Redlands Endangered by Purple Scale Threat to Citrus Industry
A San Bernardino Sun report cites Horticultural Commissioner S. A. Pease as uncovering red and purple scale on lemon carloads from San Diego received in Redlands. Fungible pest control urged, fruit to be burned, and strict state law enforced to prevent further shipments.
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Santa Ana
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Contesting the New Game Law Faces Public Outcry
Opponents of the new game license measure argue the rule requires licenses for hunting. The San Bernardino Sun notes aliens must pay 25 dollars, non residents 10 dollars, residents 1 dollar, with licenses valid one year and renewed every twelfth month. Public grumbling grows as July 1, the law’s effective date, approaches.
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San Bernardino Sun
Law limits Interstate Commerce Commission power on rate disputes
The dispatches show the commission cannot equalize rail rates between eastern points and the Pacific coast when two independent lines charge different rates for similar service. The commission can address local line discrimination but not interline rate discrepancies. Cases include coast shipments from New England at lower fares than Georgia and South Carolina, harming Southern shippers. Waterways and steamship line ownership add jurisdiction gaps and complicate rulings.
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Orient
Charge to the Jury in a Tiny Georgia Case
In Reconstruction Georgia a solemn freedman becomes a justice of the peace. After testimony ends he tells the jury the case is small and simply charges them a dollar and a half per juror.
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Georgia
Oriental Lyric and a New York Lady's Bold Choice
The piece opens with an Oriental Lyric translation by Fanny Raymond Ritter, contrasting cosmic and earthly images. It then tells of a New York woman who, after supporting an adventurer through forgery and Sing Sing, seeks a commutation but abandons him when she learns his love letters were copies to his first wife.
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Ife
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Lelmholta
Shiloh
Grant
Cheneral
Schwartz
de Sheshenists
Jiming
Cherman
Christmas Doll Kidnapping and Echoes of Bach Jokes
A 1905 Lippincott piece recalls a Christmas tale of hiding a doll as a baby reappears the next year. It includes Warren Gilbert on Bach humor and a heaven gate joke about charity, plus a long humorous quip about a Kansas doctor and a newsboy. The column closes with a Shiloh anecdote and a Dutch officer mispronunciation about spiking guns.
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Silverrold
Marie
Lippincott
Doctor’s Prank With Skeleton Scares Boy In Newspaper Tale
A doctor improvises a skull prop to prank a boy. The boy enters, meets the grinning skeleton, flees shouting, while the prankster and Ingalls watch from the back room. The incident ends with the boy crying and pleading to buy a paper. Minnie’s Prayer notes fashion fervor at night.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Cow with bell wins damages suit over railway accident
A cow wearing a bell was killed on the railway after a collision. The driver blasted the whistle to frighten the animal, but the farmer proved the cow also reacted to the engine and the jury returned a verdict in favor of the cow’s owner.
Alibi and Prayer Prank in a Family Moment
A tale from Lippincott's and Chicago News presents a boy named Harold who snubs his father in prayers after misbehavior. His mother pressures him to bless his dad, prompting a humorous scene when the father, returning home, tests the boy with the key in the door.
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Harold
Papa
Lippincott’s
Endorsement on Warrant Seized by Michigan Constable
A pasted endorsement on a warrant fragment states the constable arrested the defendant and notes officers Warren Wiles and Biger Wiles withheld horses. It mentions a writ of Habeas Corpus and claims the defendant Biger Wiles was removed by that writ.
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Michigan
Warren Wiles
Biger Wiles
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