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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
6
A poem excerpt by Eila Higginson in the Pacific reflects renewal and rebirth. It speaks of life rising from decay, as sap, grass, and birds symbolize fresh growth and hope through divine inspiration.
In Manuel's cantina the aging American Chamberlain known as the Drunken Gringo dreams of returning home to the United States. A monthly check funds the scene and spills Mescal into a village fiesta. After a tense night, Manuel guides him toward El Paso and safety, the music box still turning to Home Sweet Home.
The item surveys varied facts from Tasmania as a healthful land to Ireland’s school attendance rise, Russia and England death rates from consumption, Dutch height limits in recruits, a Strassburg note on Dredenheim’s elderly population, a Paris carmen’s whip ban, and a Frogmore tomb statue of Queen Victoria with a Marochetti carving of Prince Consort nearby.
A narrator queries a cosmopolite who claims American art and music lag behind Europe. The interlocutor asserts Russia leads modern music, European opinion shapes American reception, and Americans must be judged by foreign views rather than self-perception. He stresses he is more cosmopolite than American despite birth.
A schoolteacher chaffs a young doctor over ambitions to use a typewriter in a block near distance. They remark on a young woman’s looks, noting that her eyes may spoil her charm. The doctor hedges about mutual eyes and propriety as humor lingers.
An article notes the growing role of the war photographer in documenting projectile flight. It describes photographing bullets in flight, air waves, and armor impact, with speeds reaching one two-millionth of a second and findings on sound wave waste and projectile behavior.
American troops who entered China last year to rescue U S legation members report discovering several unusual objects along the Teku coast during the mission.
A rare Chinese windmill device used to pump sea water to evaporate into salt cakes for inland shipment is described with rotating vertical shafts, shutterlike sails, and wind trimming. Separate note explains infant sleep needs and cautions against sedatives. A Williams County walnut tree yields a four thousand dollar sale to lumber dealers who praise its quality.
Photographers nationwide argue over whether wheel parts move at equal speeds in moving images. The New York Herald notes that many photographs show the top of a rapidly turning wheel blurred or hidden, with spokes often not visible above the center in wagons or wheels moving past the camera.
The passage explains that a wheel’s top edge travels faster relative to the ground than the bottom. The bottom moves vertically, while the top gains rapid horizontal motion, causing sharper bottom spokes and blurred upper spokes in a time exposure.
An exploration of the scale of New York Central and other lines replacing ties, with estimates of 75 million ties needed nationwide each year. It notes materials costs, labor, and attempts to extend tie life, including coal tar and zinc treatments, but finds durability improvements costly and unsolved.
Dr Syfried, a renowned Herlin surgeon, received professional praise for a unique operation. He removed skull fragments from a workman injured by an iron bolt and filled the cavity with carved ox bone. The skin healed naturally and the patient had no ill effects.
A German chemist unveils a coal substitute costing about 25 cents per 320 pounds to make. The peat based fuel yields high heat with bright flame, leaves no slag, and produces white ash. It is dried ground with chemicals and pressed into brick shapes for use.
Congress debates establishment of a paychophysical laboratory within the interior department to prosecute exact studies on eroding pauper and defective classes of the population.
Aids estimate that above certain altitudes the atmosphere would be 95 percent hydrogen. The suggestion is that this could be the initial source for a proposed atmospheric composition theory.
The item spoofs stomach tonics like Greathe ny Parke with mock claims of digestion aid and cures for dyspepsia and weakness. It features garbled dialogue about a baby and personal insignificance, reflecting a satirical snippet from the Detroit Free Press.
A Chicago Tribune item argues dandruff cannot be cured by scalp washing alone and endorses Newbro's Herpicide as the only product to kill the dandruff germ. The piece links scalp cleanliness to hair growth and mocks surgical remedies for unrelated issues.
Be Your Feet Ache and Burnt Shake into your shots Allen a Foot Easy powder promises easy shoes and relieved feet. An unrelated rail fare notice touts a July Pacific Northwest trip from eastern terminals to Seattle Tacoma and Portland with low first class rates and a strict return deadline plus a Cedar Rapids excursion guide. A quirky exchange cites Kleptomania as a new craze while Piso s Cure for Consumption is praised by a reader in Trinity Springs Indiana.
The report lists England with 42 500 police, Scotland 5 000, Ireland 12 400, and Canada rising from 1 700 esloous in 1850 to over 18 000. It notes Maniform on par with Great Britain and Ireland has 210 000 inhabitants. It mentions 36 steamers planned on the Thames between Hatter sea and London Bridge, a destroyed cycle track at Bordeaug due to a power failure, and an 1401 Hamburg ad showing cigars were used then, though pipes dominated.
Goodland Kansas June 3 N B Abbertson a reading blacksmith suffered long with rheumatism and pain in his arms and shoulders. A friend recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills. He began to recover at once and is now free of symptoms. The ad claims cures for Bright's disease diabetes dropsy rheumatism and heart trouble after other doctors failed.
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