Adaptations for climbing and suspension in mammals
The passage surveys diverse climbing and suspension adaptations among mammals and related animals. It describes scaly tailed squirrels, pangolins, sloths, bats with hook like claws and suckers, geckos comparison, tarsiers with toe discs, ungulates losing hand use, rock rabbits hyraxes, and the prehensile tail as an ancient grasping feature in opossums, phalangers, monkeys, tree anteaters and tree porcupines.
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America
Brazil
Madagascar
Malay Islands
Philippines
Africa
Syria
Tropical
The Rubber Industry and the Reclaiming Process
The article discusses Charles Goodyear’s imagined return to a modern rubber factory and questions public fault on manufacturers. It explains raw rubber prices, adulteration concerns, and the role of reclaiming old rubber through vulcanization and de vulcanization to produce reusable material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Goodyear
Brazil
Central America
Scientific American
Trained to Know Vanderbilts at Oakland Farm
Mrs Alfred Vanderbilt mistress of Oakland Farm Portsmouth near Newport has trained every horse on the estate to know her and her son William. She and the Vanderbilt men tour the farm daily while horses are trained or shown and even the dogs receive sugar and attention. Mrs Vanderbilt knows every worker by name and supports local schools and St Marys church near the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Vanderbilt
Oakland Farm
Portsmouth
Newport
Prisoner Judge Works Case in Court
Hamilton Murray a wealthy farmer was arrested for intoxication and before Judge Gass he was asked what should be done with a man who drinks often. Murray said leniency due to habit, yet the judge fined him ten dollars for repeated disregard of court warnings and Murray paid the fine then left.
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Hamilton Murray
Gass
Murray
Muncie
Ind
The
New York Sun
Pearls of Thought Reflections on Money Faith and Life
A collage of aphorisms on wealth belief and happiness notes money talks prosperity and generosity. It argues real faith cannot be bought church attendance helps but does not make one a Christian and worry about unlikely events robs time.
Punishing Death by Own Action in Maine Law
The article discusses the difficulty of punishing death by own action, noting a Maine statute that halves punishment for attempts when the crime cannot be punished. It argues that no punishment for the crime yields no punishment for the attempt, while aiding death remains punishable but not with impunity.
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American Law Review
Maine
Thief With Clock Mania Strikes Fifth Avenue Area
In a Fifth avenue and 65th street neighborhood a mysterious thief targets watches and clocks rather than money or jewelry. Mrs A E Reynolds at 613 Madison Avenue reports a rhinestone clock taken from her boarding house while Mrs Louis Starr Jr of 635 Park Avenue found her watch and chain valued at 400 dollars missing after a 20 minute absence. A pin cushion and bureau drawers with other jewelry were left untouched.
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Fifth Avenue
65Th Street
A. E. Reynolds
Madison Avenue
Louis Starr, Jr
Park Avenue
New York Herald
Ambitious Son Finds Big Surroundings In NYC
A western millionaire asks for a business start for his son. A New York mercantile head replies the son is hired at six dollars a week alongside peers. The letter notes peers own a fifty thousand dollar yacht and a nine thousand dollar motor car, implying grand surroundings.
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New York
Blank
Harper’s Weekly
When He Drank Harpers Weekly Dialogue
A courtroom style exchange records an employer asking if the applicant is addicted to alcohol. The applicant replies he drinks beer occasionally, only when alone or with company, highlighting a casual drinking habit.
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Harper's Weekly
Indian beliefs link wind, moths, and dreams to power
The Dakotas connect the whirlwind with moth wings and cocoons as channels of power used in battle and for influencing minds. They fuse wind with bear, buffalo, and spider web spirits, and pair thunder with birds, horses, and zigzag signs.
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Wissler
Plains
Shifting Rio Grande Land and Bancos Dispute
Mr. Zayas describes the chief work as placing monuments on bancos left by the Rio Grande as its course shifts. He notes the Boundary Commission ruling that bancos lie with the country on whose side they rest, leading to large transfers of land between Mexico and the United States and an eventual balance of territory between the two nations.
