Vast Buffalo Herds Roamed North American Plains
Frank G. Carpenter recounts how millions of buffalo roamed from Washington to Kentucky and the West, with estimates of 4,000,000 in one herd. The brutal slaughter rose with railroads from 1868 onward, bones and robes shipped East, tongues sold, and meat wasted as profits soared for fur firms and hunters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank G. Carpenter
Washington “Star
Washington City
Pennsylvania
Blue Lick Springs
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Great Plains
West
R. I. Dodge
Arkansas River
Professor Hornaday
Kansas Pacific
National Museum
George Catlin
Jack Bridges
Buffalo Bill
Mr. Harday
Atchison
Topeka
Santa
Great Southern
United States
Miles City
Hornaday
Joseph Ullman
New York and
St. Paul
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
Strange Global Etiquette and Customs Across Cultures
The article surveys diverse practices from Persia to Japan, Ashantee, and Russia. It notes dining etiquette in Persia, dietary taboos in Ashantee, flower-decked New Year displays in Japan, and a St Petersburg carriage rule. It mentions a Tokyo ordinance to label children with parents names and addresses and describes clapping as greeting and farewell in Central Africa. It concludes with Ashantee and Fantee burial customs for a dead man and grave desecration viewed as warrior ritual.
Record price set for 1459 vellum psalter
London dealer M Quaritch asks 26060 dollars for a vellum psalter printed for the Benedictine monastery of St James at Mentz. Reportedly the highest price yet asked for a book. The work is one of the earliest printed volumes dated 1459.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Quaritch
London
St. James
Mentz
Rage Turns to Paper: A Two-Ton Process
A report explains that two tons of rage are required to yield one ton of paper, illustrating a metaphorical production cycle and its environmental implications.
Hoosier Happenings Collected Local Notices
A roundup of Indiana items reports mishaps, discoveries, and civic developments. Incidents include a Bedford hand loss in car coupling, Elwood gas flow, Lafayette street railway slated May, Vigo County cottage project, Peru merchants closing early. misadventures at Walker ville and LaPorte fatalities, a Wabash marble find, and oil fever spreading from Anderson and Frankton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Elwood
Lafayette
New Street Railway
Mishawaka
Brice Beals
Evansville
Richmond
Bedford
Vigo
Peru
Wabash
Treaty Creek
Shaw
Walkerville
Kenanna
Indiana
Geologist Bretchley
Charles Miller
Laporte
Lake Erie
Aurora
Charles Lindsay
Susan Walker
Rushville
Joseph Wilhelm
Osgood
Ripley House
Elkhart
Fortville
Ind
B. F. Rudy
Anderson Fire Department
Rudy
Eastern Oil Company
Windsor
Randolph County
Frankton
Anderson
West Point
Garibaldi D. Maginnis
Burwell Place
Dennis
Abraham Life
Eightyfourth
Big Sandy
Kentucky
Ministers’ Association of
New Aly
Board of County Commissioners
Circouit Court
Searchlight Tactic Quells Lanca shire Riot
A factory owner used an electric searchlight to disperse rioters in Lancashire England. After striking workers were replaced with new hands, the beam protected sheds built for new hires and illuminated the factory yard nightly. Police stationed at the works were reduced as the light helped locate pickets across the countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancashire
England
A Rash Promise in a London Magistrate Tale
A London magistrate frees a woman after she protests she was drugged rather than drunk. He offers leniency if she vows never to enter a public house again, she counters with a drug store ban, and the judge lets her go to avoid a fine. All her soda water is gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
California bound Pullman excursions from Chicago by B C Q E R
Advertisement notes personally conducted excursions to California from Chicago every Wednesday via the Burdingtort Route with through cars, modern amenities, and a pamphlet available from T A Grady at 211 Clark St. It also mentions John Keifel, a Carbon Indiana jeweler, and Francia Schlatter of Denver in a reminiscence about Zurich schooling and perpetual motion, plus praise for Nickel Plate Passenger Service and its fastest Western Express with stated schedules and low rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Chicago
Denver
Salt Lake
T. A. Grady
Clark St
John Keifel
Carbon
Ind
Francia Schlatter
Zurich
Switzerland
Keifel
Schlatter
Presidents with blue eyes minus Harrison
A statistical claim asserts that all U.S. presidents except William Henry Harrison have blue eyes. The remark accompanies a quip about metaphysicians and language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Henry Harrison
United States
Free Photograph Offer from Grand Army of the Republic Chief
A promotional notice offers a free photo of Hon I. N. Walker, Commander-In-Chief of the G A R. Readers may write to F. H. Lord at the Quincy Building in Chicago to request the portrait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. N. Walker
F. H. Lord
Quincy Building
Chicago
A Valuable Wife and the Rise of Del Santo
The Washington Post notes that Del Santo earned his reputation through his wife who urged him to work for his family. Her encouragement kept him diligent and contributed to his fame as he pursued both livelihood and acclaim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Santo
Washington Post
Solid Through trains offer safety and speed on Nickel Plate Line
The Fast Eastern Express from Chicago to New York City departs daily at 1 30 p m and arrives 6 80 p m the next evening. Modern appliances for safety speed and comfort mark the service and caution that experience will win future patronage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nickel Plate Aad
New York City
Boston
Buffalo
Erie
Cleveland
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Nickel Plate Road
Rightness and straightness in actions and lines
The statement argues that moral rightness mirrors the straightness of lines and asserts there is only one correct form of action and one true type of line without alternatives.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ashantee
Japan
St. Petersburg
Fire Brigade
Ity Council
Central Africa
Hoosier
Charles Sines
Joseph Pettit
Sines
Pettit
Monon
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Masa
Hood
Caty
Boo
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