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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1894
Page
3
A survey of detective slang explains varied thief titles from moll buzzer to safe blower and roof walker. It outlines how culprits like the holster, damper worker, push Mack, gopher mower, heeler, strong arm, ear-lier rider, rattler, and yuan operate in thefts and the street crime world, detailing methods and targets.
Read through a mosaic of notes on insect vision theories and a practical mock excerpt explaining dragonfly eye optics, alongside Gaelic language notes on Mac and Mich, clan chiefs and obedience, and brief curios about memorials poetry and ads. The fragment includes medical patent claims, a lion coffee promotion, and stray quips on Teething remedies and travel routes.
A miscellany of short notes describes a Clearfield door incident with a jailed prisoner, a New York landlady ejecting tenants, a sulphur fire that moved two tenants out, a Bow on lecture about James Anthony Froude during 1872 fire relief, and an elderly man recalling Maryland to Ohio travel by stage coach with harsh, lean meals on long rides.
A collage of curious statistics and anecdotes from a bygone era. It cites weights of mammoth tusks, age estimates for California trees, a record salmon, erroneous age figures for women, depths of Australian mines, heart rate data, Zuyder Zee reclamation costs, per capita liquor spending, and a peasant girl’s tale of poaching linked to Lord Clare.
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