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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
5
A medical note explains digestion as a process where food is transformed by saliva gastric juices and bile. It links indigestion to liver torpor and blood toxins, arguing that purification by liver and kidneys enables proper absorption and digestion. Warner's Safe Cure is marketed as a non purgative remedy restoring liver and kidney function.
William Crossing recounts Dartmoor Prison’s origins in 1808 and its use as a war prison for French Americans Danes Malays and others. He notes the circular layout two walls a market and daily rations plus escapes bribery and a massacre at the war’s end with seven prisoners killed and eight wounded.
A diarist William Aliingham’s notes praise humor in Browning Tennyson and Carlyle with stories of their remarks. The piece previews an Evening News serial on Dartmoor prison life and quotes Carlyle on Parliament and other figures, ending with an aside about Chillie’s summer drink.
A man seeks vision help at an oculist shop and argues over glasses. The oculist replies in coarse humor, suggesting impossible options including a stronger lens and, finally, buying a small intelligent dog with string for company.
At a busy Glasgow crossing a police officer directing traffic stopped a hurried cabdriver. The cabby admitted he did not see the officer raise his head though he noticed it seemed dark, prompting a brief exchange as the bobby enforced the line.
An older health note explains that slow bodily function harms energy and mood. It praises California Syrup of Figs as a natural gentle laxative that restores and strengthens organs, improving vitality and flushing toxins. Aimed at adults and children, it claims to quickly restore health and prevent organic sluggishness.
The article argues that wooden sleepers dominate rail beds and face looming scarcity as demand outpaces timber growth. It notes rapid deterioration, rising replacement costs, and the shift toward treated wood and metal substitutes, including pickling abroad and the proposed pot sleeper concept.
At the Park Exposition of 1900 Elwood Cooper California Horticultural Commissioner demonstrated nitrogen containment for fruit. A bitumen coated paper box filled with fruit is sealed apart from a small opening, placed in a nitrogen filled steel cylinder, and agitated to circulate. Pears grapes and cherries packed thus remained sound for over five months, with decay halted by absence of oxygen. a low cost container could extend fresh fruit shipments to eastern markets.
Cromwell Dixon of Columbus Ohio builds two airships inspired by the St. Louis Exposition. With his mother’s help he creates a foot powered model using a hydrogen bag, a rough 4 inch net, hand made generator, and a modified bicycle frame to drive a two blade propeller and rudder.
An fragment from a 19th century discussion on imprisoning birds and aviary upkeep. It recalls robin cages and the mischief of ravens, wild cock bullfinches forcing entry, and the impracticality of wall enclosures. It mentions sky cycles and public school sympathy for better humane treatment of captive birds. The piece ends noting seven years of captivity for the birds before death.
Bank of England note returns are cancelled by tearing off signatures then pooled and dated before being stored in vaults for five years. Afterward the notes are burnt in a furnace in a courtyard. Every morning at seven, a fire consumes notes received five years earlier, about 420 090 notes each week.
Typhus fever is practically extinguished in England and wanes in Ireland. Phthisis diminishes in Great Britain but rises in Ireland. How these changes relate to Ireland’s Poor-law administration and famine links to typhus, pointing to the hospital as the key to the problem.
A 1904 report notes F Marriott achieving 127 percent mph by covering one mile in 28 seconds at Ormond Beach Florida with a flying start. It also mentions L Guinnese reaching 7 percent mph at Gutend on July 14, 196 with a one kilometre distance in Sea seconds.
The German population rose from just over 40 million in 1876 to about 47 million in 1885 and reached 66,345,014 by the 1900 census. This growth traces demographic shifts across the late 19th century.
The Hon. G B K Heid KC hails The Evening News as one of the most widely read and successful papers in New South Wales. He says its principles are excellent and notes the paper has a tremendous range of readers across Australia.
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