Cape Town Named One of World’s Most Beautiful Cities
The Philadelphia Public Ledger lauds Cape Town for superb scenery and climate. Table Mountain overlooks Table Bay with a dramatic landscape of pines oaks and valleys. The city is praised as uniquely located, rivaling icons like Gibraltar and San Francisco, with a temperate year round climate and sea breezes.
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Cape Peninsula
South Africa
Table Mountain
Cape Town
Table Bay
Gibraltar
Constantinople
Bombay
San Francisco
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Capture Giant Lizards by Getting Them Drunk
Fishermen on Petite Gonave island claimed the only safe method to capture giant lizards is to intoxicate them with rum. Smithsonian expedition members found the lizards harmless and captured six by hand for the National Zoological Park. Local fishermen described the creatures as elk iguanas resembling miniature dinosaurs and warned allies to avoid them.
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Petite Gonave Island
Smithsonian Institution
Petite Gonave
National Zoological Park
Detroit News
Tokens in U S History Weaken Small Coin Shortage
The text notes two periods when copper tokens were issued to ease a coin shortage. In 1838 firms produced tokens the size of a large copper cent, politics driven and merchant advertising tokens common. A second surge occurred in 1863 amid a bronze cent shortage, widespread token issuance.
Girls With Cold Feet Learn to Breathe Deeply for Beauty
The piece argues many women are shallow breathers and that deep breathing is a cheap beauty aid. It cites outdoor activity as best to trigger full lung use and suggests indoor exercises with free limb and trunk movements to establish the habit.
Water testing outfit with nine pH color comparators
A water testing kit uses sealed vials as color standards from pH 6.0 to 7.6 to compare aquarium water color with bromothymol blue indicator. Excess alkali is corrected with sodium acid phosphate, while excess acidity is balanced with bicarbonate of soda.
Daredevil Terriers Save Hunter From Lion
An Irish terrier is praised for reckless courage after clinging to a lion’s tail to force it out of dense brush. African hunters had pursued the cat with a pack of dogs, and the lion bolted when the terrier latched on, revealing the dog’s fearless nature.
Chillon Occupies Spot on the Lake of Geneva
The castle Chillon on a rock island near Montreux on Lake Geneva is celebrated for medieval romance. Descriptions trace drawbridge guardrooms courtyards turrets and dungeons as emblematic details preserved in Treves The Lake of Geneva.
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Chillon
Lake of Geneva
Pen
Montreux
Earth
Paradise
Frederick Treves
Flere
World- Telegram
Inaccurate Flags and Fables in Historic Art and Lit
Bits from the Golden Book Magazine examine fallibility in art and literature. It notes Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware shows a Stars and Stripes not used in 1776 and cites the flag adoption on June 14, 1777. It also critiques Goldsmith and Dickens for shipboard and schoolyard anachronisms in their depictions.
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Golden Book Magazine
Leutze
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
Washington
Delaware
Oliver Goldsmith
Georgia
Vintoretto
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickelby
Dotheboys Hall
Read the Riot Act Origin and Provisions
The phrase read the riot act warns wrongdoers and traces to the 1775 English statute. It allowed a magistrate to disperse unlawfully gathered crowds by proclamation. Refusal to disperse after an hour rendered participants felons and those interfering with the proclamation felons as well.
The Word Nature and Its Meaning Across Time
A condensed Washington Star summary traces nature from Latin natura to natus birth, outlining core senses: birth origin essence of life and the universe, including all that is produced by natural forces. It emphasizes life as the essential core of nature and that the existing system encompasses all manifestations.
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Washington Star
News Weekly
Pathfinder
Washington, D. C
Washington
Disliked Soap and Water in a London Club Tale
In a London club from years past a famed literary figure, now long dead, rented a bedroom. He supposedly hated soap yet each morning he used a sponge and towel. One morning the bath was entered and the writer was found in a dressing gown by the bath, splashing water with his walking stick as ablution noises rang out.
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London
Rainy Day Fog Changes Street View in Washington Star
The Washington Star notes that rain and fog alter the appearance of familiar streets. Fog softens outlines and makes houses seem to loom, magnifying the effect and drawing attention to ordinary details for even the casual observer.
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Washington Star
Child’s Essay Blames Shakespeare For Quotation Mixup
A class quiz on English poetry causes a student to jokingly misattribute the line The child is father to the man to Shakespeare. The student writes this remark after puzzling over the prompt, reflecting the playful confusion around the famous Wadsworth line.
