Buttermilk Becomes Chicago Summer Drink of Choice
Chicago dairymen doctors drug-store keepers and clubmen report buttermilk as the top hot weather beverage surpassing soda and sundaes. Hotels restaurants and country clubs serve it ice cold in bottles from private churns made with lacto bacilli in unskimmed milk. Managers claim growing sales across retail and home markets as physicians tout its digestibility cooling effect and healthful qualities.
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Chicago
Marsh
Borden Dairy Company
Bowman
Powman Dairy Company
Lake Zurich
James Davidson
Young Horse Thief in Suffolk Convicted
Suffolk Virginia nine year old Ralph Hezekiah Hinton found guilty in Justice Deberry's court on the second offense for stealing a horse. First theft went unprosecuted due to youth. pursuit and capture followed a four mile chase by Hurricane Branch and a four man posse after he took Thomas Smiths horse.
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Suffolk
Ralph Hezekiah Hinton
Justice Deberry
Thomas Smith
Hurricane Branch
River Bank Town Granted Perpetual Dry Status by Santa Fe
Fresno reports River Bank to be a new midvalley division point on the Santa Fe line with all deeds restricted to dry use in perpetuity. District Agent Hobart notes it is the first railroad town built to exclude saloons forever.
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Fresno
Cal
Santa Fe Railroad
River Bank
Hobart
Prison inmate asks Douglass readers to sell his bridle
C C Allen, an inmate at Montana’s Deer Lodge state prison, writes from Box 7 proposing a thousand strand horse hair bridle as a fund raiser to buy books. He hopes cow punchers or vaqueros will buy the artful craft to aid his future life after release.
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Douglass
Ariz
Cc. C. Allen
Douglass Chamber of Commerce and Manes
Deer Lodge
Montena
Montana State Prison
C.C. Allen
Montana
Allen
Badgers as Woman's Pets Create City Fad in Othello
In Othello Washington a new fad among young women domesticates badgers as pets. Several badgers live with their owners and stroll the streets in the afternoon. The animals appear tame and tolerant of affectionate handling by admirers.
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Spokane
Wash
Troops to Fight Fires Amid Muted Local Alarm
fragments indicate a military or official mobilization to combat fires. unclear names and places are readable but imply interagency action and a coordinated effort.
Protect the Birds and Worldwide Feather Trade Stop
A global move seeks prohibition of feather trade to curb bird slaughter for millinery. William Dutcher, head of the Audubon Societies, urges 14 nations and the United States to enact export and import bans, forming an international committee to save birds and reduce economic loss from pest birds.
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New York
Globe
United States
Great Britain
German
France
Italy
Russia
Norway
Sweden
Belgium
Denmark
Holland
Hungary
Austria
Bavaria
Knox
Washington
William Dutcher
National Association of Audubon Societies
Berlin
International Committee For the Protection of
Beetle Killing Elm Trees Plague Strikes Bronx and Sagamore Hill
Director Murrill of the Bronx Botanical Gardens reports elm leaf beetles sweeping the region this summer after a four-state investigation found alarming tree conditions. He inspected Colonel Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill estate and found chestnut trees largely dead due to a canker fungus spreading beneath the bark.
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New York
Murrill
Bronx
Mgr. Murrill
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
Africa
Bronx Botanical Gardens
Mr. Murrill
Comedian Billy Florence Learns Pigeon-Wing From Uncle David Gray
In 1880 Albany Florence sought to perfect a pigeon-wing dance for The Mighty Dollar. He learns the step from Uncle David Gray of New York, famed for his rural humor and life philosophy. Gray teaches with flair and Florence debuts the move to a roaring audience.
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Billy Florence
David Gray
New York
Bardwell State
Mr. Florence
Bardwell Slate
Slate
Florence
Dollar
Albany
N.Y
DeWitt Clinton
Erie Canal
Gray
David
Uncle David
Mrs. Florence
Mr. Gray
Grinnell Minturn Firm and the Flying Cloud Tale
Moses H. Grinnell recounts an unpublished anecdote about Grinnell Minturn & Co, famed owners of clipper Flying Cloud, during the heyday of New York to California ocean trade after the California gold discovery.
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Seven Seas
Grinnell, Minturn & Co
Henry
Moses H. Grinnell
New York City
California
Duel of Courage and Contempt Across Years
The piece recounts ancestral tales from Parke Godwin and a tale of Walsh versus Rhynders a pre Civil War confrontation ended without bloodshed. It also recalls a Flying Cloud voyage around the Horn in 89 days and a toast that set a man’s fate in motion with a dramatic chase to relay news from the port.
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Mike Walsh
United States
Rhynders
Parke Godwin
William Cullen Bryant
Marshal Rhynders
W. J. Bryan
Walsh
Metropolitan Hotel
San Francisco
Washington Irving
Sunnyside
Andy Hall
New York
Custom House
Photographing on the Wane Amateurs Lose Interest
The article notes a drop in participation in photographic societies and exhibitions. It cites a 50 to 60 percent decline in the United States and suggests growing suspicion and ambivalence toward plates films and paper among photographers.
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United States
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