Eagles Raid Ranch Highlights Bold Bird Invasions
A Pacific Northwest roundup recounts eagles raiding farms from the Cascade and Olympic ranges. Reports describe attacks on people and livestock including lambs and poultry, nest vigils, and a shot by Henry Gregg on a bald eagle circling a dog enclosure.
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Seattle
Wash
Cascade
Olympic Mountains
George Hartman
North Yakima
Eagle
Pacific
Cascade Mountains
Henry Gregg
Airship Dust Navy Swarms of Light Planes to Replace Battleships
New York aviator Curtiss argues swarms of light aeroplanes will replace dreadnoughts and floating forts. He predicts fleets of 200 planes carrying bombs can strike ships before they reply and that many nations will shift funds from battleships to air fleets within a year.
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New York
Gijenn H. Curtiss
Florida
Curtiss
New Jersey
Pose
Alaska Natives Grow Cucumbers by Steam in Nome Tale
Washington hears a tale from Henry M. Hoyt former Alaska district attorney now Porto Rico attorney general about Nome agriculture. Lettuce and cucumbers supposedly thrive with seeds planted near exhaust pipes of an electric light plant and steam clouds used to mark claims. The committee room fell quiet before an adjournment was declared.
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Washington
Henry M. Hoyt
Porto Ricd
Alaska
House
Nome
Choose Husband by Science London speech on Eugenics
Professor W M Inge lectured Bedford college girls on selecting a husband scientifically through eugenics. He urged a health certificate before marriage and warned that continued neglect could degrade the English stock in three generations.
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London
Bedford College
W. M. Inge
Wreck Near Halifax Yields Silver Treasure and Loss
The schooner Hazle wood arrives at Halifax New Mexico from Barring with a loss of 400 lives. United States and English silver coins are recovered rusted but intact after over fifty years underwater. Divers continue to search the wreck as souvenir hunters swarm the site.
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Halifax
Hazlewood
United States
600000 Eggs Held Up In New York Raid
Fifty thousand dozen eggs seized in New York after a raid on refrigerating plants. The eggs arrived from Chicago in metallic caskets and are being held for investigation.
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New York
Chicago
Couple Married 44 Times in New Jersey
Newark New Jersey German professor and writer Ludwig Lewisohn and his wife completed their forty fourth marriage in New Jersey after legally tying the knot with Justice Henry Bosset’s guidance. Lewisohn plans to seek a New York ceremony someday, arguing their acts do not violate any law.
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New York
Hugh A. Todd
Plainfield, N. J
Howell
Newark
Sarah
N. J
Ludwig Lewisohn
Berlin
Union
New Jersey
Lewisohn
WU Ham Christian
Justice of the Peace
Henry Bosset
Bertillon age detector stirs Paris police test
Alphonse Bertillon unveils a new machine to measure pressure marks on objects to estimate a person s age strength temperament and idiosyncrasies. Tests at the prefecture of police show the method offers only vague evidence and requires caution before practical use.
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Paris
Alphonse Bertillon
Anthropological
Prefecture of Police
Clubbing Education Scheme for Country Families
Londoners weigh Lady Edward Cecil’s plan to hire two first class teachers to conduct classes at a rural house. Families would pool funds and teachers would provide their own board and lodging. The example figure cited is about 1100 dollars annually for a single class of all children.
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London
Edward Cecil
Shh Snake Snarls Mary Maloney in Battery Park
Mary Maloney, Battery Park's noted settee holder, finds a garden snake coiled on her wrist while relaxing on her bench near the aquarium and the harbor. Spectators gather as alarm spreads about the unexpected reptile encounter on a summer day.
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York
Mary Maloney
Battery Park
Mary
Blackwell's Island
Blackwell's
Policeman Catches Fall Safe for Baby From Fire Escape
Policeman John J. Buckley of Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue station saved Willie Brown, a three story fall from a fire escape as a street piano melody played below. The infant was unharmed aside from a scratch on Buckley's brass button. Neighbors and Captain Dooley commended Buckley for the daring rescue.
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New York
John J. Buckley
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Buckley
Willie] Brown
Agnes Brown
Willie
Metropolitan Avenue
Hig
Girls to Keep the Boys From Smoking
Kansas City high school principal Dr BE D Phillips argues that 75 percent of city high school boys smoke. He says girls can stop the trend by politely objecting to smoking around them, noting that chronic smokers rarely graduate and that smoking is viewed as fashionable.
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Ansas City
BE. D. Phillips
Manual Training High School
Kansas City
Rise Not Button Campaign Against Lip Kissing
A health group promotes resisting lip kissing with a white button reading Rise Not. The circular urges stopping kissing as unhealthful and time honored do not justify the practice. A Chicago school rumor of campaigns is denied by Superintendent Hills Flags Young who fears raising awareness of disease.
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Dee
Chicago
Hills Flags Young
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Newmarket
Justice of the
Clark T. Rogers
Julian
Duckhudt
Munson Knight
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Rogers
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