Blood of the Countries Involved Poured Out on Battle Fields
Maj Leonard Darwin discusses racial damage from World War casualties at the Royal Statistical Society in London. He estimates British casualties around six percent and warns that the war harms the higher types of manhood, with effects likely to continue for decades.
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Europe
Leonard Darwin
Charles Darwin
Royal Statistical Society
London
New York Sun
Major Darwin
Arthur Keith
Museum
Hunterian
Royal College of Surgeons
Pall Mall Gazette
Young hunter traps famed fox in Richmond chase
Roswell Wheeler is a 15 year old from Richmond who captured Reynard the fox after a morning stakeout. Wheeler used his dog Scotty to drive the fox toward a pine tree where he grabbed the tail and swung the animal down. The fox, thought to be ten years old, had long eluded traps and bullets.
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Roswell Wheeler
Richmond
Young Wheeler
Scotty
Reynard
Wheeler
Fox
Lenox
Mass
New York Herald
Local Saddlery Pair to Open Big Piney Shop
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Miller join Mr. Schmidt at Piney to open a general saddlery and harness house serving the West. The venture aims to fill local orders and expand to outside trade as the Green River Valley gains pride in the new business.
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Blake Miller
Cheyenne
Big Piney
Mr. Miller
Mr. Schmidt
Piney
Schmidt
Miller
Green River Valley
Hunters Pack Basin as Winter Goes On
Bondurant items note many hunters in the Basin and widespread game taken with no one left dissatisfied. Local residents visit, travel, and work plans include a saw mill restart, ranch duties, vegetable deliveries, and winter arrangements around Bondurant and nearby Jackson.
Beginning Insurance Early in Rome Schools
Consul Kelley reports from Rome that many elementary schools in Rome and other Italian cities have established mutual benefit insurance for pupils. Students pay small weekly contributions to a general fund and receive payments for sickness, accident, or death while laying the groundwork for old age benefits. The plan, still young in Rome, is spreading across public schools and aims to continue into adulthood.
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Consul Kelley
Rome
Italy
Humor in a Thousand-Dollar House Dilemma
A playful dialogue frames a young financier’s plan to build a costly home with seven hundred dollars. The teacher asks how to reach a thousand, prompting a joking reply about marrying a woman worth three hundred dollars and a pun on wedlock. The Parlor Philosopher and Mero Man contribute wit.
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Johnny
Kansas City
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Dave Riling
Jackson
Fred Watts
Walter Mcpherson
Boulder
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Neil Durnford
Basin Sunday Report
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Opal
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Lee Johnson Ranch
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