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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1887
Page
3
A prominent physician warns that hypodermic injections carry instant death risk even at small doses and that fatalities can occur minutes after a regular dose. He notes one death in ten administrations and a habit likely to end in months with a real chance of coroner inquiries.
The New York Journal reports Paris tenement growth from 142,071 residents in 1876 to over 190,000. It notes many homes lack light and air, with 219,270 dwellings in France missing windows, and 90,140 single-room habitations in Paris. Municipal plans urge building inexpensive tenements on empty city sites.
A correspondent reports that four silver half dollars were minted for the Confederacy. One is owned by Professor Biddle of Louisiana University, another four by Dr. Ames of New Orleans, with two other coins whereabouts unknown. The obverse shows Liberty with thirteen stars, the reverse a shield with seven stars, a cup, and entwined sugar cane and cotton. inscription reads Confederate States of America.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls Gen Sam Houston during his Senate days. He kept white pine sticks on his desk and sharpened a bone knife before whittling pine into small stripes or chips, averaging five per day. Another habit involved tearing paper from documents into small squares and scattering them about the desk area.
A fragmentary account describes rapid heating of a glass mass to its melting point and sudden cooling to produce extensive surface cracks. The process yields a red hot core and a web of fine fracture lines with scalelike crystals forming across the surface.
Fragmentary OCR text references Colleton and New York connections with a person named Chath Huta eames Degen and 1871 photoprints. Mentions social religious theaters and paintings. claims a slow wisdom editorial over three days and market value around 10 to 3 in unclear currency.
Fragmented OCR text describes a Mexico related key, a pocket carried item on a chain, references to San Francisco Carcalcle, military Mazile Gee, Boulanger request for sixteen national anthems, and mentions Tancreft the Historian with famed men of arms, in a New York Journal style note.
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