Bats as Desirable Citizens
A historic piece extols bats as crucial insect controllers and pollinators. It traces bat evolution, flight, and sensory methods, cites San Antonio roosts reducing malaria, and notes figures like Dr. A. C. Campbell. It discusses guano value, sixth sense organs, and early ideas from Sir Hiram Maxim on echo-based navigation for ships and planes.
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San Antonio
Campbell
Bureau of Entomology
Washington
Hamilton Hartridge
Cambridge
England
Hartridge
Hiram Maxim
Horse Spanker Offered for Sale at Sligo With Stellar Verbiage
A century ago an advertisement touted a horse named Spanker for sale at Sligo. Described as a swift, sound, stout sorrel with rare symmetry and perfect gait, the listing lists hundreds of positive traits and cautions against any defect. The piece, from the Manchester Guardian, echoes hyperbolic praise typical of the era.
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Sligo
Park project to memorialize Long Island Battle site in Brooklyn
Brooklyn moves to preserve the Long Island Battle grounds as a park and national shrine. The plan envisions a museum in the Vechte house site, a stadium and playground, and two memorial shafts representing the original 13 colonies and the 48 states, honoring Marylanders and Continental troops in the 1776 action.
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New York
Brooklyn
Long
Brooklyn Heights
Washington
Stirling
Europe
Nicholas Vechte
Marylant
Sons of Maryland
America
Long Island
de Helster
Marsiland
Green Park
Vechte
Brooklyn Heights Forum
Rutland
States
Devilfish Facts: Shy Octopus Baffles Stereotypes at Sea
The octopus, sold as a deli item in markets from Santa Cruz to San Francisco and New York, is described as shy and harmless. Details from C. L B. Florence and Stanford's Prof. Harold Heath explain its lack of bones, color-changing defense, and misperceived menace, with traps and selling prices noted.
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San Francisco
Victor Hugo
Florence
Prof
Harold
Heath
Department of Geology
Stanford University
California
Mr. Florence
Chinatown
Santa Cruz
Pacific Coast
Cattle Crave Phosphorus Bone Eating Phenomenon Unfolds
New York reports describe osteophagia in South Africa where cattle in phosphorus-poor soil seek bones of dead animals. Dr. H. S. Green notes this bone eating mirrors salt licks and rises for ten months, subsides with young grass. Prevention includes phosphate fertilization or dietary phosphate, though risks persist. The behavior links to lamziekte, a fatal bovine disease caused by a toxin from decaying flesh microbes.
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New York
South Africa
H. 8. Green
Division of Veterinary Research
Pretoria
American Society of Fiological
Green
Skunk Flees When Girl Fumes Camp Scene
Three young women camping along the Desplaines River near Chicago encounter a skunk that invades their camp. One girl sprays perfume, causing the skunk to retreat and flee the area.
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Skunk
Desplaines River
Chicago
Flies on Eightieth Birthday in LA Air Flight
James W. Hein ecke celebrated his eightieth birthday in Los Angeles by making an airplane flight. He remarked that the trip was something he had always wanted to do for fifty years.
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Los Angeles
Cal
James W. Heinecke
Memorial tablet for Walter H. Page at Westminster Abbey
A photograph shows the memorial tablet on the south wall of the Chapter house at Westminster Abbey honoring Walter H. Page, the American ambassador to Great Britain in World War I. The inscription uses red on the third and last lines. Presented by the English Speaking Union of London.
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Chapter House
Westminster Abbey
Walter H. Page
Great Britain
Grass seed dispute at Bend park prompts warning
Landscape gardener C. H. Bishop announced that only women and dogs have enough brains to stay off the grass after finishing an acre tract in Bend City Park seeded to grass was trampled by men ignoring warning signs.
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Bend
Ure
C. H. Bishop
World’s Largest Oil Storage Tank Nearing Completion
In Wilmington California the world’s largest oil storage tank, covering 20 acres, will hold about 1 750 000 barrels. It rises eight feet above ground with four inch thick sides and bottom, built of poured concrete rather than steel, with surrounding soil densified around the excavation.
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Wilmington
Cal
Crocodile Skeleton Found At Peterborough Brickyard
A complete crocodile skeleton about 14 feet long, dating roughly two million years, was unearthed in a Peterborough brickyard. The fossil closely matches the modern crocodile’s skeletal form.
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London
Peterborough
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Robert H. Moulton
Earth
Gray
Wich
Africa
North America
A. C. Campbell
Texas
Couty
Gray Fru” Bay
Manchester Guardian
Octopus
Howard Verbeck
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