Wonders of America exhibit in Manhattan Square NYC
In Manhattan Square New York City a vast discovery hall spans ten acres of space. President Kant laid the cornerstone in 577 to house a security shop and vast collections illustrating animals birds minerals and world wonders. notable displays include a 36 ton Greenland meteorite an Indian dugout 641 feet long a 79 foot whale model and a 70 ton real whale. exhibits cover primitive tools fishes snakes disease transmission and a library of 70,000 volumes on natural history travel and anthropology.
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Manhattan Square
New York City
Kant
Greenland
California
Driver-ants Form a Regiment in the Insect World
The African Gold Coast hosts the driver-ants, a marching army with workers a quarter inch long soldiers half inch and officers seven eighths. A crack regiment may march twelve abreast two inches wide with flank troops, travel at speed, and use tunnels with airshafts. They attack any obstacle including fire, relaying reinforcements to threatened points.
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African
Gold Coast
Hats Denote Rank Across Nations at Brooklyn Exhibit
The article describes sun hats from the Philippines, South Seas, and China used to indicate status and protect from heat. It notes palm and cane materials, simple neo colors, and the Manila style with a cane bandeau. It cites the Manchu bonnet’s jewels and a turquoise blue kingfisher feather hat priced up to $10,000, showcased at Brooklyn Museum.
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Philippines
South
Brooklyn Museum
Remarkable air plant in Indian Territory shown as parasite
An observer describes the air plant in Indian Territory, noting its lush green foliage and a woody stem that appears not to root but instead lies across other vegetation. The vine continues along its length and ends at the opposite end of the stem, with nothing living beneath it as the plant seemingly feeds on others.
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Indian Territory
London
Sir Archer Evans
Emnion
Ennion
Sidon
Book Agent Denied Entry Sparks Crealturs Clash
A terse uniformed man blocks entry shouting you cant come into the building. The visitor protests saying a book agent is a man who sells houses in Crealturs a dam and deserves to be called a terator. The exchange hints at a local dispute over titles and rights.
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Crealturs
Grotesques and Parisian gowns in chatter
Miss Cayenne comments on gown sources saying she gets all her gowns to Paris and asks for opinions. The dialogue suggests Paris holds a sense of bur amid griefs and perplexities, reflecting light conversation in a social setting.
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Paris
Miss Cayenne
Begging the Fox: An Old English Custom and Its Rewards
The piece explains a long standing rural practice where country people carry dead foxes to farmers and landowners to solicit small gifts. It describes the aim to reward fox destruction, especially female foxes, with payments ranging from a penny to several shillings, and notes the fox skin itself can fetch up to 25 shillings.
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London
England
Ponhunting
Queer London Good Friday custom of sixpence buns
In London on Good Friday twenty two widows collect bright sixpence coins from a flat churchyard tombstone and receive hot cross buns. A medieval founder of St Bartholomew’s may have laughed at the practice, which preserves a mystery and pathetical wish for prayers for the dead.
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London
Rahere
St. Bartholomew's
Yellowplush
Willy and the Banister Head Entrapment
A Chicago Journal item recounts Willy, a mischievous boy, wedged between banister rods during a visit to gramadia. The family, led by mother and grandma, frantically sought escape. grandma directs to fetch a saw as panic rises, the child’s head reportedly enlarging.
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Willy
Gramadia’s
Grandma
Crandma
Gran
Cally
Vankster
Chicngo Journal
Doyle Made Good as Detective
Louimebedy recalls Sir Conan Doyle's detective work in 1907 to free an apparently innocent man in the Edsall affair. The case involved an accusation of maiming animals near his home. Doyle proved the prisoner’s extreme nearsightedness made him incapable of harming the horse.
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Arthur Conan Loyle
Chinese Ancestor Worship Traditions in Family Shrines
In China every family often maintains a main hall with an ancestral shrine housing wooden stone or marble tablets. Names birth and death dates of ancestors are inscribed along with kinship to living descendants. Twice yearly ceremonies honor the departed with bows before the tablets, not for resident spirits but as a symbol to remember the living.
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China
Never in Pairs Badgers Rarely Seen in Daytime
The American Forestry Magazine notes badgers avoid daytime activity. They are numerous in burrows and often seen only at night. Pairs are rarely found together as badgers typically pursue their activities separately.
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American Forestry Magazine
Tools and supplies for electrical work and repairs
The guide lists essential hand tools and materials for wiring and carpentry including screwdrivers awls saws chisels files sandpaper and a soldering iron. It emphasizes durable rubber covered tape high grade insulation and varnished combing known as Spagherth for safe joints and urges saving unused items for future use.
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Brevere
Tanlac praised by Baltimore grocer for health rise
Benjamin W. Bailey of West Lafayette and Dukeland Aves Baltimore says Tanlac rebuilt his strength after months of indigestion and collapse. He credits the drug with restoring health in two bottles and urges others to try it, noting his son-in-law also benefited. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
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Benjamin W. Bailey
West Lafayette
Dukeland Aves
Baltimore
Mr. Bailey
Taniac
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin Benj. A. Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, Publienere
Western Newspaper Union
American Museum OF Natural History
Gold
Africa
Land and Letters
the Home Radio
A. Hyatt Verrill
Hasper & Aretbare
Bailey
Tanlac
Mullin's Home Store
Wilmington
Bay Shore
Rock HaLl
Leave Bay
Ave Rock Hall
Eastern Shore
Maryland
Baltimore and Eastern Shore Ferry Line, Inc
W. Lexington St. Plaza
Tor Records
Victor Catalog
Victor
Record Library
M. Kk. Newnam
RED Star Detroit Vapor Oil
Walter Sparks
The
New York
Life Man
Nisi
W. Brewster Deen
Mary M. Hicks Winnie L. Hicks
Caroline County
Circuit Court
Geo
A. Deakene
A. Deakyne
Eversharp
F. J. Wright
Optometrist
Denton, Md
Wesley Collegiate Institut
Henry G. Budd
D. D
Dover, Delaware
Samuel G. Nuttle
H. Rarle Smith
Warner
Nuttle & Smiths
Denton
Ford
Denton Auto Company
Goldsboro Bank
the Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro, Md
Robert Jarrell, JR
Bayer
Hoffman
Fletcher
Vick
Denton Drug CO
Journal
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