Texas farmers unite to wage war on prairie dog and pests
Wyoming style article notes Ascher G. Smoot says Texas farmers and ranchers plan a broad campaign against prairie dogs grasshoppers cotton boll weevils and other crop enemies. It describes poisoning methods contracts and organized outfits with chuck wagons and sharpshooters and mentions a new wolf scalp bounty law effective November first.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Ascher G. Smoot
Ith
Smoot
Dog
Jilted at Altar Faints in Boston Parlor Wedding Attempt
Arthur L. Bascomb the electrical inspector fainted when told parental objection prevented his marriage to Ada L. Powers. The ceremony was to be held in a Copley Square hotel parlor with guests present and a waiting minister. Bascomb had been staying with the Powers family for six months.
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Bascomb
Bascome
Commonwealth Avenue
Allston
Mr. Powers
Boston
Mass
Arthur L. Bascomb
Ada L. Powers
Copley Square
William H. Powers
Oldest mummy claim contested by new Egyptian finds
London reports Ra-Nefer in the Royal College of Surgeons as possibly the oldest mummy dating to about 3700 B.C. New discoveries at Sakkara near Cairo reveal a female skeleton from 4000 B.C. wrapped in bandages with corroded cloth suggesting natron preservation, pushing back preservation techniques by earlier dynasties.
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London
Ra-Nefer
The
Royal College of Surgeons
Elliot Smith
Senefra
Egypt
Sakkara
Cairo
Smith
When Is Egg Bad How Government Chemists Factor In Decomposition
Debates over the 1906 Pure Food Law center on what counts as decomposed eggs and how the government defines adulteration. Officials defend using bacteria counts to judge decomposition while egg producers argue the standard is arbitrary and rooted in common law rot gauge. The Jersey City seizure of 443 cans from Seymour Packing and H J Keith triggers a high-stakes dispute between industry and Department of Agriculture.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
Jersey City
N. J
Topeka
Kan
Seymour Packing Company
H J. Keith Company
George W. Stiles, Jr
Keith Company
Congress
Supreme Court
Secretary of Agriculture
Moose halts private phone line in Maine incident
In Dead River Maine a charging bull moose tore about 250 feet of private telephone wire cutting off service from West Carry Pond Camps. Owner Rufus B Taylor plans to sue the state claiming protection and ownership of moose makes the state responsible for damages. A large moose with tangled wire was spotted near a tote road as moose are protected until October 15. In New Jersey a man named Benjamin Tice was robbed of his whiskers after masked assailants surrounded him and demanded surrender.
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Dead River
West Carry Pond
Rufus B. Taylor
Maine
Resinol cures rough facial sores claims by a boy
A St. Louis boy age about eleven describes a mass of scabby facial sores and persistent itching. He credits Resinol Soap and Ointment, given by a YMCA director, with curing him in under two weeks without scars. The ad promotes the products and lists prices and mail order details.
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St. Louis
Ernest le Pique, Jr
Dickson
Resinol
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
Ady
Certainly Animals Think or Just Occupy Space
The quip contrasts animals and a car hog to question thinking versus occupying space. It uses playful banter about belief in animal thought and human ownership of a vehicle.
Terrible skin trouble cured by Cuticura soap
George Vetter of 103rd Street Carnasse New York describes months of itching sores turning blue and sleepless nights. He found instant relief using Cuticura Soap bath and Cuticura Ointment, and was cured in three weeks.
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103Rd St
Carnasse
N. Y
George Vetter
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Thoughtless father whacks child in Baltimore back yard
A Baltimore family visit ends with a weeping girl who explains her father struck her on the back lot. A sympathetic bystander girl asks where the blows landed and the child says on the tummy as tears fall.
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Baltimore
Marie
Professor Hears Ghost Beneath Bed After Meeting
A college professor, famed for his concentration, returns home from a science meeting still deep in thought. He hears a noise from under the bed and asks if someone is there. An intruder answers no, and the professor mutters that he almost heard a person under the bed.
Wise Young Man and the Cambridge Student
A Cambridge student known for wisdom is found asleep when a college friend seeks a loan. The borrower shakes him and asks to borrow a sovereign. The student replies he is asleep and refuses, then drifts back to sleep.
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Cambridge
London
Quote on diet and character sparks debate
A historic snippet cites a saying that men are shaped by their diet and jokes about recent sheepshead fish meals, reflecting era's humor and views on nutrition and behavior.
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Durham
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ST. Louis, MO
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W.L. Douglas
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National Monthly
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USA
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Templat
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Dr.LeClerc
Hlaverstock Rd
Hampstead
Eng
Defiance
A. J. Jolneson
Merchants National Bank Bldg
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Tonead Brook
U.S
D. Shaman
Port Mlney
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New York
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Monroe Rug Company
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