tame wild animals harass Snohomish farms and homes
Curiously tame wild creatures now haunt parts of the state. Elk from Yellowstone trample hay stacks and gardens in Snohomish farmers’ fields, pheasants roam barnyards, sea lions inhabit a Cape Flattery area keeper’s house, a motherless bear cub and later a mate with cubs frequent nearby woods, and a porcupine and white tailed deer visit a garden. The elk lawsuit was dismissed. authorities urge caution.
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Sultan Basin
Yellowstone Park
Washington
Bride's Island
Cape Flattery
iMth & Schnpthouse
Walluta
H.R. Raymond
Graham Street
Seat- Ho
Middle Elover
Fretuce
Eyes and the face Beauty Fire Guiding the Look
An odd blend of cosmetic advice and a rural anecdote opens with claims that eyes hold beauty when cleansed and cared for. It contrasts cold water eye rinses with traditional cups, then shifts to a tale of two tramps arguing over a found body and a punchline about knee boots before promoting Burdock Blood Bitters as a tonic.
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Fae
Thrilling sport of wild boar riding and spearing
The account describes a chaotic pig hunting event with riders using eight foot bamboo spears and a powerful Indian boar with long tusks. The chase features a nimble horse named Lightning the horse, and a hard clash as riders attempt to unseat each other. The piece highlights the dangerous, untamed nature of this sport and its fierce, uncontrolled action.
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Tle
How Speech Mixing Triggers Laughs in 19th Century Talk
A fragment discusses humorous malapropisms and misordered phrases in Victorian speech. It contrasts intended actions with garbled lines like coat and veil and wipe your beet, asking why manufacturers don t fix such scrambled expressions and noting odd greetings as evidence of silly language quirks.
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London
Grant's 1880 memoirs net vast royalties for Twain tale
In 1855 Mark Twain faced poverty and health decline yet rose to prosperity as publisher. Uproar about memoir rights with Ulysses Grant led to a plan where Grant would advance royalties for each volume. The deal, a 70 percent share of returns, yielded about $40,000 to the Grant heirs, and a large £200 6m check to Mrs Julia D. Grant remains famed as history’s largest royalty check.
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Richard Watton Gilder
Century Company
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Monument to Wren in Detroit News Era Reflects Mistaken Motto
The article cites a misattributed motto for Michigan and discusses Sir Christopher Wren as the architect of St Paul’s cathedral. It notes Wren’s birth 1632 and death 1723, his knighthood by Charles II, Royal Society leadership, and parliamentary service, praising St Paul’s as a premier Protestant church after St Peter’s in Rome. The piece mentions a construction span of thirty five years and a project cost of $4,800,000 in Detroit News.
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Michigan
Amoenam
Wilel
St Pauly
Lonedun
Christopher Wren
Charles TM
Royal Society of
Wrens
Fragmented OCR tale hints at a masked water drama
The readable passage mentions a scene with a water tap and a mysterious note. A young man discovers a rune and a sign claiming someone has hidden up a stairway for three weeks. The text references names like Hallan Hawksworth and a location Bt. Nicholas, plus scattered phrases about towns and dates.
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Atery
New York
Fragmented notes on onion and local figures in Hevon
Readable fragments reference onion farming and local names such as Alexander Caine and White, with garbled lines about health, politics, and community figures. The text hints at a local scene or dialogue but lacks coherent events or clear outcomes.
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Alexander Caine
Hevon
Fragmented OCR Note From A Local Paper
A garbled, partially readable OCR fragment appears to discuss accuracy and truth in reporting with scattered phrases about writers, lie, crude humor, and a reference to a named surname. The legible pieces hint at critique of writing quality and editorial integrity, but no clear event or outcome is present. The text is disjointed and may originate from a historical newspaper page segment.
Large Noses Linked to Greatness Across Eras
A historical study by MIT professor Frederick Adams Wood analyzes portraits of eminent men to test if large or long noses correlate with superior intellect. Across scientists, orators, industrial leaders, and wealth figures, results show a majority with large or long noses, with few small noses among the truly notable. The article notes wide variation and cautions against overinterpreting facial features as markers of genius, while highlighting the prevalence of average noses in everyday people. It also mentions a West Virginia election anomaly and assorted unrelated notices and advertisements.
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Frederick Adams Wood
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nes
Journal of Heredity
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Rhwest
Heyn
England
Europe
America
Woods
New Religious Cult to Experiment Led by Rev Stickley
Reverend M Allen Stickley a Shenandoah Valley figure flies to Patrick County Virginia to establish a new communal sect living like primitive Christians Headquarters cover 187 acres with costs up to 200 per acre and plans to grow from about fifty members drawn from Indiana Georgia Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia including Rev C Gast and Rev Gast of Ohio The Shenandoah family will remain home for months while the colony forms in Buffalo Ridge Strasburg Va is cited as Stickleys former home
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Disciples of Christ
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Patrick County
Buffalo Ridge
Mr. Stickley
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Ear
Gast
Ohio
Indiana
Georgia
Anteater Feeds on 200000 Ants Says Beebe
William Beebe, director at Kartabo British Guiana, reports that a tamandua anteater will eat about 200000 white ants or termites at four meals. The figure came from examining the stomach of a tamandua captured near the research station.
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William Beebe
New York Zoological Society
Kartabo
British Guiana
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