Iowa Academy Urges Forestry and Federal Park Plan
The Iowa Academy of Science backs President Roosevelt on forestry and irrigation, supports Secretary Hitchcock's forest reserve reforms, and calls for centralized management under the Agriculture Department. It endorses Appalachian reserves, a southern Appalachian park, forest land protections, and Congress to enact related measures. Signatories include L. H. Pammeel, Amos B. Surmex, and M. F. Avery.
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Iowa Academy of Science
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Hitchcock
Department of Agriculture
Division of Forestry
Interior Department
United States Department of Agriculture
Gifford Pinchot
Wilson
Adirondacks
United States
Congress
Lake Indian Reservation
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Rocky Mountian
Sierra Nevada
H Brownlow
Binger Herman
General Land Office
Germany Reins In Pitch Standard For Uniform Music
A historical note describes how musical pitch rose from 435 to 450 vibrations per second by 1885 and how a 1885 conference re established 435. The Reichsanstalt tests and corrects tuning forks to keep uniform pitch across German military orchestras, reinforcing Germany as a global standard in music practice.
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Vienna
Reichsanstalt
Imperial Physical and Technical Institute of Germany
Germany
Reichsanstadt
Pearson's
Truth and Repose in Emerson’s Essay on Intellect
The essay argues truth requires self denial and sacrifice of repose. A scholar must choose truth over comfort, forego dogma, and endure suspense. The one craving rest follows inherited creed and loses truth, while the seeker of truth remains unmoored and open to opposing negations.
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Emerson
Married Couple Toast Double Kiss In Tunnel
A Bristol Courier item recounts a couple on a rail line near Sawyer West Virginia who, amid a tunnel passage, exchange kisses so loudly that observers think them suspicious. After exiting the tunnel the brakeman calls Sawyer and the groom quips I do not give a darn if you did we are married.
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West Virginia
Sawyer
Bristol Courier
Running No Risk at Swiss Hotel Performance
A wandering musicians troupe in front of a Swiss hotel uses a sly trick to ensure honest collection. The leader explains the collector must hold five flies in his left hand as a test of fidelity, counting them first to verify the money.
Poor Irishman Accompanied By Guard In Edinburgh Square
A tired Irishman with an old cornet plays at night in a quiet Edinburgh square when a young peace officer orders him to stop or leave. The man asks for permission to sing and replies with humor, "Wid all the pleasure in life, sor."
Conscience Question in Campaign Promise
A familiar friend asks Sena te Sorghum if he entered office with a clear conscience. Sorghum responds he can, claiming he never failed to pay every cent promised for a vote. Washington Star reports the exchange.
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Senate Sorghum
Washington Star
Riddle of Love in Blanche Trennor Heath Verses
A quizzical poem narrates a pursuer chasing a woman whose smiles and glances wane and wax. The speaker asks if love grows when she withdraws, concluding she loved him most when she withdrew, attributed to Blanche Trennor Heath in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Blanche Trennor Heath
Atlanta Constitution
The Home Doctor Remedies and Comfort Tips
A 1 percent carbolic acid bandage helps blistered fingers. Hot water on temples relieves headaches and hot footbaths aid. Earache eased by a boiled flannel with laudanum, vinegar cleans insects from stomach. Cold water feet soak then dry and fresh stockings restore warmth.
Miner Recalls Sudden Blast Experience In Mine Accident
A miner blown by an explosion describes the instant force and sensory onslaught. He recalls the blinding light the shock, feeling of being hit, and fear for colleagues, then regaining senses amid smoke, pain, and disorientation. A separate note warns of nutmeg remedy for boils.
Partridge Outwits Falcon In Ground Chase
Major Fisher recalls a partridge fleeing a tame falcon. The bird feigned dead then outran and dodged the hawk on the ground, hopping and sprinting with bantamlike defiance until the falcon finally overtook it in flight.
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Major Fisher
Four Footed Bird and Appetite for Spiders Across Cultures
A historical note on the four footed bird Opis thocomus cristatus from Marajo in the Amazon, detailing its odd development and scent, plus a discussion from Cornhill Magazine about varied spider eating customs among Africans Europeans and a German lady who likened them to nuts.
