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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1900
Page
7
A young Wolseley recounts a perilous Burma episode while in the British army. Leading a small detachment he fell into a deep hole and, emerging, found himself on the enemy side amid a hail of bullets. He slid back, then again crawled out and reached British lines after being hit three times.
A Higginport Ohio reader Miss Edna Ellis describes decade of monthly agony as she seeks relief after contacting Mrs Pinkham and Eydia Es Platham. She offers to answer letters from others in a cheerful manner.
A survey of European and American science notes several plant establishments in Europe and ongoing experiments in fuel production, insect olfactory studies, and bacteriological methods. It reports on coal scarcity driving liquid fuel apparatus, railways testing oil blends, and a Russian move to lower coal oil prices. It also covers dietary patterns in European nations, insect color perception experiments by M Felix Plateau, a Pasteur institutes rat eradication method, and a novel electrically heated soldering iron with a wood and carbon assembly.
A Zurich chemist, Wilhelm Schwarz, claims a new brick method yields consistent, hard waterproof bricks. The process uses vacuum mixing to control moisture and high pressure steam, with a machine Schwarz built to mix the materials. Early reports in the New York Tribune express confidence in the innovation's value despite past weather-related flaws.
A delicate reply from a disheveled Frenchman aboard a steamer prompts a passenger to ask breakfast. The Frenchman replies in broken English that he has not breakfasted, but the opposite, humorously diverging from the expected answer.
A Washington Post report portrays a low land reclamation scene naming a people living on city waste. Men sell salvage while women wash and heat with refuse. children labor collecting scraps as the colored community relies on dumps for fuel and income.
The article compares a healthy woman at age 50 to a rose or fruit tree in a second growth, explaining a nerve tissue rearrangement between 35 and 45 that restores vitality. It parallels roses grafting, autumnal bloom, and grape vines producing new blossoms, noting renewed life and potential for renewed fruit or wine when conditions are right.
Dr C E 8 Cawthon of Andalussis Alabama writes that Tetterine surpasses any remedy for eczema and stubborn skin eruptions. He notes the 500 box is available at druggists or by mail from J T Shuptring Savannah Georgia. A Seattle newspaper reports Lt Whipple found a large pearl at dinner in New York that later showed a color change from pale pink to green, attracting interest from lapidaries.
A fragmentary OCR page mixes ads for snow removal gear with remedies and notices. It references a new cleaning apparatus with brushes and paddle wheels, various patent medicines, a political oath, and several personal notices amid garbled, period-typical product pitches and public notices.
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