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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1907
Page
30
A giant pair of opera glasses, fifteen feet long, appeared in a Broadway snow window, drawing public attention. The former optical store owner has closed shop and seeks to sell the enormous instrument, whose presence reportedly frightened carriage horses and unsettled local shoppers.
In Tresstown a long fraudulent life insurance scheme unmasked after James Bleath funds a grand family vault. A wax coffin hid a real peril as a Ohio poorhouse resident matched the same name, leading to payoffs over 50 years. The family pursued justice and the insurer paid 300000 but the treasurer fled with the funds the next day.
In 1860 a party led by Colonel William Milner Roberts followed the route of the Northern Pacific Railway. Near a dry gully eight miles south of present day Butte City they spied a grizzly fore paw impression. A dog warned of the bear as the party pressed through thick chaparral and wallows, the animal seen in a half seated pose, snarling at the advancing hound.
A monstrous grizzly charged a party as they rode a boulder-strewn slope. Eight Sharp’s rifles fired sixteen balls, yet the bear persisted until a final barrage hit vital parts, including the brain, ending the chase miles later. Colonel Roberts calls it a remarkable tenacity.
Mrs Isabel Bronson left her home after seeing hieroglyphics on bread shaped like a tombstone. Her husband found a note directing them to Pettigill's for shelter. The loaf bore phrases from a gravestone and a May 1 death, but neighbors revealed the stone was used as an oven bottom. She won’t return home despite pleas.
The editor invites readers to submit any notable items from friends and family rumor gossip parties births deaths and social events for publication. Share first hand news including celebrations misfortunes and everyday happenings to fill the paper with community voices.
A Cheshire farmer trapped a fox raiding his hen coop and hauled it to Marbury Hall to show the Hunt Poultry Fund Secretary. In a comic twist the fox escaped the bag as a hen walked out and an egg rolled across the floor, leaving the farmer puzzled by the odd scene.
A bizarre case from Le Mans near Bellevillers reports a family of six struck by collective temporary mental aberration during a Sunday midday meal. One woman washed imagined dirt from hands, another bedded on a lumber heap, two men loaded and emptied a wagon with soil, others saw imaginary cows and balloons. By evening they returned to normal.
Local reports from Hetrick's store allege a backward spring as incubi- tor hatchlings, crops, and onions struggle with cold snaps. Farmers claim eggs stay fresh after a warm spell, vegetables and fruit damaged, bluebirds skip south, then molt to snowbird plumage and may revert with warmth.
A curious Philadelphia North American column recalls a Boston youth fined seventy dollars for illegal fingerling fishing. The tale includes a brown trout, a game warden named Hays, and a moral bout about trout wit and river mischief amid drought and icehouse heroes, ending with a fisherman quitting after near misses and biting jaws.
George H. Davis recalls early Missouri railroading and the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. He notes the 1859 completion near Chillicothe, the Pony Express run in 1860, a Planters House banquet, and wartime rail attacks by bushwhackers as he served as roadmaster. The piece highlights pre Civil War optimism and later challenges.
The article recalls Engineer Clark commanding the 206 mile run from Hannibal to St Joseph in about four hours aboard the Missouri line’s fire-burner, amid a cheering crowd. It notes the Pony Express era, the dramatic rail test, and the birth of the Overland Mail linking the East to the Far West with riders and mounted mail carriers.
The Jamaica death notice recalls white as mourning color, used in Europe until Charles VIII and in Italy for women, while men wore brown. Ethiopia turned white to gray, Egypt to yellow, and China still uses white. White signifies heaven and purity, gray and brown earth, black suggests endless night.
The Columbus Tribune notes Solomon's assertion that the thumb is worth about one third of the hand. It cites varied legal assessments: France 15 to 35 percent for the right thumb and 10 to 15 for the left. Austria 15 to 35. Germany 20 to 28 percent, up to 38.3 percent in rare cases. The scale is typically 10 percent of the hand’s preaccident value.
Courtesy of Lectles Weekly taige campady reports a new uniform for firemen. The article notes protective features including a helmet with eye protection, head covering, and a twenty minute supply of compressed air. A twenty year old description appears to reference modern gear.
A study of con men known as fakers who recruit crowds with slick speech on downtown streets. The piece traces graft methods from curbstone hustlers to pulpit and courtroom schemes, recounting Kansas town scams, lamp oil frauds, pattern sales, and plated jewelry ruses. It notes how crowd psychology fuels trust and profits, and shows how urbanites become unwitting participants in quick schemes.
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