Invectorham Study Cultivates Insect Allies and Adversaries
In a southern France site the Invectorham project raises various pests and beneficial insects to study pest control. Experts note three bay species as natural enemies of mayflies while breeding certain insects to combat orchard pests. An Australia California transfer aims to boost biocontrol efforts in a private experimental farm with laboratory and garden insect cultures.
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France
Howe Inkeet
Koheer
Bheda
Auiralia
California
Howe
Wealth From Silver in Early Mexico Reveals Royal Demands
In colonial Mexico, Zambrio amasses vast wealth from a silver mine near Guadalajuata. He spends much time in European capitals and gambles prodigiously while reportedly accumulating enormous sums. The Conde de Valenciana profits greatly from local mines, claiming to have earned as much as seventy million. A king’s request to mint and crown silver monuments is denied as royal privilege.
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Mexico
Guadalajuata
Zambrio
Capitel
Europe
Oliver
Conde de Valenciana
Sinin
Making Burglar’s Tools Found At Scorland Yard
The Binck museu at Scorland Yard recently acquired a collection of burglar’s tools abandoned by an owner after a burglary. The items include a collapsible Jimmy, a silk rope ladder, keys and lock picking implements, and an oxyacetylene browdamp. Burglars obtain these tools mainly from manufacturers and secretive spice shops, with many hidden in back streets.
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Binck Museu
Scorland Yard
Patna
Frm
Repus Tele Fievos
Flashing Thunder Bird Myth and Bird Description
The article describes a bird known as the flashing thunder bird called the blackbreasted fly-watcher or Caribe variant. It notes a thickly leadeAustralian-like plumage with yellow below a jet black collar and white throat, plus a partly black tail. It references French and New Latin names and mythic legends from Cariba Brazilians Harvey Inlanders Karens Bechinus and Baautos about thunder descending from the sky.
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Caribe
Harvey Inlanders
Karens
Bechinus
Baautos
Life in a crowded Indian city described by a World Traveler
The piece notes children up to ten years old without clothing in Owen street barbering and simple earthen homes. It contrasts tenement-like housing with brush-covered roofs and describes a city where the aim is to cram many people and children into small spaces, mirroring congestion seen in New York City's districts.
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India
Owen Street
Ely
New York City
Favorite Flower Banter From the Farm
A farmer answers a joke about favorite flowers, saying orchids fascinate him for their rarity and the challenge of starting them, contrasting with common dandelions. The exchange, quoted in Washington Stir, highlights humor about nature and gardening.
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Farmer Corntessel
Washington
Not as She Had Pictured in a Hotel Corridor
A couple encountered awkward misread signals when a guest waited in a hotel lobby and a young man mistook her for someone else. The moment ended with confusion and a flustered escape, while residents nearby watched in uneasy amusement.
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Elie
Mark Twain Refuses Editorial Offer for Humorous Periodical
An excerpt from Harper's Magazine quotes Mark Twain denying a lucrative offer of sixteen thousand dollars a year for five years to edit a humorous periodical. He credits his wife for helping him resist the temptation and jokes that taking such a post would be worse than becoming a water supplier.
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Mark Twain
Harper's Magazine
Kane the Arctic Explorer and Pioneer Physician
The narrative honors Elisha Kent Kane, famed Arctic explorer and surgeon in the navy, noting his education at home after college setback and his work as physician at the American legation in Peking. It highlights polar expeditions, crater descent on Tant volcano, Kedonine in Keyot, Luzon traversal, and Alpine glacier study, ending with his death at thirty seven.
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Elisha Kent Kane
Kane
Leena
Navy
Legation
Iit
Peking
Din
Stik Lewn
Tant
Keyot
Luzon
Switzerland
Morality at a Discount at a New York Dinner
Attorney General Daugherty joked about a “business meta very anal class” while recalling a Lake Sumpee fishing tale. Two men competed for salmon with guides present and one thief refused to return fish prompting a tense, escalating scene among bystanders and guides.
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Daugherty
New York
Simon
Lake Sumpee
Remains Capital of Music in Starving Vienna Opera Revival
The Living Age notes Vienna still pulses as a music hub amid hardship. Mozart Beethovan and others shaped its theater, with the opera under Frau Selatk and Richard Strane praised. Lotte Lehmann departs to Argentina and Jenitza leaves for New York. Felix Weingartner leads an excellent orchestra and eight Philharmonic concerts continue.
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Vienna
Umesse
Optra
Frau Selatk
Richard Strane
Naval Stores Explained Turpentine and Rosin History
The article explains that Naval Stores refers to turpentine and rosin, tracing early US industry to an 1010 manuscript in the London record office titled Instruction for suche things as are to be sente from Virginia. It notes terms like Hard pitch and Rozen and discusses pitch and tar as early key products toward mid 1800s, with storage shifts and the evolution of the term Naval Stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
London
Virginia
Students Posed Nude as Ridicule Sparks Paris Art Prize Change
Ambitious youths seeking Prix de Rome fame endured a restricted competition this year. Reportedly students submitted either A Nude Boy or Prometheus, protested for a creative test, and one student posed as a nude boy in a window. Authorities, offended Teaux-Arts residents demanded action, prompting a lenient punishment shift to a 40 competitor Prix de Rome event.
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Heule Des Beaux-Arts
Teaux-Arts
London Times
Washington real estate board function reflects retirements and new appointee
Thomas Bradley voiced regret over Major Carey H Brown stepping down as executive officer of the district winning commission and welcomed Major Wheeler as his successor. The remarks echoed Dr. Wellington Koo on American paradoxes about farewell and welcome.
