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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1895
Page
3
A London illusion shown at Egyptia Hall features a young woman consumed by fire before an audience. The act centers on a table concealing a skull beneath a screen as the audience views the dramatic destruction. The performer’s dress nearly covers the stage, and the unsettling display has drawn significant attention and speculation.
Miss Nellie Fuller, a Plainville teacher, spoke after five years of muteness following a grip. Sixteen doctors offered no cure, but after God’s interposition she uttered her first words on November 30, describing the moment as miraculous and life changing.
An article describes a stage illusion where a young woman vanishes through a rear table section using angled mirrors and a sliding mechanism, while the audience views a burning effect. It also notes Sig. Palmieri’s earth current observations at Mount Vesuvius, showing current direction shifts with volcanic activity, and cites opinions on voice loss in a patient.
An elderly 73 year old man in Schiltgallen Germany who had several wives proposed to a fourth wife. She rejected him and he hanged himself in a nearby forest. In Pakhoi China the city exports over one hundred thousand dried lizards worth about 2500 dollars yearly. The lizards are used to make lizard wine a medicine said to aid eye troubles.
Hood's Calendars for 1895 reach a mammoth scale in Lowell mass with a heart shaped design by Maud Humphrey featuring Winter and Summer child faces. The article details production capacity including 162 workers six presses and daily outputs up to 140000 calendars, notes a 10500000 edition and explains the calendars advertise Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills.
A collage of quips and sketches touches on theater hats and audience cost, a nervy comment on manuscripts, a mock bridal ruse, a patriot’s funeral at night with torches and fireworks, and a note on Franklin’s Gulf Stream map and Egypt’s cotton taxes.
The article recalls medieval cathedral floor labyrinths called Roads of Jerusalem, explaining each site by city and design. It notes Sons, St Owen, St Quentin, and Bayeux labyrinths with circular, blue yellow, or black square patterns and mentions their historical fate and purposes.
A collage of clipped text reveals a mother’s worried dialogue about a son named Tommy, patient nurse scenes, and a chorus of unrelated ads. Items mention railroads debt, cheap land in Missouri and Arkansas, travel agents, and promotional notes about journalism and medical advertising. The garbled OCR blends family moment with commerce and rail heritage.
A customer asks where to find the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and is directed to a country drug store. The clerk notes they do not carry it here but mentions the store across the road has first-rate mackerel.
The readable portion shows a quarrel about a proposal or offer, with references to Fanny, Jennie, and Ma Jones. A figure called he is described as worth half a million, and a mention of Texas Lift appears in the damaged text.
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