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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1891
Page
3
A fragment from the Home Journal quotes a stylized warning about looming weather and restless elements. The poem-like piece references winds, trees, and skies turning threatening as nature resumes its overpowering mood.
Hank Owings tells of a 19 year old Union youth crossing East Tennessee with a band from Post Oak to avoid Confederate conscription. The trek passes Walden Ridge to a saw mill where a guerrilla sentry nearly uncovers them. The narrator kills the sentry in self defense and guides the group through a night march to Nashville, arriving as prisoners of war two weeks later.
A collection of brief items notes a 57 year bank stability record in Baltimore, a Swiss proposal to develop dairy land in California, Col. John Mosby’s health, and Minnesota lumber gains. It also covers Maine cities, potential Maine town governance changes, a Texas deed liquor clause lapse, an eclipse night mercury drop in Butte and trolley car unpreparedness, with prior balmy weather.
A roundup of items about women figures and inventions. It notes Princess of Wans birthday and Mrs Kendal profits from a lamp shade, James B. Baker proposing a ban on women in trusted roles, a Swiss watch for the blind, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s popularity, a soda soak to render dresses fire resistant, a Manchester woman working in a backsmith shop, and a Paris fashion for stocklegs with toe compartments.
Electric headlights of about 2,500 candle power are now in general use on Indiana railroads. Cottonseed industry growth replaces olive oil products in many cases. Alcohol extraction of sugar from cave syrup transforms sugar making with minimal loss. A cement for glass lettering uses India rubber mastic and chloroform. Tests show clean air at 30 to 40 feet above streets in London. A solar disturbance photographed lasted 15 minutes with vapors rising to 80 000 miles, likely from a meteor impact.
Smallpox sweeps Georgia coastal counties while Georgia’s cotton crop falls 2 000 bales short, causing a projected $165 000 loss versus last year and a per capita impact of about $12. American women reportedly spend $62 000 annually on cosmetics, many of which are poisonous. The note also mentions railway and bushel standard changes, and a vast hypothetical US railway length.
The article surveys exotic forms of money from history including Abyssinian salt as currency, Carthaginian leather money, North Sea island stud scales, Scottish nails for ale payments, Chinese mulberry bark slips, and bullion trades among Burmese and related peoples. It notes dried fish as a traditional medium and mentions leather coins with silver centers issued in France under King John.
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