The Fairest Scene and World’s Tallest View
A garbled mix of travel lore and dramatic vignettes describes a traveler praising a sublime landscape, a missionary’s perilous journey to a Muslim-ruled city near Jerusalem, a storm on Lake Harriet scattering a bandstand, discoveries in Thebes and Cordoba street Mexico, and curious notes on ancient footprints and a stone Aztec tiger. Also included are diver temperaments, a Wisconsin meteorite, a bee death near Lindenmeier, and related local incident reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forder
Jerusalem
Johar
India
Cordobanes
Mexico
Unfortunate Buried Alive This 1781 Case in Hay England
The article recalls a 1781 Gentleman's Magazine report from Hay, Herefordshire, where a man thought dead was interred. A doctor insisted he was alive, but relatives ignored the injunction. The grave was opened by a passerby and the supposedly dead man was found breathing and bleeding, but died soon after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gentleman's Magazine
Rich and
Caron
Hay
Herefordshire
England
Carson
Curious St Columba Footprints Noted in Kiel Shore Wall
A fragmentary report describes a legendary discovery in Kiel Beotland showing four pairs of footprints embedded in wall rock. Tradition ties the marks to Saint Columba, with observations linking the site to a voyage from Ireland and to early Christian foundations along the coast.
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St. Columba
Kiel
Kintyre
Beotland
Wall Rock
Huly
Columba
Ireland
Breckinridge Castleman bids to carry mall link
Gen Breckinridge Castleman announces a plan to carry the mall route between Pleasant Hill in Mercar county and Turgin. He says a coach and four with outriders and footmen will be used if the contract is awarded. Thoroughbreds will pull the coach and the men ride in ornate style.
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Breckinridge Castleman
Peasant Hill
Mercar County
Turgin, By
Pleasant Hill
Sastiemen
Fine Farm
Ryerysing
Orses
An Ancient Plow From Asia Minor Described
An archaic tool labeled a wax and primitive plow uses a stake with a cut short pointed end. The description notes such a plow is employed in Asia Minor.
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Asia Minor
Thief Seen Through Telescope At Swiss Chalet
In the Zermatt Valley a young woman looked through a telescope and discovered a burglar in a home she was left in charge of. Police were alerted and the incident ends with the recovery of booty.
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Hotale
Zermatt Valley
Switzerland
Corn Fodder Waste and Utility in Farm Practice
This column argues corn fodder is massively wasted across the Midwest and Missouri, estimating 7 million tons of fodder grown yearly in Missouri and half of it lost. It compares fodder to timothy hay, notes feeding value and limits, describes Missouri experiments on feeding strategies, and discusses hog water systems and dairy topics.
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United States
Middle West
Missouri
Timothy
Missouri Experiment Station
H. J. Waters
University of Missouri
Hog Improvement Through Rail Accident Proposal
A quotation attributed to Coburn Jr. mocks cruel breeding ideas by suggesting the only way to improve a Texas razorback is to run it over by a railroad train. The tongue in cheek remark notes the hog becomes a Berkshire or Poland China, and the company is said to pay for the carcass while workers shovel the rest from the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
China
Coburn Tm . Board
Dalryman
Governor of Oregon Endorses Pe-ru-Na for Colds
A letter from the Governor of Oregon praises Pe-ru-Na as the catarrh remedy of the age. He states it relieved his family from colds and urges every household to keep the product for coughs and winter illnesses. The letter, dated May 9 1898 from Salem, Oregon, is part of a wider flood of endorsements reaching Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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New Zealand
Capitol Building
Atlantic
Pacific
Hartman
Statesman
Perana
Oregon
Salem
Peruna
Onno
Sarum
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
W. M. Lord
United States
Startman
Ohio
Also Mentioned on This Page
France
Moore
Bern
Cawtie
Minneapolis
Harriet
Ellory
Royal Italian Band
Alors
Thebes
Adante
University of Wisconsin
Algoma
Wisconsin
If In
William Hall
Lindenmeyer Ranch
Fourteem
Fort Colins
Ed Gibbon
Laramiq
Fort Collins
Denver
Romane
Henry
E. C. Jacobs
Montana Dairy Building
Montana
Experiment Station
Qozeman
Mall
Mishna
New York
Avavat
Mishna Co
Mustang Liniment
Pain
Mustang
Maw
Salt Lake
Dainties
Hewlett Bros. CO
Bota H Lane Chill
Ogden Assay GO
Bude
Martin
Sower
Ysenerere
Avertisemente
Sucre Cacellen
Satspacior
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