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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1899
Page
4
A concise early description explains golf as a driving game on 18 holes with gutta percha balls and hedges, tees, putting greens, and hazards. It notes clubs and caddies as key elements and highlights the famed St Andrews links in Scotland alongside St Nicholas.
The article describes Queen Victoria's royal kennels at Windsor Castle, noting fifty five dogs cared for by a dedicated keeper. It highlights favorites like Marco the auburn Spitz and Gina the toy Pomeranian, along with collies Snowball and Lily, and mentions a range of breeds from dachshunds to Skye terriers.
A New Year exchange between Lake Shore President Newell and Nickel Plate General Manager Caldwell shows a sharp feud over passes. Newell’s packets omit limited or fast mail trains, while Caldwell stamps Caldwell’s pass with not good on passenger trains. The New York News notes the cordial but pointed exchange.
The famed Sphinx near the Great Pyramid is reported as 172 feet 6 inches long and 52 feet high, highlighting the monumental statue’s scale and ancient engineering.
A Stock ton California man, a Portuguese resident, swore six months ago to never work again. He vows perpetual idleness, observing the pledge with quiet cheer while surviving hour by hour. He nearly broke it after fasting a day and attempting dishwashing for coffee.
United States Consul Baker reports to the State Department from Buenos Aires that Argentina lacks a national statistics bureau making crop data uncertain. Estimates range from 7,434,250 to 5,453,250 acres, with a strong wheat outlook and heavy six month shipments of wheat and flour. It is unclear how much wheat remains in the country.
A New York Sun piece surveys the skim milk diet or milk cure, detailing an exclusive skim milk regimen over weeks with rigid meal intervals and gum chewing to aid digestion. It notes weight changes, potential headaches, and eventual reintroduction of solid foods, plus varied outcomes and claims of health restoration.
The article explains how city street names signal past filling and growth along streams and surveys how suffixes like burgh berg or borough reveal origins. Examples include Edinburgh Augusts can be traced to Edwin Marlborough is marl and Schwarzenberg means Black Mountain town.
A collection of maxims on temperance ambition religion and money. It warns that drinking greed and debt corrupt character and urges generosity and self discipline. The sayings frame sin as a hidden dagger and praise open piety and prudent spending.
The essay argues that humans are divided into those who use horses and those who do not. It asserts the horse underpins civilization, battlefield power, and peacetime industry, noting our dependence on its strength speed and docility for progress and daily life.
The Chicago Record notes Riley's corn cure verse as a curiosity in Hoosier folklore. It invites readers to prune corn at dawn with a shaved blade, hide barefoot, let rain rust the blade, dip the foot in dew, chant the verse, and stew brindle cat fat while repeating quirky rhymes.
The article extols golf as a cure for the overworked and a sport suited for all ages from semi invalids to college athletes. It notes golf can be played in all seasons, develops strength and self control, and offers a pleasant pedestrian four mile course with runs for runaway balls.
A Harper excerpt contrasts Cossack horsemen and West Point cadets noting similar agility and tricks. It describes standing on horses, vaulting, catching objects, changing horses at full gallop, and riding bareback to water as youth versus government handover of a motionless mount to cadets.
Narcisse Pelletier the French Robinson Crusoe has died at Saint Nazaire. A Vendéan, he vanished in 1857 after sailing as cabin boy to the South Seas. Found back in 1874 tattooed and speaking only a savage dialect, he learned French and became a stranger to his homeland after being deserted by his ship near a Polynesian island.
A Kansas family, five months en route, camped near Judge Seneca Smith’s farm east of the city. The traveler, a man of means with a wife and several children, crossed the plains with nine horses but lost them to alkali water and disease. He chose the long march over rail, noting scant game and heavy wear to gear, yet optimistic about reaching the promised land as more families follow.
W. T. Hornaday notes the sea elephant as a large seal with a long Latin name and prominent proboscis. Once ranging 200 miles along California, it is nearly extinct due to oil hunting. In 1884 C. H. Townsend saved skins and skeletons for national and zoological museums, preventing total loss.
A Century description notes Canton street life lacking work animals common in other nations. Only cats, pigs, and dogs are seen, with dogs described as yellow fox-like creatures. Horses, donkeys, mules, and oxen are rare, except for stray emaciated animals tethered near gate archways.
The hoof of a horse is described as the most perfect support instrument in the animal kingdom for a large, swift-moving creature. The toe-nail and surrounding soft parts have evolved into a structure combining solidity and elasticity, allowing powerful impact on earth without harm. This enables the horse to bear greater weight at higher speeds than any similarly sized animal.
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