surplus drift.

Holkham Bay London Spectator

Made Them Cry From Onion Peel Lecture Tale

A London Tit-Bits item recounts a humorous talker describing a lecture to a cookery school where his onion peeling demonstration moved the audience to tears and sparked reaction from a listener.

Walker London

Juggle of sophistry cited by Coleridge in quote usage

Cincinnati reports yearly value of goods exceeding 150 million dollars.

Coleridge Cincinnati

Jock the Sheepdog Saves Twenty-five Horses From Fire

A Scotch collie named Jock, owned by Mr. Leicht of Paepeke Leicht Lumber Company, saved twenty-five horses during a lumber-yard fire on Tuesday night. Jock barked to wake the watchman Arndt, then drove the frightened horses from stalls until one animal perished in the flames. The dog, four years old and a nightly yard companion, is praised for intelligence beyond the ordinary and for guarding the yard against intruders.

Leicht Paepeke- Leicht Lumber Company Jock Leleht Jack Moe Arndt Chicago Tribune

Be A Well Woman This Spring With Paine's Celery Compound

An ad urges women to use Paine's celery compound for spring health, citing a Dorchester woman’s testimonial about kidney pain, back pain, and sleep loss. It promises improved appetite, digestion, sleep, and energy, claiming four bottles cured her.

Hoxtetter Paine Elsie M. Brown Leeds St Dorchester Mass

Money order clue linked to debtor in Somerville tale

A man professes hard luck and a $20 money order to a clerk, while another says the only person who can identify him is a debtor of $30. A separate note describes the first trapdoor spider making a ground nest and a camouflaged escape entrance.

Hicks Somerville Journal

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