Local residents recount storms injuries and town updates
A farmer named Stephen Beal suffered a severe scalp wound when a line entangled his wagon tongue during hay delivery and later sunstroke. a Friday storm with lightning damaged property around Stillman Streeter and Mrs E B Kimes faced electric shock. Council proceedings note water works finances, street dedications, and a Windham incorporation petition. dogs harmed local sheep, and town life includes weddings, school notes, and a Sunday picnic at Sandy Lake.
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Stephen Beal
Ogether
Reese
Miller
Thompson
Stocker
Rumbaugh
Fire Department
Dickinson
Windham
Royal, Manchester
Phenix, and
Howe
New York
Brimfeld Ditch
Windham News Highlights Local Moves and Elections
EF Jagger and wives along with several others depart for Chautauqua. Angel candidate for Sheriff and Geo Conint for Infirmary Director run on the Republican ticket. Mrs A D Clark sells one third in Basket Factory to Wm Funk for 400 dollars. Gay Donaldson visits. G A R Post heads to Washington for National Encampment. Dr Crawfis travels to Ashtabula Harbor. F B Wadsworth sells store interest to H A Wadsworth, plans move to Warren. M E choir adds four, Cleveland firm H M Businen2 Co notes piano agency with T Thompson in Ravenna.
Oddities and Advances From Around the World and America
A scattered survey notes mail to Topeka, a lesson on adieu, new British pharmacopeia, and Kansas school repairs. It reports electric timing clocks, London exhibitions, Huxley kin, and Rider Haggard in Mexico. It covers labor by electric motors, pie praise, Derby Day history, mulberry fence posts, London pavement art, battleships, Jewish immigration to Argentina, and various scientific curiosities.
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Topeka
Kay
George W
George W. Peck
Pharmacopeia
Kansas
London
Huxley
Mexico
Rider Haggard
Lord Kesterfield
Cay
Concord
Mass
New Toyland
Emerson
Gladstone
Carlyle
Moliere
House of Commons
Strode's Mill
Chester County
Pennsylvania
Resolution
Inis
Ilis
Mammoth Remains Suggest Dramatic Siberian Climate Shift
Haworth argues in The Mammoth and the Flood that frozen plains across Siberia preserve mammoth and other ancient animal remains fresh, from the eastern border to the Obi River. He cites plant fossils and shells, positing a recent plateau uplift that caused drastic climate change, freezing carcasses before decay.
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Haworth
Siberian
Obi
Palconer
Japanese Modesty in Bathing Customs Across Cultures
A travel note describes Japanese bathing as public yet modest from a native view, contrasting with European norms. An English observer argues cleanliness guides etiquette, not impropriety, noting men, women, and children bathe openly for practicality while decorum differs between bathroom and parlor.
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Japan
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Disston
Eale Ar
Hope Novelty Store
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Riddle
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