Birds as insect destroyers save harvests and farms
The article argues eight hundred million dollars in annual losses from insects in the United States and credits birds with controlling pests. It cites specific damages from Hessian fly, Cinch bugs, cut worms, and locusts, and cites historical bird interventions that protected crops, urging bird conservation as essential to farming and food supply.
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Washington
Mississippi Basin
Rocky Mountain
Northwest
United States
New England
New York
Nebraska
Utah
Europe
Timeless Maxims for Right Living from a 1852 clipping
A merchant sends a life advice list to the New York Times attributed to a boyhood clipping from Stephen Allen. It urges honesty, temperance, prudent debt, modest wealth, strong character, and careful daily reflection. The note ends with a medical tip for children and a sales line for Chamberlain's remedy at King's City Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Stephen Allen
New York
Henry Clay
Hudson
King’s City Drug Store
Only a Few People Have Enough Money to be Drones
A satirical meditation on wealth and labor contrasts drones in human society with animal behavior. It argues that the state mismanages a man’s money after death and critiques absentee landlords, dividend culture, and salaried idlers while insisting work as the rule of success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Smith
Virginia
Pocahontas
New Hampshire
New York
Adam
Real estate transfers and insect advice note
A collage of real estate transfers lists numerous deeds with buyer seller and prices, including George A Loudenbeck, Rice Ranch Co, and Malaga Ld Co across many parcels. Interspersed is a horticultural note describing caterpillar and butterfly life stages and a Bucklen's Arnica Salve promotional line.
Unprecedented Caterpillar Outbreak Across Pacific Northwest
The Department of Entomology at the State College of Washington reports an unprecedented caterpillar outbreak of the California tortoise shell butterfly. Sightings span Clayton, Spokane, Chelan, Brownsville, Moscow Mountains in Idaho, Nelson in British Columbia, and across British Columbia. The caterpillars feed primarily on laurel or buck brush Ceanothus and occasionally on willow and other plants.
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Department of Entomology
State College of Washington
California
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Beeien
Crescent Mfg. Co
Seattle, Wash
Atoz
A. D. Peppler
the Tin Man
Leavenworth
Palace of Sweets
Leavenworth Wash
Leavenworth Hand Laundry
N. L. Brown
Jack Heaton
Chelan County Abstract Company
George A. Loudenbeck
Rice Ranch Co
Leonard W Smart
J A Webber
George A Loudenbeck
Malaga Ld
Malaga
George R Wilson
Og Wash
GN Ry Co
Henry D James
Howard M James
Catherine Lenhart
George T Jenkins
Emma Towns
Thomas Towns
William H Pope
N M Streeter
John C Lilly
C E Lewis
Elizabeth O Belfield
A Alliston
Geo L Sinclair
Valhalla Or Co
JS Andrews
U S
Geo M Taggart
Boston
Bucklen
Echo Office
Arthur Gunn
William T Rader
Garna G Bower
Schanck
Fowler
Bolenbaugh
N Neubauer
Gus Brown
Attorneys AT Law
Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
Leavenworth, Wash
J. B. Adams
Smith Building
Carlquist’s Jewelry
Leavenworth, Washington
Victor Martin
Omar P, Barrows
Wenatchee
John E. Porter
Attorney At Law Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Wenatchee Wash
Tra Thomas
G. G, Hannan
Thomas & Hannan Lawyers
Rarey Building
Wenatchee, Washington
U. S
Reeves, Crollard
Reeves
Reeves Building
Farmers
B. J. Williams
A N. Corbin
Williams
Corbin
J. M. Crom
Cashmere
R. E. Brown
Rainier Beer
Lee J. Howerton
HOTEL
Elman
Depot
Court House
Varney
L. J. Nelson
W. Hoxley
DR. J. Stillson Judah
Koerner
A. G. McKeown
N. M. Sorenson
Chelan County
P. A. Snyder
W. M. McCoy
Columbia Valley Bank Building
Wenatchee, Wash
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Congregational Church
H.N. May
The
Cascade Undertaking Company
Martin & Kuelbs, Props. Lirs
A. J. Martin
Mgr
Wenatchee Abstract Company Incorporated
R. W. Vermilya
ColumbialVally Bank Bidg
Chelan County Abstract Co
J. A. Gellatly President
W. W. Gray Secy
Cascade Aerie No.Fraternal Order of Ei
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A. M. Johnson
Worthy I. W. Faulkner
Hamilton Lodge No
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Emil David
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Walt Myers
J.F. Hartman
F. S. Searles
Chickamin Lodge
I. C. O. F. Hall
Sachem
T. C. Thompson
Art Johnson
Dao Brethren
Knights of
Pythias
Firemen’s Hall
E. T. Stewart
O.C
C. W. Moore
Brethren Cor
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