Florida Lizards Describe Color Change by Eye Stimulus
A detailed account explains how Florida lizards alter hue to blend with surroundings. It notes rapid color adaptation depends on pigment cells called chromatophores, controlled involuntarily via the eye and optic nerves, with night color a green norm.
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Florida
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Heineke
Fierce hunt ends as hunter clubs deer to death
Spearfish South Dakota December 18 Harvey Wood faced a charging big buck after firing eight of ten rifle rounds and two remaining shells. He dropped his rifle seized a club and fought the animal, relying on a tree to separate them. Wood finally killed the buck with repeated blows to the head.
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Mr. Wood
Ancient rings and monopolies cited in classical and biblical history
The piece traces ancient concerns about monopolies from Aristotle through Roman and Byzantine laws, noting penalties in Lex Julia de Annona and Zeno’s edicts. It recounts an Athens corn buying limit and a traditional tale of Apepi scheming to centralize wealth and power for Pharaoh via grain storage and trade.
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London
Zeno
Athens
Joseph
Egypt
Apepi
Horse Swallows Whip Survives Two Years Then Dies
A horse near Carbondale Illinois owned by Allen D Eakle died after a six foot buggy whip lodged in its stomach for over two years a veterinarian performed a post mortem and found the whip protruding from the stomach Eakle had forced the whip down the horse s throat in 1895 with a horseshoe in its mouth the horse later bit off the whip and lived normally for years before dying recently.
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Allen D. Eakle
Carbondale
Ill
Eakle
Longtime Moscow Official Roger Smith Howes Seeks Century Mark
Roger Smith Howes has served Moscow Maine as town official and long time town collector for fifty years. He still makes rounds on foot and says he plans to work until he is 100.
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Roger Smith Howes
Moscow
Maine
New York Becomes First Chartered City in 1664
New York was the first city chartered in the nation, receiving its papers in 1664 and obtaining formal privileges.
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New York
Diamonds worth 280 million taken from South African mines
Over eighteen years diamonds valued at 280 million dollars have been extracted from South Africa's mines. The figures reflect substantial losses to the mining industry and national wealth.
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South Africa
Hostetter Co Wins Injunction in Trade Mark Case
The United States circuit court for the Southern District of New York led by Judge Townsend on December 23 1897 granted injunction and accounting in The Hostetter Company versus Isaac Sommers and Louis Joseph for trade mark infringement. The judge affirms protection against unfair subterfuges and impersonation to safeguard the owner’s goodwill and profits built over decades. The California woodpecker will carry an acorn thirty miles to store its nest.
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United States Court
United States Circuit Court
Southern District of New York
Townsend
Hostetter Company
Isaac Sommers
Louis Joseph
Court of Equity
Courts of Equity
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