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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1899
Page
4
A playful verse by Nixon Waterman in the L A Bulletin laments puzzles and admits their charm. The poem contrasts vexation with affection, noting readers’ reluctance to part with the puzzle feature despite its trouble.
In a Langton Fazerley hillside cottage once neat and quiet the twin children of a widowed mother hid a grim truth. Ill mother, scant food, and secret poverty ended when the siblings died beside a beck after a doomed attempt to escape. The London Speaker reports the discovery and community search.
A Puebla family walks home from market toward Cholula. Juanito, age nearly five, clings to hope of a centavo purchase as tragedy strikes when a mishap by the roadside ends his life after a final gift from Dona Ynes. The scene unfolds with Dona Ynes and Don Hypolite returning to Puebla.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote highlights a teacher’s remark about an extravagant father. The student recalls the teacher saying education for such a "chump" is a "criminal folly."
The Auld Licht church at Kirrlemuir in Thrums, Scotland, once famous via J. M. Barrie, loses its minister as William C. Conn resigns after being accused of preaching beyond his sect. The presbytery clears him, but he departs amid dwindling congregation size and a note on scarce synod membership.
The Albany Press and Knickerbocker recount the career of De Linton Wing once called the progenitor of liberal advertising. From flour branding with Julian mills to a London Times full page spoof, Wing claimed royal praise and national impact, including a 1858 Atlantic cable celebration wagon made of flour barrels.
Feilden's Magazine shows world shipping totals at 27,673,528 tons. The United Kingdom and colonies own 13,988,508 tons, with 1,061,584 held by colonies reducing UK tonnage to 12,826,924. United States is second at 2,465,387 tons, Germany third at 2,453,334, and Norway ranks fourth.
A parliamentary return records 9,151 living-animal experiments in 1898 in England and Scotland under licenses. Seven thousand six hundred forty involved inoculations or injections without anaesthetics, while 1,511 had pain relief. 1,068 of these used full anaesthesia throughout. In Ireland 303 experiments occurred across dogs mice rats rabbits birds and one guinea pig with pain described as generally minimal.
The article notes a few curiosities including a voice reaching 296 words per minute and 3000 marriages daily worldwide. It mentions blind people sensing by touch, odorless flowers, Andorra's tiny head salary, and a Belgium bicycle christening. It reports a London photographer timing a lightning flash at 1/19 second and a rare giant man’s egg found in Central Otago mines.
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