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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1912
Page
10
Vienna for years has expanded a city run bathing facility on an island in the Old Danube. Each June to September crowds travel by a floating bridge ferry to the sandy island, making it a popular, self supporting municipal enterprise rivaling European seaside resorts.
The article notes two harmless snake types in most of the Gulf states and Mexico, plus three dangerous pit vipers copperhead timber rattler and water moccasin. It adds that east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio Potomac rivers only copperhead and timber rattler can injure humans, with the gila monster mentioned as slightly poisonous.
In Harper’s Weekly Edward Hungerford contrasts Quebec as quaint but ambitious, noting its decline to fourth or fifth in Canadian commerce and its rotting wharves while western towns surge. Also a humorous exchange shows a child preferring to keep most of a jalap dose for himself, highlighting clever wit.
An old report notes London rising meat consumption to about 4 million tons, helped by beef and mutton imports from South America. It mentions a 16 000 ton increase and shifts in sourcing, highlighting changing trade patterns affecting local diets.
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