07 Aug 1896
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1896
Page
1
Socially the Siamese are undoubtedly advancing. There are now a number of men of good position whose wives accompany them in public, driving to entertainments, and so forth.
The Westminster Gazettee reports 2396 Spurgeon sermons printed and sold, totaling nearly 100 million in sales, averaging about 35,000 copies per sermon. A mint is planned at Nanking for silver and copper coinage, creating two Chinese mints, Canton and Nanking. The copper cash unit equates to about 1/22 of a tael. LITTLE LOVE SONG: a lyric praising a blossom and a beloved, contrasting with distant queens.
About 100 large New York City office towers employ roughly 3500 workers and pay around $200000 monthly in wages. In big buildings a superintendent may hire staff and rent space, but most cases split duties among owner real estate agent and janitor, who remains the key figure.
A loyal elephant Shere Bahadur, long mistreated by the Maharaj of Kalesar, escapes captivity after a palace chase. The crowd, vizier, and prince pursue through hills and huts. A brave boy befriends the elephant, guiding him back home after the device injures the beast.
Reports describe a Maine lumber test for a trolley haul system and a 76 ft steel plate from Stockton. Other items note anti toxine debates for consumption cures, Chicago Ice Trust actions, London fog costs, Oregon battleship, Japanese study delegation, a 14 ft aluminum boat, a lightning photographed farm house, unique Hawaiian shellfish and wildlife, world population brain weight, Swiss phosphorus match move, spider silk strength, German consumption cure, and a portable crematory for German armies.
A cycling writer explains a simple device to deter punctures by installing a string or wire nail catcher across the front forks and upper backstays just above the tire. The catcher aims to lift nails or thorns from the tire before they pierce the tube, with curved versions available.
Bennington Center in Vermont, a town never above 300 residents, has provided four governors to the state. The note highlights its outsized political impact relative to size.
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