Fox Farms in Alaska Use Cats to Tame Silly Foxes
A New York Evening Post report describes Alaska fox farms near Fairbanks with ten acre operations of steel wired pens, feeding regimes including salmon and rice stew, and one litter worth up to $1,000. It notes cats are kept to manage nervous mothers, with two men tending about 200 animals and total assets around $75,000.
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Alaska
Tunnana Valley
Pairbaniks
Ion
Fox Farm
Canada
Fairbanks
New York Evening Post
Maternal Impressions in Canaries
Dr W I Schrader of Port Wayne Ind reports extensive canary breeding shows no deformities until a period of daily army airphone flights over the city. During that time seven of twelve eggs hatched with crippling defects but later nests produced deformed birds. subsequent breeding produced two breeds with no deformities.
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Canaries
W. I. Schrader
Port Wayne
Ind
Clinient
Dr. Schrader
Scientific American
Koreans Discovered Gunpowder Before Others
Nev J A Duncan, a missionary returning from Korea, claims Koreans found gunpowder in 200 B C and predicted eclipses centuries before modern science. He cites Korean astronomers of Silla and notes early use of the magnetic needle mariner's compass metal type and iron trunels against Japan in 1597.
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Nev
J. A. Duncan
United States
Korea
Mr. Duncan
Silla
Five Modern Sugar Mills Planned for Negros Island
Philippine Sugar Industry reports five modern sugar mills projected in Negros with total capacity 5,000 tons of cane daily while ten mills at 3,000 tons daily are already in operation in the district. The movement to upgrade equipment in sugar centrals aims to equip every sugar district capable of supporting a central with modern mills. Centrals pay farmers 55 percent of the value of the sugar obtained.
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Negros
P. I
Cristobal Port Expands with New Shipping Offices
The Cristobal canal zone sees a costly new office building by British lines, evidencing the port’s growing importance. It becomes the fourth shipping office site in Cristobal joining American French and Italian lines.
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Cristobal
Canal Zone
Grouping the Population in Four Economic Groups
Albany Journal notes the population divides into four groups: producers of automobiles, users of automobiles, producers of moving pictures, and consumers who pay to view them. The statement frames a simple economic framework.
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Albany Journal
Signs of Consumption Early Symptoms and Family Screening
Early consumption signs include fatigue in the afternoon waking tired in the morning poor appetite and weight loss with easy exhaustion after exertion. The text advises consulting a doctor and urges family screening when a member is known to have consumption.
Cherso Spotlight as Strategic Helge Land in Adriatic
The National Geographic bulletin highlights Cherso in the Gulf of Quarnero as a key Adriatic island near Fiume. It describes its length of about 40 miles, width under seven, and area larger than DC, noting Morlacchia culture and Morlachs with traditional dress and dowries.
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San Remo
Cherso
Atlantic
Urope
National Geographic Society
Gulf of
Quarnero
Miume
Long Island
D'Annunzio
District of Columbia
Adriatic
Fiume
Italy
Jugo- Slavia
Dalmatian
Croatian Littoral
Morlacchia
Dalmatia
Bronze Massasoit statue to be placed on Watson's hill Plymouth
The Massasoit statue from the Improved Order of Red Men is planned for Watson's hill in Plymouth. Locals note Cantaugantiest, the Indians name for the area, as the historic site where Indians feasted and where Massasoit once crossed Town Brook to meet the settlers.
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Massasoit
Plymouth
National Organization of the Improved Order of Red Men
Watson's Hill
Cole's Hill
Cole’s Hill
Cantaugantiest
Massasoijt
Townbrook
Nickel currency idea and global nickel sources
The Philadelphia Ledger notes nickel coinage began in the United States to promote mining after deposits were found in Pennsylvania. It cites Sudbury as supplying 85 percent of world nickel, with Canada and France as major additional producers. It suggests Britain could back currency with nickel instead of gold.
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Pennsylvania
Sudbury
Canada
France
Great Britain
Philadelphia Ledger
Ossian Legend and Ossianic Epics in 18th Century
The text recounts Ossian as a third century Gaelic hero son of Fingal and his journeys with Fingal. It notes a fairy wife taking Ossian to the isle of the ever young, his return aged and blind, and his recounting to St Patrick. It mentions James MacPherson publishing two epics in 1760-63 claiming translations from Ossian.
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Ossian
Fingal
St. Patrick
Janes Mcpherson
Russell NZ Declared World’s Laziest Seaport
A New Zealand town Russell is described as the sleepiest place on earth by lecturer Werbert Garrison. He notes locals let life drift, preferring tinned salmon from British Columbia and condensed milk from Switzerland over fresh dairy, even as fish jump.
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New Zealand
Russell
Werbert Garrison
British Columbia
Switzerland
Oath in Siam Reads Like Grim Perjury Warning
The World Outlook reports a harsh Siamese oath read by The Office Dog. It invokes severe punishments and tortures if the oath is broken, portraying perjury as a grave offense in Siam.