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Mr. Zayas
Boundary Commission
Mexico
United States
Commission
San Antonio
Unsuccessful Ute suitor seeks Carlisle bride with four ponies
Charlie Red Horse, an Indian police officer, travels from Denver with a written contract and four ponies to win consent from the Ute parents for marriage to a Carlisle School student. He hopes the girl will return with him, though her willingness remains uncertain.
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Carlisle
Charlie Red Horse
Union Depot
New Mexican Ute
Charles
Carlile
Charlie
Carlise
Denver
Denver Republican
Notable Queens Theatres of London and Their Histories
A recap of London's Queen's theatres tracing origins from the 1705 Shaftesbury Avenue house to later sites on Tottenham Court Road and Longacre. It notes name changes with monarchs, rebuilds, and famous actors associated with the varied venues including Toole, Brough, Wyldham, Phelps, and Henry Irving.
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Shaftesbury Avenue
London
Queen Anne
George
Queen Victoria
Her Majesty's
Mr. Tree
Tottenham Court Road
Bancrofts
Prince of Wales
Queen's Theatre
Longacre
St. Martin's Hall
Old Drury
Toole, Brough
Charles Wyndham
Phelps
Henry Irving
New York Globe
The Devil's Disciple Author Lummis in Washington
Charles F. Lummis the noted author and Indian authority visited Washington in a corduroy suit sash and sombrero. A reporter asked about his Indian studies and he spoke on childhood revealing a strange tale of a Los Angeles boy punished by his mother who buried a note reading Dear devil please come and take mamma in a garden hole.
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Charles F. Lummis
Washington
Lummis
Los Angeles
Wasted Wealth and the Sturgeon Decline
A 610 pound sturgeon delivered to a cold storage house in Astoria evokes memories of earlier times when giants of the species were abundant and used for fertilizer rather than food, highlighting Oregonian concerns about wasting natural resources before their near extinction.
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Astoria
Oregonians
Portland
Oregonian
Sporting brevities from the 1908 season notes
A roundup of sports snippets covering automobile body standardization projections, Kentucky racing season length, Frank Kitson's move to Monte Cross' Kansas City Club, Deininger's Phillies return, Jimmie Collins' 1902 Boston link, the Southern League roster limit and salary cap, Ohio Sunday sports pressure, veteran boxers' come back bids, James R. Keene's horse winnings, McGraw seeking time for the New York Nationals, Croker's Irish success, Gall's earnings, Hans Wagher's uncertain Pirates future amid rheumatic illness.
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Kenetucky
Frank Kitson
New York American
Monte Cross
Kansas City
Deininger
Phillies
Jimmie Collings
Boston
Ohio
Jack Everhardt
James R. Keene
McGraw
Richard Croker
Tammany
Ireland
E. P. Gall
Hans Wagher
Pittsburg
Extradition Pact and Global Affairs Highlight New Gleanings
The nationwide digest notes a MexicoNetherlands extradition treaty, Irish emigrants face tuberculosis upon return, and Morocco accepts France and Spain demands. NYC charity strain grows from inland poor influx while Roosevelt Hospital tests baking as burn cure. Whittier centennial observed in New England.
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Mexico
Netherlands
France
Spain
New York City
Roosevelt Hospital
John Greenleaf Whittier
New England
Root
Howard Gould
Presbytery of
New York
England
Monte Carlo
London
Rich Shortcake Crust Recipe Instructions
A practical crust method combines 1 1 2 cups pastry flour 12 cup cornstarch 1 2 teaspoon salt 1 level tablespoon sugar 4 level or 3 rounded teaspoons baking powder with butter and egg white. Milk forms a soft dough, divided into two pieces baked in cake tins for 15 to 20 minutes.
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Rio Grande
Wiil
Queen’s Theatre
Pittsburg News
Center Square
New Oxford
Crarley HeRst, Prorrister
Oxford
Pitt St
W. M
F. L. Fleshman
WM. McSherry, JR
Gettysburg
Adams County
Court House
Mopherson
Attorneys
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