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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1911
Page
19
Fragmentary lines describe a river crossing near Middlesborough with mentions of aiding a task or movement. The legible pieces reference indep endence, a Boer ahead, and a group of travelers or passengers. The exact event, names, and places remain unclear due to garbled OCR.
A sweeping retrospective recounts historic rail disasters and near misses across the U S and Canada. It details bridge collapses the Ashtabula and Tay Bridge tragedies along with wrecks on the Wabash Central Vermont and Reading lines, noting survivors and high death tolls, including family tragedies and heroic rescues, with technical failings and weather as contributing factors.
A New York Press writer recounts inventive uses for a home steam pipe. He describes freeing a corked ink bottle by heating the cork with steam and relieving lumbar pain by pressing his back to the hot cylinder, praising the pipe as a multi use household convenience.
A New York Press piece describes native practices in northern South America where butter birds are milked in caves. Indians break nests with poles, remove fat between leg joints and tail, melt it into butter, and store it in earthen pots. The birds are about the size of a chicken and the butter keeps for up to a year.
The heroine of the play fainted after a telegram from her faithless lover. The curtain fell to loud applause then rose again revealing the revived heroine bowing. The faithless lover appeared beside her after traveling 287 miles in 10 seconds to share the moment.
A Maine village kept denatured alcohol in its old fire engine cylinders to prevent freezing during winter tests and uses, a practice that surprised locals. During a blaze, cylinders were found siphoned, revealing a cover story about priming with a nonfreezing liquid, while a caution sign warned the Cylinders of This Engine Are Primed With Denatured Alcohol.
The article recounts the German inventor Creyse creating an early two wheeled machine in 1831. It lacked locomotion mechanics and required the rider to push with their legs. Its wooden spokes and iron bound rims foreshadowed future safety bicycles and other vehicles.
The article traces ancient bow manufacture from goats horn composites in Minoan Crete to Turkish short bows and Odyssean stringing methods. It notes Greek and Persian influences, the Atlas of Pandarus, and the shift from archery to firearms, with crossbows fading after later centuries and siege artillery emerging by the late medieval period.
Philadelphia Ledger reports Professor Lyde of University College London arguing skin color arose from climatic pressures during early human migration. He proposes an original brownish yellow ancestor called Condwana, then diversification to black, brown, yellow with climate shaping lung liver and moisture effects.
A historical survey by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey in Royal Institution proceedings traces the development of throwing weapons from heavy spears and throwing sticks to leather thongs, throwing wands, slings, and boomerangs. It contrasts bow types, siege arms, and the global spread of throwing implements, noting limits of range, precision, and military use across ancient and medieval worlds.
Warren H Buffum a Harvard student completed a five month walk from the Middle West to San Bernardino testing diet efficiency. He traveled with his meat-eating brother Jesse who switched to train travel for the final segment. Buffum lived outdoors throughout the journey and spoke of sleeping in a show the prior night.
A fragment from a Zanzibar posting describes a striking image titled I The Shetek showing a magnificent pair of elephants in a posed photograph. The note originates from Zanzibar and presents a vivid, if unclear, wildlife scene.
An inventor offers compact tools to act as a third limb. A drawer-hook vise and a tiny magnifier attach to the thumb, aiding tasks from dressing table drawers to handling hairpins and beads. A folding umbrella clip provides weather use and theft deterrence. Small, portable aids promise to free hands for various daily activities.
In Mexico City on a Sunday afternoon in September 1906, the narrator reluctantly joins Aguirre to witness a bull fight near the capital. The piece describes the crowd, the toreros, a heroic but thwarted novice, and the eventual, grueling defeat of a persistent bull amid laughter and mixed reactions from spectators and officials.
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