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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
6
A taxidermist notes rising rentals of stuffed animals as retailers and theatres stock festive props. Merchants boost display animals like bears and ducks to attract customers during the holiday season, with costs and profits described and rental practices outlined.
The article recounts state funded serpent hunters in France facing venomous snakes. It highlights John Milly of Southampton famed for killing over 9,000 vipers in two years and a Frenchman Courtol in Loire who reportedly slew 60,000 serpents. Courtol used sticks and scissors, plus expert habits knowledge to locate and kill or trap snakes near Puya Clermont, including capturing them alive.
The piece remarks that Cuban music favors crude instruments and discordant sounds. It mocks the band setup with improvised percussion and a guitar rasping device, deeming it inferior to traditional Cuban hymns and dances. The writer urges Cubans to relearn music, criticizing Afro Cuban influences as disruptive to refined taste.
A pestilent claim of a new Arctic berry selling as a cross of strawberry and cherry spreads among farmers. Agents boast three times the size of a strawberry but investigation reveals the fruit is actually white mulberry. Frost kills the plants, exposing the scam and angering gullible buyers.
A quirky tale of the potato market starts in Markinch Fifestire where a grower sold a few tons at 1210 a ton roughly ten shin pounds per pound. Dealers in Lined Prow bought two pounds, then expanded to LO pounds this year. Buyers Mr Kime and Mr Wade purchased ten at 4 per ten and paid more for later consignments. The King Edward V potato moved from 12 108 to 40 per ton, a striking rise in this curious finance romance.
A Philadelphia firm sold X ray machines to the Japanese government to detect coin theft at a mint. Officials plan electricity-based searches on workers to deter swallowing gold dollars, hoping the fear of detection stops theft. Observers see potential use in South African diamond fields where laborers might be influenced to stay honest.
An American schooner recently arrived in New Zealand with treasure hunters seeking the long-lost gold from the General Grant which sank near Auckland after a colossal cave incident forty years ago. Attempts to recover the gold failed. success now hinges on the current expedition. Also notes tick bites driving Caribbean fishers to water and a brief item on Gheat breweries and Hayti’s young president, plus London banded streets with $50 yearly expenditure.
A compilation of vignettes on women including a Des Moines girl managing a parlor and supporting family after father’s illness, Finnish journalist Maggie J. Wallin in America, nurses teaching in Philadelphia, and a Rochester visit by Susan B. Anthony. The piece also recounts Anthony’s arrest after voting in a Democratic inquiry, illustrating early suffrage tensions and women’s education efforts.
An eclectic note cites household typhoid sources, efficacy of antitoxiny for scarlet fever in Vienna, and a coffee husk decoction for dysentery. It mentions Sydney typhoid origins, dwarfs vs giants, and a London docks walk causing stomach upset from contaminated air.
The text presents disjointed lines about love and gender roles, likening the female to a burden and contrasting wit with rubbish toil. It hints at social tensions surrounding marriage, independence, and self restraint in a pale, stylized editorial voice. The excerpt resembles a provocative column from a 19th or early 20th century Chicago publication.
A garbled early-20th century kitchen note offers advice on omelets, teas, chestnut dressing for turkey, and pastry technique. It references chicken liver dishes, tea flavor, turkey stuffing ideas, and pastry edge handling. The text is fragmentary but centers on improving cooking outcomes and method.
A city salesman reports on Chinese remedies in New York, noting enormous pills and bitter tastes. He cites a Dovers Street Chinese sample said to be capable of killing or curing, plus temple oils and a boiled plant decoction described as dangerous and consumed hot.
Despite crude language, the piece notes fowl variety expansion in American poultry. It cites the American Standard of Perfection edited by the American Poultry Association and praises breeders for producing fowls from bantams to bronze turkeys, with diverse colors and feather patterns, while jokingly claiming they nearly finished by not putting mums on feathers.
An article notes polar bears are readily hunted thanks to modern rifles and favorable conditions while recounting historic Arctic encounters. It also describes an up to date antiseptic shaving salon, detailing sterilization practices and equipment.
Mrs Arthur Paget once a leading society figure and wife of Gen Paget retreats from London life. Her charity campaigns from 1878 onward included vast concerts, tableaux, and a coronation bazar raising funds for hospitals. Despite a recent flare of influence, her name no longer carries former social weight.
Prof. W. S. Holmes, anthropology curator at the National Museum and newly named head of the Bureau of American Ethnology, travels to Kansas to study a human fossil found in state deposits. He doubts earlier extinctions and contends skeletons may have been moved by waters or excavation errors. his field work aims to date the deposits precisely.
Chao Chu Wu Ting-fang's 18 year old son dons Uncle Sam's service uniform and drills with a Krag rifle. He is admitted as a member of the Morris Guards, Atlantic City crack private force, with special permission from his father. Chinese government rules prevent him from taking an oath of foreign allegiance.
The Berlin section of the national workmen's insurance fund opens a grand sanitarium in Boelitz near Berlin. It cost 2 400 000 dollars with annual maintenance about 300 000 and capacity for 600 patients. The complex includes separate houses for different patients and special pavilions for infectious cases and consumptives. A bathhouse worth 160 000 dollars provides a full range of medicinal baths.
In this account from St. James Gazette, Goa is described as a splendid but fallen Portuguese capital in India. It recalls the Inquisition, pestilence, and war that emptied it, the viceroy moving to Panjim in 1758, and the now grass grown ruins. The tomb of St. Xavier in the Church of Bom Jesus is celebrated as a premier masterpiece of Asian religious art.
Fragmentary item notes a person named Hed and a stay at a house associated with an individual called Nodd Come. Details are unclear and dates or locations are not specified. The text suggests a personal visit or visit-related event but lacks concrete facts.
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