Educational French garden exhibit moves from Reading to Birmingham
About thirty tons of live plants and garden features are being transported from Reading to Warley park near Birmingham for an educational demonstration on intensive continental cultivation. The display will run from February to November, showing beds, frames, and cloches with crops at various stages, including cabbages, peas, strawberries, tomatoes, and melons. The lord mayor and lady mayoress of Birmingham will open the exhibit.
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London
Reading
Birmingham
Messra
Sutton
Alte
Warley Park
Snakes Change Man's Views Near York Farm
Farmer William Tracey, while removing an old fence in Dover Township, discovered a nest of copperhead snakes. He withdrew his hand and reported the chill weather has cooled ambitions of a hot wave. Tracey later resigned from a local club amid weather doubts.
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York
William Tracey
Dover Township
Tracey
Hustmount
Copperheads
Love Measured by Machine
San Francisco reports on Charles Trudow of Elmhurst who claims to have invented a physio-mograph or love machine. By two people gripping handles a dial records the strength of affection, aiming to quantify love and psychological attraction though it cannot assess relationships between two men. He seeks patents and capital to build a factory.
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San Francisco
Charles Trudow
Jones Avenue
Elmhurst
Trudow
Trudowita
Gas Pipe Its Own Plumber Sparks Fire at Pawnshop
In Kansas City Missouri a gas pipe beneath the Economy Furniture and pawnshop on Main Street leaked as a clerk dropped a lit cigarette through a hole. The flame melted a lead packet around a steam pipe and ignited gas, quickly extinguished by fire crews.
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Kanana City
Economy Furniture Company
Main Street
G. A. Stevens
George A. Stevens, Jr
City inventory lists pigs pianos and zoo elephant in Cleveland
Cleveland completes a massive city inventory listing every owned asset from office blotters to reservoirs and Minnie the Brookside zoo elephant. The tally shows 77 pigs 249 chickens 129 and 118 rocking chairs at hospitals with only two departments finished.
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Cleveland
City Hospital
United States
Lynn
Mass
Brown
London Plans Massive Smithfield Slaughterhouse Scheme
London city officials unveil a plan to spend about 200000 dollars on a new slaughterhouse and cold storage near Smithfield market to boost American cattle imports. The project aims to shift shipments directly to London and raise meat value while cutting frozen meat reliance, drawing concern from railroads dependent on meat transport.
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London
England
City of London Corporation
Smithfield
Horses Die in Wet Pottsville Weather Event
Over a dozen horses died in Pottsville and surrounding areas in a weather related incident. Reports from other regions mention similar horse deaths tied to wet conditions. The article notes odd symptoms and widespread concerns about a strange weather linked cause.
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Pottsville
Hawk Snags Hat as Hawk Snatches Chantecler in New Jersey
Misa Margaret McPhail and Miss Minnie Hertdorf flee from a large chicken hawk near Pompton turnpike. The bird swoops, strikes Miss Hertdorf in the face, and carries away the hat. The hat falls into the Passaic River and Howard Jackson of Montclair recovers it for the owner.
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Singao
N. J
Misa Margaret McPhail
Pompton Turnpike
Mies McPhail
Minnie Hertdorf
Miss Hartadorf
Miss McPhail
Pasaale
Howard Jackson
Montclair
Sunnyside Canoe Club
Autos Knock Out Mosquitoes in New Jersey Road Oiling
Annual report by gateway commissioners notes road oiling reduces mosquitoes in Jersey residential districts. Oiling drives mosquitoes to untreated tracts while smoke from cars likewise keeps them away from populated areas.
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Skeetera
Orange
N. J
Atateway Commissioners
Jersey
Treasure myth debunked on Aztec gold and codex swindles
Mexican journalist Jose Ramon Palafox travels to Washington and San Antonio, disputing legends of Montezuma’s hoard. He says the imperial palace yielded the bulk of gold shipped to Spain, not vast Aztec treasure, and warns against codex scams and American investment misled by treasure fantasies.
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Imperial Palace
Spain
Cortez
San Antonio
Tex
Jose Ramon Palafox
Washington
Mexico
Senor Palafox
Imperial
Historiany
Hernando Cortez
Euphrates Valley
Egypt
Rameses
T. Avi Kenyon
Palafox
Mr. Palafox
Rio Grande
Republic
Animals Include Frogs and Pups in Chicago Kindergartens
A Chicago committee approved admitting a wide range of living creatures as kindergarten pupils to foster nature study. The plan, guided by Mrs. Mila Flagg Young, aims to cultivate affection for all living things and practical exploration through excursions and hands on activities with insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals.
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Chicago
Mra
Mila Flagg Young
Lewis Carrol
Young
Matador to Receive Record $40,000 for Mexico City Fights
Jose del Rivero, manager of the City of Mexico bull ring, says Antonio Fuentes will be paid a record $40,000 for four bullfights in Mexico City next September, $10,000 per performance, a sum higher than paid to leading opera stars. Fuentes travels from San Antonio to Spain to arrange the engagements.
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San Antonio
Tex
Jose del Rivero
City of Mexico
Spain
Antonio Fuentes
Fuentes
Dentistry Reform Converts Chicago Delinquent Boy
Ten dollars in care from the Children's Day association changes Joseph Herlovec a sixteen year old Bohemian youth from mischief to industry. After court, a farm job in Scherville Indiana was offered to earn back the ten dollars. A week later he sent a five dollar gold piece as partial repayment with plans to save the rest.
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Chicago
Children’s Day Association
Joseph Herlovec
Berlovec
Dejloves
Beflovee
Mermaid Exhibit Sparks Superstition and Skepticism
A dugong arrived aboard the Ameri can Iver Philadelphia from South Africa, billed as a mermaid fossil of Serenia. The creature, caught at Delagon Bay by George Victor, proved unable to be landed alive and died soon after arrival amid lore of legendary sea maidens.
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New York
South Africa
Iver
Philadelphia
Delagon Bay
George Victor
Portuguesa
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Memphis
Thornton
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Navy Yard
Hawk
Paswale River
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Ochorowics
Paris
Wisle
Silesia
Mile
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Mrs. Tomczyk
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Tank
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