Oakland Ducks Parade: City Protects Lake Merritt Flock
Oakland bears a unique winter spectacle as Lake Merritt hosts thousands of wild ducks each fall. City rules fence the creek, feed the birds, and ban dogs during the festival, encouraging nesting and large resident flocks each spring and summer.
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Enice
Hmits
Oakland
Cal
Lake Merritt
Oakland Public Schools
City of
Klamath Lake Reservation
California
Oregon
Klamath Reservation
Alaska
Condensations of global trade and culture notes
A state lunch in China lists 146 dishes while Florida forests boast 175 wood varieties. A Honolulu factory will make shark and whale feather items. The banana rises in value amid a general market lull. The American relief association feeds 1 800 000 children in Poland. New York records more street accidents in slack hours than rush hours. The lotus symbolizes purity to the Japanese as it floats unmarred in muddy waters. The violet is linked to mourning in the Mohammedan religion.
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China
Florida
Honolulu
American Relief Association
Poland
New York
Unnamed man complains of ailment and odd devices
The excerpt presents Old Bragg Sockery of Mount Pizgy Arkansas describing strange ailments and a distrustful view of doctors. It notes a Kansas City Star reference to trap door spiders using a door with two triangular parts that swing on a diagonal to provide an unobstructed passage.
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Uncle Bragg
Gabe
Old Bragg
Mount Pizgy
Ark
Sorfer
Kansas City Star
Joseph Henri Dierick
Curious Form of Door in Early Inventions
A fragment notes one of the oldest human inventions, the door, swinging on hinges. It references weaving insects and mentions the number 88 in the text.
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Yukon Delta
Calfornia
Lower California
Mexico
Cental
South America
San Francisco
Sacramento
Yukon
Robert H. Moulton
America
Germany
Aar
Leviathan
Hudson
President Harding
United States ” Shipping Board
Wales
Prince of Wales
India
Prince
Commonwealth Avenue
Newton
Miss
Mildred
Mildred Owens
Seal Rocks
Eva
Eva la Rose
Lawrence
Mass
New England
K. G. Matheson
Georgia Technical College
Mrsq.matheson
Albert Staton
Old Grant Tannery
Jesse Grant
Point Pleasant
Harding
Ulysses S. Grant
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