Hawks and Farmers Clash Over Farmyard Hawks
Edward B. Clark argues hawks divide into injurious and beneficial species, detailing Cooper and sharp shinned hawks as culprits stealing poultry while red tailed and broad wings aid in rodent control. He recounts urban hawk sightings, nesting behavior, and dangers of misunderstanding predator roles.
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America
Saccipiter Couperti
Sharp Shin
Tient
Uncle Sam
Biological Survey
H. Justin Roddy
Hawks
Corvus
Robert W. Hegner
the Republic
Edward B. Clark
Leaves sprouted on tables astonish West Springfield residents
In West Springfield Massachusetts Mrs John Joy found green leaves growing from a willow bark table while dusting. Neighbors Mrs Foy Mrs Veresper and Mrs Wrighe reported similar growths after willow tables were sold uncured. Moist air encouraged leaf development on the bud cut willow.
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John Joy
Meadow Street
West Springfield
Mass
Mrs. Foy
Stephen Veresper
Thomas Wrighe
Presidents Wealth After Office Across the 19th Century
The article surveys former presidents wealth after leaving the White House. It notes lavish spending by some leaders, contrasting Garfield and Hayes with grants, Van Buren avoiding salary, Jefferson's Monticello finances, and Washington valued at about $500 000, with many presidents dying well off or in reduced means.
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White House
Garfield
Hayes
Grant
Aldrew Johnson
Knoxville
Greenville
Tenn
Liicoln
Buchanan
van Tren
van Buren
Park, Fillmore
Pierce
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson, Jr
John Quincy Adams
District of Columbia
Flarvard
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin
James Monroe
New York
James Madison
Dolly
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
Congress
George Washington
America
Presidents of Past Show Presidents’ Post Office Wealth Tales
New York reports on presidential fortunes. Cleveland died poor but gained land wealth, Taft remained largely salary bound, Bryan rose to about $800,000, Roosevelt could be $100,000 to $200,000, McKinley left $400,000 to $500,000, Harrison saved $125,000, and Arthur died at about $200,000.
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Hawk
Falco Columbarius
Ike
Hunter
Hunted
New York
Grover Cleveland
Congress
Cleveland
Garfield
Washington
Oak View
Taft
Charles O. P
Bryan
Chicago
Roosevelt
White House
William McKinley
George B. Cortelyou
McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Chester A. Arthur
Smallest watch and tiniest steam engine described
A Cincinnati man claims ownership of the smallest watch, under a quarter inch diameter, with tiny engraved numbers for readability. An American clockmaker also created a minuscule steam engine fitting in a thimble, weighing about 15 grains, with a 1/12 inch piston stroke and 140 parts held by 52 screws. Italian artisans featured minute craftwork including a pearl boat with diamond sail and ruby headlight, emerald rudder, valued at least $5,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Cupid's Gifts for Keeps in Blair County Case
Judge James Shull ruled that a lover who gifts a sweetheart holds the item in perpetuity. James Polke allegedly kept a set of furs after ending the relationship with Miss Lucy Deffley, choking her during a struggle. Larceny charge was dropped. furs returned. assault and battery suit proceeds with costs divided.
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Altoona
James Shull
Perry County
Blair County
James Polke
Lucy Deffiey
Juniata
Shull
Deffley
Church Music Held in Sensuous Light of Morality
Rev. Charles H. Bohn of Nevada Missouri and Oscar H. Hawley of Macon urge church music harms morality. At the Missouri State Music Teachers' convention in the Church of the Messiah they denounce sensuous church and grand opera music as harmful to listeners moral sensibility and romantic prospects. They condemn Wagner and call grand opera a heterogenous mass of howling with no real poetry.
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St. Louis
Charles H. Bohn
Episcopal Church of
Oscar H. Hawley
Macon
Association
Toad
Marria
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Noffensi
American Ornithologists’ Varion
Joseph B. Bowles
Cooper Hawks
Harold Remedy
Uncle Allen Sparks
Uncle Joe
Moffett Staub
William B. McKinley
Illinois
Cannon
Ilinois Traction Companies
Champaign
Gourt
Naval Academy
Walden Faweath
United States Naval Academy At Annapolis
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