California's Bug Catcher George Compere Seen Worldwide
The article profiles George Compere of Los Angeles, official bug catcher for California and West Australia, noting trips since 1899 to Australia Asia Fiji and South America seeking pests to protect crops. It details red scale and coddling moth antagonists, hopes for higher apple yields, and mentions a murder case cleared by Chief Clemans along with various crime notes and a planned grand hotel in New York.
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California
George Compere
Los Angeles
Compere
Mr. Compere
West Australia
Australia
Asia
Fiji Islands
South America
Hilda Schubart
Wheeling
Wm. Clemans
Oscar Perry Devore
Kliat
Sam Platt
Sadie
London
Ohio
Bradford Powell
Powell
Raven Rock
W. Va
Devore
New Matamoras
Sleeps While She Stands: Cleveland Woman’s Morphine Wakeful Sleep
Mary Dickerson a 79 year old servant in Cleveland Ohio slept while standing against a wall for over fifty years after battling morphine addiction traced to dreams of torture she says led to nightly upright rest. She credits religious conversion with ending the habit.
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Mary Dickerson
B_ EH
Smoot
Cleveland
Hell's Fire
West Virginia Farm Review promotes agricultural paper value
A West Virginia Farm Review notice praises the state’s only agricultural paper, a 32 page monthly published by the State Board of Agriculture, offered for five cents a year. The same item reports a court action involving Charles Broadway Rones, a New York blind merchant, with executors to settle at fifty thousand dollars for a guardian and a 13 year old boy.
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West Virginia
State Board of Agriculture
Hilitor Farm Review
Capitol Building
Charleston
W. Va
Court of Appeals
Charles Broadway Rones
New York
J. Arthur Placker
Eva Sue Figgete Rosseau
Ronea
Mia
Ronas
Kidneys Purify Blood Warn of Disease
The text explains kidneys filter waste from blood and that illness or misfunction causes pain aches and rheumatism from excess uric acid due to neglect. It emphasizes the kidneys must work to prevent systemic illness and toxin buildup.
New Life Pills Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old style wartime style ad touts De Wing's New Life Pills as a cure for stomach issues and indigestion. It claims safety and guarantees at Reinhart's Pharmacy for 25 cents. A brief comic dialogue snippet follows about a visiting caller and a child nickname.
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de. Wing
Reinhart
Baltimore and Ohio special low fares summer 1905
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces special low fares for summer 1905 with excursions to Asbury Park Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City Isle of New Jersey Rehoboth Beach Delaware and other destinations. Tickets good July 1 to July 2 and return by July 31 with various groups listed and agents named for details.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Asbury Park
Nationaliducation WL Association
Atlantic City
Cape May
Ocean Eury and
Isle City
AN City
Rehoboth Beach
Del
Baltimore
United Society Chriats
Buffalo
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elke Grand Lodge
Epworth League
Neluaive
Denver
Col
A. R
Portland
Obe
Lowie & Clarke
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N.C
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