Intelligent handling of our national forest
The 1914 report of the chief forester details timber sales totaling about 1.5 billion board feet and extensive grazing on national forests, with over 1.5 million cattle and 7.5 million sheep, plus hundreds of miles of roads and trails. It notes rising small timber sales and $1.304 million earned from timber sales, and outlines stock regulations and land openings under forest laws.
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Government Forest Service
Congress
One Shot Kills Three English Officers In Sudan
A London Mail report describes a single stray bullet killing one officer and injuring two others during a Sudan encounter near the Nile. The shot pierced binoculars, struck the front observer, then wounded Colonel Hacket-Thompson and Sir Archibald Hunter in a fatal sequence.
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Omdurman
Nile
Sudan
Archibald Hunter
Hacket-Thompson
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Hacket Thompson
London Mail
The House of Sorrow
A reflection on sorrow as rebirth and the change it brings. The piece describes how loss transforms life, turning memory into art and making the bereaved caretakers of a sacred shrine that remains bright in memory despite earthly decay.
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Atlantic
Dore Proves Identity with Street Sketch in Switzerland
Gustave Doré, during a Swiss tour, lost his passport in Lucerne. He spoke with the mayor, who doubted him until Doré sketched peasants selling potatoes and added his name. The mayor kept the passport and offered a standard form in return.
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Gustave Dore
Switzerland
Lucerne
Dove
Smoke Ball Protects Air Craft Over Berlin
German aviators use a smoke ball to create a brown cloud that swallows incoming airships when fired upon. The tactic aims to protect aircraft by obscuring them from enemy fire as reported from Berlin.
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Berlin
Teacher-Who Can Make a Sentence With Gruesome
A fragment from London Tit-Bits notes a joke about a girl called Lady and a boy named Willie crafting a sentence using the word gruesome. It cites Carlyle on the importance of cheerful perseverance.
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Willie
London
Birth of Muale and the legend of Mercury’s lyre
The passage recounts ancient myths on music’s origin. It cites Mercury as the inventor after discovering a dried tortoise shell by the Nile. Strung with sinews, the shell becomes a musical instrument, inspiring the idea of the lyre. The tale blends Roman and Apollodorean lore to explain music’s beginnings.
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Muale
Mercury
Apollodorus
Nile
Bis
Seeing the Sun A Traveler’s Experience in Manchuria
Dr Dugald Christie and Rev John Macintyre travel from Mukden toward the Yalu border and spend a night in a sparsely populated inn with dim light. An innkeeper asks about a watch that tells time by the sun and the travelers explain it shows the sun’s position. The next morning they discuss distance to their country and the long journey back.
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Mukden
Dugald Christie
John Macintyre
Yalu
Korea
Mr. Christie
Indian newspapers reveal funny editorial calm and space woes
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat recalls curious East Indian papers that apologize for blank space and delayed issues. It notes a paper printing two columns blank and another suspending for an annual holiday with readers informed of the pause.
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India
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Why Snow Heats the Hands From the Brain to the Blood
Excerpt explains how cold snow pulls heat from hands, forcing increased blood flow to warm skin. It describes the brain signaling skin vessels to relax and widen so warm blood circulates rapidly, producing a glow similar to a cold bath.
Nine Hundred Turks Frozen In Caucasus Forest
In Petrograd era dispatches report nine hundred Turkish soldiers found dead in a Caucasus forest. They were acclimated to a warm climate and the temperature fell to thirteen degrees below zero, with guns still gripped in their hands.
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Petrograd
Caucasus
Russian order for one million horseshoes from PA firm
Philadelphia reports that the Russian government has placed an order for 1,000,000 horseshoes with a Pennsylvania company. The purchase signals a large steel and hardware export during wartime production efforts.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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