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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1906
Page
4
The article explains paste, the imitation diamond made from rock crystal red lead carbonate of potash borax and white arsenic. Paste gains brilliancy from lead and requires high purity. Paste cannot scratch glass, but colored stones use hollow crystal filled with colored liquid and sealed.
A New York Weekly item recounts a philosophy class where a professor argues identity persists despite part substitution. A student tests the idea with a knife analogy, asking if rebuilt parts yield the same knife, prompting the professor to affirm and the student to claim the original parts would create a different knife.
A Boston Herald letter complains about a newlywed couple from wealthy families who must pinch pennies. The wife’s family gives ten thousand, the husband earns five thousand, and the couple’s total income plus a fully furnished house equals twenty five thousand dollars. The writer condemns the ostentation and urges a shift to common sense.
A woman adds a six foot long marble topped dresser to her mahogany collection drawing varied reactions. A male friend eyes the slab and muses about bringing toys home late and tying up clothes in a suggestive, playful remark.
A fragmented passage notes theories linking influenza to poverty and disease, claiming a hot summer followed by a cold winter triggers harmful conditions. It mentions drought, contaminated water, and poisonous fumes as factors, with a vague claim of infection spreading as people travel.
An old Couture pupil recalls the master entering a school room during a favorable light. A student leaves to wash his paint stained hands, prompting Conture to smear paint on the pupil’s forehead and urge face washing. The pupil relents, apologizes, and remains at his easel. refusal could have ended his study.
An American medical journal article claims Chinese tea drinking helps prevent typhoid and other waterborne diseases due to the germicidal effect of boiling tea. It asserts tea itself is not a safeguard, but boiled tea offers sanitary advantages while leaves are a pleasant hot drink.
A venerable brother urges readers to accept fall from grace after making a choice. He warns that dust in the garment and lost strength will alter the journey, and urges the struggle to land you high and guard against dizziness at the hilltop. The Chicago American quotation frames the homily.
A Jeypore legend recounts a fakir telling a rajah to ride forward without looking back to gain a field of silver. After thirty miles the rajah looked back and found not silver but a lake of salt at Sambur, near Indian Lake.
A historical note portrays Queen Nivwingi as the last ruler of Mpororo, now aged and discredited. She was said to wield influence via superstition and claimed contact with the spirit world. She reportedly spoke from within a hidden bus, answering visitors in a high squeaky voice to convince them she spoke for spirits.
Relics of extinct birds from New Touneland attracted visitors yearly as researchers count gallinaceous birds. The great auk is gone and eggs are rare, fetching high prices. Specimens are on display at the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, valued between 501 and 750 dollars.
Obscure testament recounts Atmerivia Tetenuire and Frepeb ilef guiding 500 followers through Limou and Auvergne. They owned two coaches, left a fortune, and bequeathed 400 francs to St Georges chapel for repairs. A lover’s plea and a request to let Him smile accompany the final wishes amid a cryptic will.
An English cathedral visitor notes tombs all carry inscriptions except one. An old gatekeeper, stationed twenty seven years, admits he does not know who lies beneath that bare marker.
London Tit-Bits reports Greenland hosts a vast interior ice mass. Estimated at 600000 square miles and 1.5 miles thick, it would submerge the United Kingdom seven miles deep and could bury the United States a quarter mile.
Eight hundred women from different American training colleges share dream experiences in an interview. The writer notes dreams can be prevented by suggestion and are unaffected by seasons or dates. Children dream soon after events. adults dream longer after striking events. The influence of dreams on real life is described as greater than commonly believed.
A biographer notes Lord Nelson rarely drank, limited to five glasses of wine. His loyal valet, Tom Allen, kept order at meals by intervening when the admiral pressed for more wine. During a tense dinner, Allen warned, and Nelson acknowledged the guidance, noting his battered bulk and seasickness.
In South Africa a Boer hunter Johannes Smit, who had gone to the Selous river mouth to shoot crocodiles, faced a leopard encounter. A large hound guarding him saved his life by alarming the leopard, but Smit was then bitten by a poisonous snake and died within one or two hours.
The article notes Bin George Alvy denying horoscope practice and criticizes the belief in horoscopes as foolish. It reports observers questioning how someone could attain a position based on such zodiac notions and reflects public skepticism toward horoscopic claims.
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