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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
3
An advertisement promotes Adams asbestos covering for boilers pipes and steam heated surfaces. It claims 365 percent fuel savings and labor savings 8S protection for boiler plates and prevention of condensation in steam piping with easy application.
Send for a catalogue and price list from WM. Adams & Co Limited located at 163 Clarence Street in Wosey. The notice urges customers to request current product ranges and pricing.
In a Christmas tale voice the piece recounts roving drovers and an overseer in Queensland, then shifts to a Durban locale where an American traveler narrates a trek into Central Africa. They describe encounters with pygmies, forest perils, ivory and emerald trade, and reflections on Central Africa’s future.
Verse recounts Jacob guiding a vast stock herd homeward along the Overland route with clever split of the mob to beat dangers. It evokes Palestine scenery, caravans, donkeys, camels, and camp life three thousand years ago, noting the author R V Zogbaum and Kipling’s possible reception.
The Detroit Tribune reports on desecration of graves in rural Germany and Switzerland where hearts from young women were removed in crude acts not tied to medical study. The practice is linked to witchcraft aimed at creating love spells, sometimes involving a ring fashioned with a knife.
A blaze struck the Crystal Palace Theatre in Leipzig during La Belle Otero. Sparks from burning wood threatened the audience as the iron curtain descended. Otero kept dancing to finish the act amid signs of panic.
A large copper nugget weighing about four tons and measuring eleven cubic feet was found in a small stream bed feeding Kuskalina River, near the Mome district. It is valued at 2660. The discovery accompanies news from the St Louis Exhibition forthcoming.
The narrative follows Smith and the narrator traveling from Induna to Chinde and up through Nyassa to Lake Tanganyika and beyond. They encounter forest peril, tusks and miners, wary indigenous groups, and a Belgian officer amid slave-trade concerns in a remote Congo village.
A columnist discusses Kipling’s impact noting his vigor and relevance to empire themes. It cites a 1987 Indian Engineering poem penned for Indian Civil Service engineers and surveyors who died on duty titled DIED ON THE LINE, highlighting its direct, forcible style.
A large hooded cobra in the Bronx Zoo attempted to swallow a smaller rival during a dinner struggle over a shared rat. The larger dragged the neck of the smaller snake from the cage. keepers intervened but the smaller snake died. An unrelated note mentions J M Barrie’s My Street at the Royal.
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