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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1895
Page
7
A memorial verse describes a voyage’s end with triumph and loss. The speaker honors a captain killed during the perilous journey, noting the ship’s endurance, the near arrival at port, and the crowd’s celebration while mourning the captain’s death.
A narrator recounts a summer at a quiet Atlantic coast resort with Ruth Allen and Myrtle Morton. He plans to ask Ruth to marry him but is rejected, learning instead that Ruth will marry his rival Jack Foster. The moment ends as friends join the party for a sail and the two couples pair off.
A Pulaski area farmer on a winter walk shot a partridge and bees honey fell on him from a bee tree after the gunshot. He found 82 raccoons inside the hollow trunk and carried honey and game home despite crossing iced Shenango River and needing a swim.
A waiter asks how the eggs should be cooked and if it affects the price. The cautious customer with a brimless hat and faded beard replies no and requests eggs with a slice of ham. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune.
An artist visiting Seoul recounts a royal feast where Korean etiquette demanded all food be eaten. Guided by the British consul, he endured hours of courses including piglets, vegetables, and sauces, finishing at 7 p.m. Despite his pain, he survived and later dreaded the sight of puppy pigs.
An Orange County man explains a prank device using a milk pail, a zinc plate, and a battery to shock cats and dogs. The cat recoils after a faint tingle while the dog suffers a back somersault and flees. The method works with a crockery dish too.
The article traces wills from oral customs to written forms in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, noting imprecations in some, earlies written wills like Sennacherib’s, and the largely prosaic content of modern royal wills covering beds bedding clothes ornaments and mass payments.
A test to determine natural gas origin used dried seaweed soaked in air-free water. Gas appeared by day three and continued diminishing until day ten, yielding 803 cubic centimeters. After two and a half years, 30 cubic centimeters more were collected. the second gas resembled methane, suggesting slow secondary decomposition of vegetable matter may relate to natural gas origin.
In a melodramatic scene Macallis ter McCheuny asks for the hand of a woman who declined him last night. Tonight he arrives with gifts to demand a response while the woman and her mother await, pondering whether to hold an inquest on him as tears mark his visit.
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