Monkey Labor in Cotton Fields A Southern Tale by Frederic W
An American Mocked article recalls a California planter who claims monkeys could pick cotton and work orchards. The narrator hears the tale from the planter and reflects on past hoaxes about animal labor replacing humans, as a visitor arrives with a sailor’s gait at the plantation.
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South
California
Virginia
Territories
Fred
Georgia
Fernando
Pythagoras
Monkey Chief and a Deadly Plantation Experiment
A Melbourne area narrator recalls an earlier cotton plantation scheme using 125 trained monkeys led by Pythagoras. After a bold trade to share a Buffalo gold mine, the experiment collapses when a monkey foils a theft by strangling an assailant, but the leader is killed by a gunshot. Fernando adapts, gaining control of the mine and producing good returns amid tragedy.
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Darkles
Buffalo
Pacific
Everglades
Florida
Fernando
Kermit Roosevelt Rising Sportsman and Family Favorite
Kermit Roosevelt, second Roosevelt son, trains for Harvard and shows early promise as a sportsman. He hunts in the Northwest, sheds a sleeping car berth for an elderly traveler, and loves dogs. An adept horseman, he rides in the White House stables on Wyoming the gift horse.
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Kermit Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Kermit
Theodore, Jr
Harvard
Teddy
Ufe
Northwest
Roose
Velt
Oyster Bay
Washington
Diamond
Old Diamond
White House
Wyoming
Chayenne
Time Honored Use for Kerosene Fire at Jewish Rented Premises
A fire at a London property rented by Jewish tenants prompted an insurance inquiry. An investigator questioned the senior and junior partners about cause. The report notes the senior partner cites an arc light, the junior an incandescent light, while the investigator opines the fire was caused by an Israelite in the basement.
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London
Insurance Company
Life and the Quinine Hero in Fever Camps
A dramatic piece personifies quinine as Life, entering fever camps to fight malaria and other fevers. It vows to save patients, from nurses to doctors declaring saved lives, portraying the battle against disease as a warfare against tiny death molecules and a return to health.
Baron Rothschild Aids Children Medical Work Gratis
Baron Henry Rothschild, a renowned member of the Rothschild banking house, is highlighted as a leading French specialist in children's illnesses. He dedicates his services free of charge and has donated substantial funds to foundations and endowments for treating children’s maladies.
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Freind
Baron Henry Rothschild
France
A Clever Retriever Returns Tail for Tail
A sporting dog once owned by a good shooter showed its wits by retrieving a dead rabbit. The owner, a bad shot, fired both barrels at a rabbit and heard a mournful howl. The dog then brought back a black object and laid it at his master's feet, having retrieved its own tail.
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Frederic W.mit
American Mucal Newspaper Association
Hke
Darkey
Big Ape
G. B
Success Magazine
Great Home Magazine of America
Boxe
R Success Magazine
Charles Leovard-Stewart
Panama
Nema
Encyclopedia Express
Success Company
Klagton Square
New York
Express Cone
Edia
True Blue Co
Boston
Mass
Star
Kamwipfe Brothers Manufacturers
Reade Street
New York City
Nti
Waterman
Penn
Goodwin
Rome
Godwin
J. H. Goodwin Room
Broadway
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