Starling Invasion Traced to Shakespeare Fan In New York
New York historian notes that Eugene Schieffelin imported 100 starlings in 1890 and 1891 to plant Shakespearean birds in America. From those 100, starlings now fill coasts to Canada and Central America, outcompeting native birds and prompting disease control. The piece frames the starling as both nuisance and pest eater of pests with a note on balance of nature.
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Grover Brinkman
CPC
New York
New Yorker
America
Globe
Eugene Schieffelin
Schieffelin
Europe
New York Central Park
William Shakespeare
Albany
N.Y
Department of Agriculture
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Midwest
Mssissippi River
Rockies
Canada
Mexico
Central America
United States
Side Topics and Trivia From A Century Ago
A collection of short curiosities touches on games of chance like a weekly life prize versus cash, a teenage game called chicken on the Pacific coast, and Sir Victor Sassoon as a rich bachelor. It notes Monaco taxes and Swiss governance, left-handed twins, Irish birth rates, and a Paris nose surgeon. It also cites the London to Edinburgh railway as the world’s longest nonstop run, at 393 miles, now done in 6 1/2 hours by The Elizabethan.
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Ireland
Paris
London
Edinburgh
Parables as Truthful Stories in Bible and Aesop
The article argues parables use story to reveal moral truth across times and cultures. It notes Jesus parables differ by focus on real people and neighborly ethics, comparing to Aesop’s fables which target human behavior through animal figures.
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Jesus
Aesop
Half court tennis and smart baseball tips from Sports College
This column promotes half court tennis to improve volleying and agility, explains the service court rule, and suggests daily sets for progress. It also offers smart baseball pacing tactics for pitchers, warns on excessive sleep, and invites readers to join Sports College in Toronto Ontario for diverse athletic services.
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Sports College
Toronto
Ontario
Rabies outbreak in Alberta brought under control
Edmonton reports the rabies outbreak in Alberta is nearly contained after two months. A double trapline across northern and west-central Alberta has killed thousands of wild animals since the control program began last year.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
The poem portrays a thriving garden with corn cucumbers peas beans onions potatoes flowers and blooms. It expresses the joy and solace found in gardening noting food for table and soul and riches untold from one plot.
Reynolds family plans small museum for vintage cars
In Wetaskiwin Alberta the Reynolds family houses several old vehicles. One machine dates to 1898. They hope to establish a small car museum to showcase their collection.
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Wetaskiwin
Alta
Reynolds
Decoded Intelligram Item Listing
A compact historical note lists ten coded items with numbers and place names including Bog Blue Mining Saul Atlantic St. Augustine Fla 1947 and St. Stephen. The fragment suggests a catalog or cipher-like index across varied subjects and locations.
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Alaska
Israel
Saul
David
Joe Louis
Amelia Earhart
Pacific
Atlantic
St. Augustine
Fla
Bath
U. S
St. Paul
St. Stephen
Bog
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North America
Rome
North
E. V. Darling
Pacific US
Victor Sasoon
Gordon Richards
Victor
Nassau
Switzerland
Principality of
Monaco
French Riviera
Virgil
Donna
By Len Kleis
Priscilla’s Pop
The
Grand Alliance
Carlyle
al Vermeer
Weekly Bible Comment
Iwers
Lloyd
Percival
George
Gran'pa
Jane Dale
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