03 Feb 1892
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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1892
Page
1
Advertisement asserts Pears Soap gives the best complexion if used with healthy living. It claims transparent skin as a choice among perfection and notes druggists and stores sell the product to a wide audience.
The Unionville Republican offers a free one year subscription to the American Farmer now published from Springfield and Cleveland Ohio with enlarged features. The offer includes new and existing subscribers who pay one year in advance and sample copies are available at the office.
A mixed page recounts scientific ideas on meteor showers and planetary attraction, followed by an advertisement praising American women for adopting French fashion journals. It highlights McDowell & Co premium offers for yearly subscribers and details on dressmaking guidance.
The Hon. W. H. Ray of Annapolis N.S. was separated from companions while judging damages on the Nova Scotia Central Railway line. His feet caught in a moose trap left him dangling for about fifteen minutes, unable to free himself or reach his gun. He cried out until his rescuers located him.
The C B K C train connects at Donnallson so passengers reach Keokuk by 7 25 PM. The return train leaves Keokuk at 7 00 AM and arrives here at 12 65 PM.
The piece traces the Liberty Cap symbol from ancient Rome to modern depictions in France Britain and America. It notes Roman freedmen wore red caps on release and connects the symbol to liberty experiments from Caesar to Jacobins while mentioning a 1793 U.S. coin with Liberty’s head and a conical cap.
The London detective force of about 400 is led by the director of the criminal investigation department at New Scotland Yard. The headquarters staff includes one superintendent and about thirty subordinates, with the remainder spread across twenty two divisions. Each division has an inspector and several sergeants under a divisional superintendent. Crimes are reported first at the nearest station, then to the division superintendent, who directs detectives and refers serious matters to the criminal investigation department. The chief outlines three potential action paths: leave the case to the divisional team, instruct the divisional inspector, or appoint a staff member to work with the superintendent. The system hinges on local distribution and interaction with ordinary police through the superintendents, with overall coordination by the director as needed.
Two Muscatine boys recall a plan inspired by an encyclopedia to harvest ducks by using a pumpkin to trap them. Dick proposed the trick with a pumpkin hollowed and worn like a hermit shell, then a swimmer yanking ducks underwater as they surfaced.
C G Ricker chief clerk B C Farrar receiving teller and E M Miller vault watchman stood inside the vault when a bulge in the outer row of sacks signaled a collapse. About 60 000 pounds of silver piled four feet deep hitting legs but injuring none fatally, nearly 1 000 000 in coins scattered. the truck was crushed and much coin moved to upper vaults.
Boston Transcript notes Indiana's thirteen Congressional districts yielding all Democratic State Committee members and a convention where tariff reform is the top issue and free silver is ignored. It asserts Western support for free coinage is unlikely as states oppose it and cites Teller Bland Morgan as proponents.
A juvenile savings bank has appeared, placed in the hands of a child by a large bank. One key remains with the depository bank. The boy deposits coins, then the bank is opened to credit his account, and the empty container is taken home to be filled again. It is pitched as a safeguard against a father's raids during financial embarrassment.
A report notes opium traffic in Chinatown rarely concealed with customers able to obtain the licorice like mixture. At 1 Mott Street a fat Chinaman was seen measuring quantities for buyers as opium use and gambling are described as chief luxuries of the local Chinese community.
A Gardiner Maine sportsman on a freezing day faced a large catamount. While loading and realizing no bullets, he improvised by firing water that froze into an icicle at impact, killing the catamount.
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