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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1891
Page
7
A Thanksgiving day mishap sends Tommy Wentworth from a high maw to an unsteady fall, yet he escapes serious harm. Uncle John gives thanks while Aunt Mary jokes about Tommy’s new pants, sparking laughter and relief among relatives.
Hall's Journal notes that tobacco use correlates with tongue cancer, citing Grant's era as context. Surgeons observe higher cancer incidence in male smokers, with a common smoker's patch on the tongue that may become leucoma and predispose to cancer if untreated.
A clip from New York Commercial Advertiser discusses electrical furnaces showing promise for smelting. It describes carbon blocks in metal casings, water cooling, auto-adjusting electrodes, gas venting, charge input, and variable EMF to match charge resistance.
The turkey traces to a wild North American species found by Spaniards in Mexico. From the West Indies the bird reached Spain as pavon de las Indies and the journey spread through Europe. Confusion over origin and naming myths, including Calicut hen, shows how the fowl acquired foreign names while remaining native to this continent.
A New York bank teller notes a growing craze for brand new currency. A young man asks for 200 dollars for his wife and receives tens and fives fresh from circulation. Families seek fresh bills to avoid contagion from older money, sourcing mostly from banks and occasionally the sub treasury.
Miss Nancy Taylor of Grant township Taylor county Iowa is noted for an extraordinary eye defect. Readers see pages inverted, papers read only when held upside down. The peculiarity became known in 1887 when she was about ten years old, baffling relatives and physicians.
Washington firemen recount peculiar beliefs about music, three white horses, and wearing stovepipe hats triggering alarms. A veteran notes an odd sequence where a reporter’s arrival with a stovepipe hat coincides with an emergency. The crew suspects a mysterious link between sights, sounds, and fires.
A gaunt stranger asked to join a jail work gang in Omaha. He worked two hours sweeping a street then sought boarding. told he would board where he stayed, in the city jail. The recruit discovered the patrolman in charge and that he had joined the chain gang.
The New York World reports Jay Gould smokes four cigars daily during business hours, buys them at 25 cents each from a Windsor hotel stand, and limits his use to that amount, reserving Turkish pipe smoking for home after guidance from Dr Mann on temperance. The item also mentions opinions on tobacco and a provocative cartoon caption.
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