Private game preserves spread across America's landscapes
The piece details William Whitney and the Webb family creating large private game preserves in New England and New York, stocking bison, elk, antelope, and deer, with fences and staff to manage and protect wildlife. It notes Adirondack estates, Vanderbilts at Biltmore, and Roosevelt ranches as examples, and contrasts preservation with hunting culture.
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America
Europe
United States
William Whitney
Herican Game, Large and Small. Mr. Jitney
Fash
Lenox Mountain
Pard Oil and Street Railway
Mag- A
Roosevelt Preserve
Whitney
Austin Corbin
Adirondacks
Ice Press
Seward Webb
Walter Webb
Adirondack
Webb
Webbs
State of
New York
Gov. Black
Yellowstone
Empire State
Ike the Webbs
George Vander
Bilt
Biltmore
Florida
Theodore Roosevelt
Genesee Valley Hunt Club
Genesee River
Reynard
Dale
Hunt Club
Buffalo
Rochester
New Jersey
Connecticut
Bob White
Robbing Island Club
Robbins Island
Long Island
Widow's Weeds and Rabbit's Head Found Near Stonehaven
A rabbit with two long lower incisors died near Stonehaven Scotland due to inability to eat. The article notes the widow's weeds of Australian widows who mourn at graves, shaving heads, applying clay to form a heavy skull cap, and leaving these mourning caps near tombs.
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Stonehaven
Scotland
Australia
Murray River
Bower-Birds Build Hidden Forest Masters
The article surveys the bower birds of New Guinea and Australia, noting their slender builds and varied plumage, their decorative bowers, and the male mimicking calls. It contrasts Australian bowers with New Guinea examples, describing elaborate, massive structures up to eight feet high and the intricate sites chosen between trees.
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New Guinea
Australia
French doctor shadows German emperor on imperial tour
A London Truth report says a renowned French physician spent summers tracing the German emperor in Russia and Germany to study him as a case. The physician, returning from Germany, believes general paralysis may threaten the emperor. In St. Petersburg he met wide access as a French notable, observing the czar while avoiding a diagnosis.
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Russia
London
Germany
St. Petersburg
Mark
William II
William IV
William
Brunswick
George II
Charlotte of
England
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Louisa of Mecklenburg
Governor McCord Wins Warm Welcome in Phoenix
The new Arizona governor Myron H. McCord is greeted warmly by citizens after a prolonged confirmation struggle. He thanks supporters in a brief address promising an honest economical administration and notes past ties to Major McKinley. The accompanying image shows him as approachable.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Myron H. McCord
Arizona
Washington
Senate
McCord
Gov. McCord
Congress
Major McKinley
Tombs of Egypts Sacred Bulls in Sakkara
The burial place of Egypts sacred bulls is a highlighted wonder of Sakkara featuring an arched gallery cut into stone.
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Egypt
Sakkara
Spotted Bower-bird and Ancient Egyptian Burials Observed
The article describes the Spotted Bower-bird building a twig arch lined with grasses, shells, and bones, and the Satin Bower-bird’s runs with feather decoration. It also recounts ancient Egyptian reverence for animals, the Apis bull, and sacred coffins. In Michigan City, convicts may farm swamp land to grow vegetables for state institutions. leases and reforms under anti-convict labor laws loom.
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Michigan City
Ind
Harley
Chic
Feu
Shadowed Etiquette In An Old County Humorous Rant
A rustic monologue renders frustrations with searching and misplacing items. The speaker laments the habit of losing four things and jokes that one should collect unwanted belongings while not actively seeking them, framing a humorous domestic moment.
Jamie the Cripple and Ralphs Selfless Gift
A young boy Ralph learns generosity after hearing of Jamie a crippled classmate. He saves four silver coins and gives them to Jamie, choosing selflessness over candy. His mother explains compassion and faith, leading Ralph to pledge further giving to help Jamie.
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Lucy F. Gerrish
Union
Ralph
Herbert
Jamie
Mamma
God
Bear Story and Park Discipline Moral Lesson
A Yellowstone Park tale is presented as a true and important lesson on park discipline and domestic obedience for parents. The narrator cites Kipling to frame the moral and emphasizes the story’s value if true.
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Yellowstone Park
Bear discipline and a boy's destiny in Providence
A Harper's Weekly anecdote describes a trained bear disciplining cubs by feeding delays at Yellowstone. An related tale recounts Geggie, a one-armed farm boy turned Edinburgh student, whose mother's prayers and divine providence guided his path to Christian service.
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Yellowstone Park
Upper Basin
Old Faithful
United States
Harper’s Weekly
A. J. Gordon
University of Edinburgh
Blackie
Geggie
Mion
Doctor Blackie
Arya
Major Whittle
Christ
Doctor Gordon
Boston
Sam
Silent Lovers and Brief Jokes in Fair Weather
A light verse about deaf lovers in a moonlit scene contrasts with a string of short humorous anecdotes from The Electrical Review. The pieces include a miscue about a railway report and a Massachusetts clergyman’s daughter critiquing sermons, ending with a stagey exchange about audience nerves.
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The
Electrical Review
Electric
Finnegan
Mne
Sid
Size of a Spider Thread in Early Microscope Writings
Leeuwenhoek notes in 1685 that a single hair from a beard dwarfed the spider thread. he estimates 10 000 tiny threads cannot match one hair's diameter. He adds 400 young spiders spinning threads show their silk is far finer, so one ton of their threads would still be smaller than a single hair.
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Leeuwenhoek
Boston Firemen Take Yearly Vacations as Horses Go to Pasture
Boston officials approve annual vacations for firemen and decide to send every horse owned by the department to country pastures for two weeks each year. The plan marks a novel approach to municipal staffing and animal welfare.
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Boston
Department
Will and Willmaker Duel Over Town Funds
In a Pokeville scene a dispute erupts as Mr. Smithkins drafts a will detailing large bequests to local institutions including the Home for Incurables, Orphan Asylum, Baptist church, and a town library. The wealthy man protests debts and insists on presenting the will to the Pokeville National Bank president for witness.
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Mr. Smithkins
Pokeville
Working together in Kansas good times remark
A Kansas man described state life yesterday saying business is brisk and lively in his town. When asked what business he is in he hesitated and revealed his wife is police chief and he is on the force.
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Kansas
Atlanta Constitution
Squire and Erastus Discuss a Fast Horse
Squire asks if the horse is fast and Erastus replies the horse should be, noting it has been "fustin' for free weeks."
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Squire
Erastus
Viis Catches Average In Yearly Vacation Offer
A quirky exchange shows a man boasting a record of 700 and proposing to thirty six girls, with twenty seven accepting. The fragment hints at a humorous or scandalous social anecdote from a past issue.
A Sign of Cultivation in Widow’s Case
A fragment implies someone is cultivating the widow and notes that her weeds have disappeared. The terse dialogue hints at social tensions around a widow and possible neglect or remediation in her garden community.
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William C. Whitney
Berkshire
Webb Deer Park
Rockies
McKinley
Whitney Pre
Willam
M'Cord
Sacred Bulla
Osiris
Memphis
Apis
Guv. McCord and Family
Murphy
Madeline S. Bridges
Ladies’ Home Journal
Jamie, the
Smith
Jotaam
Silent
Laconie
Offagin
Onagin
Awayagin
Tinnigan
Massachusetts
Molly
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