A Novel of the Foothills Excerpt with Ranch Strife
Zen, Transley, and Y D struggle with rival ranchers in a prairie region. Drazk scouts Landson’s hay stacks and contemplates a risky stake manipulation to aid Y D, while Zen navigates flirtations and threats amid mounting tensions among workers and foremen.
Friendship the Key to Shared Happiness and Grief
A short aphorism notes that friendship improves happiness by doubling joy and halving grief, suggesting companionship spreads positive feelings and cushions sorrow.
Origin of the Dumdum bullet name traced to Indian town
The hollow-nosed bullets known as dumdums derive their name from Dumdum a town in British India within Bengal division. It served as Bengal artillery headquarters in the early eighties. At the Hague conference the use of the bullets was forbidden by international agreement.
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Dumdum
British India
Bengal
Bengal Artillery
Foley Remedies Ad Promises Samples for Money
An old advertisement invites readers to mail a form with name and address to Foley & Co. in Chicago. It claims a ten cent bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds plus a free sample of Foley Pills and Foley Cathartic tablets, as well as Foley products. Names Floyd Kirkpatrick and William Burston appear with locations Clare and Parnell.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Av
Chicago
Fll
Foley’s
Foley
Floyd Kirkpatrick
Clare
Wm. Burston
Parnell
Four Generations of Mountains Rise in Europe
The Indianapolis News notes that four major mountain generations have formed in Europe since geological history began, and suggests nothing indicates another will not occur.
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Europe
Indianapolis News
When Woman Goes Fishing Fancies Ribbon on Line
A woman fishes and ties a ribbon on her line thinking fish are like humans. One woman resists bait to cast without it and catches two trout twins who die by their own action. Since then she lectures the fish market owner on running his business.
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Zen
Transley
Linder
Vien
Petehorse
Mr. Drazk
Drazk
Talus
George Crark
Dravzk
Mendoe
Robert Stead
Tompkins
Y.D
Cyrus Tompkins
Fred
Landson
Pandson
Carter
Petehot
Pransley
Pete-horse
George
Drayvk
Crask
Pete
al Steer
Cinder
Sea cucumber body wall shapes and forms
The sea cucumber has a soft leathery outer wall and strong circular and longitudinal muscles. This allows it to assume many shapes, most often resembling a vegetable from which its name derives. It can become slender worm like or take an hourglass form.
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Nature Magazine of
Washington
Townsman Converts Count of Penalty to Public Library
A resident wrote to his congressman about a patent office report. He received a reply noting a $800 private use penalty. He then turned the volume over to the public library per the notice.
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Patent Office
The Other Woman and a Divorce Complication
A conflicted wife discovers her husband's other lover and visits the rival, Helen Carruthers, to confront the situation. Helen urges patience, questions how the husband values each, and proposes tea as a gesture while Mary contemplates divorce but resolves to keep the affair quiet.
Reversing Falls at St John River Canada
The Reversing Falls in New Brunswick at the St John river mouth form a tidal feature not true falls. The rapid tide rises 28 feet, creating a inward fall as waters pass the narrow outlet, and an outward fall as the tide recedes. The falls are passable four times every 24 hours for steamers vessels and rafts.
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Canada
New Brunswick
St. John River
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Transfey
George Drazk
Crark
South Y.D
Breese
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Jida
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Mary
Carruthers
Helen Carruthers
Mary Dane
Glay
Yenry
Mrs. Dane
Helen
Helen Garruthers
Fleury
Aaron
Roy Felghner
DR. Dunlop
Bryn Mawr
J. W. Dunlop
Clare, Mich
Friz
Michigan
Andrew N. Criz
Lydia M. Friz
Clute’s. Garage