Destructive Seventeen Year Locusts to Return Next Spring
Entomologists warn that the seventeen year locust infestation is due to reappear by spring. A proposed plan from the Agricultural Institute of Austria suggests chemical measures may help. A detailed report from Trieste outlines how schools and communes participated in locust dispatch, with apparatus described and findings on collection, killing, and potential use as feed after processing.
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Washington
Chemical Agrarian Institute of Gases
Austria
Ceas
de Mar
Trieste
Goerz
Man Wore Wife's Lingerie In Divorce Case
A Chicago court record recounts a bitter divorce where Carrie Elizabeth Ferman accuses Christian P. Ferman of extreme stinginess. The complaint cites deprivation of food and social events for her and daughter Mertie, noting the husband wore her undergarments.
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Chicago
Superior Court
Carrie Elizabeth Ferman
Christian P. Ferman
Dupuy
Ferman
Mertie
Weil Ee
Lost Cemetery Unearthed Near Toledo Battlefield Bones Found
Reports describe a grave site where human bones emerge from a single burial pit near Toledo. A soldier's skeleton with a cleaved skull and a brass OC insignia is found, suggesting a battlefield massacre and forgotten interments. Nearby lie the skeleton of an Indian woman.
City budget keeps pace with New York growth, census shows
Census data reveal population up 38.7 percent while city budget rises over 74 percent from 1900 to 1910. Expenditures from city and county total 163 million, with education and police costs leading increases. Church membership grows about 1.3 percent, Protestant and Catholic numbers dominate a large religious landscape.
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York
New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Board of Education
Souvenir Card Restores Heir to 20000 Bonus
Corne lus Carney of Oklahoma City, long presumed dead from the 1906 San Francisco disaster, proves heir to an aunt’s $3 million Chicago estate after sending a souvenir post card to his Troy sister. Court records confirm his succession and a $20,000 share.
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Cornelus Carney
Oklahoma City
San Francisco
Troy
John Carney
Asylum
Cornelius
Charley
United States
Marine Corps
Carney
China
Anna F. Baker
Chicago
Oklahoma
Cook County
Corgius
Lizzie Pratt
Titled women try farm life to calm nerves at Middlesex retreat
Lady Wolseley launches a farm stay for duchesses exhausted by society. In a country house in Middlesex, they live as farm hands with plain fare and no bridge, but may sneak to the cow shed. Experts teach beekeeping bread making poultry farming and spinning.
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Ondon
Lady Wolseley
Ladies’ Park Club
Middlesex County
Ants Drive Kansans From Homes In Kiowa And Beyond
In Kiowa and Harper county reports describe an unprecedented invasion of ants. Vast numbers swarm through residential areas causing damage to carpets clothing and furniture and forcing residents to seek refuge with relatives. Local stories highlight the widespread infestation across the town and its impact on daily life.
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Chita
Kan
Kansas
Kiowa
Harper County
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