Dreaded bull ant terror in equatorial Africa
In equatorial Africa a giant bull ant, the bashikouay, is said to be the most terrifying living creature. It travels in vast armies, attacks swiftly, and leaves only bleached bones where its victims lie. French zoologist M. de Chatiler details a firsthand encounter, while natives reportedly execute witchcraft suspects by fastening them to trees during ant incursions.
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Aed
Africa
Leveth
Theus
Dten
M. de Chatiler
Ballant
The Scent of Sickness in Odors and Diseases
An 19th century discussion notes that animals and humans show disease by distinct odors. Dogs guide via smell. humans can learn to distinguish odors of measles, typhoid, plague, and other conditions. Examples include pus indicating bone decay and scurvy with putrid scent, linking scent to diagnosis.
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Tran Fy Man
Philadelphia
The Barrister Williams and the Hanging Warning
A Burlish barrister named John Williams, a bachelor with prejudice against marriage, dies by hanging in his chambers after a clerk asks for a holiday and another clerks hints at marriage. Williams warns that if the new clerk hangs himself he must not do it there.
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John Willams
Per Marned
Willams
Wil
Fixing Her Face and Park Errand Echoed in Puzzled Chat
A fragmentary, humorous scene shows a woman remarking on a wrinkle and planning an economical remedy. The text includes garbled dialogue about a mirror, scent of borrowed money, and a park excursion. It reads like a clipped newspaper snippet with mixed references to Chicago papers.
Reading the Bargain Counter and Rural Life Reflections
Long column of varied notes on consumerism medicine labeling agricultural education and rural industry. Observes cheap imitations and humane care, urges school courses in gardens and agriculture, and critiques packing and dairying practices. Notes on road maintenance, immigration placement, potato storage, poultry hatch, boundary lines, fences, and turpentine sourcing from southern forests.
Farm notes on crops and farming methods
A miscellany of Rural topics covers crop yields and farming practices. Notes discuss sorghum and corn prospects, apple varieties, wheat production figures, grain threshing, electricity aiding plant growth, and the contrast in farm labor between white and black workers. Practical tips include fly traps, money etiquette, and property maintenance for tenants.
Meow Policy Aims Public Lands Reform
The article discusses frauds in public land entries including timber reserves coal oil and minerals. Officials seek legislation to halt transfer of lands to private companies and curb monopolies. It argues public lands belong to all people and should not enrich a few, calling for fair administration and a square deal.
Insects sparing crops and birds aiding farms
The article argues insects cause vast crop losses and urges fostering birds and toads that eat pests. It lists swallows, martins, vireos, woodpeckers, chickadees, wrens, cuckoos, swifts, flycatchers, robins and bluebirds as essential helpers, noting their feeding habits and timing. It cautions children to value wildlife and outlines tree choices, warning against rapid-growers like silver maple and Carolina poplar due to wind, pests, and disease.
New Meat Inspection Law Spurs Herd Culling Push
Following the meat inspection bill passage packers will condemn and destroy diseased animals rather than ship them. Farmers are urged to quit feeding such animals and cull promptly, as officials expect a renewed drive to eradicate animal diseases in food supply chains.
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Bualheags
South Omaha
Beekeeping Beating Rheumatism Reported in Jenkintown
A Jenkintown man with rheumatism says bee stings cured his ailment after a hive incident. He later tried the treatment again at a Philadelphia beekeepers convention where a physician explained the stings’ poison acts as an antidote to uric acid in the blood, the suspected cause of rheumatism.
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Jenkintown
Beekeepers
Philadelphia
Indecipherable Farm Scene Describes Cow Conditions
A garbled weather and livestock fragment describes cows near a roadside, claiming discomfort from heat and files. The text mentions a shady pasture, a fifteen foot radius, flea protection, and inconsistent milking and bellows, but lacks coherent facts or sources.
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Chicago News
Frokee Bua
Rencher
Pee
Tommy Tucker
Chicago ' Tribune
Fetrigg
Rockford
New York University Summer School
Iowa
United States
North Carolina
Whitney No. 20
Massachusetts
the Meat Packers
Northern Lumber CO
L. J. Bennett
Idrol
Iprews
Estherville State Bank
Dire Inc
A.D. WA
Ogee
A.D. Root
A. F. Lough
Jenea
Estherville
AME
B. Roper
Webb Vinceni
J.P. Kirby
First. National Bank of
Mpyrowores
MGC K Warecan OO Reyne
Goward Grav
James EE
M. L. Archer
Emmet County
Land and Abstract CO
Estherville, Town
Emmet
Fherville State Bank
Estherville, Iowa
W. W. Fullam
R. I
Buy Home Manufactured
Merchants Court
Western
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