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Siam
Air travel to shrink world says Henry Ford
Henry Ford predicts air travel will make Berlin London and New York a day apart within a few years. He envisions cross continental routes and Pacific crossings by airships within five years, highlighting a fast, combustion powered era.
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Henry Ford
Berlin
London
New York
Pacific
Herit
Tire company uses slow motion film for truck impact study
Pictures show effects on tires as a tire company uses slow motion photography to analyze what happens when a heavily loaded motor truck climbs a curb drops off an elevation or crosses a railroad track. The study aims to answer questions about the effects of heavy blows on highways trucks loads and tires.
The Himalayan bear and the Clever Trap
An amusing tale describes a Himalayan bear outwitted by a trap using a tree bough and a swinging stone. The bear repeatedly swats the returning stone in a frenzy until gravity and luck topple him, enabling locals to net the exhausted animal.
Cooperative Law Library Experiment in Long Beach
In Long Beach California the public library receives law books from about 40 to 50 local attorneys. Books loaned to the cooperative law library may be borrowed for five days, while the public can consult them in the library. Some contributors have donated as many as 200 books each, marked Loaned to the Long Beach Public Library, suggesting the idea could spread to other areas.
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Co-operative Law Library
Long Beach
Cal
Long Beach Public Library
The Old Fashioned Bride in a Furniture Store
A witty bride in a furniture shop rejects a clerk's bargain plea. She smiles and says she cannot afford the item and does not need more than her wonderful husband, quipping that he suffices for all wants. Her humor contrasts with the salesman’s pushy sales pitch.
Discovery and colonization timeline of New Zealand
The text attributes New Zealand's discovery to Tasman in 1642 but notes exploration began with Captain James Cook about 170 years later. It states colonization occurred about twenty years before the American Civil War, likening it to scattered settlements rather than a single central base as in British practice.
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Island
New Zealand
Tasman
James Cook
Bank Roulette System Foiled by Warped Wheel Claim
Monte Carlo regulars chase a supposed system to beat the game as an old lady’s tip turns out to reveal a warped roulette wheel. Officials confirm no real system existed and Blane tried to buy the method for 70000 francs. The wheel’s shape caused predictable outcomes.
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Lord Rosslyn
Monte Carlo
Tory
Blane
Systen
London Answers
M. Blane
Phris
Woman Question Sparks Office Gossip on Weston's Writings
Mrs. John comments on author Weston as the jitney driver jokes about men and marriage. The tale describes a Connecticut farm trip and a passenger wife collecting fares, highlighting social tensions over women authors and marriage.
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Kark
Edwin
Harriman
Ingenious Eye Spy Messages from Russia’s Bolsheviks
A history note describes a bizarre method used by Bolsheviks to vet messages. An eggshell image with concealed ink was applied to a spy’s eye, then peeled and photographed, leaving a nearly transparent, undetectable secret mark.
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Hhrough
Mosque Car Bridges Faith and Rails Across the Journey
A Turkish mosque car fitted to long distance trains in America carries seating for 90 and features a minaret roof projection and Moran inscriptions. Built in Constantinople, it allowed pilgrims to face Mecca during the Damascus to Mecca journey, with devotions conducted aboard.
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America
Damascus
Mece
Mussulmans
Turkey
Constantinople
Mecca
Damaascus
London
Electricity to Locate Oil in Texas Fields
Innovative use of electricity aims to detect crude oil underground without drilling. In the Corsicana area near Corsicana Texas oil has reportedly been located electrically, with Burkburnett tests planned. A battery series powers a probe into a dry wash while a distant wire contacts the surface to measure resistance and deflection in a sensitive instrument.
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Corsicana
Tex
Burkburnett
Pulp Yields 20 Commodities Exhibit At Porthind
West Coast Tremor men’s association shows twenty pulp products from fir spruce and hemlock. Prepared by the University of Wisconsin Forest Products Laboratory, the exhibit travels nationwide. Items include silk cloth stockings gun powder paper absorbent inoleum shingles reed fiber rug yarn and phonography records. War Brides Aweary. 12 000 of 50 000 French war brides return to France due to cultural incompatibilities amid L Espoir Franco American club efforts in Pittsburgh.
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Trrmoher Men’s Association
Porthind
United States Forests Products Laboritory
University of Wisconsin
Indianapolis News
France
Reginald TH. Johnson
L'Espoir
Pittsburgh
Mile
Odette de Bouglon
Paris
Daily Thought on Fire and Study Changes
A brief reflective note compares turning logs to stir a dull fire with shifts in study and a weary brain. The fragment hints at fatigue from changing routines and mental effort without concluding.
Sale of Delinquent Lands in Jones County Illinois?
Notice is given that on Monday November 6 1920 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the county courthouse in Anamosa Jones County Iowa a public sale will be held offering described lands and town lots for unpaid taxes from 1919 and prior years. Interest and costs accrue daily and will be included in the sale amounts. A W Walker county treasurer and collector of Jones County Iowa administers the sale.
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Jones County
Lows
Anamosa
Jones
County
Downs
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