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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1891
Page
3
A column notes commuter habits and urban quirks. It mocks royalty claims for authors, discusses Wong Obin Foo’s naturalization and voting rights, and highlights an advertising stunt showing how goats chew plug tobacco on a rock near Harlem, seen from the New Haven line.
A.N. Telegram reports on cave-dwelling animals lacking eyes in Mammoth and other Virginia caverns. It notes eyeless fish, crustaceans, bats, spiders, and worms, plus extinct megafauna and adaptive sensory changes, with speculation on embryonic eye development.
A Boston barber notes most men cannot shave with both hands and shares curious facts about shaving habits. He describes a boy facing a wall and shaving by feel, recalling an old farmer who shaved by reflection in a bucket of water.
Fragmentary account describes a once thriving manufacturing and fur trading town west of the Alleghenies, populated by forward-looking settlers and Eastern capitalists. It notes a dambed river channel, rock formations, and a prosperous lumber trade routed by flatboats, with decline blamed on weeds and disease.
An 19th century veiled anecdote recounts Mr. Choate in a Vermont stagecoach debating whether a house wall is a wall or a fence. Joseph Bell defends Choate as the Englishman insists it is a wall, prompting a final warning before peace resumes. Nearby, a georgetown street scene features a fish peddler and a brisk window quip about mercy. A diary fragment notes a Baron Buffet meeting and a police identity inquiry with a five year baron sentence.
The clipping lists curious facts from multiple domains including a buried grave near Wineted, Coon Mexico tariff effects on beer, ancient California carriage designs, and wedding anniversaries. It also mentions underwater gun experiments in Bethlehem Pa, a bee swarm atop the Texas Capitol dome, and lists of chief salaries worldwide with varied figures.
A reflective piece argues that common, obscure people shape society through conscience and influence. It urges contentment with truth, warns against envy, and emphasizes loving one’s work while avoiding vanity and slander.
Secretary Noble notes tobacco in Connecticut crops valued at 30 million dollars. Reports from Paris indicate Lucy Hooper describing a scene in Alx with Princess Louise smoking cigars. The Empress of Austria reportedly smokes forty Turkish cigarettes daily amid concerns of mental state.
The article notes widespread use of electric soldering rods in canning, plans to light Damascus and to run an electric rail from The Hague area to Scheveningen via storage batteries. It cites one fourth of U S street railways electric, Brazil to build first electric road at Babie, and an arc lamp of 2000 candle power lighting a 46 foot radius. It also mentions the St Paul Minneapolis electric road drawing away steam rail traffic and reducing trains by 15 to 20 daily.
An article reflecting on parallels between an engine and a woman, noting similarities in how sand powers engines and how affection drives men, with remarks on pride, bustle, and potential danger when pushed too hard. It references Germanton in a reflective tone.
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