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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1896
Page
6
A collection of odd notes and anecdotes including a Beloit hen that shows a clock dial in its shell and a Paris Kentucky shooting over whisky. Also mentions war’s end doubt, an Albany opera singer’s lung test, parrots’ possible afterlife, a Chicago aeronaut’s 800 foot fall, and jokes about railroad landings.
In Dayton Ohio officials announce burial permits will be refused when deaths occur under Christian science treatment. The measure aims to deter such treatment and give the patient some chance to live.
London papers debated a collision in Sloane Street where a woman on a bicycle reportedly lost her head after hitting an omnibus. Claims alleged bicycle manufacturers bribed coroners to suppress inquest reports, with calls to publish the inquest into the decapitation of the “lady who lost her head.”
The passage notes Rudyard Kipling quarrelling with his brother in law and jokes about hiring a man for Kipling’s exclusive use during quarrels or sending a young man as a specialist on dyspepsia.
A Chicago man lent his bicycle to a girl in bloomers. She promised to return it but sped away, triggering a long pursuit before the owner recovered the wheel. The incident serves as a moral on honesty not matching dress.
The gray haired and stooped former Coney Island leader John Y. McKane told a visitor at Sing Sing that if his worst enemy could grasp his sufferings, he would be more than satisfied.
A narrator recalls a failed attempt to chloroform Apache Kid at a Blueball mine camp near Phoenix. After drugging himself to seize the fugitive, he trails the Indian to a nighttime escape, only to find later that the “chloroform” was benzine and the Kid has vanished leaving a taunting note and his rifle missing.
A panel of prominent physicians lists six voyage remedies with opium quinine mercury and bark extracts. The piece traces quinine’s origins from cinchona bark to alkaloid extraction, and notes historic use of bark and wine, colonial plantations in Java Himalayas and Burma, and botanic methods to boost alkaloid yield.
The assessed valuation of property in New York City is 1.613 billion dollars, reflecting totals across boroughs and property types amid fiscal estimates for the city budget.
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