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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1899
Page
2
Gotham Fishermen Continue Shark Catches Amid Trade Risks
Gotham fishermen persist in hunting sharks as the local business faces challenges. Reports describe the maneater's aggressive traits and the economic pressures surrounding the trade.
Trusts as Educators of Concentrated Production
A growing class accepts trusts as benevolent forces and calls them state socialists or social democrats. They argue trusts demonstrate the possibilities of concentrated production and see them as educators shaping vast economic potential.
Census Drives Planned for Cuba and Porto Rico
The president orders a nationwide census of Cuban residents with Native Cubans assigned as enumerators and supervisors. The proclamation frames the census as a prelude to an effective self governing system and a similar census will precede local elections in Porto Rico to select subordinate officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hatfield Gang Leader Devoured by Sheriff Posse Capture
Hatfield clan chief known as Devil Anse is captured by a Kentucky sheriff posse. Described as a swift runner, he surrendered when cornered after attempts to avoid confrontation. The piece compares his fate to earlier cabin burnings and ambushes, noting the sheriffs’ willingness to shoot straight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devil Anse
Hatfield
Kentucky
English scientist solves Lake Tanganyika fish mystery
An English scientist declares the Lake Tanganyika legends about a giant electric eel false, asserting no deadly monster exists. He explains natives and early explorers misinterpreted natural electrical phenomena as a monstrous creature and paralysis by contact with paddles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Tanganyika
Lake of Death
Sneers At The Rich Spark Rectifying Reflection
An overheard scene at a fashionable watering place shows a beautiful young woman and her sister criticizing wealthy boarders. They contrast a Keeley cure patient’s wife’s courage, a rich medicine man’s kindness, and a summer girl who saved a child, provoking a gentle, sobering reproof of snobbery.
A Great Rag Doll Family From Armenian Orphanage Aid
A Denver driven effort by Mrs. Hayden and local women built dolls for Armenian orphans in Marsovan Turkey. Founder Dr. T. B. Carrington and his wife inspired the project after a February letter described children craving dolls. The group sewed sturdy gingham dolls with cork stuffing, sending them to grateful recipients amid lingering hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marsovan
Turkey
Denver News
T. 8. Carrington
Not Fond of Carlyle in Saint Andrew
Unpublished Carlyle stories appear in Saint Andrew. A drover criticizes Carlyle’s honor in Ecclefechan and mocks his legacy. A London visit recalls Carlyle replying his hands are useless and he waits to return to his maker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle
Saint Andrew
Ecclefechan
Thomas Carlyle
London
Alexander's Death and the End of Old Greece
Prof Wheeler writes in the October Century that Alexander the Great spread Hellenism as he planted seventy Greek type cities on Oriental soil. He notes Greece as a seed ripe for harvest, the three entities—Alexander Greece and the Grand Empire—each revealing the saying that a grain of wheat must die to yield life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Prof. Wheeler
Alexander the Great
Greece
Grand Empire
Mosquitoes in Central America Stirred a Lecturer
A lecturer defending his sensational claim about Central American mosquitoes argues they would weigh a pound and bark at missionaries as he inflated the dangers to keep an audience awake. The next day he defends that many could weigh a pound, insisting he did not claim a single mosquito would.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
World map on scale of one to a million eyed for Congress
Berne hosts the International Geographical Congress where the key topic is a world map scaled 1 to 1,000,000. Proposals envision a vast chart, the US occupying about sixteen feet of width, far larger than current national maps. The project follows multiple trials since 1891 and notes rapid progress in exploration and cartography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Geographical Congress
Berne
United States
Geological Survey
Babylon
Wouldn't Offend A Grizzly Gray Devil Across Time
A dated quote from the August Georgia Chronicle notes an old Negro sharing a religious experience. He claims to have seen the devil in bodily form, describing it as neither white nor very black but grizzly gray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darky
Chronicle
Wheels. Man blames truck for dinner fog in witty exchange
A Detroit Journal quip has a man complain of a head that feels like wheels and his wife quipping that the problem comes from the truck he ate for dinner. The witty dialogue uses light humor to reveal a kitchen table joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Journal
Swanson's 65 Drops Promises Quick Cures for Many Ailments
An advertisement touts Swanson's 65 Drops as a universal healer for rheumatism sciatica neuralgia asthma la grippe and catarrh claiming it has saved more value than the national debt by restoring health. It offers a $1 bottle with prepaid charges a 25¢ sample and 10¢ for mailing and seeks agents for the Swan Son's Rheumatic Cure Company of Chicago Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swanson
Rheumatic Cure Company
Lake Street
Chicago
Gibraltar dockyard strike over water costs
Gibraltar dockyard laborers strike after contractors charged for drinking water causing workers to retreat into Spanish territory to avoid waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibraltar
Catarrh Cure Claim Promises 100 Dollar Reward
Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as a constitutional treatment that cures catarrh in all stages by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer 100 dollars for any case it fails to cure and urge readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scence
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
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