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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1916
Page
2
A shopper recalls a crowded tobacco shop with few clerks and long lines. The clerk struggles to wrap a cigars box when a tack from another box is used, bending it and losing the cover hold down. Customers grumble as the clerk improvises with an extra tack from a different box. The piece ends with a question about why the store lacked spare tacks.
The article outlines ancient New Zealand birds that lost the use of wings after carnivores disappeared from the islands. It notes 70 bird kinds with 80 endemics, recounts legendary giants like Hapagornis and Disernia or Mag, and mentions Caemlornia, once gh ted about 300 years ago, a feared hunter of humans.
The report describes a method where a shooter fires a pistol at an object thrown into the air. By timing the shot as the object falls, two bullets may strike it before it hits the ground, claiming the technique is difficult to mimic and depends on precise aim and the pistol's angle.
A garbled transcription presents a confused query about truth and expression, with riddled phrasing and uncertain references. The text mixes vague phrases and possible names, lacking clear events, places, or identifiable figures.
A sweeping telegraphic overview reports on military mobilization near Golden Colorado with Colorado guard units leaping into service for Mexico and related political remarks from Senator Fall. It notes Utah cavalry discharges at Fort Douglas and a statewide earnings increase for a Colorado railroad, plus assorted accidents, arrests, and international tensions with neutrals and shipping.
German sea forces may employ cruiser warfare openly on the high seas and will respect territorial waters. An Over Seas News Agency report from Washington outlines that merchant ships can be stopped and sunk only after search and safety measures, and only under defined conditions. The policy implies no unilateral blockade or sinking without warning, while stressing neutrality concerns near the U S coast.
Henry Miller, once a San Francisco butcher’s boy turned cattle king and founder of Miller Lux, died Saturday in his ninetieth year. He had ruled a western empire of sheep and cattle spanning roughly 14,539,200 acres across California, Nevada and Oregon, earning the title cattle king of the west.
An American note from May 24 states allies condemned a protest. It says Utah delegates including Dr John A Widtsoe, president of the University of Utah, were detained briefly at Juarez barracks in El Paso Tesan on Saturday due to a curious inquiry about the Mexican town’s military situation. All were released once identities were confirmed.
Report from Grand Hepida Michigan details a violent incident where Micael Geneva, 43, alleged to have shot Alice M. Raymond and wounded her brother Cook A. Oakes. He reportedly then inflicted a self wound with a butcher knife after threatening Mrs Haymond who had refused his marriage proposal.
Prices for men and women’s footwear jump as Pilaburgh wholesalers raise rates from 1 inch to 16 cents per pair. The market sees lines withdrawn entirely by Lees, impacting availability and choice.
An unusual courtroom proceeding centers on a high profile case in Budalo West Virginia involving a flying bust incident. The trial examines evolving circumstances and testimonies from local authorities and witnesses.
Reported Allied and Central Powers actions unfold across Transylvania Carpathians Volhynia and the Somme fronts. Rumanians retreat in northeast Transylvania while German and Austro German forces push gains in the Carpathians and Oltar Jiu valleys. British and French advances near Thiepval Ablaincourt and Genermont pressuring German lines as Rome contemplates theater shifts and Greek chamber postponement.
A squadron of cavalry was dispatched from Geld headquarters to Colonia Juarez to guard Mormon colonists after Alonso and Adelbert Taylor were robbed by four Mexicans. One brother was held prisoner while others retrieved several hundred dollars. The incident followed demands for 10 000 and threats of death.
A garbled report notes deputies of the Geere convention clashed over a schedule, with references to a ME warday and an escape linked to a weekly pay rule. Entities and specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
The text records Hughes Dosen and Lang Uraeek urging or opposing war, with phrases like "Who wants war I don't want war" and mentions of Democrats Freekdwud Wisou and Ponagh Vane in a fragmentary, non-graphic manner. Sparse readable fragments point to a debate over America's readiness and stance.
Canada builds the largest reflecting telescope yet completed for the Dominion Astronomical Observatory in Victoria. The 73 inch mirror is 7% inches in diameter, 12 inches thick at the edge, with a 10 7/8 inch hole, and the paraboloid surface focuses light 30 feet above the mirror. Weighing about 65 tons, the tube measures 81 feet long and rests on reinforced concrete piers. The dome houses a 16 foot wide opening shutter, with electric motors to move the telescope and operate the shutter and observing bridge.
Forty four years after the first sewer system set up in Japan, the nation now hosts about two thousand facilities. The report notes swift expansion, urban adoption, and ongoing modernization across prefectures. Buffalo Tunes.
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