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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
3
A fragmented dispatch reports on exotic creatures and curios with notes on wingless birds in New Zealand, walking sticks that mimic twigs, a peculiar orange with a headlike protrusion, and a scientist’s cheese microbe study detailing immense microbial counts in aging cheese.
Hicente Grol, aged nine, wed Rebecca Glennbury in Mayton West Virginia after a nine year wait. He had secured the license a decade earlier but she refused then. he kept the license and waited for her readiness. Reverend D. L. Thomas officiated honoring the tale of patient devotion.
A buyer’s two three month old pigs escaped after six miles in a covered van. They swam fifty yards across a river to return to their birth place and were eventually returned to the seller, then back to the original homestead within a week. The tale contrasts animal instincts with landlord obligations.
Lamps with electric arcs can be made to talk or sing. An arc light placed in a telephone circuit or in place of a transmitter can pronounce words heard at a distance. The arc can function as the receiver and as the transmitter in a telephone system.
The Cossacks construct innovative bridges using soldiers lamps and cooking kettles. Lances pass under kettle handles and ropes tie many kettles into rafts. Each raft supports about half a ton, and a sufficient fleet can be formed quickly to allow an army to cross safely.
The death of aged Gottlob Hey Jor near Liberty is linked to a long idle clock that began to fail after eleven years. A premonition of death two months prior followed by the loss of Als property and a newspaper he had kept for twenty four years are noted. A recent report from Hareaport Pa and Philadelphia correspondence is cited.
Fishermen returning from Mekory Thun say the Hendersons, a family living deep in the woods, received seven pairs of twine in wheosaan and two other children who came alone within fourteen years. All are WilY and sound, healthy YOUNKe or Baltimore Sua.
Two men named John and James Osterhart of Sherman Pennsylvania discovered a large hollow beechwood limb that housed a bear and a substantial honey hive, likely created by the bear and bees. The find occurred while they were sawing the log.
Obituary notes the death of Dr. George H. Hepworth a longtime New York Herald editor and Sunday sermon contributor born in Boston February 4 1838 or 1839 detailing his early education at Boston Latin Harvard Class of 1863 service in Nantucket Cambridge Rowton Unity Church work with General Banks staff in Louisiana and his reputation as a gifted orator and public voice for truth.
The piece describes Christian De Wet as the elusive Boer leader in blue pilot cloth, dark beard, and keen eyes. It notes his ability to smile and project confidence, likening him to De larey and portraying him as a capable, formidable commander. It mentions air in pastilles as a novelty by Georges Jautert, claiming pastilles can generate oxygen for use in hospitals mines submarines and homes.
The ailing King Albert of Saxony, born 1828 and reigning since 1872, remains in critical condition after years of hemorrhage. He is childless with his brother Prince Georgy as heir, while the Saxon royal line traces back to 1689 and links to Prussia and Britain. He holds vast estates and an annual income of $790000.
A historical account describes volcanic upheaval in Martinique driving fer de lance snakes to coasts and provoking mass bites. It recounts how Secretary Birds hunted the reptiles, their fighting method, and the human toll among workers near St Pierre during the crisis.
Consul General Williams of Singapore proposes a world map reconstruction in a letter to the Independent. He suggests trading the Philippines to England for Newfoundland and the British West Indies and the Bahamas, with Honduras ceded to Mexico. He also etates Britain France and Holland should drop claims to Guiana, making it a separate nation under U S protection.
Delavan Wis inventor Joseph Kiel may change farming for years with a windmill driven scarecrow. The device uses bells cans and horsefiddles to create music as birds flee when the mill turns. Kiel plans electric power if wind fails and locals fear the impact.
A Brooklyn horse car tale recalls a very large woman who, sitting, overlaps space and overhears a muttered remark about elephants in the car. She shouts to the conductor that there is an elephant and a hog aboard and the elephant wants to get out.
A fragment notes Senator Heltfield of Idaho being asked about early adjournment. The conversation recalls an Irishman saying a friend, O Grady, won’t last long in the job. The mock exchange questions whether the friend is doing well and predicts a short tenure, citing a prior incident two years earlier.
The piece notes about 856 members of the House of Representatives with only twenty three unmarried, meaning bachelors are just over 6 percent of the total. It states the author is thirty four at the forty five delegation and that there is not a single unmarried man in the House.
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