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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
8
An early 20th century survey of fearsome natural oddities lists a nursing howler, bearded dragons, the frilled lizard, the tamarin, and the gavial among creatures whose appearances and behaviors provoke unease. The piece blends marvel with caution about indigestion inducing visions and the beauty found in perilous wildlife.
A New York ice company buyer recalls a novel timekeeping method used by a laborer at a Newburg ice yard. The man tightens a leather belt by holes after breakfast at 6, to track hours until afternoon. he reads 11:30 by the belt’s position, claiming equal reliability to a watch.
In Kansas a peculiar wave of lawbreaking sees offenders eager to settle penalties. Wellington temperance activists attempted to bar the city treasurer from collecting monthly fines on jointkeepers, who nonetheless rushed to pay their dues.
Rediscovered reminiscence places Gen. Thomas Kennedy's enslaved workers at Paint Lick Garrard County Kentucky. Norman Argo, born in the 18th century, recalls Uncle Tom’s Hill and farm life, Eliza and Clark, Kennedy’s homestead Poplar Hill, and Clark’s foiled plan to flee north. Narratives mix fact and fiction about Stowe’s novel and a local memory of race horses and slaves.
Recollections of Queen Victoria’s coronation prompt London to plan King Edward’s forthcoming coronation with full dress rehearsals. The young queen and clergy lack training. An archbishop forces a ruby ring on her finger, causing pain as she struggles to hold the orb.
A French savant returns from Egypt with a royal mummy. In Marseilles the import tariff case reveals no article named Pharaoh. The officer notes a high duty exists for dried tile and the savant must pay as if for that item.
A London Lancet editorial warns that licking postage stamps is unsafe for the tongue though not poisonous. It questions potential health risks from contaminated saliva and ponders criminal negligence for harm caused. The piece cites medical opinion and contrasts with the era’s talk of progress in Italian industry driven by electricity.
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