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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1886
Page
7
Descriptive, fragmentary account of a grand cremation building, gilded roofs, state ceremony, and royal processions. Observes priests, Brahmins, and a throne for the King, with muttered notes on wooden sculptors making likenesses and street scenes around a hospital and artifacts.
A cryptic Boston Transcript correspondent notes common Mexico City posts about alcarans or certs in igar houses. The piece mentions mahogany hued two inch scorpions and warned of breeding in deserted mines with a government reward per head for killings.
The article estimates railways in the United States in 1885 suffered over 30 million dollars in losses from decay and repairs. It notes 818.6 million for station and road crossings and 38 million for timber parts, with repairs to cars at about 7 million. It stresses agricultural and lumber impacts and cites census figures for fencing costs and stored goods worth hundreds of millions.
The readable passages discuss Bonanza terms and a reef of ideas about wealth creation and luck. It references sea weather and a biblical wind calm, plus a speculative link to a mathematical idea about motion and a cube. The text is fragmentary and not clearly coherent.
A sailor in a San Francisco party on the Clift House piazza recounts sighting a sea serpent and nearly capturing a colossal king of turtles named Featherback. The tale includes a dramatic struggle with a giant creature, a harpoonless attempt, and a later flash of a log bearing the name Sphargis Corisces.
A visitor notes Yokohama theatres with unique stage shapes and hand driven effects. Props and minor details carry realism as actors move around prompters and backstage. Audiences enter barefoot, remove shoes, squat on mats, and witness constant orchestra noise with gongs and banjo, while no applause follows performances.
A city horse fed on oysters daily while tethered before a South Ninth street oyster dealer's shop enjoys them on the half shell, and a Guard Avenue cigar stand dog buys sticks of candy with tips from passersby. The two pets are famed curiosities for their unusual appetites and polite purchases.
The piece surveys extravagant dog wardrobes with outfits described as grand or ridiculous. It notes boots and morocco items, and mentions a wife sewing for her dog Niv icha, illustrating a satire on superchic canine fashion and aristocratic excess.
A jumble of curious facts covers cuisine quirks from Seneca nine year old Leah Brooks to exotic trade from Ireland to New York. It notes census oddities in Paris, a Venetian style carving of ebony and sycamore, and wild estimates on flies. Industrial notes describe Japanese railroad carpenters building a line, and then a historical tale of lavish English larders 500 years ago. It ends with guidance from an American blacksmith about avoiding hammering while forging blades and a craftsman’s routine.
Burdett of Brooklyn recounts a perilous ascent of a massive treeless mountain. He describes rough ledges, rotten logs, loss of gear, poison berries, hornets, and a near miss with a vertical cliff, ending with a boast about climbing the North Pole after surviving the ordeal.
Reports describe a growing fissure in the Sierras about thirty miles southwest of the area near Fish Springs. What began as a thin line has widened each visit, now spanning likely feet across and stretching a mile in length, with observers fearing a dramatic geological event.
Fragmentary anecdotes recount a remarkable youth with a thrifty, teetotal lifestyle and a curious exchange about offspring. Vignettes describe a tourist encounter with Indians on a city street, a clerk’s missing satchel, a boy named Tommy quizzing Mr Jones, and a Maine parson who mends haircuts while performing funerals, all in a lively, period press voice.
The article profiles Miss Julian, a famed contortionist performing with her brother at Barnum's Circus. Taught by her mother, she began at age five in Mell, coming from a family with acrobat and athlete backgrounds. Her skill excludes clubs and apparatus, relying on diet and exercise to achieve extreme bending and balance.
An opaque report discusses a debunked or odd estimate about the shortest time to count a Tarxe number up to a billion. The piece notes public fascination, notes confusion, and ends with a family traveling through Europe while seeking a home.
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