Trained worm tale from Col Harta Beetem
Col Harta Beetem recalls a trained worm named Slivers in a Detroit Free Press interview. He describes Slivers guiding his fishing lure by looping his tail, rolling from fish jaws, signaling with bubbles, and waiting for the hook again. Slivers died of brain fever, and a tombstone near Goodale marks the creature's resting place.
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Col. Harta Beetem
Detroit Free Press
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Goodale
Cure for Grouch Described by Dr Meyer Solomon
In plain language the New York Medical Journal reports that irritability and crankiness stem from a common unease. Relief may come from exercise or social activities such as golf, tennis, baseball, cards, or prize fighting, while others find peace through study and hobbies.
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Pr. Meyer Solomon
New York Medical Journal
Soloamon
Popular Superstitions About Moon Birth Days
A trimmed list of lunar birth beliefs links each day 1 through 12 to outcomes for a child. Early days promise wealth and health, while some later days foretell misfortune, deceit, or travel, with various personality traits noted.
Unclear Laughs and War News Mix in Fragmented Report
A disjointed clipping discusses laughter as a defining trait and references Carlyle’s use of the unspeakable Turk amid Bulgarian unrest. It pivots to a Los Angeles fruit tree from 1873 linked to early U S orange cultivation and its economic impact. The piece notes Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil availability and ends with a Martinsburg youth wounded on the French front, identified as Frederick Davis, a son of Daisy May Davis, with war department confirmation.
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George Howard
M. P
Westminster Review
California
Los Angeles
Brazil
Washington
United States
Thomas
Martinsburg
Frederick Davis
Daisy May Davis
East John Street
War Department
Young Davis
France
Department
War Department order clears Baltimore saloons and disorderly places
An order from the War Department on Monday creates a one mile and a five mile liquor free zone around a government assembling depot, eliminating about 120 saloons and other disorderly venues in and near Baltimore. A nearby report notes wolves and sheep losses in Grant county West Virginia amid raiding and a suspected pack presence.
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Grant County
W Va
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