Townsend to lead Peru cotton scale study and new entomologist service
Government entomologist Charles H Townsend receives a year and a half leave to study the cotton scale in Peru and to establish a Peruvian entomologist service. He departs October 15 with wife and two children, selects and trains Peruvian graduates, and will also investigate pests in orange citrus groves sugar cane and grapes. William R Thompson will carry on Melrose Highlands work under W F Fiske.
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Boston
Mass
Charles H. Townsend
Melrose Highlands
Peru
Townsend
Townsends
School of Agriculture
William R. Thompson
W. F. Fiske
Wealthy Son toils in shop in Milwaukee escape
New York report notes James Watson Webb son of W Seward Webb heir to Vanderbilt fortune spent a year in Milwaukee Northwestern railroad shops. He describes workers as princes who welcomed him by first name and praises working men's morality and straightforward conduct.
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New York
James Watson Webb
W. Seward Webb
William H. Vanderbilt
Northwestern Railroad
Milwaukee
Mr. Webb
Amer
Laboring Man Lacks Opportunity to Develop Brains
A fragment suggests the laboring man is not lacking brains but lacks opportunity to develop them, reflecting a perceived gap between intellect and circumstance.
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Ican
Brush Fire Unleashes 93 Snakes In New Jersey Meadow
John Wendig set a brush heap ablaze in Clinton New Jersey to clean up land. On return he saw scores of black snakes slithering from the flames into a dead oak. He summoned Jacob Zacher and his two sons Milton and Warty. They fired at the snakes as they fled the burning brush and killed 93 reptiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
John Wendig
Bendig
Jacob Zacher
Jacob
Milton
Warty
Paris doctor proposes new sleeping sickness cure
Dr. Laveran announced to the Academy of Sciences a subcutaneous treatment using aniline emetic to combat sleeping sickness. The method, inspired by Dr Evans of the United States and tested in Senegal by Dr Thiroux, yielded remarkable results.
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Paris
Laveran
Academy of Sciences
Evans
Senegal
Thiroux
Oxygen Aids Work In High Altitude Exertion At Yale
Yale gymnasium director Dr. William G. Anderson reports experiments on 600 athletes and a Mexican ascent showing oxygen relieves heart and lung distress during exertion. The study covers high altitude walks and climbs at 12 400 to 17 879 feet, with notable relief in dyspnea and slower heart rates.
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Anderson
Yale Gymnasium
New Slaven
Conn
William G. Anderson
Yale
Russell H. Chittenden
Sheffield Scientific School
Orizaba
Popocatapetl
Ixtachhuitl
Joel Ellis Fisher, Jr
New York City
Pallegallinas
Cholula
Boy hides four days in rats den in Stamford
Michael Florin Jr, 14, spent four nights in a damp cellar at East Meadow and Jefferson streets after a general alarm. He slept on rags between beams, ate scant food from an icebox, and was found too weak to stand. Doctors linked his condition to overstudy despite his father's note of illness weeks earlier.
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Stamford
Conn
Michael Florin, Jr
East Meadow
Jefferson Streets
New York
Guioole
Mint coinage totals for September reported nationwide
The September coinage at U S mints totaled 16,918,875 pieces worth $929,269. Gold coin accounted for $315,930 and silver for $151,084 with $159,854 in minor coins. Philippine government issues included 108,000 pesos 36,000 fifty centavo and 313,199 ten centavo pieces.
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Washington
United States
Boy Hero Saves Family From Fire on Lombard Street
John Kold a 19 year old Philadelphia youth braved smoke and flames to rescue bedridden Mrs. Nathan Tickoff and later helped her children escape through a roof trap door. Fire caused about 1400 dollars in loss with origin blamed on rats gnawing matches.
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John Kold
Philadelphia
Nathan Tickoff
Lombard Street
Kold
Harry Beckman
Jacob
Harry
Beckman
Rose
Jane
Margaret Clifford
Black Snakes Loose in Pittsburg Streets
Pittsburg section reports three large black snakes escaped from a box in a grocery rear, prompting a neighborhood search. John A. Hiller, a lifelong snake-catcher, recalls Civil War era feats and notes two snakes remain in his possession while planning to remove them.
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Pittsburg
John A. Hiller
Frankstown Avenue
Morton Street
East End
Hiller
Saunders Station
Westmoreland County
Phillips
Wilkinsburg High School
Wilkinsburg
Pennsylvania
Chestnut Ridge
David Richmond
Richmond
Kler
Squirrel Hill
Nun Masters a Mad Bull in German Dairy Tale
Cologne newspaper reports a nun from the Sisters of St Vincent at a large Württemberg dairy near Rottenmünster tames a charging bull. The bull pinned a 65 year old herdsman against a wall as two onlookers fled. the nun sprang to action racing from the dairy, grabbing the animal and throwing it to the ground before sheltering with three laborers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Cologne
Volkszeitung
St Vincent
Rolttenmunster
Wurtemberg
North Codorus man traps 169 rodents with bulldog and cats
Curtis Laughman of York County home reports using a bulldog and two house cats to clear a corn crib of rats and mice, collecting 169 carcasses in a few hours. He fears several hundred more escaped during the infestation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Curtis Laughman
North Codorus Township
Woman Captures Rattlesnake In Berry Picking Night
Mrs Lydia Kimble of Millbrook New Jersey captured a rattlesnake in her home after spotting it coiled to strike while she picked huckleberries. She dropped her berry pail on the snake and used an apron string lasso to secure it, then carried the reptile home.
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Millbrook
N. J
Lydia Kimble
Kimble
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