Secretary the Lion Sold and Dragged to New Cage in Central Park
In New York the Central Park menagerie shipped Secretary the lion along with a Cape buffalo and two bisons to William Bartels of Newark. The transfer, after a tense hour and a quarter, ended with Secretary inside the shifting cage as zookeepers and workers struggled to load him. The lion, born in the lion house seven years ago, weighed about 400 pounds and was valued around 1700 dollars.
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New York
Central Park
William Bartels
Newark
Snyder
Lion House
Secretary
Rose
Bismarck
Bais
Bir
Bayder
Bill
Zoo
New York Zoological Society
Duke of Devonshire
Still Progressing Delights Club Members
Report read by the president last night shows the club continues to advance. Mrs. Highmus voices gladness while Mrs. Upmore critiques a long pause between still and progressing.
Greek Lithographic Stone Deposit Reported in Sight
Experts who studied a recently found lithographic stone deposit in Greece say at least 35,000,000 cubic feet of prime flagstone remain. The find could bolster regional quarrying prospects and supply for printing and construction.
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Greece
New portable drills prove to pierce steel swiftly
New portdhile drills driven by electric motors no larger than a pint cup will sink a three eighths inch hole an inch deep in steel in a minute and a second.
Dog and Horse Flesh in German Sausage Delicacies
Paris Herald reports in Berlin that Germany consumes about 135000 horses and 6000 dogs yearly for sausage making though officials deny dog meat sales. The piece notes testing the meat by sausage slicing, Berlin dogs wear muzzles, and Parisian dogs enjoy freer status.
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France
Germany
Berlin
Paris
New York Herald
German Empire
Escalier de Service
Peacock Feathers and Superstition Across Britain
The London Chronicle notes that peacock feathers have declined as a superstition in homes and shops and suggests reasons tied to pride and the eye design. It mentions Whistler's Peacock Room as a possible turning point and observes feathers sold for a penny or shilling, reflecting shifting beliefs about misfortune.
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Whistler
London
London Chronicle
Rupert Judgment Snare Drummer in Theater Talk
A regular patron comments that the snare drummer should be the best musician in the theater orchestra. The drummer replies that he usually is.
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Rupert Judgment
Death in hot land on borax lake desert tragedy and rescue
G Herbert Masters survived a deadly Borax Lake expedition that claimed Charles Stracher Davidson's life in the heat. The party walked hours without water and found a sulfurous salty well with a dead rattlesnake. After riding to safety by auto they buried Davidson and faced severe dehydration and sun exposure. The survivors, though exhausted, began to recover.
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Berkeley
Cal
G. Herbert Masters
Charles Stracher Davidson
University of California Mining College
Randsburg
Davidson
Borax Lake
Masters
Thomas A. Graves
Olean
N. Y
David Bunkers
Norman Stein
George
Real Blizzard Insults Eastern Notions
A Washington Star critique explains that true blizzards are fierce zero wind events with ice particles driving horizontally, forming great drifts and killing stock. It contrasts this with milder snow squalls labeled as blizzards by eastern readers, noting plains experience and danger where storms lock people off the plains.
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Washington Star
Rotation notes for corn grain clover hayfield
Good rotation favors corn grain and clover with hayland topdressed by stable manure. Regular small applications yield best results. Wire land keeps raggy. light clover seeding periodically helps, reseed in summer after hay is removed.
Woman saves detectives on Black Lake near Holland
Two Chicago detectives on vacation in Michigan nearly drowned when their capsized rowboat sank. A woman named Jennie Goshen swam and guided a motorboat to reach the shore, saving Sergt. Timothy O'Brien and Sergt. Michael Connors after the vessel capsized in choppy Black Lake near Holland.
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Chicago
Michigan
Black Lake
Holland
Michael Kehoe
Desplaines Street Station
Timothy O’brien
Detective Bureau
Michael Connors
Jennie Goshen
Virginia Beach
O’brien
Connors
O'Brien
Skeletons Unearthed Near Santa Monica Canyons
Stanford university geologists excavating near the Pacific coast at the mouth of Topanga and Temescal canyons uncover skeletons believed 700 years old. Relics include stone implements of farming and warfare found as tides reveal ancient remains.
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California
Santa Monica
Cal
Topanga
Temescal Canyons
Stanford University
Stanford
The Pope An Early Riser and Longevity Rumor
A humorous profile noting the pope's dawn rising habit and stout health raises questions about longevity since 1870. It compares papal reigns, cites Leo XIII and Pius X durations, and jests at predicted nine year terms while the pope laughs at such forecasts. No reptile found in Newfoundland is mentioned.
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Apostolic Palace
Vatican
St. Peter
Pius IX
St. Peter’s
Leo XIII
Pius X
Venice
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