Belvidere Mecca for Old Horses a Grim Fertilizer Plant
A New York World report describes a Belvidere operation buying old horses for 1.50 to 2.00 per head and processing them into bone fertilizer, grease, and leather. The facility kills three horses daily, dissects carcasses, and uses bones and hides for sale. cattle are processed similarly and bones yield high value fertilizer. The plant reports about 1,000 tons of fertilizer shipped annually and a 14 year history with an executioner who has killed thousands.
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Belvidere
Mecca
Els
New York World
Odd Etiquette Customs Abroad and a Clever Young Dog
The piece surveys foreign manners, noting Swedish rules on hats and arm contact, Spanish female proprieties, Persian aristocratic visiting norms, Turkish cleanliness, and Syrian house norms. It then shifts to a Popular Science Monthly anecdote about a two year old dog learning door-opening tricks, counting a gate episode with a mistress and a clever tail-saving gambit.
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Sweden
Helland
Spain
Persia
Syria
Philadelphia
Avorite Udit
Jonning
Toots
Popular Science Monthly
Spiders Respond Shockingly to Tuning Fork Experiments
English naturalist Mr Pocock reports spiders hear the sound of a vibrating tuning fork. Garden spiders dash at the fork while amaurobius trembles and climbs toward the instrument. Some believe the sound mimics wasp wings. others argue air vibration moves the web. Youth's Companion notes debate.
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Pocock
Epeira Diademata
Periodical Cicada Broods Predict Appearance This Season
U S Department of Agriculture notes the 17-year cicada broods XII and XVIII will emerge late May to June in the South and mid-Atlantic states. The nuisance is minor unless populations are large, with eggs laid in twigs. Entomologists seek accurate locality reports to map brood distribution this year.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Riley
Division of Entomology
Missouri
New York
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Troy
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
District of Columbia
North Carolina
Dearborn County
Indiana
Kalamazoo County
Michigan
Illinois
Louisiana
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Harvey
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Opposition by Brooklyn Women to Woman Suffrage
A Brooklyn women’s movement protests woman suffrage arguing the duty burdens women with political responsibilities and duties beyond their domestic obligations. It warns that feminine opposition could defeat suffrage in the constitutional convention, asserting that a united female front is needed to avert a political upheaval.
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Brooklyn
New York Sun
Bly's Cream Balm for Catarrh Promoted as Safe Remedy
The article praises Bly's Cream Balm as a fast acting, specifically curative, and safe remedy for catarrh. It argues that common snuffs powders douches and washes offer only temporary relief and notes the balm is widely sold by druggists.
Mrs Ballington Booth Keeps Home Bright in Montclair
Mrs Ballington Booth of Montclair New Jersey balances Salvation Army lecturing with a busy home life. She has a sturdy six year old son and a 16 month old daughter, with a well kept house and sunny tempered children. She returns home often between duties and says they have good times together.
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Providence, R. J
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Providence
George L. Littlefield
Pawtucket
Albert L. Calder
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Bristol
Horace M. Barns
Joan P. Campbell
Leander H. Peck
Enos Lapham
Warwick
Newton D. Arnold
Heski R Barker
Ouney T. Inman
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He Maths
Amos C. Barstow
Rowland Hazarg
Hristopher Lippitt
Edward D. Pearce
Yoyai C. Tan
Toratio N. Campbe Oher
H.j.goddard
Robert Knight
W. RR. Mattexon
John W. Danieleon Samuel
Sprague
Herbert J. Wells
William D. Ely
Toho C. Pegram
Qonert L Gammell
Lyman B. Gof
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Samuel BR. Dorrance
Edward &. Clash
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M. C. Tisler
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