Louisiana Game Law Split Over State Control and Duck Protection
New Orleans reports the Louisiana legislature faces a clash over state versus parish control of game management. The game commission proposes major changes including suspending the closed season for catfish and buffalo fish and increasing protection for ducks like the mallard and green winged teal, highlighting agricultural stakes on the gulf coast.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Game Commission
Game
California Cotton Company Incorporation Filed
Articles of incorporation filed for the California Cotton company to grow cotton in the Imperial Valley with $25,000 capital to plant 2 000 to 3 000 acres. Los Angeles and Memphis signers include ranch owners and business men. An experienced superintendent will run operations as plans focus on modest growth and product handling.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California Cotton Company
Imperial Valley
Memphis
California
Germany
Japan
To Keep Husband at Home in Garden Talk
J H Prost, Chicago forester, urged husbands be kept at home by making a garden in the backyard. He spoke before the Men's club of the Euclid Avenue Methodist church in Oak Park. One listener warned that excessive gardening could drive a man from his home if persisted.
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Chicago
J. H. Prost
City Forester
Euclid Avenue Methodist Church
Oak Park
Mr. Prost
Guardian of Yosemite Big Trees Galen Clark Laid to Rest
Galen Clark, discoverer and longtime guardian of the Mariposa grove, dies at 96 and is buried near Yosemite Falls in a granite tomb he carved. He lived for decades beside El Capitan, Sentinel Rock, and Cathedral Rocks, befriending John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, and sharing in the park’s grand landscape.
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Galen Clark
Mariposa Grove
San Francisco
Yosemite Valley
Emira-_Lee
Oakland
Yosemite Falls
Clark
National Park
Galen ~Clark
John Muir
John Burroughs
Joseph le Conte
el Capitan
Sentinel Rock
Three Graces
Cathedral Rocks
Bees Evade Boulder Threat at Hog Mountain Hive
A farm near Hog Mountain reported a tipped off wild hive hiding 766 pounds of honey in a hollow tree. Bees moved to safety hours before a massive boulder rolled down the slope, while owner Reuben Van Winkie learned of the windfall after selling the honey and dining at a Montclair hotel.
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New York
Hog Mountain
Reuben van Winkie
Montclair
Central Hotel
Rush to Gold Fields in Alaska Signals Golden Year Ahead
News describes mild weather drawing prospectors to Alaska interior trails before thaw. Reported hopes cite Valdes Trail and Yuhoo River routes toward Nome with an anticipated gold dust output near 16 million dollars for the year.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Valdes Trail
Yuhoo River
Nome
Woman Sues Dentist Over Gag Teeth in Trial
In Yorkville court Mrs. Helen Gray sues Dr Selim Worster for 50 dollars claiming her new artificial teeth gagged her speech and hindered chewing. Worster argues he did quality work but the judge rules for the plaintiff, granting the full amount.
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York
Helen Gray
Worster
Hoffman
Babcock Keeps Hairpins, Hundreds in City Collection
Indianapolis private secretary to Mayor Shank, Luman K Babcock, amasses about three thousand hairpins from simple wires to tortoise shell pieces. While stamps and pipes don’t interest him, a single hairpin triggers instant fascination.
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Ndianapolis
Luman K. Babcock
Shank
Babcock
Mr. Babcock
Collector Showcases Largest Hairpin Collection in U S
The collector, one of two in the United States, holds 635 pins found in Europe in 1903. Each pin is labeled with where and when found including items from George Eliot’s grave in London and a horse print from King Edward VII in St James Park. Pins also from Paris Berlin and other capitals, plus fifty plus from Queenstown and Cork illustrate Irish hairpin lore.
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Grand Rapids
United States
Europe
George Eliot
London
Edward VII
St.James Park
St. Peter's
Rome
Paris
Berlin
Babcock
Queenstown
Cork
Ireland
Sleep With an Umbrella in Reach in Chicago
Mrs. A C Keenbaum of 4516 Calumet avenue keeps an umbrella by her bed after a midnight flood drenched her and husband in their Hyde Park flat. Water poured from a roof tank leaking after being filled that day, a mystery partly blamed on heavy rain elsewhere.
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A. C. Keenbaum
Calumet Avenue
Greenbaum
Hyde Park
Baby
Murder on Chicago bridge shocks street scene
A chaotic eyewitness account describes a murder near the bridge on North Clark street. Police rush to the scene as the bridge tender notes no immediate signs, while years ago a local story about an Indian squaw and a cigar surfaces in the investigation.
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Clark Street
Clark Strees
Thea
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Department of Agriculture
Caroline Hunt
C. F. Langworthy
Miss Hunt
Gulf Coast
Yosemite
Wag Winkie
Bachelor
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