The Largest Paper in the County Items Across Regions
The Wyowespar issue from October 12 1892 reports Parliament funding for an agricultural college and an experience farm in Queensland. It notes 618 deaths at Leavenworth Soldiers Home and 2760 current inmates with government support. It covers San Francisco Chinatown cholera purification proclaims, a London eight seat tandem tricycle, and Reizo Suno’s push for Portland to become a Japan trade hub with direct steamship lines.
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Reizo Suno
Portland
Oregon
Japan
Trai
Vancouver
San Francisco
Orient
Catfish Trade and Dust Storms Across Regions
The piece notes catfish dominate markets in Morgan City Louisiana and the West Southwest, with catfish shipped inland by river and lake boats to feed demand. It details fishing methods from trot-lines to shore lines, with earnings from six dollars per 180 pounds, and 690 to 1000 men involved seasonally. It also describes dust storms common in arid regions, including India and parts of the United States, detailing their formation and travel patterns.
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Southwest
Morgan City
Atchafaieya
Pompano
Come Point
Melsville
Com Ames
India
United States
Magdalena Valley
Secor
New Mexico
Magdalena
Seaweed harvest in Brittany pictured by field and sea
The seaweed harvest along the northern coast of France is a cherished community event. Farmers and laborers gather on rocks during the rising tide, using sickles and ropes to load seaweed onto rafts and carts. The work is arduous and can cause illness, but celebrations persist each year, with crowds flocking to view the harvest and the return of boats.
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France
Thes
English Channel
Son
A Troublesome Model In The Studio
A vivid tale recounts a South American painted finch that spoiled a drawing by bathing in painting water and splashing colors across the work. The bird, lively and meddlesome, transformed the painting into a burst of color reminiscent of fireworks on the Fourth of July before the artist could intervene.
Skinning an Owl Demonstrated Before California Club
Walter E. Bryant of the Academy of Sciences gave an object lesson on bird skinning for scientific study at the California Zoological Club. He used a dry owl to show incision, flesh removal, eye extraction, and proper drying and labeling procedures, with diagrams for pupils. The display covered data to be written on labels including species, date, locality, sex, collector, and symbols for sex.
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Walter E. Bryant
California Zoological Club
Academy of Sciences
Mr. Bryant
Mammal and Birds
Academy
Bryant
San Francisco
Queer Find in Furnace Resembles Red Plant
Antone Hagenlocker, an engineer for Ansonia Brasa and Copper, found a strange plant inside a coal furnace. The red, vein defined stalk cooled to gray, mounted under glass. He notes the plant rests on coal and burns readily like surrounding fuel. The Waterbury American reports the find as unprecedented locally.
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Antone Hagenlocker
Antone
Ansonia Brasa and Copper Company
Hagenlocker
Waterbury (Conn
Necklaces of Mummies Eyes and Squid Eye Pearls
A Washington Star note discusses a talk on necklaces made from the eyes of Peragian mummies. The article explains the seemingly ornament like spheres are actually crystal lenses from large squid or cuttlefish eyes dried in salt and nitro beds.
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Washington Star
Duel on wheels ends in fatal bicycle clash in Spain
Two Granada bicycle club members met in a knife duel on a road to Malaya with sergeants present. They stood 700 feet apart and signaled to each other while riding. Perez wounded Moreno in the arm, then Moreno killed Perez with a stab to the breast, causing fatal internal bleeding.
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Spain
Bicycle Club
Granada
Malaya
Navaja
Perez
Moreno
New York Journal
Birds and Freddy Fangle in a school te am quip
A fragmented verse exchange features Freddy Fangle teasing a group of birds in a school team chant. The joke hinges on a pun about birds' nests and a playful reply from Freddy.
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Freddy Fangle
Freddy
Prairie Dog Towns Across the Western Frontier
A detailed sketch of prairie dogs and their towns across the western United States. Describes burrow structure, colony behavior, alarm responses, and differences from other burrowing animals. Notes large colonies in Shackelford County Texas near Albany and at the Zoological Park for observation.
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Shackelford County
Texas
Albany
Zoological Park
Washington Star
Stones of Wood on the Falklands Defy Rolling
Remarkable stones in the Falklands resemble weathered gray blocks tied to the ground by roots. They appear as mossy boulders of varying sizes but cannot be rolled, for they are living wood shaped like stones.
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Falkland
Falklands
Scott
Iceberg Foundering Described Near Labrador Bay
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt recalls a southern Labrador coast sighting where nine large icebergs clustered near the entrance. One towering hundred feet emerged before suddenly shattering, sending waves into foaming motion and leaving only scattered ice debris as the sea settled. The largest fragment loomed twenty feet above water afterward.
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Labrador
Philadelphia Ledger
Chinese Dentistry and The Sawfish Pilots Tale
A Chicago Herald quote notes Chinese dentistry in San Francisco Chinatown with a sawfish event in Galveston and a Texas industry claim. It reports a man displaying extracted teeth, alleged Chinese remedies, and a claim of arsenic danger. Also describes a large sawfish with six pilot fish and their suction-duckers, plus Texas roots for tannin in leather production.
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Chinatown
San Francisco
G. C. Cochrane
Leland
Chicago Herald
Gulf
Galveston Daily News
Texas
Pecoa Valley
Chicago Journal
An Indian's Last Hunt tragedy in Dade County
Postmaster Peacock reports Billy Jewel a.k.a Billy.Key Weat, a 21 year old Indian hunter, died in a strange hunting incident in Dade County. He shot a buck, then aimed for the buck as if the animal were alive, was fatally wounded by the buck in his abdomen during the struggle, and three days passed before a search party found the scene with both hunters missing.
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Postmaster Peacock
Billy Jewel
Billy
Key Weat
Sears
India
Dade County
Hunter
Promise to God Prayer Fragment
A devotional passage presents a vow to God to keep the soul's light bright, serve with will, and follow divine precepts. The speaker seeks purification from drinking and drunken strife, invoking Adam's fall and Christ's thirst as models, aiming for rest at a fountain of everlasting life.
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God
Adam
Drowsy Brother Drowsy Exposed in Church Satire
A skeptical ethics piece targets a church member nicknamed Drowsy, detailing his avoidance of prayer, lukewarm Bible reading, scant benevolence, and general spiritual apathy. The author urges reform, warning of impending judgment and urging fellow Christians to awaken and restore zeal for the Redeemer’s work.
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Star
Christ
God
A Life For A Dance Tragedy In New England Town
A young assistant in a New England family nearly recovers from grippe but dies after attending a dance despite medical warnings. The piece condemns excessive pleasure seeking, contrasting wholesome recreation with dangerous indulgence and urging restraint in leisure activities.
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New England
Dean Ly
License and Prohibition Contrasted in Twin New York Towns
A Nation's Advocates article contrasts two adjacent New York towns. One city with about ten thousand residents hosts ninety nine drinking places and widespread poverty and crime. Its neighbor, with around three thousand five hundred people, has no license for fourteen years and features a strong public school system, a large gift-funded Normal School, and extensive town services including water, electric lights, and streetcars.
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Empire State
Haa
Berrith Bee
Jeal
Nationas
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Indiana
Queensland
Leavenworth, Kaw
Boston Transcript
London
St. Nicholas
Prairie Dog Towns
Great West
Boston Globe
Cardinal Manning
Brother Drowser
John
America
California
Beecham
Deepens
Ausaeras
C. Frost
Strirfield
Mast
Eerers
Asl
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