Tiger Attack in Burma Tests English Hunter’s Resolve
An English sportsman, John Bradley, recounts a fierce tiger encounter in eastern Burma. Surviving by steady will, he describes being dragged through undergrowth, rescued as companions fired and intervened, and the tiger's later attacks before aid arrived. The narrative continues with other perilous events of crime and shipboard assault involving pirates and a Callao schooner.
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John Bradley
Burma
Akbar
Mr. Grant
Yaqui Raid Strikes Mine Family in Sonora
Mrs W Ro Baker arrived in Comstock Texas with seven children after a Yaqui raid killed her husband, superintendent of the Nina mine in Sonora. She recounted the attack on March 27 as Mexican ranch men invited her sons to view the valley. The mine, owned by the Yaqui Copper Company of New York, had been deserted since closure.
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Frances
Alva
Todos Santos
Minas Pridas
Marlon
Yaaul River
Orin
Owen
Woman employee fears a mouse change the boss’s view
A business man learns about women in office work when his stenographer delays a call to catch a friend. He discovers she kept distance from the phone due to a mouse in the waste basket, a moment that alters his opinion on women in business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Robbins
Muscles of the Moth Count Reaches Over Four Thousand
A study reports that the body of a moth contains as many as 4061 muscles. Researchers detail the surprising muscular complexity aiding flight and posture in the insect.
TheOld Fellows Invasion in Paris Bohemian Dreaming
A Louisville Courier Journal correspondent discusses the "old fellows' invasion" in Paris as a feature of life for midlife Americans and Englishmen who abandon office grind for Bohemian existence. It describes pensions under a dollar a day, board, and traveler's freedom, and contrasts contentment abroad with loss of home and opportunities in America.
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Paris
Europe
Holland
Adriatic
America
Trenty
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Silkworm Process and Cocoon Preparation
The text explains that full grown silkworms stop feeding and emit silk in a single glutinous thread. The silk forms in fluid form and the worm tightens a cocoon, taking three to five days to complete enclosure. To prevent moth damage, cocoons are steamed while enclosed, killing the insects, then the silk is wound off.
Greene township district with few pupils and low funding
The Greene township district has just three school age children, with only one attending the local school. The teacher earns $3. the district budget supports a teacher per month at the stated rate, while the other two children attend schools elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ional School
Pf Worth
Greene Township
Grant City
You Can Easily Operate This Typewriter Yourself
Instruction extols personal use of a typewriter for composing letters abstracts memos accounts and hotel notes with any paper thickness or style. It promotes avoiding handwritings by a correspondent stenographer and suggests flexible writing tasks from abstracts to memos and accounts.
Oliver Typewriter Promises Ease and Precision for All Users
The Oliver Typewriter claims rapid, accurate writing accessible to anyone with practice. It markets as adjustable to any space with no special attachments, suitable for doctors lawyers and merchants. Priced at 100 dollars with installment options, offered by F H Morrell, agent in Irvington New York.
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Oliver
Oliver Typewriter Co
Broadway
New York City
New York
Notice to creditors of Hugh Crooks estate
Millard Surrogate of Westchester County notifies all claimants against the estate of Hugh Crooks of Irvington to present vouchers to administrator Marry J. Selfridge at Tackett Williams, 236 Union Street, Poughkeepsie, by July 1, 1908. Dated December 1907.
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KV. Millard
Westchester County
N. Notich
Hugh Crooks
Irvington
J. Selfridge
Tackett & Williams
Union Street
Pougkeepsie
New York
J. Selfridg
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Wagner Pnosa
Hastings
NX. Y
Worthington Farms Dairy
Joseph Coggins
Ler
Dobbs Ferry, WN. Y
Irvington, N.Y
Gazette
F. H. Morrell
Prop
Main St
Irvington, N. Y
Beacon
G. Friberg
N.Y
Tales OF E
Victoria
British Columbia
Callao
Joseph Mortimer
Taylor
Manchester
G. Jackson
London
Tole
Nevare Tigre
Australia
Gilbert Islands
Marshall
Laurel
Luos
Jackson
Cook
J. Taylor
Gilbert Group
Cal- Ino
Maino
Pine Tree
Bangor Commercial
New York Telephone Company
Byway
Central Aves
Tarestown
Poughkeepsie, N
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