Insects That Make Money for Farmer
The article highlights beneficial insects boosting agriculture and industry. It notes ladybugs fighting San Jose scale in California and discusses honeybees contributing to a $25 million market with $100 million capital, silkworms powering silk trade, and figs reliant on fig wasp pollination for production.
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Rete
Wwd
United States
China
Italy
France
Spain
Europe
Japan
Orient
South
Bilkville
Boiaaiere
Ottawa
Cho. E Sida
Thie Ulin
San Joaquin Valley
California
Fig
Mexico
Central
South America
Midnight Cougar Visit Fails To Provoke Ranger
A Mt. Ranier ranger recalls camping in a cabin near the Puyallup River headwaters when two green eyes appeared above the bed. He drew his revolver and lit a match to confront the mysterious threat, only to find the eyes were merely two stove pipe tin patches.
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Alfred B. Conrad
Mt. Ranier National Park
Puyalluy River
Bear
The Dying Polynesian From Pacific Monthly
In Pacific Monthly Jack London argues Marquesans faced leprosy tuberculosis and disease after contact with whites. He suggests white immune survivors thrive while Marquesans, eating enemies, perish. a stark view on natural selection and racial health in a climactic colonial era piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Marquesans
T Ia
Melville
Ho-o-u-mi
Jack London
Pacific Monthly
Liverpool Jack recalls prison, cantons, and his crooked past
The interview with Liverpool Jack, James Murphy, recounts a life drifting from crime to time in Sing Sing and bank robberies from the 1870s to early 1900s. He details choosing prison over Salvation Army care, staying honest after a spell, then returning to crime with old associates.
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Liverpool
Jack
James Murphy
New York
Salvation Army
sAveereey
Owen
Manhattan Bank
Franklin
Kansas City
Glovers Boog
Go “Weill
Bate
Gloversville
James Sum
Donovan Ace
Sing Sing
Tsing
Donovan
Seeneek
McCoy
Bait for Stubborn Horse Delays Truck with Bananas
A New York Sun report describes a clever ruse to move a stuck horse. Two trucks faced the stubborn animal. a second truck carrying green bananas helped coax the horse forward by aligning fruit within reach, allowing the first truck to escape the rut.
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New York Sun
Toad Appreciation Pamphlet Deems Misconceptions Misleading
A pamphlet from the Department of Agriculture defends the toad as a friendly, beneficial creature. It notes toads do not cause warts or harm infants, instead praising their amiable disposition and value in eating pests. It highlights the toad as home-loving and useful to farmers and households.
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Jae Ued
Vision Beyond Color Limits Through Spectrum Experiments
A discussion explains how normal eyes see only a portion of light and how photography can reveal unseen spectra. It notes that evolution tuned our vision to a limited range and describes using filters and autographic plates to image infrared and ultraviolet light.
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Hast Hampton
Long Island
Edison Storage Battery Car Test at West Orange Track
Edison reports a storage battery car test at Public Service tracks West Orange New Jersey reaching high speed and full response. The 2 percent foot long car weighs about five tons seats 37 on a 4 percent grade and can run 160 miles per charge with 80 percent depreciation cut to 16 percent.
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Beach
New York Street
Fragmented OCR Note on Historical Hymn Origins
A garbled OCR fragment discusses a church organ scene and volunteer origins of a hymn. It mentions sparave church organs and unclear references to Pye and Beast, with broken phrases about stopping someone or something, lacking coherent names, places, or dates.
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Sparave Church Organs
Eholra
Lessons on Raising Children and Kindness in the Home
The text urges gentle parenting, condemns corporal punishment, and argues a home should be a haven of honesty and love. It emphasizes showing true friendship to children, avoiding harsh discipline, and giving them freedom, fair division, and a happy, loving household. It cautions against misusing religious rhetoric to justify cruelty and recalls personal vows to remain a steadfast parent.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Lash
Ike
The Awe of Daybreak From an Obs Dedication Speech
Edw remarks on a dawn procession of light during a train ride from Providence to Boston. He describes a night sky turning to day with vivid celestial imagery and laments atheism amid the grandeur of creation. He recalls Magians worshiping sunrise and notes disbelief despite morning spectacle.
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Dudley Observatory
Albany
Ww. Y
Providence
Boston
Jupiter
Pleiades
Lyra
Central Asia
The Praises and Prospects of Peaceful Progress
The passage contrasts war with benevolence and peaceful progress. It envisions a future where benevolence, literature, science, art, and charity expand across humanity, bringing happiness, knowledge, and beauty, with signs of a new world emerging as explorers hailed land.
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Earth
Futurity Vision in Appleton's Magazine
A fragmentary extract from Appleton's Magazine hints at musings on futurity, dawn imagery, and a search for larger love within nature. The text references poetic reflections and the idea of growth through hardship, with partial phrases suggesting a philosophical mood rather than a concrete event.
How Insects Breathe From the Chicago Tribune
Insects lack lungs or gills and rely on a network of air tubes throughout the body to distribute air. This system keeps the insect's internal spaces inflated and prevents collapse under external pressure.
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Chicago Tribune
Larval Gnat Breathes Via Tail Tubes in Water
Describes gnat larvae floating head downward in water with a prolong tail tube or tubes near the surface to breathe air. Notes they lack gills and use spiracles at the tail tip to access oxygen.
A Dog Climbs Mont Blanc Alone Revealed in Strand
A Strand writer recalls a dog at Les Pras near Chamonix who in 1908 climbed Mont Blanc solo. The master worked on observatory repairs. the dog followed by scent, reaching the summit in six and a half hours, a feat far quicker than the usual thirteen hours, making the dog a village hero.
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Mount Blanc
Les Pras
Chamoniz
Strand
Mont’ Blanc
Mont Blanc
Housekeeper's belief on marriage equity in Hardcastle era
Fragmentary text suggests a housekeeper narrator and a Hardcastle figure discussing marriage, fidelity, and moral judgments. It references faith, spousal roles, and economic concerns within a historical domestic setting. The garbled OCR limits specifics such as names, dates, or location.
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New York American
National Conservation Commission
San Jose
Missouri
Ian
West Indies
Howe
Om Ios Tzea
Appleton's
Mon Hardcastle
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