Good Roads and Wide Tires for Canadian Farmers
Ontario agriculture bulletin urges durable road beds with proper drainage and graded slopes to ease hauling and extend vehicle life. Recommends Telford or macadam paving, wide tires of 24 inches for draft wagons, and regular maintenance. Emphasizes social and economic gains from better roads and wider tires.
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Ontario Department of Agriculture
Canada
United States
Telford
France
Courage of Indian Elephants in Warlike Service
The account notes elephants endure wounds and danger under keeper orders. A small female elephant charged by a buffalo was shot by a rider with an explosive shell, leaving a severe wound that did not heal after a year. The elephant stood firm though gored as the buffalo was slain by another gun. A London spectator calls the elephant not gunsby.
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Fred
Loodon
Slow Speech Facts Challenge Rapid Talk Tales
The New York Sunday News touted very fast public speaking, claiming bishops and politicians reach 250 to 300 words per minute. A careful record shows Bishop Brooks never exceeded 213 words per minute, suggesting the sensational figures are exaggerations.
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Sunday News
Roscoe Conkling
Sarah Bernhardt
Buffalo Courier
New York Sunday News
Bishop Brooks
Bourke Cochran
Col. Fellows
Bacteria Impart Flavors in Global Tobacco Curing
A German botanist suggests micro organisms in sweating tobacco leaves drive the taste and aroma. Experiments show cultures from one tobacco impart its qualities to another, implying tobacco quality could be improved by inoculating leaves with bacteria from finer leaves, a method akin to wine improvements.
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Suchstand
Ife
Giant Skeleton Found At Palermo In 1516 Unearthed In Quarry
The St. Louis Republic recounts a 1516 discovery in Palermo Sicily where a gigantic skeleton four feet tall was found with a two foot eight inch bowlder ax. The relics include a large skull and a 52 pound tag, though the verdict is lighter. The mob burned the skeleton in 1662 amid the black death fear.
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St. Louis Republic
Palermo
Sicily
St. Isereit Museum
Abbe Ferregus
Cavalier Leroy
Teneriffe
Running a Circus The vast payroll behind a traveling show
A traveling circus requires 75 to 200 staff including advance agents press agents excursion and contracting agents riders drivers stable crew and performers. Top earners like first class bare back jockeys and star acrobats can reach hundreds weekly while clowns musicians and handlers also add to a substantial weekly payroll and costly advertising and equipment.
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Zazel
Lulu
Walter L. Main and Sells Bros
Newgate Prison Emerges as a Pictured Ruin in East Granby
The old Newgate Prison in East Granby Connecticut sits on a hillside above the Farmington River, a ruined, vine covered relic once a copper mine and colonial, military, and state prison. Its history begins in 1705 and ends after prisoners moved to Wethersfield over sixty years ago.
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Newgate
Connecticut
London
East Granby
Barnett
Farmington River
New England
Loday
Farmington
Wethersfield
Young sportsman climbs tree to shoot squirrel
An innocent young sportsman explains he climbed a neighboring tree to avoid straining the gun on a long shot. The odd reasoning is noted as a foolish maneuver in the brief item.
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Greatman
Newgate Prison
W. N. McKeehen
Fremont
Ind
Fred A Walter
Philip Michael
E. C. Shupp’s
EK. G. Shupp
Ouurfi
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