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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1878
Page
4
A Smithsonian style stroll through bee life for youth shows the social hive structure, queen and workers, the sting, pollen gathering, pollen balls, larval feeding, wax cell building, and hive behavior. It highlights bee anatomy, cell construction, and seasonal activity, ending with a teaser for future club talks.
A Leavenworth Times reporter describes Nez Perce camp life above Fort Leavenworth noting the cheerful, clean conditions. The tribe’s daily bath uses a sweat house built near the river with heated stones, steam, and a plunge into the Missouri, followed by a cold exit, described as a long standing custom believed to do much good.
A Washington letter notes the U S Bureau of Engraving and Printing sent samples of American bonds and notes to France, creating a Paris Exposition display. It highlights distinct ink and paper fibers used to deter counterfeiting and mentions secured plates preserved in the secret service vaults.
An extended critique of the catbird detailing its ubiquity from coast to coast and its cheerful yet imperfect song. The piece notes the bird’s confident familiarity with humans, graceful form, and bold home defense, while faulting its overlong deliberation and use of imitated sounds.
A railroad man patents a new pass design that encodes the holder’s age hair color eye color and body build with punched figures and words. The card’s margins carry descriptors slim medium stout or corpulent and beard options enabling transfer only to a matching person.
In a suburb mayor’s office a playful quarrel escalates during a civil wedding as two brides and two grooms clash over jealousy and glances. After a brief private talk the parties announce a “change of brides” and wed as planned, leaving the mayor perplexed but approving.
Ancient Andean builders used suspension bridges across deep ravines on major routes. Cables of plant fibers span gaps with bamboo planks for flooring, requiring frequent renewal every two to three years. The Apurimac crossing near Cuzco measures 148 feet long and 118 feet above the river.
A Lyons silk manufacturer says he possesses over three hundred sh of wine and as many degrees of something redox related, claiming these resources reduce all shades of mole vegetables and flowers used in his fabric production.
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