Bear Garden and Lion Tamer Tales from Cincinnati Zoo
Special correspondence from Cincinnati recounts Andrew Erkenbrecher building Cincinnati Zoo into a major natural history institution. The article details rare animals, giant bears, giraffes, and a now-moth ridden monkey house. It notes a famed donkey versus lioness incident and a secret romance in the Carnivora cages ending in marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crxorsnall
Andrew Erkenbrecher
Zoological Garden
Bavaria
Germany
America
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Acclimatization Society
Erkenbrecher
Ohio Valley
Fountain Square
United States
Western Plains
Africa
Buc
Cincinnati Garden
Adam
Monkey House
Animal Kingdom
Ess
Arthur Lawson
Asbury Park Notes on a Summer Oceanfront
A vivid 19th century sketch of Asbury Park with wide streets, vine clad cottages, and lively boardwalks. The piece recalls beaches, nightly lights, musical bands, and the city’s peaceful ethos of rest and goodwill amid crowds of visitors and local characters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
Ocean Grove
Long Branch
Cupid
L. G
Wrong End of the Stick
A Kingston man who carries a cane with a silver head forgot his stick after visiting a neighbor. He asked for it, received the head first, then learned his mistake after jokingly proclaiming the joke. The incident ends with the man admitting he held the wrong end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston Freeman
Bob Ford
Jesse James
Las Cerrillos
Dick Liddell
Ford
Las Vegas
Cor
Kansas City Times
Mothers and Babes Reform Movement in Five Rules
Dr Fiske Bryson promotes a sanitation education program for tenement mothers. Volunteers will teach bathing feeding and clothing to reduce infant deaths. She cites summer diarrhoea and unsafe air as key causes and urges printed "Dont" cards and regular feeding schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiske Bryson
New York City
New York
New York Sun
Medical Congress opens with debate on modern medicine
At the opening session President Davis named Professor Durante of Rome as Vice-President from Italy with Professor Zemmola to read the day’s paper. Zemmola urged a return to conservative methods, warning against overemphasis on bacteriology and abstract theory as the era’s guiding force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Durante
Rome
Italy
Naples
Zemmola
Zimmola
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Animal Show
Paris OF America
Asbury Park Notes
Treasury
Treasury Department
New Order
Washington Cor
Chicago News
Mark Twain
Elmira
Langdon
Mark
Quarry Hill
International Medicines
Lonnon
Gladstone
Philadelphia
the Times
England
Blaine
Bankers
City and Farm Loans
Curtis St
Denver, Colo
Mayher
Pat
Portland and Louiville Cement
Plaster OF Paris
Reed Cross Paints
Marshall and Welch
Roya Baktyo Vowner Co
Wall St
N. Y
J. H. McLean
J. K. Thompson
East Greeley
Taylor
Taylor’ S
H. ©. Watson
Greeley
Walnut Street
Madison Avenue
H. A. French
A. Z. Salomon & Company
A. L. Welch & CO
Weld County
City
Sixteenth and
Champa Streets
E. Brooks
Grenlee & Co
Denver, Colorado
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley Colorado
E. Hart
H. A. Ancurr
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Tex Centive Company
Fulton Street, N. Y
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