Odd friendships form between animals and their unusual companions
A essay cites famous pairs from horses and cats to dogs and terriers, noting how stable life often hinges on these unusual bonds. Marylands lion and cur dog share food and space, while Havre de Grace police dog befriends a fox dog, illustrating solitude and nature's mischievous moods.
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New York Herald
Wootton
Murrier
Stubbs
Kingston
Clifford
Maryland
Havre de Grace
Lexington
Nature
Teeth Gnashing as an Art from Primitive Times
A Century Magazine note recounts W. H. Hudson describing a Spanish Basque workman who used his strong teeth as a musical instrument. He rests his chin on his hand, plays marches and martial airs by grinding and rattling his teeth, while lips move to modulate the sounds. The writer finds it astonishing yet unsettling.
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W. H. Hudson
The
Century Magazine
Christmas Gift Box Sparks Laughs at Hotel
A woman explains that a mail box addressed to Virginia Barton at a hotel is not hers but for her daughter Virginia Barton. The child declares it a Christmas present, remarking that the box belongs to her because Barton was their first husband, prompting amused comments from guests.
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Virginia
Virginia Barton
Barton
Barber’s hair clippings yield $500000 fortune
An Illinois barber who went to the Klondike traded his razor for a pick and pan. He opened a shampoo parlor with a cyanide tank where miners’ cuttings supposedly assayed $100 a ton. Shampoos paid his bills, and he claims the cyanide bath produced his wealth.
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Illinois
Klondike
New Use for Silk Waste by German Expert
Herr von Wexroth of Fuerstenberg Mecklenburg Germany discovers a process to break up artificial silk waste and chemically treat it to resist water. The material is spun on the worsted system and woven into cloth that can be bolted with a cup without harm.
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Herr von Wexroth
Fuerstenberg
Mecklenburg
Germany
Wexroth
Yellowstone and the U S National Parks Century
The piece celebrates Yellowstone as the first national park and traces the broader growth of the U S system to nineteen parks, from 1832 Hot Springs to 1919 Zion and Grand Canyon. It notes visitor and money figures for 1921, describes park policy aims, and advocates public education to deepen enjoyment and understanding of America’s natural wonders.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Yellowstone
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase
Mississippi
Rockies
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jefferson
Lewis and Clark
St. Louis
Columbia
John Colter
Missouri
Colter
William Clark
Clark
Jim Bridger
William H. Ashley
Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Bridger
Boiling Spring
Alum Creek
Echo Canyon
Washburn-Langford
Montana
Cornelius Hedges
Yellowstone National Park
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Wyoming
Idaho
Grand Canyon
Sequoia
California
Yosemite
Yosemite Valley
General Grant
Mount Rainier
Washington
Crater Lake
Oregon
Wind Cave
South Dakota
Platt
Oklahoma
Sullys Hill
North Dakota
Mesa Verde
Colorado
Glacier
Rocky Mountain
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Lassen
Mount McKinley
Alaska
North America
Arizona
Colorado River
Lafayette
Maine
Isle of Mount Desert
Zion
Utah
Rio Virgin
National Parks
National Park Service
Bureau of the Interior Department
Franklin B. Lane
National Park Movement
National Park
Scenic West
National Parks Association
Friends of the National Parks
Congress
Association
America
Courteline and the Philosophy of Thinking About Nothing
A review discusses a new edition of the Philosophy of Courteline noting the work offers scattered thoughts and reflections rather than a metaphysical system. It cites lines about drinking good wine over poor, courting two girls over one spinster, and doctors who scare but cannot convince, framing thinking about nothing as absurd yet oddly intelligible.
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Guage
Osler
Courteline
le Progres Medical
Old Belief on Karnak Sun Temple Is Debunked
The London Times reports Sir Norman Lockyer’s sun temple theory challenged by Egyptian survey findings. Richard of the Egyptian survey shows the sun never aligned with Karnak’s axis since about 6 000 B C, with last axis sunset around 12 700 to 13 000 years ago, placing Europe in the Stone Age.
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London Times
Norman Lockyer
Karnak
Mr. Richards
Egypt
Europe
Dordogne
Love and Green Peas In War Time Divorces
A Paris medical congress reported in the Daily Chronicle that wartime marriages show a link to divorce. Haricot beans supposedly aid brain and brawn while spinach curbs laziness, but green peas were blamed for frivolity making women capricious and reckless and cited as a factor in many divorces.
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Daily Chronicle
London
England
Paris
Something Goes Wrong on Jupiter
The report notes a large area of Jupiter moving seventy miles an hour slower than surrounding areas, observed by Durham University astronomers in 1921, with a smaller but similar drift noted this year. The meaning of this planetary movement remains a mystery.
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Jupiter
Earth
Frank Sargent
Durham University Observatory
Royal Astronomical Society
Europe
Millionaire Testifies About Undisclosed Liquor on Cruise
In court the millionaire denied knowledge of $20,000 in liquor aboard the ship. He testified the figure, with a friend aboard, caused a noticeable reaction among attendees. The exchange hints at a larger voyage controversy and legal scrutiny.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
New Name for Prevailing Style in Marys Visit
Marys country home exposure to city fashion left her astonished by stockings she called low down. She asked her mother to buy her a pair, noting the shift in the prevailing style during a recent city visit.
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Mary
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