Monkey Fruit Pickers Proposed to Harvest Prunes
An Ontario Times style note recounts a Californian prune grower Seely proposing trained monkeys to harvest prunes due to labor shortages. He plans to import monkeys from Panama and Acapulco connections, train them for fruit picking, and use 60 bands of ten per trainer with muzzle control to prevent fruit damage.
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Orient
San Francisco
Seely
California
Central America
A. B. Janes
Acapulco
Panama
Janes
Simians to harvest Santa Clara fruit in novel plan
An article reports Martin V. Seely ordering 500 Panamanian chat terers said to be trained to pick ripe pranes in Santa Clara valley. Eight to ten already trained on his coast range ranch as California seeks solutions to harvesting labor shortages amid changing worker dynamics.
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San Jose
Cal
Santa Clara Valley
Martin V. Seely
California
Panama
Coast Range
United States
San Francisco
Rabies Case Linked to Berlin Township Cattle
Two cows on Tracy Lowry’s farm in Berlin township died from rabies after suspected dog exposure. The dog vanished weeks earlier and veterinarian Randy Taylor treated the cattle. The two cows’ hides were removed and the carcasses sent to Ann Arbor for brain tests, with Bruce, Earl Lowry, and Tracy Lowry seeking Pasteur treatment amid fear of further infections. Meanwhile Burma expands peanut cultivation from 3,800 to 30,000 acres by 1907.
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Tonia
Mich
Berlin Township
Tracy Lowry
Randy Taylor
Saranac
Bruce
Earl Lowry
Ann Arbor
Earl
Pasteur
Revere Bell in Norton Church Tower
The Norton Unitarian church, founded in 180? years ago, preserves a Paul Revere bell in its tower. The bell, weighing 875 pounds and costing 367.50, was gifted in 1810 with services to begin at nine o'clock each Sunday.
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Revere Bell
Boston
Unitarian Church
Norton
Paul Revere
Paul Revere & Sons
Women Organize Street Sprinkling Crusade in Stoudsburg
In Stoudsburg, Pennsylvania, about 200 of 800 residents joined a street sprinkling crusade. Women and children used garden sprinklers to lay oil on streets, funded by subscriptions totaling seven barrels to curb dust from frequent automobile traffic. Canton reports fewer than 50 verifications.
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Stoudsburg
Honest Doctor Advises Peruna in Gratitude Letter
An endorsement from Dr A W Perrin in Brooklyn notes Peruna benefits. The letter from R Sylvester E Smith of St Louis praises Peruna for curing bronchial catarrh after months of illness. The doctor reports prescribing it to patients and recommends it to others.
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R. Sylvester E. Smith
Granite Block
St. Louis
Peruna
A. W. Perrin
M. D
Halsey
Brooklyn
N. Y
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Diflomat
Frov
Honduras
Angel Ugarte
Washington
Burma
Church Society
Joseph Avery
Phillips
Andover
Phillips Academy
General Court
Canton
Libby
Vienna
A.N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
W. Adama St
Chicago
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