Roosevelt Africa Hunt News Turns Into Literature
A 1909 feature argues Theodore Roosevelt will travel to East Africa for a year of big game hunting. It notes risks from fever and wildlife, preparations with a taxidermist, and plans to gift specimens to a U.S. museum. It mentions William N. McMillan’s Juja Farm and the Roosevelt party’s need for native diplomacy and gifts.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Africa
American Museum of Natural History
Huntsman
William N. McMillan
St. Louis
East Africa
Equator
Juja Farm
McMillan
Charming
Roosevelt to hunt big game in Africa in bold expedition
The article portrays Theodore Roosevelt planning an Africa trip to hunt large game beyond the United States. It notes his prior exploits with bears and big animals, his status as a world figure, and details costs, logistics, and the involvement of his son and team. It cites observers like Percy Pringle and Tippo Tib while reflecting on the spectacle and controversy of such a voyage.
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Robertus Love
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
Roosevelt
Huntsman
Ofce
German East Africa
East Africa
Mr. Pringle
Pringle
Karamoyo
Barnum
Suez
Mr. Roosevelt
Mississippi
Equatorial Africa
King Leo
Darky
Europe
J. Roosevelt
Bhed
Teodore Roosevelt
Alexander
Ake
Percy Pringle
Kermit
Peruse Pringle
Tippo Tib
Tippo
East
Puzzler No 33 Literary Lights Women Writers
The puzzle lists female authors and clues about their works. Clues include collaborators with Shakespeare, the Battle Hymn author, Sara Crewe author, Cry of the Children poet, Songs of Seven poet, and other noted women writers and a New England novelist. It presents a set of ten items plus related hints and a following puzzle titled Hidden Fruits.
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Matthew Arnold
Sara Crewe
New England
Animal Puzzle names two fabulous creatures
In Farm and Fireside a puzzle hints at two legendary animals. The brief item invites readers to guess the creatures based on the playful clue and its quaint magazine tone.
The Whole Is Worth More Than Its Parts
A poem notes that wind and shield lack value alone yet when the whole is placed correctly, the combined item gains immense worth. The speaker emphasizes that the solitary element is trivial, but paired with the right counterpart, its significance multiplies significantly.
Added Fractions Puzzle No 37
A word riddle asks to combine fractions of items to yield new meanings. Clues include two-thirds of a pig two-thirds of an ant and half of an ox yielding a musical instrument. Other parts mix fractional values of agate gold and silver to produce a strong wind and more.
Sign of servitude and golden prison break request
A cryptic note speaks of enduring servitude yet hints at a golden prison cell. It offers help to bake the finest cake if the reader will enact a prison break, implying a metaphorical trap or constraint to escape through culinary aid.
No. 39 A Pyramid a century letters dividend silent United States merriment
Puzzle clues describe a pyramid where the bottom and each side read upward the same. Entries include a letter in century, two letters in dividend, a silent meaning word, the name of a U S state, and a word meaning fitted to excite merriment. The puzzle yields a symmetric word square with identical readings along base and sides.
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United States
Weather Outlook Across Midwest Tonight
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin with cooler spells in the north. Lower Michigan and Iowa stay mostly fair with a chance of local storms in northern sections and cooler temperatures in the far north and west areas.
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Illinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Market quotes and livestock prices from Chicago and East Buffalo
Chicago bids show wheat corn oats pork lard and cash sales with Sept Dec May quotes and live stock ranges for hogs cattle sheep and calves. East Buffalo dealers report slower cattle supply with export steers at 6.25 6.75 and hogs down to 7.20 7.30 while lambs and sheep hold firmer bids.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Timothy
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Prominent Minneapolis magnate T McKnight dies
News items note the death of T McKnight, a leading Minneapolis real estate man and millionaire lumberman, due to heart disease. Other reports cover labor unrest in France, shipyard lockouts in Germany, fixed rates among River Platte shippers, a Syrian colony movement in New York for a Turkish battleship, a Peru court freeing most political prisoners, wage cuts at United States Iron Company mills, partial restart at Alan Wood Iron and Steel, and a Beaudette lumber mill fire causing about 250000 dollars in losses.
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T. McKnight
Minneapolis
France
Vulcan
Stettin
Germany
Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company
Conshohocken
Shevlin-Mathins Lumber Company
Beaudette
Minn
Puzzler Key and Puzzles No 25 to 31
A compact listing of puzzles including Word Square items Stove Inter Seven Trail Enter Rabid and a sequence of works and clues such as The Children's Hour The Golden Legend The Spanish Student plus a Syncopation entry Roman Joan a Word Hunt Monarchy arc Transposition Octave avo cet A Diagonal Well Known Book Gulliver's Travels and a Double Acrostic referencing Sir Walter Scott Sir Isaac Newton with a sequence of related word clues and solutions across numbered tasks 82 18 14 Trophy Tinted.
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Stove
Trail
Rabid
Roman
Joan
Arc
Octave
Avocet
Cheops Pyramid Holds Over Four Million Tons of Stone
The Cheops pyramid near Cairo is described as containing more than 4,000,000 tons of stone in the ancient structure, highlighting its enormous scale and construction effort.
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Cheops
Pyramid of
Cairo
Court House Will Close During Chautauqua
The court house will close every afternoon during the Chautauqua. Citizens should complete county business before noon.
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Court House
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Seley & Company
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
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Sprague Correspondence School OF Law
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Detroit, Mich
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