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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1886
Page
6
A sprawling collage of odds and ends recounts a German city’s five hundred year tale of a famed bell and the legends around its making. It also notes American curiosities from a talking chimney to a newspaper organ built of old paper and a strange Irish magnetic patient.
A Meira correspondent reports on Mexico’s population and family dynamics, noting widespread child numbers and extended kinship. The piece describes constant social pressures, crowded households, and a large ancestor line implied by many grandchildren.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century vignette follows Eunice Hillyer and her widowed mother Mrs. Hillyer as they await news of a pension for a soldier father. They recall Basil Hillyer’s service and death, poverty after his loss, and the slow pursuit of a government pension. A neighborly scene unfolds with eggs, berries, and an attic treasure jar linked to memory and survival.
Eben Morse discovers the pension for Mrs Hillyer is a sham after a long Washington visit. Eunice Hillyer faces ruin of hopes while Eben proposes marriage on Thanksgiving Day. The scene ends with Eunice’s quiet acceptance and a grim, hopeful future.
A medical note describes lethargy a fatal sleep disorder found in certain western coast districts’ black populations. It presents as sudden drowsiness advancing to deep sleep over about twenty one days, with normal pulse and temperature, calm countenance, and no other clear symptoms. Postmortems are inconclusive and treatments fail while patients drift into torpor.
A Tamaqua to Philadelphia missive laments dwindling snakehunters in interior counties. It describes rattlesnake hunting with maple or oak prongs, hunted for venom used medicinally, and recalls the hunter’s perilous thrusts as the rattler strikes but is killed.
A Zacatecas letter to the Detroit Free Press paints Mexico City alamedas and courtyards as springlike hubs. It contrasts plazas with shaded promenades, notes grand doors, statues, and ivy cloaks, and details Sunday social life with beaux in sombreros, ladies exchanging greetings, and priests receiving respects.
A collection of aphorisms on virtue health religion and truth. The speaker muses that wisdom emerges from origin not zoology and that health is a blessing money cannot buy. It warns against morning cloud religion and urges steady progress without forcing a single thread.
A US Geological Survey expedition led by Captain Clarence E K Dutton reaches Crater Lake Oregon, hauling boats 10 miles and lowering a rope from the rim to the water. Sixty sounding runs reveal a mostly flat bottom with two large submerged cones, deepest depth 2003 feet, supporting a post glacial caldera origin theory and crumbling walls indicating an old but active formation.
In reminiscences of Skobeleff, Vereshagin fashions a new flag marked by red silk and a yellow cross, yet Skobeleff clings to his torn lucky finger. Despite defeats and losses, he begs for the old talisman back, claiming it brought success. The tale ends as the General’s tomb preserves the relic and its legend.
An unnamed writer reports that M De Parvelle has drawn the attention of the French Academy of Sciences to a curious optical illusion. When staring at a small dim object in darkness, the eye perceives apparent motions or curves of surrounding stars, a phenomenon sometimes called schwanken.
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