Return of the Pigeon and a Memorial Day Parade
The article recalls the return of passenger pigeons seen in Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan amid bird lore and conservation notes. It then shifts to a Decoration Day scene in a great Eastern city with a somber old woman grieving a forgotten grave and a child demanding flowers for Jim a fallen soldier, sparking public sympathy as the parade continues.
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Minnesota
Cloquet River
St. Louis County
Wisconsin Woods
Superior
Presque Isie Park
Marquette
Mich
South America
Pindle
America
Dixie
Mason and Dixon
Grand Army of the Republic
Jim
Civic League of Petersburg Keeps Streets Clean
A large group of Petersburg women formed the Civic League of Petersburg to improve street cleanliness and gain City Council cooperation. The group will invite all public school teachers to the next meeting.
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Petersburg
Civic League of
Capt. C. Wistar Wallace
Corporation Court
Fredericksburg
University of Virginia
Randolph-Macon
Washington and Lee
Richmond
Stratford
Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company
Boissevain
Corporation Commission
Isaac T. Mann
Brasswell
W. Va
Virginia
West Virginia
Charles S. Thorne
New York City
Board of Visitors
Armistead C. Gordon
Staunton
John W. Craddock
Lynchburg
St. Louis
Norfolk
C. M. Chichester
A. Stuart Robertson
Appomatox
Pocahontas Bridge
Atlantic Coast Line
Bishop Bridge
Robert FE. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Change in Country Life and Rural Education
A broad movement supports better rural schools and farm related instruction. State superintendents, legislatures, and normal schools push life subjects and nature study. Secretary Wilson backs high school to agricultural college path. rural isolation declines with mail, phones, and delivery expanding.
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Ohearak Colleges
Wilson
Ecphonia
Address to Royal Engineers on lightning conductors
In an address to the Royal Engineers at Chatham Mr Alfred He argues that too much value is placed on the form and composure of lightning conductors and not enough on the fact that efficiency depends on how and what the apparatus is attached to. He likens conductors in use to doctors adapting to each case. He notes differences in iron content for conductors and warns that durability varies with material.
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Royal Eaneers
Chatham
Alfred
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Sands Shith
Nottingham
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L. E. Mumford Banking Co
Mathews C. E., VA
OLD Dominion Line
Gloucester
Mathews
Bay Line
Old Point
Williams
East River
Hicks
Diggs
Smith’s
Ware River
Hockley
Dixondale
North River
Severn
Severn River
O. D
Portsmouth
North St
Philpot’s
Roane’s
Auburn
Government Wharf
Old D. Pier
Berkeley
Brandon
Main Line
New York
Granby Street
Atlantic Hotel
Ritokinie
John Nichol
Chesapeake Steamship Company
Chesapeake Line
Augusta
Atlanta
Old Point Comfort
Baltimore
West Point
Richmo
Gloucester Point
Clements and Allmond’s
Thurson
Yorktown
Clay Bank
Light Street
City
E. Baltimore Street
Arthur W. Rosson
Azosex Foster
E. J. Cuts
T. H. McDaxvet
A. M. Marchant
M. S. Foster
Sibley Bros
Mathews C. H
Leslie C. Garnett
Middlesex
F. Theo. Miller
Marie Corelli
York
Jimmie
Cheely
Wee
Grand Marchel
Ed Breasts
Military. Com
Jheridan
Ulysses
Grant
Cem
Snk
Belle Hunt
Old Dominion
C. Harding Walkers
Lancaster High School
Professor Brent
Thomas J. Downing
S. W. Claybrook
Frank Newill
Judge Ewell
Braxton
Downing
John Thompson Hargrave
Cedar Lodge
Oliver Station
Hanover County
Sam Moore
W. H. Atwill
Danville
Moore
John Dandridge
Roanoke
Erasmus Taylor
Orange County
J. Taylor
Henderson
N. C
Taylor
Longstreet
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
United States
C. S. Schermerhorn , Son
Purina
Cheapside
Pratt Street
Baltimore, Md
Oae Gilbert School of Shorthand
Dilbert School OF Shorthand
Calvin L. Fleet
N. Fremont St
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