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Marajo
Amazon
M. Beaumur
Rozel
Cornhill Magazine
Crowd turnout in N Mass mystery in Plain Dealer quote
A Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange questions who the crowd turned out for in New England. The dialogue ponders the identity of N. Mass and suggests a French man as a guess, urging closer listening.
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John
N. Mass
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Can He Cook Four Pies From One Pigeon
A Chicago Tribune item recounts a restaurant proprietor asking if a man can cook and a caller boasting of his friend’s culinary skill by claiming the man could make four squab pies from a single old pigeon.
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Chicago Tribune
Money for All? A Public Debate Note
A Philadelphia Ledger comment argues no scheme exists in public life to provide everyone with all the money they desire, reflecting ongoing concerns about wealth distribution and economic policy.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Buckien's Arnica Salve Promises Pain Relief World Famous
Advertises Buckien's Arnica Salve as the best compound to conquer aches and pains. Claims cures for cuts burns bruises inflammations and skin ailments with a money back guarantee. Sells for 25 cents at L. M. Bosworth's drug store.
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L. M. Bosworth
Sized Up
A dramatic quote highlights a clash between a confident speaker and a rude heckler during a crowded event at a Baltimore setting. The exchange mirrors tensions between eloquence and rudeness in public discourse.
Schooling and nature via the zoological garden
A Meehan's Monthly quotation extols a zoological garden as an ornament to a city and a vital adjunct to education. It argues that children gain irreplaceable lessons from observing moose, eagles, alligators, and other creatures beyond books.
A Fish and Lizard Story from Field and Stream
Angler recalls a river outing where a 25 to 30 inch pike weighed only two pounds, skin and bones. Inside the fish’s stomach a live five inch lizard was found, still active 24 hours after being caught.
Wanted Advertisement Manager for Established Firm
Wantep several persons of character and good reputation in each state one in this county required to represent and advertise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary 18.00 weekly with expenses additional all payable in cash each Wednesday direct from head offices. Horse and carriage furnished when necessary References Enclose self addressed stamped envelope Manager 316 Caxton Building Chicago 26 26t.
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Caxton Building
Chicago
Loan on any interest day reduces rate at Story Country Bank
If you have a loan on your place that can be paid on any interest pay day see us let us take it up and reduce your rate and also get you a loan on which you can pay any amount on any day you choose. We charge you no commission on such loan. Story Country Bank.
Mad poet judgment roils editor at paper
A French judge recently declared a man must be mad for writing poetry, a statement that has sparked debate about literary value and legal judgment while editors weigh the implications for literary submissions.
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Los Angeles Times
Cadiz Wedding Custom Replaces Ring With a Rose
In Cadiz Spain couples honor a nontraditional ceremony where no ring is used. After the vows the groom moves a flower in the bride's hair from left to right. A rose worn above the right ear signals the bride is spoken for, substituting for a ring.
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Cadiz
Spain
First Maps of Detroit Attributed to Chaussyros de Derby
A French engineer named Joseph Gaspard Chaussyros de Derby is credited with making the earliest maps of Detroit in 1749 and 1754.
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Joseph Gaspard Chaussyros de Derby
Detroit
A Boy Like a Fountain Pen Says Detroit Journal
The Detroit Journal quotes a saying that a boy's cost does not reveal whether he will make his mark, comparing youth to a fountain pen with potential yet to be written.
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Detroit Journal
Tea Oil Mixture Exchanged by Burmese Newlyweds
Among the Burmese a newly married couple exchange a mixture of tea leaves steeped in oil to insure a happy life.
No Transfer at Chicago for Major Rail Lines
Chicago travelers along the Baltimore and Ohio Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Nickel Plate railways can use Grand Central station to reach eastern destinations without transfers. The Chicago Great Western Railway passengers will still need to transfer when traveling east.
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Baltimore and Ohio, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Nickel Plate Railways
Grand Central
Chicago
Chicago Great Western Railway
California Tourists Urged to Apply to Agents in Chicago
If You Are Going to California Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Bay about the through Tourist Sleeping Car service to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Round trip tourist tickets on sale daily.
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Chicago & North-Western
Ba Y
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Try Our 25c Mocha and Java Coffee
Local ad promotes a 25 cent mocha and Java coffee from J. B. Kooser & Co claiming it is a winner.
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J. B. Kooser & Co
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