Wonderful Moving Vine Near the Guadalupe River
A narrator describes a pale green vine climbing a cottonwood near the Guadalupe River. While observing, an unseen ant nest under the leaves is revealed as brown mandibles hold each leaf, with umbrella ants shading themselves on the tree. The discovery prompts recounting and calls for companions to witness the ants that carry leaves to feed their young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaen
Chase
Tropics
Texas
St. Nicholas
Adolescent Echoes Of Language In A Plantations Tale
In a reminiscence from Youth's Companion an old Black narrator recalls a master named Rawson known for his forceful speech. The tale notes his harsh figures, such as comparing a sick wife to an ash pan and other sharp metaphors from that era.
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Darky
Massa Rawson
Major Williams
Deepest well reaches four thousand feet near Berlin
The deepest bore hole, near Sperenberg Germany twenty miles from Berlin, was drilled to 4119 feet. Starting at 280 feet to reach salt brine, the 16 inch hole continued to 680 feet then narrowed to 13 inches and descended to the final depth.
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Sperenberg
Germany
Berlin
New York American
A Warning from a Dressmaker and a Farmer on College Studies
A dressmaker complains of her son's Sanskrit focus as fussy and impractical. An old farmer rejects higher learning, urging his son Joe to use plain Yankee talk and dismissing language studies as useless, calling college a warning.
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Joe
United States
Europe
Cured by Funny Stories
A Baltimore physician prescribed a course of funny stories to a overworked businessman in Nashville. The persistent patient laughed into health, as laughter allegedly revived mind and body and brought a cheerful vibration to the system.
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Baltimore
Nashville
Unwitting Jester Offers Quiz Answers from Tatler
A London Tatler facetiously lists exam answers from a history test at a large private school. It misstates Simon de Montfort as founding a “mad parliament” like today. It falsely names Cromwell’s troops as “the Tronclads” and claims Morimain tried to bar dead men from church lands.
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Simon de Montfort
India’s vast land limits native cooperation, population spread
The article notes that more than 770 percent of India’s land area is occupied by natives, creating a sparse population and weakening cooperative power.
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India
Simms vs Medig Am in Chancery Publication Order
The Register of the Houston County Chancery Court orders publication in Dothan Eagle for Medig Ann Simmy, a non resident of Alabama residing in Florida, to answer the bill by February 29, 1908, or a decree pro confesso may be taken. The notice is dated February 7 in Dothan, signed by Judge J. M. Cody.
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Wg, Simms
Medig Am Sims
Chancery
Southeast Chancery
Register
Hill
Alabama
Florida
The
Dothan Eagle
Dothan
Ala
Ann Simmy
Jyge J. M. Cody
Regigia Oa
Publication Notice in Chancery Case Against Jack Garner
The court orders publication in the Dothan Eagle Houston County Alabama for Jack Garner a non resident of Alabama to answer or demur to the complaint by March 7 1907 or a pro confesso decree may be entered. Affidavit of MB Byrd solicitor of record states Garner is over twenty one and resides in Mississippi.
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Southeastern Chancery Diviging
MB Byrd
Jack Gyner
Alabama
Mississppi
Jack Garner
Dothan Eagle
Houston
Jack Graner
Dothan
Ala
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Houston County
Miss Barnett
St. Louis
M. Cherry
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