Ape Steeple Rescue Endswith Baby Safe Return
A village alarmed by Mrs Lane's pet chimpanzee Jocko climbing the church steeple with her three month old baby ends in a perilous rescue. Steeplejack Jim Banks climbs the rope ascent to seize the ape, who drops the child but a nurse appears with the baby alive, while Jocko is nowhere to be found and Mrs Lane panics.
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Mrs. Lane
Barney Lane
Africa
Jocko
Brenden
Jim Banks
Gineses Jocko
Banks
Banka
Mra. Lane
Bow String Fences Show New Fence Support System
A design to replace rigid posts with bowstring fencing uses two solid terminals 40 rods apart and 86 feet of stretched wire supported by thin flexible steel anchors anchored 18 inches underground. When shocked by a bull or similar impact, the flexible supports bend in an arc and cut into the ground to cushion the blow, transmitting the force to end terminals that are built to withstand it.
Rio de Janeiro Name Origin Mixed With river Misbelief
The first finder of Rio de Janeiro named it for a river and the month January. He was right about the month but wrong about the river, since the city sits on a coast shaped like a great river mouth and likely marked early exploration with notes on Americas, mountain chains, and isthmuses on unused letters.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Jaaneiro
Gummer Resort Ethice Controversy Reveals Tense Romance
A fragment from a Gummer Resort scene shows a speaker asking for another kiss as ethics and manners loom. The exchange suggests social expectations about propriety and romantic pursuit at the resort.
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Gummer Resort Ethice
Harvesting and Curing Raspberry Crop
Raspberry harvesting splits into hand picking for fresh fruit and batting for evaporated berries. Batting uses a curved paddle to knock fruit into muslin trays, boosting daily yield but slightly losses. High heat drying, sun or artificial, improves quality and speed, enabling evaporated raspberries to outproduce sun dried in yield and value.
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United States
Best Blackberries Grown in Delaware
A Delaware blackberry grower details soil selection and planting, stressing sandy loam, good drainage, and 12 to 14 inch tall plants. Rows span 6 to 7 feet with 8 feet between plants, shallow holes, and moist roots.annual pea cover, weed control, and subsequent yearly cultivation accompany a seven year manure cycle. Autumn tips include bending top canes to form new plants and prevent winterkill.
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Delaware
Jeta
Success with Dairy Cows in Daily Herd Performance
Farmers urged to push beyond a merely good average milk yield by focusing on individual cow performance and overall herd efficiency. The article stresses reforms in feeding, management, and record keeping to raise output.
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Ex Merabera
The Bathers and Bound to Be Heard
Dialog fragments show Patience and Patrice debating entering the water and warmth of a fur boa in a bathhouse. A separate exchange reveals Mr Finthuah and Mrs Flotbush discussing a loud child cry and a family situation, hinting at a domestic scene.
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Patrice
Literary Diet and Sharp Wits in The Cynic and The Husband
In this dialogue from a period piece, The Cynic remarks that women never grasp anything while The Husband counters that hair length might influence understanding. They discuss Aladya who feeds her mind with constant reading, and the pair humorously note her appetite for a novel and for cereal, painting a playful domestic scene.
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Aladya
Save the Babies Castoria Safety Claim Emerges
A historical notice argues infant mortality is high worldwide and claims Castoria reduces deaths. It asserts many deaths result from narcotic drops and soothing syrups with opium or morphine. The piece emphasizes Castoria bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher and promises health benefits.
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Castoria
Neas
H. Fletcher
Unlucky Dates and Warm Wedding Plans
A witty exchange about a cousin's imminent marriage on an unlucky date and her cheerful view on any day being fortunate. The snippet also references a London gem expert doubting opal supplies and a humorous remark about an insured husband. The collage includes stray phrases about sea steamers and nautical fixtures.
Ball Lightning Mystery Advances With Three Key Traits
An investigator lists three defining features of ball lightning. The phenomenon appears as a self moving luminous ball with independent identity, sometimes in rooms with no strong electrical field, and it can disrupt telegraph wires. It seems tied to energy, seen exploding and even touching an overhead line, with Dr G C Stimpson linking it to nitrogen enabling post discharge growth.
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G. C. Stimpson
Wright's Indian Vable Pills Ad and Military Age Figures
Wrights Indian Vable Pills advertises a remedy while a population study estimates 21,000,000 men of military age in the United States. It cites 1910 census baselines showing 10,183,000 eligible men, with breakdowns by race and nativity, and notes Tennessee’s 434,041 men of military age.
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Amerca
Tennessee
Quip About Longevity Ends with a Wry Rejoinder
The speaker boasts of a long lived family with great grandfather living to a hundred, grandfather to ninety seven, and father to ninety four. A friend counters that, despite the record, they are still losing ground.
Fragmented OCR dialogue hints at war news and aging reader
A garbled scene features quips about smoke signals and burning signs, a poor man with a spade, and an elderly, illiterate veteran. The overheard exchange touches on intelligence, deafness, and skepticism toward war reporting, ending with a fragmented thought about old age and truth.
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Es Spade
To Seek Missing Explorers in Arctic Expedition Search
Hope remains for locating members of the 1912 Rytalan polar expedition aboard the Saint Anna under Lieutenant Brusiloff and the Hercules led by geologist Bonsanoff. Appeals go to Russian consular authorities, commercial fleets, navigators, and Arctic researchers to aid in finding traces in Greenland and nearby Arctic waters.
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Saint Anna
Brusilof
Hercules
M. Bonsanoff
Arctic
Greenland
North American
Russia
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Promoted Here
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for weak kidneys liver and bladder claiming it relieves rheumatism by neutralizing uric acid. It urges readers to obtain a bottle from a druggist and offers a sample by writing Kilmer & Co in Binghamton New York.
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Wright
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