War on Farmers Pests via Disease Laden Bugs and Brackets
An essay by John Elfreth Watkins Jr. in the Washington Star outlines a perilous concept where scientists propose disease infected grasshoppers chinchbugs to wipe out insect plagues. It details methods of preparing and spreading contagions among pests while warning of dangerous implications for humans and the ethics of such biocontrol schemes.
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Uncle Sam
Agricultural Department
Grasshopper
Australia
Africa
Bacteriological Institute of
Cape Town
Mississippi
Minnesota
Tie
Wingle
Mr. Farmer
Bechuanaland
South Africa
Chinchbug
Uncle Sam's Agricultural Experiment Station
Urbana
Mean
Tae Louselly
John Elfreth Watkins, Jr
Washington Star
Educated Men in Demand in Modern Economy
A Success excerpt notes rising demand for educated men and women across professions business and farming. It highlights chemists farmers analysts and graduates filling top roles in insurance banking manufacturing and transport with renewed emphasis on liberal education for future leadership.
End of His Career in Atchison Globe Tale
A man drifts into town wearing day pen niless shoes with holes, his friends recalling four years earlier leaving Atchison to quit a good job and escape the old rut, as reported by the Atchison Globe.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
New Ways of Cowboys From Old-Time to Modern Ranching
A Holbrook Arizona crossroads station on the Big Colorado hosts cattle and cowboys from the Southwest. From spring to winter, shipments head to Kansas City New York and Omaha totaling about 148000 head this year worth roughly 3 350 000 on the cars. Cowboys in vivid attire crowd Holbrook streets while changes in ranching methods emphasize economy saving bones horns pelts and horns sold as fertilizer and calves branded with new tools. Roundups remain a dramatic test of horsemanship with large herds and fast riding, reflecting a transition from romantic glare to strict business.
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Texas
Holbrook
Arizona
Colorado
New York Sun
Kansas City
Chicago
Omaha
Molbrook
Southwest
West
California
Tramp Nuisance in Siberia and Transported Populations
Solomon, Russian prison chief, argues Siberia received 864,549 transported persons from 1807 to 1899, nearly a sixth of its population. In the last twelve years 159,191 arrived, with 100,582 transported individuals and 5,876 men, 4,706 women, plus 40,900 children. Unmarried migrants dominate, about 81 percent, and a third of the mass remains lawless, while 30,000 are cultivators providing order.
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Solomon
Independent
Siberia
Russia
Palmistry Trial Boldly Claimed as Innocence Proof
In a Chicago Journal piece, Justice Kersten quips with a jailed man who defends guilt or innocence via palmistry. The prisoner, wearing a soppy straw hat, argues his life is good and his work capacity is astonishing. The judge dismisses skepticism, noting the jailer’s perspectives and soap as novelty, while the prisoner exits without arrest.
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Mia Honda
Kersten
Chiago Journal
Anticipation and Realization in a Married Woman's Life
A Globe excerpt contrasts a daughter's view of her future autonomy with a married woman's reality. It notes that a tanner mentions a married woman being “her own boss,” a notion that Freedom itself would mock, as a noble bird drops its feathers in death.
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Ani
Atchison Globe
Thought Him An Angel In Gen Palmer Circus Tale
Gen John M Palmer recalled a Kentucky incident when a disrupted town caravan left him to ride a circus chariot through streets. A black chorus of enslaved and an old preacher cried aloud calling him Gabriel as the day of judgment neared, prompting prayer from spectators. Siberia Settled Largely by Exiles. Deportation to Siberia began in 1501 with exiles forming town populations. Russia now backs peasant emigration with land grants to reduce crime.
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John M. Palmer
United States
Kentucky
Bress de Lard
Angel Gabriel Hisself
Siberia
Russia
London Sphere
Hops Grow Wild in English Counties
Report notes wild hops flourish across many English counties including the Isle of Wight, with cultivation limited to parts of Hampshire and near Petersfield. Hops bloom in July and August, thriving in hedges and thickets as a perennial.
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Hampshire
Petersfield
Isle of Wight
London Express
Boon to Humanity from Bioxide of Sodium Find
Reports from the French Academy of Science claim bioxide of sodium renews oxygen and absorbs carbonic acid. Two men in new apparatus wore diving dresses and stayed two hours without air, then half an hour underwater. Potential uses include submarines, firefighters, and miners safety by neutralizing toxic gases.
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French Academy of Science
Boston Globe
Pessimists in the Days of Jefferson
In early American debates critics warned that opportunity was denied by the wealthy and aristocratic classes. The Philadelphia Bulletin notes enduring complaints against Federalists and elites, citing figures like Robert Morris as enriching themselves at the expense of the poor and limiting access to education for the unfavored.
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Jefferson
Robert Morris
Philadelphia Bulletin
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