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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1899
Page
5
A long list details mayoral, aldermanic, and township officials including city clerk treasurer and attorney, plus police marshal. It also enumerates multiple fraternal lodge chapters meeting schedules, officers and hall locations, followed by a vignette on social order and a poemish miscellany about public crowds and the “man behind the fist.”
Ordinary white phosphorus is highly poisonous and oxidizes to fumes even at room temperature when exposed to moisture. Red phosphorus is nonpoisonous and safe in regular conditions. White phosphorus dominates match production with about sixty tons used annually, while red phosphorus totals around four tons.
Acetylene gas, 28919, is produced by moistening calcium carbide with water. A Niagara plant is being erected to manufacture calcium carbide with an output of one hundred tons per day, requiring about 25,900 horsepower of electrical energy to operate.
Medical Record notes Dr Friedlander recommends galvanism to ease pain irritation and swelling from insect bites. Negative electrode placed over sting.
Francis Stuchnowski, a mechanical engineer from Leimburg, Austria, reports a strange substance named electroid. It allegedly emits a refreshing scent and cool breeze, can be dissolved into a fluid, reflects as shining sheaves, and, under electric influence, accelerates plant growth and preserves organic matter. The Austrian commission notes electroid penetrates walls, attracts and moves objects, lights surfaces, and affects photographic plates, suggesting strong electronic effects.
London preacher Charles H Spurgeon held outdoor meetings near Tavant in a valley when his sermon on Psalm 25 ended. As he urged listeners to come to Christ the natural echoes joined the cry Come Come Come, described by observers as a startling electric shock that amplified the invitation. The report notes no written record of converts but a solemn, dramatic close.
A London reader recalls a prank on a private hire bus where a tourist demanded fare and found the vehicle empty after passengers balked at the private service. The note notes the crowd at Hyde Park and a concluding line on steel usage in pens versus swords.
In Baltimore politics the Sixth Ward mass meeting drew a crowd at Market House Wall. An old resident, introduced with fanfare, spoke in broken English as a loud heckler called him a damned mean old hog, ending the gathering amid laughter and a quick exit. Polly at the Phone debuts at a Chicago store where a parrot mimics telephones, causing customers to listen as a young woman awkwardly uses the line. The scene ends when the store door slams as staff reacts.
The new sport of snake shooting gains popularity near Williamsport Massachusetts amid many water and black snakes and copperheads along streams and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Recent shooters report high counts including a local man near Wapganstown who killed over a hundred snakes in two days and William Stake who felled a monster copperhead on the towpath.
Report notes Aquarists from the Aquarlunt obtained goldfish and other small fish from ponds and fountains to stock the Aquarium project. Goldfish up to a foot long were found in the large fountain by Central Park, City Wall Park basin, and two Broadway fountains. Roach sunfish white and yellow perch were also taken for the Aquarium.
A quip from Mr. Staybolt on self regard. He warns that self praise may be met with indifference or ridicule, while those who undervalue themselves can still be perceived as undervalued by others. The New York Sin collection notes this social compass on self image.
A Limoges commercial agent notes chestnuts substitute for Indian corn among France’s poor, with vast plantations across central France. Chestnuts are eaten by people and animals in many ways, boiled, roasted, steamed, or pureed, and even ground into flour for bread. They fatten livestock, fetch low retail prices in good seasons, and are a major dietary staple in fall and winter.
A Paris log house discarded punched paper remnants, then a dispute led to a workman tossing circles at another. The proprietor turned this into confetti, used at the opera gallery that night and later produced by machines. Carnival crowds in Paris reportedly used hundreds of tons of confetti.
A historical account explains brass instrument making starting from a flat metal sheet cut into a shape resembling a hell ish groove and bent by hand over a rod to form the bell. The seam is brized, parts tuned on a wooden form, and surface imperfections worked out by wooden hammers before spinning for smoothness and final shaping.
The Hour Glaus describes how Sand logged the hours in medieval times. Monks used a mixing of black marble dust boiled nine times in wine as part of their time keeping rituals.
The text explains zootherapy as transferring a disease from human to animal as a medical method. It credits the practice to Ferapi, a Florentine, noting its supposed development as a cure system.
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