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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1912
Page
5
Prof Malladra and an assistant descended into Vesuvius crater using rope descent. They faced oblique debris walls, a massive crevasse, smoking fissures with 86 C heat, and walls over fifty yards high. They suffered burns, contusions, and finally reached the bottom where the crater depth measured 300 yards.
The text notes Old English Moot Hall between sea and Alde estuary as a summer resort with a historic meeting place. It cites Allie Burgh as Crabbe's birthplace and references his poem The Borough. It also oddly describes a snail race with quirky rules involving a lettuce post and time limits.
An interior ministry inspection in Paris uncovered a gambling craze centered on lettuce fed racing snails. Cardboard snail stables were found in desks and officials opened inquiries into the pastime, noting intense locals’ interest and prized snails among the racers.
A French archaeologist, M. Nicaise, finds a small intact neolithic clay nursing bottle in a deposit. The artifact shows that caring objects existed long before modern times and was used by families in a primitive era.
An amusing blunder explains the kangaroo name. English sailors in Australia asked a native what the animal was, receiving “Kan go roo?” as a reply. They misinterpreted the exchange and the name stuck, with the creature’s hopping and maternal behavior noted.
The youngest African in the portrait wears a small jam jar as an ear ornament. The lobe encircles the jar as the object in the pierced lobe gradually increases in size from a small stick to larger ones.
Olive Cole faces a cattle thief in disguise at her Texas ranch. Hayden, hiding at the stable loft, is saved by Olive’s quick thinking and restraint. Sheriff Hall pursues Callahan’s gang while Olive helps Hayden prove his identity and survives dangers to win a possible courtship and a wedding invitation.
On a steep grade near Santa Monica the Topango passenger stage plunged backward off the road and overturned. Nine aboard. W Murphy and wife of Los Angeles injured most seriously, with a broken leg and a fractured arm respectively. One bench prevented a fatal fall into a 350 foot canyon. others escaped with minor injuries.
L H Ferribee sues to oust Thomas Perkins who rents apartments from him claiming Mrs Perkins rushed the can in violation of the lease. Only bottled beer is allowed in the building.
Arthur Stringer, noted Canadian novelist, was killed in his Niagara Falls New York home when an oil stove exploded. His wife and two month old baby were seriously injured in the blast and fire.
In Tarrytown New York an Italian worker fed pepper to an elephant in a freight yard causing a violent sneeze. The elephant struck him with its trunk sending him six feet into a coal car, injuring him seriously.
A dachshund owned by Pangne McCarthy at Highland Lake snatched his master’s fishing pole and hauled in a large sunfish, highlighting a humorous lake-side incident.
Maurice Hull of Hanover reportedly overindulged in strawberries in a York patch and was hospitalized in critical condition.
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