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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1886
Page
6
A mixed digest notes New York insane asylum growth and Ontario woodland loss. It reports sea captains' deaths from nitrate exposure and a Reading Pennsylvania boy setting fires. It cites farmers’ maxims, poisonous honey debates, mermaid telegraph myths, wolf avoidance of telegraph lines, and 1880 labor totals with Alaska gold prospects and mining capacity.
An English clergyman runs three London butcher shops offering wholesome meat at reduced, profitable prices. He demonstrates profits about 30 percent below regular prices across American beef, New Zealand mutton, and English beef and mutton, aiding the poor with affordable sustenance.
A forestry commission report to the legislature urges towns to appoint fire commissioners with authority to hire watchmen and enforce permits for burning brush. It would ban burning May 1 to October 1 within a mile of forests without a written permit, making offenders liable for damages in civil actions. Permits require careful site inspection by selectmen, considering material, proximity to property, dryness, wind, and weather forecasts.
A garbled account notes a curious claim from New York officials about bald heads being used in a novel way. The passage also references royalty, German states, and near end of hostilities with France, mentioning towns competing to present something, but the text is fragmentary and unclear.
John Bright recounts a New Orleans reminiscence in which he helps a Creole woman during rain then ends up in a dangerous villa scene. A dread dream sequence leads to a shocking awakening at the St. Charles hotel, leaving Nell unsettled but impressed by John. The tale concludes with Nell denying the love motive and affirming genuine interest.
In a Chicago Herald description, a circular pit centers a hydraulic crane where a steel ladle taps into a hot stream, filling molds that yield red ingots weighing 2,000 to 4,000 pounds. Molds ride flat cars to the mill as a chain of locomotives and cranes pace the work, day and night, with carbon and spiegel refining and cars loaded for the milling process.
A fragmentary dispatch from India describes a city scene with bars and a line of imprisoned criminals under state custody. It mentions animals and distant noises on dawn-lit hills and references a grim, sensational portrayal of captives.
A New York newspaper describes an artist painting military scenes using live models and a wall of period uniforms. He explains hiring models by the day, the cost of costumes, and the labor of posing, ropes, and horse handling, while highlighting the value of outdoor instant photographs to capture movement and realism.
A lyrical passage by Edger L. Wakeaven from Chicago News reflects a soul weary with loss yet hopeful. The narrator speaks of dark hills, fading lands, and a distant haven where labor and love finally rest in peace, awaiting safe return across the sea.
A collage of humorous lines and quick jests from various papers. Largely political and social quips, with snippets about painters, women, socialists, and curious anecdotes. Notes include jests about telegraphs, theater, and everyday life from Chicago Ledger, Waltria Observer, Boston Port, and others.
A New York artist proposes a new heating method using colored flames to warm a small room with no chimney. The design aims to avoid smoke soot or dirt and promises nominal expense, challenging conventional gas heating.
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