Habits of the Tarantula in the Southwest
The tarantula avoids sun, hunts near burrow entrances at dusk, and seizes small prey with needle sharp fangs. It inhabits deserted gopher burrows, builds silk wads to seal passages, fights its own kind, and spends winter in a semi lethargic state. The species sheds skin yearly over a twenty year growth and lays egg cocoons in midsummer with hundreds of young emerging and living with the mother before dispersing.
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United States
Nature
The
Scientific American
Butler Endorses Belief World Is Improving
An editorial from the Century endorses Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler's view that society is advancing. He cites stricter accountability beyond legal codes, a rising public standard in business and public life, and a more exacting public code, urging optimism despite scandals.
Amazing dog spells words and solves math puzzles
A trained dog named Roger demonstrates rapid spelling of names and words, translating languages, and solving arithmetic tasks from cards. He identifies letters, words, fractions, and colors without direct instruction, even under distractions, as described in B. B. E.'s Century excerpt.
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Roger
Constantinople
We Have Set Up a Different Public Life Code
The Century quotes President Butler asserting a new, more exacting public life and a hopeful doctrine. The remark frames a working hypothesis about progress and attitude, presenting it as cheering and encouraging for society.
Uncompromising Selfishness in Business Letters
A Western customer threatens to never do business again if a large order is not canceled, while a prior year letter from the customer demanded immediate delivery or they'd discontinue. The exchange highlights unchanged selfish attitudes amid economic shifts from 1906 to 1907 and the strains on commerce during boom and panic.
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New York
Wall Street Journal
Generous Railroad Banker and Parson Tale
Secretary Cortelyou recalls a famed panic story about a benevolent banker who buys back 400 shares at 106 after a parson’s plea. The letter ends with the paradoxical reply from the parson to buy the same stock at 55 and deliver to the president who will pay 106, illustrating dramatic market mercy.
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George B. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Mr. Cortelyou
Dash Railways
Dash
Washington Star
Diary Habit Dips After Thirty Years Of New Year Starts
Thirty years ago many began the year by keeping a diary but the old practice has waned. The piece notes shifting routines and questions what happened to the traditional habit as new formats and routines take precedence.
Prophesies Fall of British Rule at Boy Scout Talk
Major-General Baden-Powell lectured a large Regent Street Polytechnic audience of boy scouts. He compared Britain to Rome, warned against municipal squabbles and paid games, and urged duty and resolve to prevent decline.
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Mafeking
Baden-Powell
Regent Street Polytechnic
London
Great Britain
Rome
Visitors in Paris and a Pepper Adventure
Paris recorded the world’s largest transient population with year total arrivals near 1.75 million aided by 11 530 hotels. The piece also recounts Ralph D Paine’s tale of Captain Jonathan Carnes and the Rajah voyage to Sumatra for wild pepper, its profitable return and Salem merchants’ scramble to imitate the venture.
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Paris
New York Sun
Ralph D. Paine
Outing Magazine
Jonathan Carnes
Salem
Sumatra
Bencoolen
Dutch East India Company
Carnes
Jonathan Peele
Peele
Captain Carnes
Salem Harbor
India
When a Kansan Stops His Paper
A farmer in Kansas quits his paper after two months of hardship. He resumes with a year’s advance payment of 1.50, claiming the Farmer caused all his woes from failed crops to losses by thieves. The piece satirically lists a cascade of misfortunes blamed on the absence of the newspaper.
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Osborne
His Fighting List Prompts Irish Northward Quarrel
Mike catalogs the male population names in the vicinity while his wife notes the effort. Pat O Leary confronts him angrily claiming his name is on the list and vows to scratch it off. Mike persists in adding names despite the threatened confrontation in a rural scene reported by Democratic Telegraph.
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Mike
Pat O’leary
Pat
O’leary
Democratic Telegram
Injection Grout Propos ed for St Pauls Dome
Engineers propose injecting Portland cement grout under pressure to all piers of St Pauls Cathedral dome and tower to preserve the structure. The creamlike grout would fill gaps and stabilize the historic masonry.
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St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Tarpon Leap in Pass Tests Angler Skill and Courage
An angler describes tarpon fishing in a pass from near the bottom with heavy tackle and long line. The fish leap and thrash, sometimes nearly striking the boat, and can require an hour to land. One tarpon jumped twelve times in a day, aided by a pursuing shark, before the catch was made.
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Aldermaniec
Man saves woman from enraged deer in Wheeling park
Frederick Hall, son of postman James K Hall, shielding Helen Bloch, daughter of a Wheeling tobacco maker, faced a charging buck in John A Howard’s deer park. Hall was struck and wounded but able to shield Miss Bloch as two workers and bystanders attacked the animal with clubs. An operation followed, and Hall is expected to recover. Bloch suffered only a nervous shock.
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M Helen Bloch
Millaire Tobacco
Wheing
W. Va
Frederick Hall
University
James K. Hall
Wheeling
Hall
Miss Bloch
John A. Howard
New Yorn Press
Local Hero McBreen Sacrifices Life to Save Stranger
Frank C. McBreen 64, a wealthy contractor from Richmond Hill, died saving a woman trapped between track gates as a Long Island Railroad train approached. Edward Duffy helped pull the woman free. McBreen was dragged beneath the first car and killed. He leaves two sons and two daughters. the saved woman, Mrs. Mary Sheele, aged 50, is uninjured.
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Frank C. McBreen
Ife
McBreen
Mr. McBreen
Triang
Jamaica
Myrtle Avenue
Richmond Hill
Long Island Railroad
Long Islan City
Edward Duffy
No 2063
Fulton Street
Potoma
Grand Army Cireels
Mary Sheele
Norman Avenue
Evergreen
Long Island
New York American
New York Education Commissioner on Illiteracy Levels
Dr. Andrew S. Draper, Commissioner of Education in New York, states that illiteracy in the state is more widespread than in Germany, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia, or Japan.
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Andrew S. Draper
New York
Germany
France
Great Britain
Switzerland
Scandinavia
Japan
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