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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1913
Page
7
A garbled OCR page mixes naval terms, local notices, and scattered names with long passages on arts, history, and a sprawling list of dates and places. It touches ships, China, Goethe, and Goetz, alongside scattered railroad and town notes, with no clear single event or coherent narrative.
An article in a British magazine describes Mohock escapades in early London life. It details tavern invasions, customer harassment, property damage, and public Roars with women casks, plus royal rewards and later police suppression. The piece notes 18th and 19th century derision, violent pranks, and legal penalties.
A Chicago Record Herald item notes the moon’s shadow moving about 2000 miles per hour across Earth during a solar eclipse and describes witnesses’ awe at how the shadow appears to rush over the landscape. Quotes Forbes of Turin and Langley on the terrifying perception, contrasts with measurable speeds like the speed of light.
The article recalls the Venus transits in pairs eight years apart, noting 1769 and 1769 again, then 1874 and 1882 with a century ahead until 2004 and 2012 for future viewing. It mentions the shift from transit timing to light speed as the preferred method to measure the sun’s distance. Далее, it includes fragmented humor items about dogs, dating, and wit from various U.S. papers in a column of eclectic notes.
A traveler notes Monte Carlo high charges in barber shops and hotels with no menus or prices. A German tourist asks prices before services, while another guest pays a huge bill and inquired about twenty five centime stamps. The exchange highlights price opacity and audacious costs in Monte Carlo.
Fort notes in Outing on early multi shot firearms tracing 1718 James Puckle patent for a tripod gun with revolving cylinder and a Rollin White revolving pistol 135 years later, including claims of cartridges and rapid fire preventing boarding by ships.
The article notes obelisks in Rome Paris and London beside the Central Park monument in New York. It traces the origin to Rameses II around 1380 BCE and states about forty two are known, some badly broken. It also claims the obelisk symbolized the supreme god and reflects monotheistic ideas of ancient Egypt.
Russian peasants are duped as hair sellers for less than a dollar per pound while their tresses fetch 12 to 15 dollars in the London market. The article notes victims are peasant girls who rely on hair sales amid hardships.
Wild red rice grows in inundated fields in Senegal. The floodwater lifts the plant with the rising tide, creating a very red, dry, hard grain. It swells in water, loses some color, but remains nourishing and requires no cultivation. Harper's Weekly notes its hardy, free-growing nature.
W. K. Broyles escaped after fifteen years of kidney and bladder troubles. Foley Kidney Pills released a bin and will help others. He says they cured a severe backache with painful bladder irregularities and they do all you claim for them. Refuse substitutes. For sale by those listed.
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