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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1899
Page
2
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat tale recalls a 1878 Colorado Carbonate incident where a gambler killed a man for opening an umbrella over a card table. Hoodoo experts testified such an act doomed luck, leading to justifiable homicide verdict and a townwide ban on umbrellas.
A social era piece describes a London smile doctor who turns plain lips into a bewitching grin for a fee, noting actresses frequently use his services and warn of the difficulty in keeping a serious face afterward. The U.S. Navy expansion is outlined with plans for eight battleships and many escorts over thirty months, detailing a growing fleet of armored ships, monitors, torpedo vessels, and cruisers.
A Polish publicist, M Btiokh, estimates Europe spends about £1 747 120 000 annually on fleets and armies. Direct military costs plus interest and salaries could total £1 747 120 000, excluding indirect losses, with fleet maintenance around £10,000 and soldiers' needs about £198,009, plus £4 195 600 for five powers.
In St Joseph Missouri the chief of police decorates four police court reporters with badges of special officers. The reporters, expert in police methods, are tasked with aiding arrests. Early resistance from other writers gave way after a small man felled a big loafer scaring shoppers, prompting praise for the appointments.
The Klondike Nugget, a Dawson paper, struggles to locate town subscribers paying 24 dollars yearly for semi weekly issues. A notice cites vague addresses left at the office including the cabin with the screen door the slab house facing the river the big tent with two stovepipes and the cabin three doors west of where all the dogs are.
Brooklyn Life reports a humorous scene where a naturalist, alone with his infant, cannot find a bottle large enough to hold the baby. The wife returns to find the father surrounded by his bottles, baffled by the uncontainable infant. The anecdote highlights the father’s flustered state and the baby’s cries.
A volunteer deemed himself a great man and accepted a captaincy. He boasted to a friend who replied that folk just laughed and said nothing, reflecting on the irony of his new dignity.
The reigning queen of song in St Petersburg is Countess Botska, a Polish noblewoman, whose lyric stage appearance came at Paderewski's persuasion. She is a born artist who, like Jenny Lind, finds stage triumphs unsatisfactory compared to the happiness of home life.
The text notes that gales create significant tide like changes on lakes without ordinary tides. It cites the Caspian Sea where gales raise water on both sides by six feet, totaling a twelve foot difference, and Lake Erie where heavy gales can exceed fifteen feet.
In a Sydney Town and Country Journal exchange a mother learns two brothers Charlie and Jack swapped oranges. Charlie admits eating Jack’s orange while Jack ate Charlie’s, denying they ate their own. The tale highlights sibling antics and a playful parental moment.
Seedy Provincial Actor recalls being egged into essaying the Melancholy Dane. Prosperous London remarks he was urged, then teased, as the exchange hints at theatrical crowd pressure and comic banter.
The Countess Balseh, last of the Rouminian nobility, died at Jassy. She was famed as a notorious miser who lived on almost nothing. After her death, a surprising amount of cash was found secreted in various parts of her house.
A prominent geologist has analyzed wear patterns on Niagara Falls and, using his calculations, argues that the falls are as vigorous at this milestone birthday as in past ages. The study challenges previous age estimates and suggests ongoing dynamic activity shaping the site.
Two aged Bostonians, Friend Ellis aged 80 and George Alger, quarrelled publicly after a senile dispute. The court awarded $250 to Ellis as solace for injured feelings. The piece laments old friendships turning to enmity and criticizes younger onlookers who publicize the folly.
Count Skorzewski, a wealthy landowner in Posen, Germany, mounts camels to his Czerniejewce estates to pull the plow. The experiment yields success, with camels doing double the work of horses on less fodder and quickly gaining local admiration as the “Skorzewski quadrupeds.”
C D Graham liveryman of Ottawa Canada describes a two month old fox terrier born in a litter of five that walks entirely on its two fore paws and never uses its hind legs. The pup balances a hump on its back and can walk run and hop with hind feet inches from the ground.
A British consular report from the Far East describes a bamboo suspension bridge spanning 300 feet. The cane fibers are twisted into cables, forming a maze of structure that demonstrates the old tradition of making remarkable objects from bamboo.
One of the world’s largest forests stands on frozen ground between the Ural Mountains and the Okhotsk Sea. A recent well dig revealed ground at 116 meters depth remains frozen, indicating permafrost extent in this region.
The public building clock in Philadelphia is the second largest in the world with 25 foot diameter dials. It sits 360 feet above street level and cost about $30,000. The Mechlin Belgium St Rombold Cathedral clock has a dial nearly twice Philadelphia's in diameter.
A quirky fishing method described where tech fishermen claim to use a bottle partly filled with water and live worms to lure fish. They cork the bottle and drop it near their target, believing the wriggling contents provoke biting fish in their vicinity.
A fragmented report notes engines working through the Arberg tunnel on the Austrian State railroad. It describes heavy two cylinder engines with large bore and wheel arrangements, including eight coupled wheels and large diameter components.
A fragmented line describes a woman who greets everyone on her route to church and believes her pockets are spared from misfortune by her rituals and intent.
A waterlogged report notes a whale weighing about a thousand pounds will provide around sixty thousand pounds of blubber, from which forty eight thousand pounds of train out can be produced, and three thousand pounds of whalebone.
A Chinese mandarin living near Shanghai plans to establish a model farm run with American machinery stock and methods on the American plan. The project envisions adopting U.S. farm practices to showcase modern agriculture under foreign leadership.
Our farmers can save with a six publication bundle for one year including The Homestead The Special Farmers Institute edition The Poultry Farmer The Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal and The Humane Alliance Subscriptions and samples are available at this office for review and purchase The February Special is now out with four practical farm topics
An industrial agent seeks entrepreneurs to locate in new West tributary towns along the Chicago Great Western Railway. Promises profitable opportunities in farming regions and growing towns. Offers maps and leaflets describing each station. requests correspondence to W J Reed, Industrial Agent, Chicago Great Western, St Paul.
A county official reports in favor of vacating a highway in Jasper County starting at the NW corner of the NE 1/4 of Sec 25-40-20 and ending at the SE corner of the NE 1/4 of Sec 2-40-30. Objections or damage claims must be filed in the Auditor's Office by noon June 7, 1199. otherwise the highway will be vacated without reference. Also includes a local testimonial note from Paducah.
Notice promotes low price tickets on daily sale at all CGW ticket offices for travel to Oregon Washington British Columbia Idaho and Montana. Encourages consulting agents or F H Lord in Chicago for rates and timetables and lists address 113 Adams St Chicago. ARNI CA Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised as a cure for rectal fistula claim. Patient Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson allegedly cured after doctors advised death without costly operation. Product sold by Westbrook & Co.
The article describes Mexican burial rites with corpses wrapped in century plant matting instead of coffins. One or two bearers carry the coffin on their heads to the grave, where the body is interred before the coffin is returned. Also a classified notice seeks live poultry for sale by McMurray & Kilduff.
An offer promotes lending money at 5 percent with optional payments. It advertises a clubbing deal including The RECORD, Inter Ocean, Des Moines Register, New York Tribune and a copy of the Code of Iowa for a paltry sum of $2. The offer states the bundle is open to old and new subscribers.
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