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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1895
Page
2
The narrator reveals that John Phillips died of heart failure but leaves a letter exposing a staged murder. Inspector Ransom and Supt Sanford investigate, pointing to a Mafia agent as the killer. Ralph is cleared, and the narrator secures anonymity while noting the case as remarkable.
The article explains a theoretical cold near absolute zero, with chemists led by James Dewar achieving 400 degrees below freezing and noting liquids like oxygen and nitrogen freeze under extreme conditions. It describes experiments with mercury vapor, liquid oxygen behavior, and unusual freezing effects, all framed as summer reading on extreme cold and its scientific curiosities.
The article describes liquid oxygen behavior when spilled on surfaces and its extreme cold freezing effects. It notes magnetic properties, insulation potential, and chemical color changes. It mentions boiling to vapor, dangers to skin, and a statement about killing bacteria by boiling. Professor Dewar built nearly 100 balloons costing about $50,000 each.
A self important man demanded safe passage across a street from a policeman. The officer scoffed and, in a joke, picked him up and carried him across between horses, dropping him unharmed on the far curb before returning.
Doctors offer theories on how extreme cold leads to death. They cite apoplexy, coma, or paralysis of the heart as possible final mechanisms. The text notes a man found in the snow and implies a medical debate on cold related fatalities.
The article describes apoplexy from congealed surface blood and brain pressure causing fatal irresistible sleepiness, burst vessels, and sudden heart paralysis. It notes elderly deaths in cold nights labeled death from old age, but colder temperatures may hasten demise by taxing vitality.
A famed artist visiting Venice spends months there and hires a gondola to see sights. After passing the Bridge of Sighs and the Marino Fallero site, the gondolier glances at his watch and says they rest for ten minutes for poetic feeling, then lights his pipe as the period ends.
An old ad presents Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for delicate women during youth guiding health and beauty. It claims to restore vitality, relieve nervous disturbances, and aid catarrhal inflammation and female disorders with backache dizziness and bearing down sensations. Mrs. Wath Dilworth of Trurosse endorses the remedy.
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