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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1885
Page
4
Fragmentary newspaper item shows railway times and stations including Evansville Fort Branch Princeton Vincennes. The readable text marks power and schedule notations with numeric codes.
A nostalgic verse recalls early romance at school with fond memories of curls chewing gum letters and math, ending with a formal college farewell. The speaker reflects on past affection and current distance as they part in period voice.
Five year battle with eczema ends in near complete relief after using Brown's Iron Bitters. J. D. Rodefere of Greendale Virginia states three bottles achieved relief and recommends it to neighbors for blood disorders and as a general tonic.
A break man tells a Chicago Herald reporter that after a train split into two sections he could not couple the cars. He searched along the track and claimed to have found the missing link, mocking evolutionists like Darwin and Haeckel in a remark attributed to Scientific American.
The list reports patents granted for the week ending June 23 1885 with names and locations of inventors including William Cienecoski Koats rowing apparatus J F Johnson Indian apolis wheel jack C H H Starr Logansport reofing W H Dodge Mishawaka transmitting power device G H Hull Lafayette combined spectacles and eyeglass G H Holzbog M J Weichsler Jeffersonville hill coupling J C Dean Indianapolis valve gear for direct acting steam pumps J R Gathright Jeffersonville fluid car J J Moore J A Ball Thorntown belt guide S A Argerbright Decatur fastening device for coffins J J Finley New Carlisle burial case George D Hunter Terre Haute spark extinguisher.
A machinist faced frequent chisel breakage in cold weather. He heated his cutting tools with a small alcohol lamp to raise the tool’s temperature before use, reducing snap breaks. Another worker used an emery wheel to heat his threading tool each morning.
Eskimo hunters use trained dogs to scent and lead toward the reindeer in dense fog. A boy ties the dog's harness to his waist while the elder tracks wind and grazing spots to approach without disturbing the herd. The dog signals the deer and moves toward them, pulling the harness with a jumping, excited dog at close range.
The Century excerpt details Virginia planters’ luxury six horse coaches from 1720 legal price lists, while other colonies favored chairs and sulkies. It notes Boston and Philadelphia fashions, Dutch sleighs, and the first weekly stage wagon from Trenton to New Brunswick in 1788 with promised benches and weather protection.
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