Scatter Free Seeds By the Air Route
A Pacific Northwest forest experiment tests wind dispersal of seeds from Wasco county Oregon using a five foot wing box kite. 500000 seeds from Douglas fir cedar hemlock noble fir and pines were released at tree height to measure travel distance. The farthest seed traveled 4000 feet with a maximum 8500 feet. seed spread varied by species and seed winged shape rather than weight.
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Portland
Ore
Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station
Wasco County
Oregon
T. T. Munger
A. B. Pickford
British Columbia Forest Service
Capture of Mother Bear and Cubs in Menominee County
In Marinette county on the Menominee river, Peter Weber and neighbors captured a mother bear and her three newborn cubs alive after distressing efforts. The bear weighed about 300 pounds and was holed in an old pine stump. They lassoed the mother, bound hind legs, muzzled her, and dragged the group into the open.
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Menominee, Mich
Peter Weber
William and
Emil Biel
George Leslie
Weber
Menominee River
Marinette County
Camels Once Carried Mail in Far West Texas Camp
The article recalls 70 camels at Camp Verde near San Antonio used to haul messages and supplies to Arizona New Mexico and California. Purchased in 1855 at Jefferson Davis request with $30 000 congressional funds. Two camels later died and the remaining were sold to agents.
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San Antonio
Texas
Pacific Coast
Pony Express
United States Army
Camp Verde
Here
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Jefferson Davis
Oil City Otter Oil Cure All Tale From Early Days
Alvin Watterson recalls a 1855 Oil Creek cure all hoax when he and his father skimmed rainbow oil from the river, bottled it with gaudy labels in Pittsburgh, and sold it as Seneca or Rockoff Indian medicine to merchants amid torchlit hype. The incident shows Oil City’s rough start before its automotive boom.
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Oil City
Alvin Watterson
Watterson
Oil Creek
Pittsburgh
Camel Herd Movement Through Texas in 1859
A butcher acquired camels for government use and loaded 33 on a ship bound for Texas. Deaths reduced the flock to 84 by arrival at Indianola. The ship returned for 44 more camels, with three Arabs enlisted to tend the herd. The San Antonio Herald noted the camel parade down Main street and predicted eventual widespread use in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Indianola
San Antonio Herald
Main Street
Compass Hawker relic marks 1919 transatlantic attempt
An air compass from the first nonstop transatlantic flight by Harry Hawker and Lieut. Commander Grieve rests in Admiral Moffett's office. The 1919 crash off Ireland led to rescue by a schooner captain who later presented the compass. the plane is now in the British Museum.
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U. S
Hawker
Washington
William 4A. Moffett
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Harry Hawker
McKenzie Grieve
Ireland
A. C G. Wilvers
Admiral Moffett
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Rancher Aims to Make Raccoons Popular Pets
Harrisburg Arkansas. Milady walks Fifth Avenue with a poodle while Henry Higgins starts a raccoon ranch to promote raccoons as pets. He fenced a acre for the animals and claims raccoons are healthy and easy to raise. if women reject living raccoons they may accept them as coats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Ark
Milady
Fifth Avenue
Arkansas
Henry Higgins
Colonial Home Aims to Keep Farm Children Contented
William A. Radford offers free advice on building a modern farm home designed to attract city visitors and keep children on the farm. The colonial style house features ten rooms, six bedrooms, a nursery, a large living room with fireplace, a dining room, a spacious kitchen, dumb waiters, an upstairs wing with a nursery, and modern conveniences like electric light and heating.
Heating Air By Convection Through Multiple Pipes
The article explains warm air heating by convection using several pipes surrounding the heat chamber. Cold air enters, is heated on hot metal surfaces, and moves as small streams through separate ducts to rooms, producing warm moist air from the register to walls or floors.
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Hé&It
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Los Angeles
Thomas S. Early
James 8. McGraw
George E. Gaylord
Southern Pacific
Dorothy Terry
Yuma
Mary Weiser
Newark
Mary
W. A. Radford
William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
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