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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1896
Page
4
The piece criticizes low grade humor that mocks debauchery and rowdyism while depicting sordid middle class life. It condemns insincere public critiques and shallow patriotism, noting performers overstep with false festivity and oversized garments.
A garbled excerpt discusses urging exercise to reduce fear and improve laying, noting it is useless to try to obtain many eggs from very fat hens as they are out of condition for laying.
Two men vacationing in Oregon mountains chase a hungry brown bear that turns out to be a cabin pet. The bear sits on a porch with its foreleg in a sling, and a man with a gun pursues the hunters who flee unharmed. The owner explains the bear’s ill treatment sparked the encounter.
Lettie May Pratt, age 10, daughter of Daniel and Mrs Pratt of West Bethel, drove her cow Brown Beauty with reins and bit across wintry terrain. She left with family from a logging camp on a Shelburne mountain, journeying eleven miles to Maine in four hours on March 19, escorted by her parents and baby. Lewiston Journal.
An epidemic in the sardine industry targets fishermen with whitlows on the fingers. The condition results from handling fish infected by specific bacteria. Notably two distinct bacterial species are involved in producing these whitlows.
The fragment describes a unique Labrador berry with crimson to gold color and leaf similarity to geraniums, grown in Newton and Canada. It also mentions a process exposing wood to dry air to remove moisture, yielding hard and brittle material after rubber-saturated treatment.
A Japanese ice cavern near Shoji forms hollow crystal bell like icicles that ring when struck. English experiments show a solid iron ball dropped into molten iron initially sinks then rises and floats as it heats and expands, melting at the surface.
Lieutenant Wise from Sackett's Harbor to New York City on an 18 pound bicycle demonstrated wheel value for war dispatches. He carried a heavy load equivalent to standard army equipment over about 400 miles, much of it mountainous, completing the journey in 84 hours with six hours lost to repaired bushing.
Professor F W Putnam described intricate body carvings by the Ohio valley Mound Builders. The carvings show skillful lines forming heads and animals intertwined with symbolic designs, with heads forming parts of other heads and more figures appearing when inverted.
The article notes the St Gottard Railway tunnel in Switzerland at about nine and a quarter miles as the current longest. It reports a new longer tunnel planned for the Alps the Simplon tunnel, a double tunnel twelve and a quarter miles long with separate bore for northbound and southbound traffic.
The piece notes that early photographs of the moon revealed hidden craters beneath a skeletal outline. It also mentions a Manchester photo allegedly showing a healthy child later breaking out with prickly heat pimples, and a similar image linked to oncoming smallpox.
The article reviews hypotheses for Mercury's orbital irregularities, including Leverrier's historic guess of an unseen planet and later ideas from Nemecomb and Wellman about rings of small bodies or solar electrical effects. It notes that subsequent astronomers failed to confirm Leverrier's planet and explores alternate explanations.
The New York World notes the decline of the wooden figure head trade after forty years of steady output. Authors say 8,000 heads were carved, mostly Indians and Hiawathas, but modern shifts to iron, plaster, and shipbuilding loss cut demand. The piece remarks the wooden figure remains only for durability and low cost.
In the Memoirs of General Count De Segur an aide recounts a horse wounded in the chest during a nocturnal attack on December 23. The horse dragged itself to find his rider, laid its head on his shoulder by the fire, and died after reviving and comforting him. An accompanying note from a Chicago Tribune item describes a sharp-faced woman who resists an elevator fee and climbs stairs, muttering about deception.
Jewelers know aluminium marks glass and paste diamonds but not real gems when surface is wet. A tester uses a small aluminium disk spun by a motor. The stone is wetted and pressed by a spring clamp. metal marks indicate a counterfeit.
The piece argues that catsup is the incorrect form and that ketchup is the proper word. It notes ketchup derives from the Japanese kit sup, a condiment akin to say, a pick-me-up. The author muses on language and even jokes about trap doors over vital parts.
Fragmentary text discusses heating until charred then shelling and mentions an eagerness, a healthy condition, and an increase in average egg yield.
The passage describes lingering winter illness, fatigue, and pale health. It promotes a spring tonic food meant to revive strength and blood. It critiques common fashion and clothing items lightly, mentioning shoe salesmen and growing foot sizes.
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