Goose Hunting Traditions on the North Dakota Prairie
Wild geese are a staple commodity in North Dakota with prices from $2.50 to $8 per dozen during the hunting season. In small Northern Pacific towns hunters set pits, use decoys, and shoot from dawn to midmorning as flocks circle decoys and drop to the ground. At Crystal Springs station near Jamestown, a morning hunt yields twenty eight geese including brant and Canadian varieties, recorded as a satisfactory result by the Cleveland Leader.
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Noth Uwcommon
Pheder
North Dakota
Northern Pacific Railway
Crystal Springs
Jamestown
N.D
Cleveland Leader
The earthly paradise is here says the recorder
The author contrasts savagery with culture and argues travel reveals beauty at home and abroad. He praises archeology and varied peoples while urging a hopeful view that the world is fair and accessible through imagination and travel.
Old Forms of Sport In England and Beasts of Burden
Walter Besant reflects on historic British pastimes from dogfighting and badger baiting to bullfighting and bear baiting, noting some are gone while a few survive in mild forms. He recalls cock throwing as the only truly dead pastime, with other forms only temporarily eclipsed.
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England
France
Arles
Walter Besant
London
Courting Customs in Spain and a Strange Andalusian Encounter
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt notes long courtship practice in Spain with men pacing before windows for years. It also recounts an English traveler in Andalusia who was halted in a dark street as a swain performed under his beloved’s window, a scene requiring prudence.
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Andalusia
Philadelphia Ledger
Porcelain Eggs Save Washington Chickens
A Washington chicken rancher faced ruin as snakes preyed on eggs and chicks. He placed porcelain nest eggs in hens nests, which the snakes swallowed, leading to their death and saving the stock.
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State of
Washington
New York Evening Sun
Rivet Heads Made of Clay Sell as Steam Boiler Parts
A German contemporary notes rivet heads molded from clay and painted to resemble real rivets. These makefits have been used by German dealers in second hand steam boilers to fool customers. Some call it cheating.
Ambush on the Little Missouri Warns of Massacre
A Northwest campaign recounts a perilous 200-man march turned aside by a Half Breed guide. He detects an Indian ambush along a grass lane bordered by creeks and thickets. Indians wait with archers and squaws ready to massacre. the column diverts to avoid a doomed encounter, crossing the Little Missouri and ending the threat.
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Eo Stowe
Missouri
Letus
Wheeling Register
Ingenious Australian Green Ants Craft Leaf Nests
The green ants of Australia create nests by bending leaves and sealing them with a natural glue. Workers pull hundreds at a time onto a leaf, drawing it downward while others hold and fasten it in place.
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Green
Australia
Philadelphia Press
Man mistakes food for teeth biting policy
A simple man misreads his meal and believes his false teeth will chew it. He grows suspicious of his own understanding and questions whether his assumptions were correct.
Eugenie remembered in poetic Springfield Homestead tribute
Isadore Baker writes from Springfield Homestead praising Eugenie as a tragic royal figure. The poem laments the end of empire, notes her beauty and motherhood, and chronicles her refuge in faith after a monarch’s death. It ends with devotion to immortality.
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Oiine
France
Zuln
Isadore Baker
Springfield
Homestead
Splendid Peking Banquet Outlined for Diplomats
Forwarded menu lists four classic dishes such as swallow nests with pigeon eggs and shark fins with crabs. Courses include cups of delicacies, multiple meat and vegetable dishes, desserts, and an array of wines. The record notes no opium, reflecting official China’s stance against the drug.
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Peking
China
East India Company
Asiatic Quarterly
Robbers Hanged by Ballot in Japanese Villages
The Pomona Progress reports a village justice system in Japan where male residents vote on suspects after a robbery. The person with the most ballots is hanged, ensuring punishment occurs, though the method risks wrongfully punishing an innocent or a worse figure.
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Japan
Pomona
Cal
Emperor Charles V Planned His Own Funeral Tale
Odd vanity struck Charles V who ordered a mock funeral at Estremadura before his death. A coffin was carried to a chapel, with procession, prayers, and tears, then the emperor rose from the coffin alone after the ceremony.
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Charles V
Estremadura
London
Curling by Electricity and Its Simple Iron
The electric curling iron is simple with wires feeding current to a small stand that holds tongs. Temperature is set by resistance heat in the wires. Stands stand about two inches high, nickel plated, some Berlin models gold plated with handsome handles. Travels require little space in a satchel with a silk cord and adjustable incandescent wire.
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Berlin
New York Telegram
Why Fish Should Be Cared For
Migratory fish are hatched and partly matured in fresh water. They feed and grow in the sea, but they are never caught there, so protection and preservation should rest with those who seek them as a salable commodity. Sportsmen also deserve consideration, spending far more on fishing than the fish they catch would bring.
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Schliemann
Troad
Layard
Birs Nimroud
Champollion
Egypt
Borneo
Switzerland
Central Asia
Caucasus
Bosnia
Danubian
British Columbia
New York
Highlands
Shawangunks
Golden Horn
Hudson
New York Recorder
Fishing Gazette
Slander From the Pulpit in Lafayette Ind
A Lafayette preacher reportedly caused a church rift by sermonizing that God rested after making each creation. The item cites the Louisville Courier-Journal and notes a range of curious statements on topics from shrouds to public speaking on one leg and air states.
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Lafayette
Ind
Louisville Courier-Journal
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Maynard, Mass
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South Acton, Mass
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