Ancient Austrian settlement and Dutch fish keeping note
Fifty years ago Austria had a small settlement with over 20 000 inhabitants, or thirty two. Some folk show strong endurance when deprived of their native element. In Holland it is common to keep catfish alive for weeks, placing them in wet moss and cooling them.
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Kentucky Horse-Swap Convention Bids Big Turnout in Covington
The Kentucky State Horse-Swappera Convention convened in Covington with over 2000 attendees. One exhibitor displayed 25 horses and vowed to swap avary horns three times during the event’s three days.
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Kentucky
Covington
Prengh Conclude Ignorance Hinders Industrial Competitiveness
The Prengh are gradually concluding that their provingialiam or half-sufficient ignorance of foreign countries harms their ability to compete industrially with the English and Germans. A number of articles containing this text have appeared recently.
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Prengh
German Lawyer Korn Plans Egg Catalogue With Plates
Next to the British Museum, Nohr Korn, a Braunschweig lawyer, owns a vast eggs collection. He plans to publish a catalogue soon, featuring fifty colored plates of his most valuable and many unique specimens.
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British Museum
Nohr Korn
Braunschwalg
Germany
California Drying Vegetables Promises Big Industry Growth
The report notes vegetables and fruits, including apples, being dried in California. One pound of dried potatoes weighs less than fresh, with onions, carrots, and potatoes among the most common crops processed. Industry forecasts suggest substantial development ahead.
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California
Untamed Tennessee Man At Center Of Tragedy
A man in Tennessee is described as the most awkward in the world. He inadvertently shot a dog and, while explaining the accident to the owner, shot the coroner Helen. She has been liberated for fear he will attempt to explain further to others.
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Tennessee
Helen
Vest trains dogs for Klondike trips from Oregon farm
Charles I Vest, spend in Alaska most year, trains twenty five dogs at his Portland area farm. He plans two round trips between Dyea and Dawson once the Yukon opens.
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Charles I. Vest
Alaska
Klondike
Mr. Vest
Portland
Ore
Waye
Dyea
Dawson
Yukon
Oregon flax advised for farmers by H Crawford
An English thread manufacturer named H Crawford now in Oregon urges farmers to grow flax. He claims Oregon flax equals the best Irish varieties and can fetch from 260 to 3500 per ton, offering a better return than oats, hay, or other crops.
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H. Crawford
Oregon
Lins
Crawford
Ireland
Incredible Baths At Harrowgate And Iron Statue Plan
Harrowgate in Yorkshire boasts a new baths complex with pump room winter garden Turkish and Russian baths plus inhalation rooms a sulphur fountain and a pulveriation room at an erection cost of 600000. Pittsburg iron masters plan a huge hollow lighted statue of Tubal Cain near the Ohio headwaters to rival Liberty. The Sheffield School explains why red hot steel becomes hard when quenched due to iron subcarbide presence and not shock. Water can yield striking results from rough beginnings.
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Harrowgate
Yorkshire
England
Winter Garden
Tubal Cain
Mwhono
Iron Masters
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Father of Smiths
New York Harbor
Sheffield Technical School
Sende
Miss Mattie Shares Thanksgiving Cheer With Tommy Barnes
In a small town market scene Miss Mattie buys a humble dinner basket and discovers Tommy Barnes waiting at her door. She welcomes him, plans a shared feast, and ends up inviting Mrs. Giles and others for a warm Thanksgiving, while she quietly preserves most of the meal for later.
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Misa Mattie
Cap'n Lannon
Mattie
Tommy Barnes
Toyer
Tommy
Sally Morrison
Miss Morrison
Arthy Ellison
Giles
Sid
Emimx Husatinaron Mrman
Fate
Deacon Giles
Thanksgiving Lamb Chops and a Hungry Cat
In a small home Miss Mattie buys simple lamb chops for Thanksgiving while a hungry cat named Tommy steals a bite. The scene shifts to mischief and remorse as Tommys antics lead to a cottage clamor and Miss Matties modest, solitary dinner is threatened by the looming arrival of visitors and the minister’s family.
Thanksgiving Verse Amid Desolate Imagery
A fragment from Emma Dowd on Desert Air contemplates gratitude amid suffering. The speaker urges the heart to give thanks for strength to endure work and play, while bleak images of illness, clouded minds, and silent bodies contrast with the season’s warmth. The passage includes a Winthrop dialogue about Freddie visiting his grandmother, who is deaf, and a tin horn as a gift.
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Winthrop
Freddie
Whe Kin's Harvest Time Pleases All Hearts
A compact verse notes Thanksgiving joy as Kin finds happiness in harvest time. The narrator highlights gratitude and communal cheer, with a tone fitting a holiday observance in a small town paper. The lines convey contentment and shared warmth during the season.
Vaccination laws lax in England and science notes mix
English vaccination enforcement remains weak as Norwich reports fees and officer costs. Across science topics, European astronomers tally over 400 minor planets between Mars and Jupiter, while timber decay in mines is tackled by creosoting under high pressure. Entomology notes reveal moth cocoon studies and a curious caustic potash solvent finding.
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England
Norwich
Silesia Verein Chemisoler
Briken
Woischwits
Breslau
Tta
Portamouth
Brigland
Mars
Jupiter
Charlois
Nice
Herr Paliso
Herr G. Huber
Allaré
Inter
J. Bateman
British Society of Mining Students
Oswald Lenatter
London Entomological Society
Ministers as Business Men Say Clergymen Make Good Financiers
Ex-Postmaster-General Thomas J. James now Lincoln National Bank president asserts that many clergymen are strong business people. He praises ministers for intelligence, method, promptness, and sharp accounting, noting Catholic clergy as especially adept. He argues a present-day clergyman must be diligent in worldly affairs.
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Thomas J. James
Lincoln National Bank
Tom
Bible Condensed to One Inch
Londoner Richard Webb completed a micro writing machine and claims it can inscribe the Bible four times in a space one inch square. He writes the Lord’s Prayer on Gee in a space one hundredth by one fiftieth inch, about the size of a period. The device uses a penlike handle and a diamond point, driven by wheels and levers for minute penmanship.
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Richard Webb
Polar Expeditions Planned by Harmsworth Leader
Mr Harmsworth who financed the Jackson expedition in Franz Josef Land says he will send two ships to the Arctic next season and maintain an expedition there until a complete map of all accessible North Polar regions is made. The Jackson expedition cost $200000.
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Mr. Harmsworth
Frang Josef Land
Arctic
Jackson
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