Northwest Lure of Gold Draws Stikine River Runners
The Northwest notes renewed gold fever along the Stikine from Wrangell to Cassiar creek in British Columbia. Reported rumors of a rich placer draw hundreds of stampeders to the Stikine river, with ice breaks, climbs, and glacier lore shaping a perilous trek over passes to the Cassiar gold region and historic Meekenzie and Yukon routes.
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Washingtton
Cassiar
Northwest
Wrangell
Alaska
Stikine River
Yukon
National Geograph‘e Society
Washington
Stikine
British Columbia
Lig MacKenzie
Glenora
Wal Jers
Déage Lake
Creek
Klondike
John Muir
Pacific Coast
Yosemite
Opitkine
Lee
Casstar
Meelkenzie
Bering Sea
United States
Spain
Skagway
White Horse
Telegraph Creek
Armstrong
Girl Sustains Ear Injury From Cow Attack
A nine year old boy in Plymouth near Richland Center required nine stitches after a milk cow trod on his ear and ripped a portion away. The cow's owner, Fred Crasb, was present as the incident occurred.
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Plymouth
Ind
Paul Crasb
Fred Crafb
Richland Center
Dead faults charted in Colorado Rocky Mountains
Government geologists locate a zone of dead faults between Denver and Longmont and near Golden and Boulder. The faults show no movement for centuries, with slight tremors reported in southeastern Colorado. If inactive since ancient readjustments, experts believe they may not trigger earthquakes for ages.
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Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountains
Loughimont
Balder
Cole
Golden
Conn
United States Geological Survey
California
Barbara de T. Lupton
Longmont
Erie
Louisville
Marshall
Colorado
Aod
Lupton
North Table Mountain
Easwell
Eads
Kiowa
Lopton
Colorada
Sierra Grande Arch
Raton
N. M
Pig and Owner Share College Dreams in Greenville News
In Greenville, Daroc sow named Red, weighing about 400 pounds, helped fund her owner Paul Bates’s Clemson education by bearing nine piglets. Bates, a Clemson junior and son of D. P. Bates, plans to finish electrical engineering as Red’s progeny and earnings support his studies. Red’s retirement and funeral will reflect her breed, while Bates builds a waterwheel project to power local farms.
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Greenville, SC
Red
Paul *G Bates
D. P. Bates
Marietta
Bates
Pam
Clemson College
Faui
Clemson
Man and Wife Fight Over Jesse James Pistol
Memphis couple faces charges after a staged public melee over possession of an old-fashioned pistol once linked to Jesse James. Police say the dispute escalated to a display of force in a public area, with both parties accusing the other of theft and threats.
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Jesse James
Memphis
The Kitchen Cabinet Honey Cookies and Desserts
A dated kitchen column outlines cookies and honey-based recipes. It includes Nut Cookies and Crisp Cookies with butter, brown sugar, vanilla, spices, and nuts. honey uses in Honey Ice Cream and Honey Custard. and a general note on honey’s place in cookery. The text blends recipe steps with notes on using honey in desserts and dressings.
Fish That Flirts Among Malay Peninsula Creatures
Explorer Carveth Wells reports unusual fauna in the Malay Peninsula including a flirtatious fish and other oddities such as tree climbing monkeys and tooth brushing parrots. The piece notes this fish is a singular oddity in local biology.
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Carveth Wells
Cure for Sleeplessness Seeks Isopropylprogenyl Remedy
A Paris medical review discusses isopropylprogenyl amidourine as a treatment for sleeplessness. It notes cautious use and hints at varied reader interpretations, as reported by the New York World.
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Paris Medical Review
New York
The Last Man's Club Remembrance Ends in Silence
An aged man hosts a thirty eight-seat dinner, toasting each friend from youth to old age. One by one the absent chairs and vanished comrades reappear in memory as he drinks to their names. At the hour of dissolution he joins their chorus, collapses, and is found dead beside the empty seat, the Last Man of the club.
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Alaine
Tan
Hosur
Tienle
Joe
Gettysburg
Newely
Aga
Kly
Jem
Tropic Residents Find Many Uses for Nutmeg
Tropic residents note the ayalley tree yields 1000 to 120000 nuts yearly with all parts used. In Singapore natives salt the lmsk and saloons use it to quench thirst. Nutmeg butter, carminative and stimulant uses appear, and myristic acid offers narcotic properties. Cases of poisoning from nutmeg are recorded.
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Tropic
Right in His Line Elevator accident at Palmer House
A Tishman elevator operator at the Palmer House Toronto let the pit open causing a man to fall and suffer injuries. Dr Andrew Smith happened by and a bantering exchange ensued between Trish and Pat about the severity of the hurt and whether Doctor Smith could help.
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Tishman
Palmer House
Toronto
Andrew Smith
Trish
Joey
Doctor Smith
Pat
Flower Cultivation Across Ancient Civilizations
The text surveys how ancient Egyptians Greeks Assyrians Romans and Chinese cultivated flowers for beauty and use. It notes an early fig drawing in Egypt's Pyramid of Gizeh and dates some plant propagation ideas to before Christ with later Korea and China influences around 604 A D and 2700 years B C.
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Gizeh
Egypt
Havecesiemed
China
Chenmuns
Husband Refuses to Back Down After In-Law Barbs
A man in a domestic dispute clashed with his wife’s mother in law after a tense quarrel. He challenged a fellow club member, joked about the likeness between his mother in law and his wife, and ended by declaring no one will speak ill of him without consequences.
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Rusbards
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