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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1886
Page
2
A poem style excerpt describes a perilous voyage as darkness, sea danger, and the crew endure trials. The narrative mentions a sealed center, wailing, and the ship’s journey toward safe port, ending with a sailor’s reflective line about riding the storm to harbor.
In a stormy village scene Miss Lydia Larkspur frets as a hospital visitor stirs gossip. Dr Duer’s sister Kate Duer welcomes a smallpox patient, later revealed as the Rev Felix Amory, chaplain of St Lucets hospital in New York, causing social tension before a tentative romance with Kate develops. The tale blends hospital charity, mistaken illness, and community rumor into a homeward moral.
A French paper explains how men's fashion plates are created. A Paris society of elite tailors forms an eleven member committee to draft sketches representing different dress parts. They review, refine, and choose designs before broad release to members.
The article explains lightships used where lighthouses fail, detailing hull design for stability, lighting apparatus, parabolic reflectors, and gimbal mounts. It covers anchorage methods, ground tackle lengths, mushroom anchors, and the handling of drag, fog, and storms to keep the beacon in position and warn mariners of danger.
A jumbled miscellany surveys curious facts from distant cultures and eras. It cites Maori and Lapland peoples, Patagonian height changes, global tea and coffee consumption, Roman architecture, and deaf education statistics, interspersed with casual anecdotes about Chestnut and a Louisville journalist apprenticeship.
A fragmentary humor piece mocks misread phrases and social pretence in New York Washington and a bustling crowd. It parodies a bee line explanation, a debutante’s awkward service room moment, and a political salon where a hopeful supplicant seeks a seat on the floor while navigating talk of careers and government service.
Captain Karlows of the steamer Bohemia reports in a New York Herald letter that during a gale on the night of the 2nd the ship struck heavy seas and leaked. Oil was deployed on both sides to form barriers, later repeated, allowing the vessel to ride out the hurricane with minimal water on deck. About 130 pounds of oil were used over twenty-two hours to keep the ship from foundering.
An artist recalls a midnight discussion about the season in the art world. He mentions a famed but unnamed artist who has risen from poverty to wealth after twenty years in the country. A tale unfolds of two Holsken visitors arriving with wine and bread and no money for dinner.
Readable excerpts describe sea depth, pressure, and waves with notes on evaporation and rainfall. It discusses how a lowered sea level could create dry land, the Atlantic cable plan, and methods for sounding the ocean floor using weighted lines and lard coated bar to prevent sand washout.
The famous Strasbourg clock, surpassed by a ten thousand year world clock, was built in Germany over many years. It marks years and leap years for a century more, with a ten foot square face and 129 figures representing human life. Every minute a sorrowful wagel bellows. at each quarter, figures of age, youth, and death appear as allegorical scenes unfold with angelic intercession and life’s stages portrayed.
A Dakota farm owner describes a 75,000 acre wheat operation along the Red River valley. The farm uses 600 to 800 workers and 500 horses for planting, harvesting, and threshing with 25 steam threshers. It spans 16 miles wide and 4 miles long, divides into 2,000 acre divisions, and relies on telephones and telegraphs to manage each subdivision. The valley hosts towns growing from 1,000 to several thousand people, with Fargo and Winnepeg linked by river traffic and rail lines. Wildlife includes ducks, prairie chickens, deer, elk, and buffalo horn legends are recounted.
A discussion cites government expense to feed and control Native Americans, noting costs around 4.6 million dollars and per capita figures. W A Parker laments policies since 1810, arguing federal aid and coercive measures have prolonged subjugation and expense.
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