Public land policy and forest reserve strategy proposal
The commission argues against a universal homestead law, urging local area sizing for land to support a family, and calls for repeal of Heleland selections amid timber land scandals. It favors a flexible plan to control new forest reserves within railroad land grants and to withdraw lands when essential to settlers, miners, or others, pending secretary guidance.
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Nebraska
Year Commission
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Timber and Stone
Jane O
Claus
Elf
Football history of rough play and royal bans across centuries
A survey traces football as one of England's oldest pastimes with rough play and royal opposition. From 1314 London street games to 1491 and 1501 prohibitions, kings and councils condemned the sport for violence, while Saturday revelry and Shrove Tuesday contests drew large crowds and clashes with authorities.
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Roosevelt
London
Edward II
For
Scotland
Edinburgh
New York
Ersby
Football Association
England
Rugby Union
United States
Rival Naval Builders Clash Over Connecticut Louisiana Warships
The Connecticut and the Louisiana battle ships, first government and private builds respectively, race toward completion. Navy reports show Connecticut at 91.36 percent and Louisiana at 89.25 percent with the government ship edging ahead. Both ships, 450 feet long, carry heavy armament and armor and aim to commission by next June. Louisiana launched August 27, 1904, Connecticut September 29, 1904, at Brooklyn Navy Yard and Newport News respectively. Contract prices run about 3.9 to 4.2 million dollars.
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United States Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Newport News
Connecticut
Louisiana
Shipbuilding Company
Navy Department
United States
Congress
Grumont
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Brooklyn Navy Yard
A Virgin Is a Maid When Verging on Eighty Phrase
An elderly woman is described as an old maid when she nears eighty, equating virgin status with late life. The remark uses old fashioned terms to classify women by age and sexual status.
King James I and Archery Rivalry in Early Sport Tales
A historical snippet notes King James I opposed football for its roughness though a patron of sport. It recounts 15th century acts linking archery and golf with military training, and describes early findings of a 10 000 year old human footprint in a Pennsylvania coal mine, suggesting ancient humans in Europe and fragmentary relics in California gravels.
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James I
James
Prince Charles
King James
Stald Seigneurs
Pennsylvania
Europe
Vesuvius
Aetna
California
Pats and locals praise Cholly Goodfelow in town
Chicago News notes Cholly Goodfelow is very popular around town with many friendly pats while Van Albert jokes about people slapping him on the back as she wears out two coats a month.
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Rodrick
Cholly Goodfellow
van Albert
Chicago News
In India an elephant passes the temple contribution basket
The report notes that in some Hindu temples the offering basket is carried by an elephant during rituals. This practice illustrates traditional religious pageantry in public worship and the role of elephants in ceremonial duties within Indian temples.
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India
Chestnuts: Nutritious Alternative to Potatoes
Chestnuts closely resemble potatoes in use and cooking. They contain far less water than potatoes and exceed them in nutritive ingredients. Chestnuts can be boiled baked or roasted like potatoes. The cultivation of chestnut trees is underdeveloped, offering opportunities for enterprising agriculture and forestry.
Extravagant perfume tastes of European nobility
The Duchess of Roxburgh is described as the era’s most lavish perfume buyer, using costly East scented extracts daily. Queen Alexandra retrenches perfumes while Lady Curzon and the Princess of Wales remain extravagant, and royal dietary limits lead to pastry order cancellations. A transit jewel robbery hits the Duchess of Arcos en route from St. Petersburg to Rome.
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Lady Curzon
England
Queen Alexandra
Duchess of Roxburgh
East
Queen Victoria
Windsor
Princess of Wales
Lady Suffolk
Miss Lester
Washington
Alexandra
London
Curzo
Duchess of
Queer Odor of Mummies Reveals Ongoing Mystery
The piece notes that even after millennia mummies emit persistent odors when sealed in glass cases. Embalmers remain unable to identify the source of these smells, while the scents endure from four to five thousand years ago as a continuing mystery of ancient preservation.
Egg output would fill crates and rail the crop
Last year's hen eggs would fill 48,127,000 crates of 360 eggs each. To move this crop, 107,818 refrigerator cars would be needed, forming a train about 900 miles long.
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Oregon
Edward
Prinet
Ambasador Whitelaw Reid
Earl
Tigi
Warre Sewina Machine Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Eagle Tank Co
Green
Chicago
Iil
Mausons
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman Co., Warder Bid’g
Washington, D.C
Foster
West Hydraulic
Watson-Stillman Co
Dey St
N. Y
Webb Publishing
Cory St. Paul Minn
Hewes & Potter
Lincoln
Boston
Mass
Lynch Mbg. CO
Madison, Wis
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