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Newspaper
The Fairbury Enterprise
Location
Fairbury, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1900
Page
2
The Philadelphia city hall clock is the world’s highest clock with the largest dials. If tracks were laid, two trains could pass between the four glass faces, cement holds the panes, and the minute hand, phosphor bronze and weighing 260 pounds, will cover about 110 miles annually.
A visiting Englishwoman notes that Russian women lack social virtues in the cultivated sense. She praises Russian salons for tact, broadmindedness, and democracy where personal charm outweighs rank or wealth, suggesting Russia as a social millennium.
A Rio widow commissioned a sculptor to carve a cycle scene on her late husband’s gravestone. She recalls meeting him while biking and chose to depict their first encounter in rational dress in relief. The effect is described as not exactly artistic by Undertakers' Review.
The record notes by F Viet and Dr B J Kay show Russia increasing from 800000 to 860000 troops, France from 520000 to 680000, Germany by 136000, Austria from 300000 to 396000. Britain’s military outlay swells from £31 million to nearly £46 million, with another anticipated rise.
A fragmented collage of newspaper chatter includes lines about retaliation and songs, with references to India Press Cleo Clarence and the Chicago Record from around 1900. The text blends dialogue and caption-like phrases, creating a clipped, historic media flavor without a clear single event.
The International Commission on Atomic Weights remains deadlocked over the standard for atomic weights. Most favor O equals 16, while a German minority argues for H equals 1 to aid teaching and clarity, claiming it preserves simplicity and avoids teaching confusion.
A recent lecture argues that emptying a half pint tumbler at a rate tied to world population would take 7 to 47 million years. Lord Kelvin suggests a water drop magnified to earth size would show particles from cricket ball to football size, implying oceans’ drops contain far more molecules than visible.
An old wood flagstaff, about sixty feet tall and somewhat decrepit, stands on the highest ground of a long low hill about a mile west of the small town of Bodega in Western Sonoma County California, according to the San Francisco Bulletin.
The article notes the Helmholtz resonator with a thin glass plate and a tiny mirror forming part of a Michelson refractometer to measure tone amplitude. Shifts as small as one two hundredth of a wavelength are recorded by subdividing interference bands, enabling photographic records of folk tones, instrument tones, noises and vocal sounds.
A Louisville grocer who slept above his shop heard taps in the cellar late at night. Police found a plumber at work, hired two days earlier by the water company for the grocer. With daytime access blocked, he entered via a sidewalk grate to perform the job.
A Boston Athenaeum assistant librarian has identified three unidentified busts as likenesses of Lewis Cass, Nicholas Biddle, and a renowned Russian prince. The city’s ignorance of the celebrities ends as the recognition clarifies the collection.
Mr Rt Grap of Amenia Dutchess County New York praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best medicine for croup and a strong preventive when given at the first hoarseness or croupy cough. A bottle should be kept at hand for instant use. sold by A V Pease and Co Druggists.
In Hamburg a funeral procession features a novel type hearse with sky-blue drapery and ornate side curtains. Pallbearers wear knightly attire with black jackets white skirts and silver bands while black hats and swords mark the cortege. Some mourners travel by carriage as drivers don green attire and top boots. observers note smokers among the bearers.
A new typewriter design moves bars to operate horizontally. Pressing a key projects the bar against the paper, while each bar passes through a narrow opening for precise alignment. It suits figure work and can operate in vertical lines as easily as in horizontal.
De Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, a noted stomach remedy, is now sold by W. W. Morse and Co. This indicates a distribution change and product availability through the Morse firm.
The experiment using coke as locomotive fuel on the Boston and Maine railroad is reported as highly successful. It is cleaner than coal, smokeless and dustless, and avoids sparks and cinders that can ignite dry vegetation along tracks.
Report of an event where bystanders expected laughter during an address in a hall yet found no audience present. A colored man spoke from the platform, practicing a speech to be delivered before an unseen crowd while others listened in curiosity. A whispering observer recalled a school story about a professor whose jokes failed to land, causing the tale to end unfinished.
The author argues that cowardice is not a feminine trait. Women often display daring acts and take risks that would appal men. Some timid women become heroines in crises, showing courage beyond ordinary circumstances.
A science writer reports that the rush for eagles plumes to decorate ladies hats has endangered the turkey buzzard since eagle supplies fail to meet demand. Feathers from buzzards are increasingly used as a substitute for the noble bird's plumage.
A German scientist reports a chemical compound that can soften steel and related metals to putty like consistency. Upon air exposure the metals regain their hardness, returning to their original state.
Physicians link old open fires to grandmotherly health and warn steam and furnace heat fuel many ailments. Steam heat subtly raises risks for colds and related illnesses, while open fires provide outdoor oxygen from cracks and help purify and heat rooms.
During the Mexican War era soldiers sang a song ending with Green grows the rushes oh. Mexicans misheard the refrain as grin goes and adopted Gringo as a nickname for American soldiers. The anecdote shows how a melody spread cultural misperception among foes.
A Bloomingdale Indiana postmaster, W. M. McCoy, testifies after 25 years of dyspepsia and constipation, stating Calawell's Syrup Pepsin greatly aids indigestion and digestive woes. He reports 14 hour days at the desk and claims the remedy would have saved him years of suffering. He urges others in sedentary occupations to buy and use it.
A tiny pet called the pocket monkey is described as small enough to fit in a woman's muff. It has a face the size of a 10 cent piece and makes a soft bird like sound when excited or afraid. The creature measures only a few inches with a long plum y tail that can be worn around the neck while sleeping.
A historical note suggests that if all electricity produced by polishing windows nationwide could be collected and stored, it would solve smoke issues for railways by enabling trains to run on electric motors.
The White River is described as the most crooked river in America with four headwaters in the Boston mountains near Batesville. It travels through the Ozarks into Arkansas lowlands, forming astonishing curves and doubling back on itself over long distances.
Cured and corrected by the use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. This remedy restores the natural action of the stomach and bowels and is better than a remedy that merely checks the condition. Sold and recommended by W. W. Morse and Co.
Electroid Gas is described as the latest illuminant made from acetylene with inert matter and a portion of oxygen. It boasts simple manufacture and can be delivered through standard gas pipes.
An unexpected danger from overcoats is noted as at least sixty cases among Birmingham street cleaners. Wet cloths treated with zinc chloride dye release poisonous vapor causing painful swelling of hands and arms.
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