Bee Hunters in Forests and Australian Bush Daring Honey Quest
The piece surveys bee hunting lore from Fenimore Cooper to indigenous methods in Australia. It details bee capture using a glass, honey capture, and tracking techniques like lining and angling to locate hives, plus Aboriginal methods with gum and water. It notes bird guides and skeptical ornithologists, and ends with the bee hunter’s craft and lessons from nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenimore Cooper
Ben
Ulmost
Gordon Cumming
South Africa
Peru
Cultivating Ambition Through Environment and Effort
The piece argues ambition is learned not innate and must be cultivated like music or art. It cites Emerson on motivation, warns inactivity dulls ability, and notes many fail due to lack of stimulating surroundings. It contrasts latent power in ordinary people with wasted potential in prisons and poorhouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Wonders of Mount Kenya Frost Water Folklore
Dr Gregory recalls native guides in the Kenyan highlands who believe frost covered water in cooking pots is bewitched. They reported the water would not shake and appeared white, claiming magical forces at work. The party tested it, watching a pot melt back to water, then dismissed the demon when heat returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory
Mount
Kenya
Africa
Biography and obituary in a biographic seed
The text surveys how biography, epitaph, and obituary interrelate as stages of the biographer’s task. It argues that epitaphs provide the seed from which fuller biographical narratives grow, with biographies expanding the commemorative line beyond a mere date list.
Making of the Croupier in France's Casinos of Old
The piece details the training of roulette and trente et quarante croupiers in a French casino context. It covers selection, six hour daily classes at the ecole des croupiera, medical and language tests, honesty checks, salary ranges from 250 to 1,000 francs, and the path from probation to pension, with emphasis on discipline, skill, and the life cycle of a croupier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viejas
Ecole Des Croupiera
Donus
Rouge-Et-Noir Board
Munu
Lfe
Meath
France
M. Hluue
Mediterranean
Weunbury
Buailcu-Bades
Feedlio
Dosu Ointment Promises Relief for Piles
Itching bleeding protruding or blind piles yield to Dosu's Ointinent. Chronic cases soon relieved, finally cured. Druggista all wall it.
Seed Wheat Sale By Chas Schultz Near Estherville
Seeks buyers for good seed wheat. Call Chas Schultz five miles north of Estherville. Seed wheat bought from Minneapolis Lead Company a year ago and raised on new ground. Yielded twenty bushels per acre and is the best wheat he has ever raised. CHAS Schultz
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Schultz
Estherville
Minneapolis Lead Company
Kennedy’s Laxative Toney and Yar cures coughs and colds
Don’t bind the bowels with remedies for coughs and colds. Kennedy’s Laxative Toney and Yar opens the bowels and expels the cold from the system. It relieves coughs colds roup whooping cough and related ailments. Ideal for young and old, children like it, sold by William & Anderson and Quamnen & Wolden, Wallingford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ake Kennedy
Wiliam & Anderson Tid Quamnen &Wolden
Wallingford
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Allon
Lapar Aopfr
Lage
Ader
Kendall
William Shoeamith
Callaquona
Qansral Lacy Praquos
Sennty Attornar
Omfon Ak Dourck
Ryaon PA
Coom Attornay At Law
Brantias
Washington
D.C
Wrahington
Kniwht Bros
Graaf Block
Webern
Alexander Ivey Dantiat
Japan
Hetharville
E. W. Bachman
Firat Nationel Bank
Hess
Sovyanth Strast
M. E. Wilson
Emmett House
O. Robbins
Wn. Foshier
Lovella Feed Yard
Maple Street
W. G. Anderson
Erry
Tanot
Marie Dewlins
Corvugnts &c
Anyons
York
Broadway
Brau & Cos
Fleoty
Windicater and
Republican
BOK
Lau
Mis
B.S. Gane. Lab
Pte
Hamer Imernt
Dan Penn
Ian
Southey
Habtta
Training Crotptiers
Monte Carlo
ASTRA
Ap. Paul
Minnespolia
Chicago
Puget Sound
Ampartion
Tacoma~a
Portland
Seanie Alaska
Barotte
Yellowstone National Park
Gardiner Gateway
A. M. Cleland
Pank
Minn
Kor
A.D. Rockwell
Citizens Bank Bldg
Des Moines
Lows
Athe
Northern Pacific Railway
North Pacific Coast Country
Re. C.S
Port
Arthurs
Kansas City Southern Railway
H. D. Dutton
AGT
F. E. Roesler
Immig N Agent
Los Angeles
Myatle Shrine
Hock Inland
Unos
Cedar Rapids
Denver
Colorado
Boriga
Salt Lake City
W. G. Hackell
Petentate
Vedar Rapids
Tayitea
Shilisea
Ines
Vaasanger
Qader Rapids
United ,Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
St. Paul
Hock
Adarest Teket Agant
Dunel
Chamberlain
Jay Johnston & Co
Williams& Anderson
Rockies
Sumer
iRock Island System
A. Blythe
Estherville, Iowa
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