Deadly duel of enraged camels ends in killings
An eye witness in Mindanao recounts a deadly battle between three camels a white cow camel and two bulls over a cow in Tambao. The brown bull and Indian bull clash with brutal force tearing flesh and crushing to determine the victor. After a final fatal blow the brown bull kills the Indian and the black bull is shot. weeks later the cow camel dies from a broken leg.
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New York
Robert C. Arnold
Philippines
Tambao
Mindanao
Kingsley
Billy
Auctioned under vagrancy law in Elizabethtown Ky
Dock Aubury a shiftless white man was sold at sheriff sale for nine months of labor to J J Johnson as allowed by the vagrancy statute. The bid opened low with 50 cents and reached a dollar amid crowd curiosity before the sale concluded. Aubury, a backwoodsman from Meet ing Creek, recently married and living with his father in law, had his fate decided by the court.
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Elizabethtown
Dock Aubury
Court House
Yates
Aubury
Johnson
Hardin County
Meeting Creek
Stephensburg
Washington monument upkeep costs and bird music prospects
The article notes the Washington monument's yearly upkeep would require 11820 dollars including elevator operation and staffing. It also highlights Henry Oldys’s 13 year effort recording bird songs for possible human vocal performance, naming species such as the wood thrush and Baltimore oriole as having human-like tones.
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Washington
Washington Monument
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Henry Old
Department of Agriculture
Oldys
South
West
Patent Officials Demand Larger Quarters and Clerks
The Washington patent office faces a flood of new devices leading to backlogs and calls for more space, more clerks, and higher pay for analysts. Officials resent private eavesdropping measures in the Navy Department as M. Secretary Bonapart assigns detectives to monitor calls, sparking tensions over privacy and censorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Washington
Patent Office
Secretary of the Navy
Baltimore
Boneparte
Navy Department
H. Cass
Bonapart
Historic Schenck homestead linked to Highland park
A plan to preserve the Schenck homestead on the newly acquired Highland park addition in Brooklyn is being promoted. The old Dutch residence, dating to 1650, has hosted Washington and served as headquarters for American and British armies. Local groups seek a children’s museum and shelter within the landmark.
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Brooklyn
Park Department
Jamaica Avenue
Highland Park
Boards of Trade and Civic Societies
Kennedy
Schenck
Long Island
Washington
Highland Boulevard
Isaac Cornell
Isaac Cornell Schenck
Schenck House
Denver Woman Seeks Believed-Dead Lover in Alaska North
Ena Land, a young Denver woman of Eastern wealth, declares she will go to the Yukon north to find George Daniel Craman alive. She claims a dream called her to seek him, despite his being buried four years in the frozen north. Her health is fragile, yet she insists on the perilous journey.
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Denver
Polar North
George Daniel Craman
Yukon
George Craman
Ena Land
Northland
Nome
Craman
Hartford
Conn
New York City
Australia
Border Riders
United States Army
Manila
Miss Land
Alaska
Dawson
Search for dead lover in Alaska and strange potato claim
A New York social circle hears Ena Land seek George Craman, long since believed dead after his Alaska trek. Dreams of the lost love drive a dangerous journey while an Montana farmer claims a box grown potato breakthrough. Hetty Green quips on wedded bliss.
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Uncle Sam
Wildwood
Monument
Johnny
Great American Brotherhood of Rubbernecks
U.S. Treasur
Tevep
Schence
Teunis Schenck
Gertrude Cornell
John Cornell Schenck
City of
Great Falls
Mont
Hetty Green
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