Indiana State Fair Set With Record Premiums and attractions
Secretary E J Barker of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture confirms the state fair will open September 28 with 81936 in premiums and purses. Grand Circuit races run all week and Gas Sun Circus displays with 15 shows and 100 rides. Weer Carnival Co. provides the midway entertainment as livestock and horticulture entries swell toward a record number by August 16.
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Indiana
E. J. Barker
Indiana State Board of Agriculture
Gas Sun Circus Troup
J. C. Weer Carnival Co
Sharp Shinned Hawk Named Top Game Bird Enemies Destructive
The sharp shinned hawk known as the blue darter is highlighted for its poultry and game bird predation. It measures 10 to 12 inches with a 22 inch wingspan and preys on chickens and small birds, earning the label of a leading wildlife gangster by the More Game Birds foundation.
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Malcolm Campbell
United States
Department of Agriculture
More Game Birds Foundation
the Foundation
Know-Nothing Party Emerged From Immigration Fears
The Know-Nothing party arose after waves of Irish famine and European revolutions pushed migration to the United States. It was a secret movement also known as The Sons of 76 and the Star-Spangled Banner, advocating America for Americans and a 21 year residence rule for citizenship. From 1854 to 1857 it won several state elections and influenced the 1856 national campaign before vanishing by 1860.
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Europe
United States
Know-Nothing Party
the Sons of '76
Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
American Party
America
Whig Party
Why hair turns gray and what makes it white overnight
Authorities differ on why hair grays. Some say follicles stop producing the oxidizing agent, others claim air bubbles replace shrinking hair cells and create the gray look. First gray hairs are larger and stronger. in extreme old age hair becomes thinner and baby-like.
Paris 1870 Balloon Mail Crisis Lands Beyond Siege Lines
During the siege of Paris in 1870, 55 balloons carried mail, 47 landed beyond German lines, and about 100000 letters were sent. Neptune left Paris on September 23 carrying 250 pounds of letters. Citta di Firenze carried 300 pounds. the United States linked three bags. The fifth balloon fell near the lines, triggering a clash over postcards stamped 10 centimes.
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Paris
Citta di Firenze
United States
Stolberg Holds World’s Largest Funeral Sermons and Cross
Stolberg in the Hartz, known for the Stolberg palace, houses the world’s largest collection of funeral sermons with 20,000 volumes from the 17th and 18th centuries. On the city outskirts rises the world’s largest cross on the Josephshone, 1886 feet high, built over a century ago as an observation tower.
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Stolberg
Hartz
Germany
Josephshone
Tow Bug Beetle Descriptions In Stored Tobacco Products
The tow bug or cigarette beetle infests stored tobacco and other stored products including tow in overstuffed furniture. Larva is a white fleshy grub and adults are brownish about one sixteenth of an inch long with the head tucked under the thorax. Larvae bore small round holes as they feed. several generations occur annually under suitable conditions.
Vesuvian Volcano's Historic Eruptions and Rail Access
A summary of Vesuvius detailing its eastern Bay of Naples location, long population, major eruptions in 79 AD destroying Herculaneum Pompeii and Stabiae, a 1631 eruption killing about 18000, and subsequent minor outbursts. It notes quiescence until modern times and an 1880 railway bringing visitors near the crater.
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Bay of Naples
Italy
Campania
Vesuvicus
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Stabiae
Vesuvius
Secrets of ancient Egyptian metal plating revealed
A copper kettle and basin from about 2500 B C at the Metropolitan Museum of Art show early chemically applied metal plating. Researchers identify a thin antimony coating with trace trap impurities, noting an electrolytic-like principle possibly discovered by accident through vinegar and salt baths.
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Egypt
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Popular Mechanics Magazine
B. C
Columbia University
Giant's Causeway pillars born from ancient basalt upheaval
Geologists explain the Giant's Causeway along Ireland's north coast formed by basalt upheaval in the Tertiary period. Erosion left about 40 000 pillar rocks over several hundred square yards, mostly six sided, up to 20 feet tall, near Bengore Head eight miles from Portrush.
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Ireland
Bengore Head
Portrush
Antrim
Londonderry
Tyrone
Scotland
Old Libby Prison Torn Down for Coliseum Site
The Old Libby Prison moved to Chicago in 1889 was demolished in 1899 to make way for the Coliseum completed in 1900. The prison's outer wall helped form the Coliseum front and the war exhibit is now with the Chicago Historical Society along with shutters and main door. Most building material was reportedly disposed of by wreckers in 1899.
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Libby
Chicago
Chicago Historical Society
First Cremation in the United States Historic Event
The article notes the first cremation in America in 1792 of Col. Henry Laurens on his Charleston estate following his will. A week later a close friend was cremated, marking the second white cremation in the country.
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U. S
America
Col
Henry Laurens
Continental Congress
General Washington
England
Charleston
8. C
Odor of Flowers Intensifies After Rain
After rain flowers emit stronger scents as damp air confines the aroma to a smaller area, making the fragrance more noticeable.
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Rush County
Bruce H. Stephens
Mgr
Schrichte
S. Maro
Rushville, Indiana
Howard E. Henley
Insurance Carthage
P. J. Sattler
Carthage, Indiana
Attorneys-At-Law
Henley & Ingle
W. J. Henley, Sr
O. F. Ingle
Rushville
Alantic
the Alantic Monthly
Arlington St
Boston
Result of Immigration
Vesuvieus
Giant’s Causeway
Cram
NEW Geographical Globe
South Polar
Asia
United States Geographic Board
Dublin
Baile Atha Cliath
Moscow
Russia
Moskva
U.S.S.R
Vienna
Austria
Wier
Warsaw
Poland
Warszawa
Constantinople
Turkey
Istanbul
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Beograd
Rome
Roma Angora
Ankara
North Main
Henley
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