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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1892
Page
4
Terrifying accounts describe a locust invasion causing famine and ruin in an African oasis. Citizens scramble amid noise and panic as swarms strip palms and vegetation, leaving desolation and threatened harvests. An anecdote contrasts a Native American fight story with a congressional hearing remark on clarity.
A Russian correspondent to the London Times reports on Tamby peasants, noting relative poverty but cleaner huts, and criticizes village priests as self indulgent and uncultured. A Zemstvo official encounters hoarded corn and famine stories, while some priests allegedly divert relief funds and accept Zemstvo corn allotments.
A western correspondent tells of Prairieville cowboys who laugh at a sign reading Painless Dentist. A 25 year old dentist sedates one man with gas, removes a tooth, ties him to the chair, then fires a revolver at the tooth. The cowboy survives, pays $5, and leaves with a wary lesson.
A quack doctor on a wagon describes human digestion to a crowd, mixing anatomy and comic misstatements. A farmer laughs at the esophagus doors while a domestic quarrel erupts over household clutter and a looming argument about space and antiques.
Kate Field's Washington reports two young women arrived early for a Sunday hearing on closing the Columbian fair. The clerk questioned their purpose, they mocked him, and two attendants waited in triumph as they refused to be swayed by flirtations. The scene ends with a quip from Puck.
A public accountant details how auditing reveals hidden crime in firms. He recounts a wholesale firm case where nightly audits exposed a long running fraud by the cashier, leading to confession and secrecy, illustrating that many thefts remain unpublicized and not pursued in court.
The inventor Hiram Maxim writes that his Century article on Aerial Navigation describes a testing device to measure required power for flight not a full flying machine. He notes readers debate keeping level flight and explains the apparatus maintains an even keel via corrective forces and seeks engines with sufficient strength.
A beaver hunter separated from his crew endures a brutal blizzard using a hollow tree as shelter. He clears a snowbound entrance with a tomahawk, builds a fire and bed, and survives the night before escaping at dawn guided by trees. A later anecdote recounts a man losing a costly umbrella to a thief in a hotel lobby.
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