Beavers Build Remarkable Colorado Dam and Trail
Report from the Academy of Sciences details thirty to fifty beavers near Palmer Lake Colorado migrating after altering a dam to create a new home. Dr Kinly credits their apparent planning and scouting as a high level of animal intelligence. The new dam stretches about 500 feet enclosing fifteen acres and with brush kept wet to deter fires.
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Academy of Sciences
el Paso
Palmer Lake
J. B. Knley
Denver
Beavers
Colorado
Academy of Sciences of Denver
Kinly
Reading CHECKMATE by Julia Truitt Bishop
Story fragment features Deputy Ben Pringle guarding a woman in a rural house while pursuing an escaped prisoner Sol Wiggins. Sheriff and deputy share dialogue about pursuit and the girl teasingly questions law and danger as she irons and jokes about being watched.
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May
Ben
Ben Pringle
Sol Wiggins
Lucy
Jim
Sol
Barton
Ned
Closet Secret Sparks Chase and Clever Escape
A tense scene unfolds as Ben Pringle confronts a closet believed to hide a culprit. Miss Bert defiantly blocks the door, outsmarts him, and after a dramatic reveal the pair escape by daring across Hollow Tree ford. The episode ends with Pringle humiliated and a vow from a sheriff that the clever woman deserves a lesson.
Bruce Son of Blanche Bruce Graduates Harvard and Heads to Tuskegee
Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of Blanche K Bruce born a slave in Virginia, graduates Harvard in 1899 after education at Oberlin and Phillips Exeter. He won the Coubertin medal for French politics study and will become a teacher at Tuskegee. His father, a former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, escorted him to the Vice Presidents desk at his first Senate entry.
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Harvard University
Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Blanche K Bruce
Mississippi
Virginia
Oberlin College
Mississippi Senate
United States
United States Treasury
Conkling
Blanche K. Bruce
New York
Bruce
Tuskegee
Free Doctors in Germany Draw Back from State Pay
Under a German insurance law 30 million people receive free medical attendance. The Doctors say they are asked to do too much for the pay, about 75 dollars a year in Munich, and to cut costs they urge patients to minimize perceived illness.
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Germany
Munich
Chinese and Japanese Burial Customs Cited for Remains
The article notes Chinese prefer burial abroad then ship bones home, while Japanese cremation and mailing ashes saves costs. It cites average freight savings of about 54 to 56 dollars for bones and fifteen cents for ashes. It explains seven years on average before Chinese remains are shipped, managed by powerful Chinese companies, unlike Japanese practices.
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America
Ely's Liquid Cream Balm Spraying Kit Promises Relief
Ely Brothers offer Ely's Liquid Cream Balm with a nasal spray tube for 75 cents. The liquid carries the solid preparation's medicinal properties, quickly absorbs into the membrane, and helps normalize secretions. Available from Ely Brothers at 56 Warren Street New York or by mail.
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Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren St
N.Y
University enrolment shifts with mixed gains and losses
Guascow University gains 103 students from last year while Edinburgh adds 102 and St Andrews 26. Aberdeen shows a drop of ten. The impact of Mr. Carnegie's gift on these figures remains unclear.
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Guascow University
Edinburgh
St. Andrews
Aberdeen
German Chemist Reports DwaARF Plant Method
A German chemist describes a process different from the Japanese method that injects a secret fluid near a plant's root to halt growth. The plant remains alive and can still produce flowers as normal.
Mrs John A Logan Praises Military Training For Boys
Mrs John A Logan writing in the New York Journal argues that a high school course in military tactics yields superior discipline and patriotism compared with baseball. She claims cadet drill strengthens appearance and readiness, cites the Spanish American War as proof, and urges continued drills and an industrial path for usable civil life.
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New York Journal
John A. Logan
Dr King's New Life Pills for Digestive Ailments
Overtaxed organs signal distress with dyspepsia pains nausea dizziness and headaches. Dr King's New Life Pills offer gentle thorough relief and are guaranteed to cure. Available at J H Mercer's and CG A Kleim's drug stores.
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New Life
J. H. Mercer’s
CG. A. Kleim
Old Needlework and the Early Stuart Embroidery Styles
The article traces early Stuart needlework from Charles I era, noting Elizabethan and Jacobean pieces exist but no uncontested original, with extant examples dating after 1630. It describes early pictures worked in tent stitch on brown linen, resembling tapestry, and later advances to silver passing metallic thread for highlighted areas.
Woman's Life Saved by New Discovery
Dorchester Mass resident Mrs Louis Cragg credits Dr Kings New Discovery with curing a severe lung trouble and obstinate cough after other treatments failed. Advertisement touts cure for coughs colds throat and lung trouble with 50c and 1.00 prices and free trial bottles. July 2 4-w.
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Dorchester
Mass
Dr. King
J. H. Merver
O. A. Kleim
Rival Discoverers Among Early Wireless Pioneers
The London Spectator notes the irony that Tesla, once claiming signals from consciousness beyond Earth, now rivals Marconi’s claims by proposing a meteorological explanation for his message. The exchange highlights mutual skepticism between the two wireless pioneers.
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Mr. Marconi
London Spectator
Elope or Accept? Parents Question Prospective Son-in-Law
A terse exchange centers on marriage consent. The suitor vows to elope if refused and to seek forgiveness, then asks for an allowance. The dialogue highlights family tension over arranged nuptials and financial expectations.
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