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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
7
Acetylene lighting is presented as easier on the eyes than kerosene and brighter than electricity, with no lamp smells to clean and no chimneys to break. The gas is produced in the basement and piped to rooms and outbuildings, with complete plants claimed to cost under four hot air furnaces.
To prevent knockovers in the dim dark room, coat the foot and rim of each glass vessel with white bath enamel. This enhances visibility and reduces breakage by making the vessels easy to see in low light.
Nicholas Vedderman, a Angora farmer and curios collector, found an old film stock musket with a charged chamber. He withdrew two 1781 silver shillings wadded with Bible leaves, beneath a lock of hair and a quotation, all amid colonial gunpowder.
Bronze Age vestiges in Renfrewshire, spanning roughly sixteenth to second century BCE, have been unearthed near Newlands railway station and between Kilmalcolm and Bridge of Weir. Notable finds include a finely shaped perforated stone axe hammer with knobs and moldings in perfect preservation.
Fashionable women and men in London and Paris embrace a new fad using sweetheart eyes from photographs set in gold under glass. The eye jewelry appears as watch fobs and scarf pins, with the keepsake framed in ornate pieces as a token of affection.
A very young seal was brought to the London Zoological Gardens after a dramatic chase off Heligoland. Chased by a killer whale, the exhausted creature leaped toward a passing yacht, where the crew hauled it aboard with ropes. The owner then sent the seal to the zoo for care, where staff hope to rear it successfully despite doubts.
A poor Danish laborer has created an invention that impregnates clothing with a substance to keep a shipwrecked person afloat for days. Any garment such as a coat vest or traveling rug can float a person, and the demonstration reportedly succeeded.
The change of life is a critical period for women and many suffer anxiety, headaches, hot flashes, and other symptoms. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is advertised as strengthening the nervous system and supporting the female organism during this time. Letters from Mrs Hyland and Mrs Hinkle claim relief and renewed health after using the remedy.
In 7 B.C. cherries reached Europe via a Black Sea route brought by the explorer Sicullus from Kerssint. The shipment marked early fruit trade across continents and noted the flat form of the cargo.
Walter St. Clair a 17 year old of San Francisco hanged himself after refusing to chop stove wood for his mother. The incident appears in a local report as a tragic suicide.
Richard Mormongue entered his fourth floor Ree Popincourt apartment in Paris to find his landlady had broken his pipe. He then leaped from a window to kill himself, ending a desperate moment.
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