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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1895
Page
5
Townspeople discuss Mr. Vanderbilt’s new mansion The Breakers and its rocky construction. Reports mention Bannock hunting amid an outbreak and Holmes murder counts rising toward twenty. Odd legal and local curiosities appear, plus heliograph attempts blocked by fires in the West and distant signals between Mount Hood and Mount Adams.
Prof. Nelson Sizer analyzes Thomas W. Keene Henry Irving and Joseph Jefferson through phrenology describing Keene as sincere and brilliant with refined features and strong imagination while Irving shows observant memory and natural historian forehead and Jefferson as amiable with a strong chin and warm, sociable nature.
The revenue marine is ordered to curb Cuba filibustering and yellow fever import risk. Officers must enforce neutrality laws and report near coast vessels lacking health certificates. A separate New York anecdote describes a bloomer girl on a bicycle who suffers a punctured tire and embarrassment before seeking help.
The inventor explains that sunlight arises from vibrations in 94,000,000 miles of ether and proposes earthbound light by vibrating the atmosphere. He cites experiments with glass prisms and barometers of vibration, notes Fly wing frequencies, and claims progress toward generating five hundred trillion vibrations per second to reproduce solar illumination.
The French rider Riviere cycled 524 miles in 24 hours on a cement track at Bordeaux, a distance spanning roughly Chicago to near Cleveland. He maintained a relentless pace for a full day, highlighting France's edge in long-distance cycling compared to the American 24 hour record.
Norway reports the highest average life span in Europe with males living about 48 years and three months and females about 11 years and three months longer. Infant mortality is markedly lower, contributing to overall lower mortality by 17 percent versus western Europe.
In southern Germany drinkers fill hours with beer as buxom waitresses pour glass after glass. A clever device, the beerometer, is attached to the bottom of a glass showing a numbered dial. Each full drink advances the hand one number, moving only forward to please the saloon keeper.
Debris removal from the Ireland building collapse in New York city revealed an old-fashioned well beneath the central pillar. Investigators say the well caused the fall that killed fifteen men during last week’s incident.
Perry Laidley a Charleston West Virginia druggist dreamed of burglars and woke to fire a pistol from his hand cleaning it before it discharged and killed him. The incident followed a misread fear of intruders and a gun accident at his store.
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