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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1895
Page
7
A fisherman and a reviewer report experiments suggesting fish can convey notions of experiences to others. Trials with trout in Guildford ponds show fish reacting to hooks, learning danger when released fish mingle with the group, implying a possible form of communication among fish.
A discussion of uniform buttons with design and spacing by rank from general to major, noting variants for army navy and branches. It describes English made navy buttons due to sea air corrosion and mandates officers keep and issue buttons as regulated. A separate anecdote recounts a Chinese minister in Washington admiring a ten year old girl and gifting silk kerchiefs and tea chests.
An advertisement claims Pitree’s Golden Medical Discovery enriches the blood and strengthens the body to ward off illness such as consumption. It urges readers to request a free hook and medical consultation from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, noting sample testimonials and a published book.
A Whitman County Washington report describes farmers seeking a disease or method to reduce the pest population of squirrels. Contagion appears to affect squirrels and spread interest in poisons and novel bombs as extermination tools. Local discussions note debates over efficacy and cost between giant powder methods and patented devices while officials report widespread pest pressure across Spokane and neighboring areas.
The article describes the fireman Weare and the Seaphander suit, a permeable asbestose material ensemble for divers that resists fire and heat. It explains the helmet a hermetically fitted component with a heat resistant plate, and a tube supplying air from the surface to the diver.
Washington residents leaving for summer enlist Bulldog Douglas to patrol houses with dozen plus dogs tethered in backyards. Rent three dollars per month per dog, water and rations provided, dogs lure burglars away by chaos and menace. Douglas calls it a novel, paying private security industry serving the city seasonally.
Queen Victoria wins French favor for virtues and sympathy with French people. Her enduring influence in European affairs supports peace, aiding better Franco German understanding. Last year she read twenty eight thousand dispatches and drives heavy state and private correspondence with rigorous regularity.
A night clerk at a newspaper office keeps a collection of electric lamps to deter sleeping tramps. He hurls a glass globe at a tramp when he senses danger, causing an awful explosion. The tramp flees, thankful to have escaped a greater threat.
The Home Knew Sunday story describes Dexter Melian and his horse, a mare said to know the day of the week. On a recent Sunday the pair rode to church with the reins left in the carriage, the horse steering toward the church door as the man prepared to attend services.
A report describes a volcanic upheaval off California that raised a new landmass near San Miguel Island. Captain Waters, his sheep herd, and a sloop moored at the harbor are now distant from the shore as the landscape shifted. The island appears rocky, teeming with marine life, and already claimed by Waters while the mainland public eye watches with curiosity.
Not a White Citizen describes Eatonville Florida as a town governed by a mayor and council with a city charter, featuring a central public school, African Methodist Episcopal and Baptist churches, and a small plantation-like town center. It notes Maltland and Ratonelle nearby, and mentions John Heiston as the current mayor in a stylized historical account.
A column notes a revolver era bandit named antiel Garcia described as a strange figure. He led a remote bandit life in the 1800s holding Spaniards for ransom while avoiding native Cubans, wrote threats to Spanish planters and officials, signing as King of the Mountains, and largely donated funds to the revolutionary cause.
A spectroscope detector invented by Mike Thierry can identify a tiny portion of weed in a solution of 0,000 parts. The device aims to be valuable in murder cases where trace presence is crucial, offering forensic potential for crime investigations.
A New York Sun report describes a new electrically powered treatment for sunstroke. A hammock-like chair slides the patient from a stretcher into very cold water, adjustable by motorized chains and wheels, with the patient kept submerged until their temperature drops. The system aims to reduce handling and staff fatigue while delivering safer cooling and removal.
A German inventor proposes a tube based dwelling with water circulating through horizontal and vertical tubes to regulate temperature. The system uses heated water to store heat in winter and draw heat from walls in summer, maintaining comfort and beauty with controlled flow rates.
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