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Shakespeare
Wadsworth
Livestock Prices at South Omaha Livestock Prices
Receipts of cattle Monday at Union Stock Yards Omaha on June 6, 1833 totaled 14,650 head, the heaviest June run on record. Openings were generally 25 cents lower than last week’s close, with some light cattle hard to sell. Cattle quotations list varied ranges for yearlings, steers, fed cattle, and cows from primes to canners, reflecting overall weakness in early bids.
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Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Sharp Decline in Hogs Prices Drop at Market Delivery
Hog prices fell 15 to 25 cents on Monday while movement remained steady. Receipts topped 16,000 head as bulk sales ranged from 4.50 to 4.60 dollars, with 4.60 the day’s high.
Trade Steady as 1500 Sheep and Lambs Sell Quickly
One thousand five hundred fresh sheep and lambs arrived Monday and sold rapidly at prices 15 to 25 cents higher than last week’s close. Native lambs brought 7.60 to 7.75, aged sheep steady. Fat lambs ranged from 7.25 to 7.75 for good to choice, 5.5 to 7.65 for natives, and 6.50 to 7.50 for shorn. Feeder lambs and yearlings priced from 3.50 to 6.85, aged stock notes include fat yearlings 5.75 to 6.25, ewes 1.50 to 2.50, culled 0.75 to 1.50.
Fur Seal Pelt Preparation Describes Process and Finish
The fur seal hides are shaved to reduce weight after plucking thick guard hairs. A woolly under-fur remains, which is dyed. The finished pelt is flexible with deep color and sheen.
Kinds of Beets Described in Four Distinct Types
The text lists four distinct beet types: common garden beet, sugar beet, manuel wurzel, and foliage beets. It notes the garden beet variety crisau and foliage beets as forms of cicla, with names such as leaf beet, Sicilian beet, sea kale beet, spinach beet, Chilean beet, and Roman kale.
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Manuel Wurzel
Hand Halo Test Reveals Dust Purity Of Sky
Henry Norris Russell explains a sun halo seen when blocking the sun with a hand. The whitish halo arises from dust or fog and can overwhelm the corona and prominences, disappearing in truly clear, dust free air. Such skies are rare in settled regions, more common in remote coasts or high, snowy plateaus.
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Norway
Henry Norris Russell
Scientific American
Shape of Holes Gives Key to Taste of Cheese
FE Carlberg argues in the Swedish-American Trade Journal that cheese flavor hinges on its hole structure. Round holes form when pulp is stirred as a lump, trapping gases during maturation. irregular holes occur when whey is broken up before aging, influencing taste and texture.
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FE. Carlberg
Philadelphia Public Ledger
I Am A Contractor Not A Conjurer Demand Note
A man who received a demand from the income tax assessor refuses the charge. He cannot pay fifty pounds and explains in a letter that he is a contractor, not a conjurer, and requests reconsideration of the demand. The note ends with the humorous reply to the tax authority.
Romania in 1914 united under government control
Romania with 123000 square miles comprises Walachia Moldavia and Dobruja plus postwar additions Bessarabia Bukowina Transylvania and part of the Hungarian plain. Agriculture engages about 80 percent of people with wheat as the main crop. Oil salt lignite iron and copper ore are key mining outputs. Railways total about 7500 miles and Danube Black Sea services are government run. Principal towns include Bucharest Jassy Galatz Ishmail and Brăila.
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Rumaniia
Walachia
Moldavia
Dobruja
Bessarabia
Bukowina
Transylvania
Aaliaieien
Danube
Black Sea
Balcharest
Rapiual
Jassy
Galatz
Ishmail
Wichonef
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Toluene Suiudda
Woman's World
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the Farm Journal
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Mee
R.F.D
J. J. Fiegenschuh
Potter, Nebr
Phelps Studio
Katherine Phelps Kodak
Sidmey, Nebr
P. C. Mockett
A. R. Everett Hospital
Kimball
Nebr
C. V. Johnson
Alfred Arnell
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
J. B. Pankaud, Bi. D
Dalton
Nebraska
J. P. Schwartz
Potter State Bank
Potter
Burwell
Dr. Miller Hospital
Nice
Nebrask
Emphalmer
Ambulance Service
W. C. Sheets
Well Drilling and
W. T. Sloan
West of Potter State Bank
Daredevil Terriers
South Omaha
Rumania
Heb
Pathfinder and Potter Review
Enbaeribe
Drayman
Wheeler & Son
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