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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1896
Page
3
A scientist reports discovering a drug from the mescal cactus button used by Kiowa Indians in religious ceremonies. The study notes vivid color visions, prolonged drumming, and little impact on reason, with sleep loss and wakefulness as common aftereffects.
A furious woman exposes a young man by showing carbon traces on a letter he wrote claiming ardent devotion. He pretends it was his intended honest protest while she reveals the duplicitous base perfidy. The scene is a sharp reminder of deception and scandal.
A feature on animal play spans ants to whales, noting pup pies and kittens as especially lively. It recounts clever tricks by a Brazilian parrot and various monkeys, plus playful whale behavior, with side notes on glove fashion, European glove making, and a Philadelphia revival where 10,000 Methodists gathered in City Hall Square.
Fragmentary report covers topics from earthworm biology and deep wells to fires in Muncie and thefts in Oakland and Sonora. Mentions Greenland Lutheran groups, Bannock reservation water depth, and homestead land in South Dakota with vast untapped potential.
Readers learn of a claimed universal cure for catarrh, described as a constitutional disease. The advertisement asserts internal action on the blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Addresses Cheney & Co in Toledo and a mail order offer.
An audacious peculation in Germany came to light after a rail promise prompted a mild complaint. An official replaced a valuable watch with a counterfeit, pocketing the timepiece, and the emperor was informed of the substitution. A similar theft method affected an ank and family to Site Melancholy Bays Have The saiklest of the Sear.
A fragment reports a Sunday school procession in Lucknow, including Hindoo and Moslem children. It mentions India with eight Christian colleges and 26,000 schools and a large number of pupils, referencing the 1857 Sepoy mutiny scene.
Fragmentary text describes Grand Valley in a new California setting with mentions of apricots nectarines and apples among fruits and vegetables. It references good society schools and an ideal place with scattered names and places, but the fragmentary OCR limits clarity.
A charming centerpiece is described as a hollowed square block filled with loosely piled cracked ice. Interstices are filled with trailing pieces that cover the block, creating glittering ice and delicate green tracery for an unusual table display.
French fisher land banks are be prov medical and spiritual comfort. Next spring a vessel will leave St. Malo with a doctor and a priest on board to eat among the fleet and give assistance where it is needed. There are more than seventy halls In Paris devoted to fencing, each presided over by a fencing master more or less famous.
Monterey Tenn special column reports Col James E Jones secretary and treasurer of Cumberland Mountain Coal Co says tobacco habit cure by No-To-Bac changed his life. He smoked heavily for years, spent money on tobacco, but within six days of using No-To-Bac his cravings vanished and he believes the product is worth its weight in gold to users.
A wealthy Russian nobleman named Prince Khilkor reportedly parcels his enormous estate into multiple small farms for tenants, reserving a plot for himself which he cultivates personally and uses leisure time to teach the peasants.
Fragmented notice describes weekly excursions from a Urington route to California with trips leaving Gntha and stopping at Sam Francisco and Los Becond-class ce'the cal azent. Mentions Lerths Ory rite 3, Fnaxet Orisa, and Note.
English policymakers propose a bicycle tax modeled on French and Belgian levies. They claim the measure could raise about 2.5 million pounds for the English treasury.
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