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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
10
Elspeth awakens in a hotel tower with eerie red drops on a sketch, vows courage, and plans to uncover the Tower’s mystery. She meets Lady Hilary Vane and other guests on the stairs while seeking Mr. McGowan’s room.
A Villejuif patient creates a parification machine from a bottle plank and tubes to bake bread heads. He destroys the device when photographed, making the invention lost and unspeakable. Insane artisans, from sculptors to carvers, convert ordinary objects into dangerous creations through madness.
In Mary E Wilkins Freeman’s piece two doctors visit poorer New Jersey patients revealing a curious longing for attention. James and Dr Gordon observe how illness, marriage and death become moments of noted status for the people and their families.
A renowned scientist asserts salt is essential for all foods and valued across civilizations and ages. He notes central African tribes pursue salt as a luxury, using veldt grass ashes containing saltpeter to flavor meat. Animals seek salt from salted springs, a behavior exploited by sportsmen.
The keeper of a small Bohemian town’s public cemetery near Prague dug into older graveyard sections and sold human bones to manufacturers who paid more for human remains than animal bones. He had earned money this way for years before detection and suspension from his post.
An early nineteenth century Boston advertisement mocks strict household rules. It seeks a neat, well behaved female to do kitchen work for a small Charlestown family near Boston, allowed to pray and sing hymns but not join midnight worshipers, with inquiries at the Repertory office.
A foreman complains about a dependable but perpetually late hand. The employer, eager to address the issue, waits at the workplace and confronts the tardy worker. The man simply answers I know they’re always at it when I get here, revealing his habitual lateness.
A multimillionaire questions which paper readers prefer while a young reporter probes if the family values economy in press choices. The dialogue hints at money and media influence in a tense exchange.
The article outlines eye washing with a special glass cup and two home lotions. It includes recipes using borax camphor solution and a tonic wash with rock salt, zinc sulfate, rosewater, and water, plus a zinc oxide lead subacetate paste for night eyelid care. It warns to consult a physician if yellowing persists and stresses careful filtration to avoid irritation.
The census from Allahabad shows a wide range of vocations beyond bread making with 6 372 declaring themselves poets 11 000 tomtom players 45 crown makers for idols 145 ear cleaners and 25 hereditary robbers among other unusual lines kept at the art college in Benares indicating cultural diversity in occupation descriptions.
The first movable type Bible printed was the Latin Bible in 1455. The first Bible in this country was in 1663 in Indian by John Eliot, the first English Bible here in 1782. Washington owned a New York 1782 Bible. Now the Bible exists in over 500 languages, covering eight tenths of humanity. In 13th century a Bible cost £3000, then as much as two London bridges and fifteen years of labor. Today the Bible is the cheapest book, with the full Bible at 16 cents and the New Testament at 6 cents.
In northern Madagascar a remarkable natural fortress rises 1,000 feet high and eight square miles in area. The rock is so sheer that ascent requires artificial means and the interior is hollow with a single subterranean entrance.
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