Gutta Percha Patents and Uses Explored for Flexible Goods
A Victorian exploration of Gutta Percha as a versatile, waterproof elastic material. It discusses its source from the Percha tree in India, chemical makeup, and potential applications from elastic bands and chair stuffing to clock springs and decorative items. It notes patents by C Hancock for combining gutta percha with other substances to vary hardness and elasticity and to produce varnishes and colored fabrics.
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Mayley
India
Magazine of Science and the Arts
C. ‘Hancock
Hancock
Slender Exchange Over Gossip Testimony
A narrator recalls a friend recounting a lengthy airing of falsehoods about another. The dialogue notes two people are needed to make a slander, one to tell and one to listen, framing gossip as a shared fault.
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Staxper
Court Scene Questions Guilty Plea In Detes Justice
In a rough exchange a judge questions a prisoner about guilt while another inmate pleads not guilty. The court dismisses questions, urging the defendant to attend to business, as a neighbor mentions visiting Hagerman’s for a warming drink.
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Prisioner
House of Correction
Hagerman’s
Youngster Proves Counting Fowls At Dinner
A humorous exchange shows a boy declaring three fowls at the table and the father testing his logic. The boy identifies each bird, prompting the father to praise his “genius” and assign the fowls accordingly.
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Lodie
Young Smartness
John
Printer’s Claim Questioned Over Unpaid Wages
A reader questions a printer’s finances, noting the claim of not paying him for two or three years while the paper is still produced weekly and urging the child present to be removed from the discussion.
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Pat Hie Winy
New York
Plainfield
J. W.S. Martin
United States
Perfinder
Wheat Shelf Announces Marriage Bond In Elizabethtown
At the Wheat Shelf the Rev. Charles D. Imbrie officiates as Willi Seaton of Elizabethtown weds Pametia Kelly in a formal ceremony.
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Charles D. Imbrie
Willi Seaton
Elizabethtown
Pametia Kelly
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