Wild Beasts and their Training at Hagenbeck's Show
A long portrait of Carl Hagenbeck and his life among lions, tigers, bears, snakes, and other predators. The piece explains humane training methods, patience, rewards, and occasional dangers, including escapes and close calls with elephants and giraffes. It highlights beliefs about animal intelligence, affection, and the risks of bear aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Hagenback
Saga
Chicago Herald
Midway Plaisance
Training wild beasts at Hagenbeck’s arena and oddities of travel
A survey of Dr. Hagenbeck’s methods shows patience and kindness as keys to taming lions tigers and bears from cubs onward. It notes the quirks of species from polar bears to Thibetian varieties and tells how young animals form mixed groups to learn harmony. It also covers ostriches escaped in Sudan and recaptured by Muslim Nubians and camels, goats, and antelopes.
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Hagenbeck
Hagenbach Arena
Thibet
East Indies
Malay Islands
Mr. Hagenbeck
Africa
Hamburg
Suez
Trieste
Nubian
Germany
Georgia News Notes Highlights State Crops and Trials
The Georgia Bar Association meets in Rome on July 5. Lieutenant Satterlee attends Alabama encampment. Judge W. H. Fish becomes a State University trustee. Melon crops are short in Berrien but quality improves. Macon plans a $200,000 sewer bond issue. The Atlanta forger Harry Hill awaits trial. Hobbs & Tucker bank situation stabilizes with Captain Hobbs backing depositors. May distilleries seized rise in the northern district. Georgia Normal School session runs July 5 to August 30 with free tuition and low board. Widespread crop reports show mixed yields with fruit and corn promising, while rains both help and hinder various counties. The Julia Force murder case advances toward trial with insanity plea anticipated. Weather bulletins detail crop conditions across regions with favorable late rains and ongoing harvests.
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Julia Force
Minnie
Florence
Atlanta
Hill
Miss Force
John Hardeman
Macon
Burton Smith
Florence Force
Georgia
A Missing Island on the Australian Coast
A sea expedition reports the disappearance of Expedition Island off northwest Australia. The ancient land, thirteen miles long and up to two miles wide, now lies submerged with soundings showing depths of forty eight feet where it once stood. The captain noted no breakers and the island’s sudden subsidence remains a mystery.
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Expedition Island
Australia
St. Louis Republican
The Log Spider That Saved a Union Soldier
A Union soldier fleeing Confederates crawled into a hollow log and hid. A spider spun a web to block the log’s opening, convincing the pursuers no one stayed inside. The soldier remained overnight and escaped at dawn, praising the spider’s help.
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Pittsburg
Eatc
Trade Review Sees Recovery After Tight Money Pressures
BR G Dan Company weekly trade review notes a rebound after a week of tight money and failures. It cites congressional action on the money question, lower wheat prices, and cautious bank lending across major cities. Receipts and prices shift, with failures totaling 322 in the U.S. and 27 in Canada for the week.
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BR. G. Dan & Co
Review of Trade
Congress
New York
West
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Detroit
Chicago
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
St. Paul
St. Louis
United States
Canada
Crop Bulletin Reports Strong Warm Week Across States
The Agriculture Department notes a warm week boosted crops nationwide with favorable weather high in most regions. Mississippi reports cool nights for cotton, with grasses and rapid cleaning. Louisiana sees improvement in cotton and rice benefits from showers. Texas and Kentucky show mixed conditions but generally favorable outlooks. Arkansas and Missouri report rapid work, advancing crops, wheat harvest near and oats promising. Tennessee notes vigorous work and improving cotton prospects.
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Agricultural Department
South Atlantic
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri
Currency Shipments From New York Banks Grow
The shipment of currency to the west and south by New York banks continued Wednesday with estimates of over a million dollars moved Monday and another million ordered Wednesday. Bankers cite widespread distrust and numerous failures in the country as driving demand for cash transfers.
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New York
Toeave
Growth of the South Industrial Development in One Week
The past week saw a surge of southern industrial activity with new cotton mills proposed in Uniontown Alabama and Kings Mountain North Carolina, a Meridian Mississippi foundry venture, and oil mills planned in New Braunfels Texas and Crockett Texas. Other projects include a Warren Texas land and lumber company, a Tyrone Arkansas lumber outfit, and multiple new brick works, canneries, distillery, electric plants, and mills across several states. Thirty three new industries formed or incorporated, nine manufactories enlarged, and eleven significant buildings erected, from banks and courthouses to schools and churches.
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South
Uniontown
Ala
J. A. Wright
Meridian
Miss
W. E. Evans and Associates
Kings Mountain
N. C
P. 8. Baker
Tyrone
Oil Mining and Improvement Company
Orlanto
Fis
East
South Florida
Muck Mining and Improvement Company
Kee Fla
Peninsular Muck Mining and Development Company
Galveston
Texas
Bronton
Augusta
Estill
D. C
New Birmingham
Lewiston
Humboldt, Tenn
Manchester
Mt. Verd
Spring City
Tenn
Edna
Wheeling
Edisto
Rowesville
Hempstead
Madison, Fla
Knoxville
Teen
Taylor, Tex
Clarkyville
Little Rock
Ark
Yoakum
Tex
Paragould
Houston
Chattapoogs, Tenn
Fire Breaks Out In Six Story Newark? No Montgomery Street
A blaze in a six story building at Nos 10 and 12 Montgomery street New York city trapped 250 workers and killed three. Fire started on the first floor with flames racing to the upper levels while panic and crushing injuries occurred on crowded fire escapes. Many were treated at nearby hospitals with several expected to die.
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Montgomery Street
New York City
Lls
Exports During May From Treasury Reports Revealed
The Treasury Department summary shows mineral oil exports for May 31 at 3,758,149 dollars, up about 500 thousand from May 1892, and 37,611,594 dollars for eleven months, down over 3 million from 1892. Cotton exports for May reach 11,251,126 dollars, up nearly 500 thousand, while nine months total 174,779,878 dollars, down about 68 million from 1892. Beef hog and dairy exports for May total 10,400,410 dollars, down near 700 thousand from 1892, and five months total 45,245,992 dollars, down over ten million.
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Treasury Department
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Tragic West Virginia mother poisons children then suicide
Mrs. Kate Kersch of Parksburg West Virginia driven to derangement by unknown cause poisons two of her young children and drowns two others in a well before killing herself. Four of her eight surviving children struggle for life as her fourteen year old daughter fights to save them. The husband was away. Five in the family are dead. The other details note the family’s good means and the milk poison method for the two small children and a boy.
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Kate Kersch
Parksburg
W. Va
Cholera Deaths Rise in Mecca As Flowers Shipments Grow
A London cablegram reports 350 cholera deaths in Mecca over five days. Mecca markets received ten and a half tons of flowers recently, highlighting rapid growth of a long-unknown industry in the islands.
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London
Mecca
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Zoological Garden
Brussels
Vienna
Mgr
Zack
Hagenback
Holystoning
Jack
San Francisco Chronicle
Georgia News Notes
Georgia Bar Association
Rome
Satterlee
Alabama
Secretary of War
W. H. Fish
Oglethorpe
Macon County
The
State University
Colonel Hollis
Americus
Berrien County
Harry Hill
Hobbs & Tucker’s Bank
Albany
R. Hobbs
Chapman
Georgia State Normal School
Rock College
Athens
an&Slider
Dan & Co
Crop Bulletin
States
Massachusetts
Cramps
Herbert
Olney
Leila Herbert
Navy Department
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