Herring and Fresh Fish Market in Rens Ends Notes
Local market listing from Rens details sale of herring, fresh fish and oysters. Prices and offerings appear in a short buy list with items including house cuts and miscellaneous shellfish.
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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1900
Page
3
Local market listing from Rens details sale of herring, fresh fish and oysters. Prices and offerings appear in a short buy list with items including house cuts and miscellaneous shellfish.
English engineers survey a Southampton to London ship canal likely to be built with American capital. If completed, liners could land passengers in central London hours earlier, triggering major commercial shifts while drawing opposition from rival city schemes.
North shore fisherman Andrew Tofte of Tofte Minnesota survived a perilous voyage after a northwest gale pushed his rowboat eastward. The Dowling tug, two hours from shore, attempted rescue but turned back as seas rose. After thirty six hours he returned coatless and exhausted, having drifted 25 miles and endured two days without food before help reached him.
Major Albert J. Criqui of 80 South Orange Avenue New Jersey and Misk Pearl Robinson of Chicago become engaged in Newark. Each weighs 58 pounds. Criqui is 23 and Robinson 26. They are vaudeville performers. Robinson's mother Ida weighs 200 pounds and breaks rocks with her fists. Criqui's father weighs 580 pounds and runs a saloon.
The London Daily Mail reports Marconi has invented a method to insure privacy in wireless telegrams by tuning both transmitting and receiving instruments together. European press highlights his achievements shown in New York and Chicago experiments. A new flower named La Generueuse from Paris exposition charms with varied colors and ostrich feather form, scentless but fashionable.
A young man suffers a broken back in a football game, deemed an incident rather than a spectacle by the Chicago Times-Herald. In South Africa the Angora goat, valued at 60, faces an export duty of 3500 per head imposed by the Cape Colony government.
Count von Zeppelin reports confidence after trials in Friedrichshafen. The airship demonstrated controllability but two stern rudders jammed, preventing windward progress. An expert observer doubts ultimate success, noting the craft remains in early experimental stage and full technical observations will come later.
Ternard Kane an engineer seized a New York hotel elevator at the Pabst on Forty second Street and Broadway. He rode it for about thirty minutes through Broadway Sixth and Seventh avenues then descended. Hotel staff and a policeman finally halted him after he lit a pipe between floors and sang while in motion.
A Philadelphia physician recalls onions as a long recognized medicine cited by Egyptians and homeopaths as alias alium copa. He contrasts press mockery with onion benefits for cold, rheumatism, and indigestion while noting other odd remedies like maidens tears and snake poison in medical journals.
R C Kirk recounts discovery of a peculiar ancient looking coin on Bed Rock at Big Skookum Gulch in August. Miner Nick Odet found evidence suggesting a race inhabited the Klondike after the great ice fields. Gov Ogilvie tested and photographed the piece and sent images to eastern experts.
William Mullen the bronco evangelist obtained a permit from Mayor Harrison to break horses as part of his preaching. On a lakefront city lot opposite the Chicago Athletic Club he tamed two bucking broncos with rigging and hypnotism, drawing large crowds as Rev. R. A. Torrey vouched for his Christian character.
James A. Faulin of Campbell Dunklin County Missouri died at age 74 after a separation that began twelve years earlier from his wife who was 72. The couple did not speak to each other since reuniting under one roof eight months after their separation and maintained silent dinners despite living together. Their children failed to mend the rift, and the estranged pair lived in the same home until his death last week.
Dr. Robert Koch, the famed German bacteriologist, arrived in Marseilles on route to Berlin to report 15 months of malaria research in New Guinea Java and nearby German territories. He confirms isolating and cultivating the malarial bacillus and reiterates that mosquitoes are the principal malaria spreaders in the regions studied including Egypt and German East Africa.
A London vogue for turquoises grows with many ladies showcasing stones. Lady Londonderry sports a grand tiara of turquoises, while Mrs Leopold Rothschild and Mrs Cavendish-Bentinck display multiple pieces. Lady Helen Vincent often wears crown turquoises, and Lady Sophie Scott’s wedding gifts feature numerous turquoise and diamond sets.
A Cornwall Jamaica Herald interview cites a banana planter who can supply 15,000 to 20,000 stems weekly, warning that within three months millions of fruit could rot in the fields if buyers do not materialize.
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