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Washington Real Estate Board
Thomas Bradley
Carey H. Brown
District Wining Commission
Major Wheeler
Major Brown
Wellington Koo
Bradley
Distriet
Deetor Koohaw
Hli
Tars
Washington Star
King of Spain Allegedly Investigates Midnight Pantry For Food
A London answer recounts a tale that a Madrid royal household member heard noises in the night and found the king rummaging in the pantry for food. The report notes the king may hunger at midnight and joke about whether it is the cat or the king.
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Madrid
Spain
London
Dole Payments Continue in Ireland Amid Troubles
The provisional government keeps weekly dole payments for the unemployed in Ireland despite recent unrest. An office near Moran's hotel processed hundreds who signed for funds under rifle fire from both sides. Seven republicans, identified as government soldiers by the money in their pockets, were paid and resumed duties.
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Ireland
Britain
Niall Ronan
Moran
Court orders sale of minor’s real estate in Oregon
In Polk County Oregon the Guardian of Robert Louis Fitchard petitions to sell an undivided two thirds interest in the West Half of Lot Eight Block Thirteen Hill's Addition Ind pendence. The court sets December 11 1922 for appearances to show cause why license to sell should not be granted and requires three weeks of publication in Independence Enterprise.
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State of
Oregon
Polk County
Robert Louis Fitchard
Margaret Irene Fitchard
Hill
Henry Hill
Ind
Ward
Oscar Hayter
Guardian
Dallas
Brine Wells Near Midian Yields High Pressure Magnesium
Scientific American describes brine beneath Midian Mieh with calcium magnesium and other salts tested by 40 pumping wells. Extracted magnesium used for war flares and later explored as a metal one third the weight of aluminum, enduring 24 000 psi. A piston test showed wear after lengthy high speed use indicating material properties.
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Midian
Mieh
Argument over coal strike causes in Petunia village
In a Petunia village, Squire Ramsbottom, a noted jurist, sits in shade as a heated debate about the coal strike rages. A passerby mentions a remembered task and two operations to be performed later, hinting at unsettled local concerns.
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Squire
Hsquire Ramsbottom
Petunia
Emory
Kansas City Star
Whipped Cream Age Portrayed by Train Companions
Old Chartie Isaacson recounts leaving Buffalo and meeting three rough politicians in a poker game, then traveling to New York where a Grand Central fountain scene leads to a comic order for a chocolate soda with whipped cream, revealing his train companions.
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Chartie Isaacson
Buffalo
New York
Grand Central
Pittsburgh
Passenger Argued Onboard Tram In Slur Laden Exchange
A short, coarse exchange aboard a public transport car shows a black passenger challenging the conductor after a word with an inspector. The man jokes about Whopple Street while dialect and mock authority echo, ending with a clipped retort about India wine debt.
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Megro
Edinburgh
Baffin Land Described As Remote Arctic Tract
Baffin Land is a barren insular tract in northern North America between latitudes 7 and 72 degrees north. It is bounded by Lancaster Sound to the north, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait to the east, the Quit of Bethnia and Fox Channel to the west, and Hudson Bay to the south, covering about 280 000 square miles and inhabited by a few Kakimas, with occasional whaler visits.
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Bafin Land
Terified
North America
Latrude
Lancaster Sound
Baffin Bay
Davia Strait
Bethnia
Fox Channel
Hudson Bay
Pushtail game thrills drivers in field event
A Popular Mechanics article notes six automobile drivers and spectators enjoyed Pushtail where cars without windshields or tops tied ends of a field and charged an inflated Illinois target. Despite rough play, drivers showed skill and no car was damaged.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Wireless Signals and the Aurora Observed by Montreal Scientist
A Montreal scientist reports that the aurora can extend telegraph reception to abnormal ranges. He notes three instances where messages were received during auroral display, but transmission failed while the effect lasted, suggesting aurora impacts on wireless signaling.
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Montreal
Motor vehicles used in University of Missouri agriculture
The University of Missouri uses various vehicles across departments. A runabout serves entomology field reps for nursery inspection, while a delivery wagon and runabout aid horticulture in orchard and garden product handling. Three touring cars assist agriculture college soil surveys, a heavy truck supports extension trips, and a runabout is assigned to the hog cholera serum plant superintendent.
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University of Missouri
Department of Entomology
Horticultural Department
College of Agriculture
City Boy’s Pun Plea Mushing Copse Into Court
A New Yorker who moved to a New England town was enrolled in a public school. He was asked to write a sentence with the word copse and wrote The boy dodged the cops. The exchange notes the humorous misinterpretation and a classroom moment.
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New England
Appointment of Administrator for Rebecca Dornsife Estate
Oscar Hayter named administrator by Polk County Oregon County Court for Rebecca Dornsife deceased. Creditors must file claims with vouchers within six months at his Dallas City Bank Building office in Dallas. First published November 24, 1922.
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Oscar Hayter
Rebeccs Dornsife
State of
Oregon
Polk County
Dallas City Bank
City of
Dallas
Rebecca Dornsife
Executor's Notice for Joseph Bezanson Estate
W B Cuthbert named executor by Polk County Oregon court. All claims due within six months from Dec 8 1922. Creditors in Independence Oregon advised to present verified claims and debtors to settle with the executor. Fletcher Ellis attorneys for the estate.
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Taylor Jones
Margaret L. Jones
County Court
Polk County
Oregon
Independence
S. Taylor Jones
Fletcher & Ellis Attorneys
W. B. Cuthbert
Joseph Bezanson
State of
Fletcher & Ellis
Maupassant 10 volume De Luxe set for sale
Classified listing offers a ten volume uncut edition of Guy de Maupassant novels in De Luxe binding. Original price is $20, asking $6. Item can be viewed at the Enterprise office.
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Guy de Maupassant
de Luxe
Enterprise Office
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