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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1916
Page
6
A historical survey describes the red tailed hawk as a widely distributed predator of small mammals, reptiles, and insects, noting its economic impact and protection due to pest control. It also highlights the creeper as a key insect destroyer feeding on minute insects, eggs, scales, and plant lice, with strong claws and camouflaged coloring.
The piece describes the barn owl as a beneficial raptor feeding mainly on small mammals and occasionally birds. It notes its plumage color range, general range from Mexico to the northeastern United States, and mentions pellet contents including mice and some frogs, highlighting its value to farms and predator role.
The ruffed grouse shows strong protection in its habitat and feeds on a broad array of foods. It consumes nearly 60 fruit kinds including nuts, seeds, and berries, with over 10 percent of its diet insects like potato beetles and army worms. While the species is not yet endangered, careful management is advised to keep numbers stable.
Water with meals aids digestion by helping the stomach produce gastric juice. The body needs a certain amount of water for digestion, and drinking water with meals supports this process.
A National Geographic bulletin revisits the Tigris as a living highway of ancient civilization. It traces Lagash and Babylon, Nineveh and Assur, Nimrud and Ctesiphon, and the river’s role in trade, silk culture, and historic power shifts along a waterway once rivaling the Euphrates.
Detroit Free Press argues that paying New York City laborers below decency costs society more in public welfare, hospitals, and funerals. A living wage of 840 dollars yearly for a family of five is necessary, while New York wages average 480, leaving a 340 gap.
The article recalls a legendary longest beard attributed to Juke Mayo and linked to Emperor Charles V. It describes the beard as so long and carefully tended that it could be gathered and tied with ribbons, with the wearer proud of its reach and the habit of regaling observers through windows with the impressive facial hair.
The Kansas City Post notes a vintage wagon engine called the Made in America locomotive. It cites Peter Cooper building an 1850s Baltimore & Ohio locomotive capable of pulling 40 people at 18 miles per hour. It credits 1832 as the start of locomotive manufacture with Mathias Baldwin’s Treveides and Duainess, growing to the largest engines weighing up to 100 tons and pulling 5,000 tons, highlighting the dramatic evolution of rail power.
Indianapolis News recounts the 23 mile trestle bridge built to cross the Great Salt Lake area, linking Ogden to Lucien. It details construction from 1902 to 1903 with 38,000 trees cut, 3,000 workers, and a final joined track on November 14, 1903.
Fragmented OCR narrates a jumble of names and phrases about poets visiting New York for a seemingly grand gathering. The text is garbled but hints at a crowded scene, local reaction, and unclear purposes of the gathering.
Erie railroad honors the Matt Shay as the largest locomotive ever built, tracing 1816 Billy No 1 origins to modern direct drive engines. It contrasts size, weight, and hauling capacity across multiple railroads, noting significant strides in locomotive design and the Stephensons’ 1829 passenger machine prize.
A man named John Jones was struck by a switch engine while taking a shortcut through railroad yards to reach home. He regularly crossed tracks, cited constitutional rights, and believed railway wrecks resulted from negligence, but his behavior persisted despite dangers.
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