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Newspaper
Traverse Bay Eagle
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1898
Page
7
Anecdotes recount Aldrich and O Brien’s drunken scene prompting a street spectacle with a borrowed dollar and a protest banner. Also notes General Gordon’s seal crafted from a coin, bearing Arabic words meaning The Messenger of God and his wish to serve Khartum’s people.
An analysis notes French bread consumption as nearly two pounds daily, about 705 pounds yearly, far exceeding Scandinavian at 55 pounds. An English clergy story adds a humorous farewell sermon about sending a curate to another living with a biblical text about staying with the ass while they go to worship.
A French physician claims to have proven that the contagious period in whooping cough occurs before the characteristic whoop. The report cites his certainty and implications for transmission control. Utah reportedly holds the sole deposit of pure pumice stone in the United States.
A poetic fragment evokes an opulent moonlit night with minarets, gardens, nightingales, and a zither. It describes visions of faces, fields, and crystal streams in a dream vale, ending with a prophecy of paradise as slumber comes.
In dialogue heavy prose, Irene and the narrator discuss love and an engagement arranged by Mrs. Kenyon. They contemplate marriage, announce a break in the engagement by mutual consent, and plan simultaneous moves to Hatton House and a New Zealand retreat as Dora and Grierson pursue separate futures.
In a western city years ago two riggers faced a perilous task at a tall church steeple. They lashed ladders outside the structure as inside access was impossible. A third man raised an extra ladder from a lower rung and braced it while the other climbed to the work. When the solder pot spilled, the lower rigger held the ladder steady with calm nerve as his partner completed the repair.
A 16 inch gun made for the New York harbor defense produced 54,320 foot tons of energy. The shot bored a 164 inch hole through 20 inches of steel or iron plate and 8 inches of iron, 20 feet of oak, 5 feet of granite, 11 feet of concrete, then buried itself in a six root brick wall.
Mrs. William Shay of Freeport Illinois recounts how her four year old daughter Beatrice suffered a severe spinal meningitis and paralytic stroke in 1896. After attempts by nine physicians and various treatments, Beatrice reportedly walked again after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, with the mother claiming her daughter’s health improved significantly.
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