German Tree Pests Tactics Show Moths Lured by Light
German foresters report using electric lights and searchlights to attract and kill the conifer-damaging moths known as nuns in Saxony. In Zittau, arc lamp arrays and high powered beams drew thousands of moths into ventilator nets, yielding up to 141 pounds of dead insects in one night. The method attracted attention from the U S Department of Agriculture for potential use in American forests.
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Berlin
Germany
Saxony
Zittau
Municipal Electric Works
United States Department of Agriculture
New England
America
Department of Agriculture Plans Next Year Initiatives
A fragment notes that efforts will proceed under the Department of Agriculture next year, outlining an administrative focus and potential program areas.
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Department of Agriculture
Geinkgo Leaf Found Deep Near Spokane Aids Theory
Spokane scientist Prof T A Bonser reports finding a ginkgo leaf buried in soil near Spokane confirming the idea that North America and Japan were once connected by land. He notes ginkgo is unique with no close relatives and limited to Japan. Bonser expects leading researchers to visit the Columbia basin area for further study.
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Spokane
Wash
T. A. Bonser
Spokane College
North America
Japan
Bonser
Northwest
Columbia Basin
Long Walk Wins Wager Journey Ends in Homeward Run
Carl Livingston the Tulsa youth who walked across the continent to Seattle has arrived in Los Angeles aboard the steamer Hanalel to claim a $100 wager. The bet required him to return with $1,000 earned on the trip. he has $750 and 70 days left to earn the remaining sum on the way home.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Seattle
Carl Livingston
Tulsa
Okla
Moviemaking to Aid Medical Education in Surgery
The article explains plans to supply moving image films of rare and difficult surgeries and disease treatments to medical associations across the country. Dr L. Blake Baldwin and the Selig Polyscope Company showcase films on locomotor ataxia, paralysis, germs growth, and treatments, enabling physicians to study progress and cures at home or in clinics.
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Chicago
L. Blake Baldwin
Selig Polyscope Company
William Selig
Victor D Lespinasse
Strange Lapse of Memory Baffles Spokane Residents
Spokane sees the odd case of Max Passler a long time employee and breadwinner who vanished for four months after a headache on April 10. He reappeared with memory gaps and later recalled his identity via a street sign memory. neighbor J J White aided his wife in reunion. Passler recovered fully and is said to be none the worse for the episode. Farmers on the Shiloh turnpike in New Jersey meanwhile raise a potato toll for a one arm watchman aiding winter supplies.
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Spokane
Wash
Max Passler
Toledo Avenue
Passler
Montgomery Avenue
Sandpoint
Idaho
J.J. White
Foun Passler
Shiloh
N. J
Relics of Romans Found in Paris Excavation
During digs by the Societe des Sciences de Semure at Mount Auxolys a paved street with water pipes beneath was uncovered south of the Gallo Roman theater. A well yielded bronze iron and wooden utensils including a Roman grain measure.
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Paris
Societe Des Sciences de Semure
Mount Auxolys
Germany Studies Cotton in the United States
Bernhard Dernburg secretary of state for the colonies leaves Berlin for seven weeks to study southern cotton growing in the United States. He is accompanied by Herr Busse head of a bureau of agriculture.
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Germany
Cuxhaven
Bernhard Dernburg
Colonies
United States
Berl
Herr Busse
Bureau of Agriculture
Morgan Jr. Steers Toward Finances as His Father Reaches Retirement
J Pierpont Morgan Jr known as Jack Morgan from New York has trained under James J Hill in railway finance and banking since Harvard. Born 1867, he has worked in Boston New York London Paris and London again, now living with wife Jane Norton Grew at 231 Madison Ave with four children. He sails the Ibis on weekends as a modest yachtsman while preparing to assume family business duties.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
National City Bank
America
Jack” Morgan
Finance
James J. Hill
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Young Morgan
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Harvard University
New York City
Harvard
Boston
Peabody & Company
J. Pierpont Morgan & Company
London
Morgan & Company
Paris
House of Morgan, Harris & Company
Jane Norton Grew
Madison Avenue
Long Island Sound
New York Yacht Club
Oriental Mogul Deposed
Zil es Sultaneh the deposed shahs uncle, reputed Persian rich, left Vienna for Tehran after news of a new regime. A Persian government order bars his entry, though his four sons may return. He is described as a fierce foe of constitutionalists and the Teheran leadership, with a notorious past of cruel punishments.
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Zil-es-Sultaneh
Shah
Vienna
Teheran
Odessa
Persia
Constitutionalists
Figures Made His Fortune Frank Trumbull Rise
A profile of Frank Trumbull, railroading prodigy turned president of a large western and southern system. Starting with $45 a month as a Sedalia clerk, he rose to lead the Colorado & Southern after a Colorado coal venture and a pivotal 1898 receiver appointment. By 1908 the line spanned about 3000 miles with $15 million in earnings.
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Frank Trumbull
Pleasant Ill
West
South
Trumbull
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Sedalia
Missouri Pacific
Colorado
New York
London
Denver
Denver & Gulf Railroad
Union Pacific
Colorado & Southern
Aladdin
Adolph Eberhart Becomes Minnesota Governor
Adolph Co. Eberhart, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, succeeds to the unexpired term of the late Gov Johnson. A longtime St. Paul resident born in Sweden, he moved to Minnesota in 1881 and built a notable legal career before entering state politics. He changed his surname from Olson to Eberhart after marrying.
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Adolph O. Eberhart
Minnesota
Johnson
Eberhart
Gov. Johnson
St. Paul
Sweden
Gustavus
Adolphus College
St. Peter
Gray
Mankato
United States Circuit
United States
District of
State Senate
Johnson’s
Olson
Adolph Olsons
Adolph Co. Eberhart
May Be Cardinal If Diomede Falconio Is Elevated
Vatican observers expect Mgr Diomede Falconio to enter the college of cardinals at the Rome consistory in January. He would join a line of apostolic delegates to the United States, with Washington service marking a path to higher church leadership. Falconio's Milan to Washington career spans eight years, highlighting diplomacy, education and Franciscan discipline. Now aged under 70, he is described as a slender, gray eyed, white haired prelate with direct English and a notable address.
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Mgr
Diomede Falconio
College of Cardinals
Rome
Washington
Satelli
Mer.Martinelli
United States
Falconio
Vatican
Martinelli
Italy
America
College of St. Bonaventure
Albany
New York
Newfoundland
New Japanese Envoy Uchida Named Ambassador to Washington
Y Uchida, former vice minister of foreign affairs and ex ambassador to Austria, will succeed Baron Takahira as Japanese ambassador to Washington. Born 1865 in Kaimanoto-ken, Uchida entered diplomacy in 1887 and has served in London Peking Vienna and Vienna again, rising to ambassador to Austria-Hungary in 1907.
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Y. Uchida
Austria
Baron K. Takahira
Washington
Mr. Uchida
Diplomatic Corps of
Japan
Kaimanoto-ken
Regation
Count Mutsu
Foreign Office
Legation
London
Peking
Austria-Hungary
Vienna
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Benjamin F. Shively
Shively
Congress
Geinkgo
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Modest Morgan, JR
J. Pierpont
Oriental Mogul
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