13 May 1893
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1893
Page
1
A fragment advertises a stores season selection with Yankee Notions cloves hosiery underwear corsets and a Nation Department. It promises wholesale costs and a wide array of carpets rugs straw and oil mattings for home furnishing inviting readers to inquire.
A paratactical meditation on renewal blends a 19th century exhortation to purify the soul with a wartime vignette of Captain Keene caring for a wounded man. The narrative contrasts domestic reform with military virtue and forgiveness through a pivotal hospital tent scene.
In a Courier dispatch from 30, a wannabe Arctic expedition seeker braces for a costly gate-keeping before joining Peary. The ex explorer asks for five thousand dollars as initial expense and references a previous accompanying man who died in a prior expedition.
A Chicago News Record summary notes that using copper lightning rods on masts connected to copper sheathing protects ships from lightning. Upper rods extend beyond masts with platinum points, and iron vessels tie to mast tops. Lightning is usually avoided, even on powder-laden ships, though two alternative grounding methods are described as unsafe.
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