Desert Plant Life First Year Findings At Desert Laboratory
Dr. W A Cannon reports on year one at the Desert Laboratory near Tucson Arizona where self recording instruments track desert plant responses to temperature rainfall humidity soil and light. Many plants rely on stored water rather to survive drought with transpiration dropping in dry periods and rising with rains.
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W. A. Cannon
New York Botanical Gardens
Desert Laboratory
Tucson
Ariz
New York
New York Post
Table Mountain
Laboratory
Mesa
Nature
Cannon
King Oscar of Sweden Transfers Government to Prince Gustaf
King Oscar of Sweden hands over governance to Prince Gustaf due to illness. The move is announced after a state council meeting. In London, the privy council approves an extradition ruling aiding the U.S. case against Green and Graynor for defrauding the government, with Capt. M. Carter noted as escaped to Canada.
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Council
Green and Graynor
Glimpses of Gorky and a restless life
The Detroit News-Tribune recounts Maxim Gorky as a Riga arrestee and leader of a reform party who alternates between flesh and vegetable diets. It relays an anecdote of his vegetarian table manners with a persistent old lady and summarizes his autobiographical journey from childhood to self education, including work in a pretzel bakery and a suicide attempt in 1888 before turning to the apple trade.
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Maxim Gorky
Riga
Russian Reform Party
Detroit News-Tribune
Gorky
Astrakhan
Kasan
Volga
Dismantling of Desdemona’s Palace in Venice
The Desdemona palace in Venice will be dismantled and its furnishings and bric-a-brac shipped to the United States. Robert Hargous, longtime inhabitant and host, is in ill health and wintering in the Adirondacks. His sister Sallie Hargous Eliott and others in the family decline to reside in the Venetian police district.
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Desdemona
Venice
United States
New York Times
Robert Hargous
Hargous
Adirondacks
Sallie Hargous Eliott
Aitken
8. C
George de Forest
Appleton
Paiquette Anxious Writes on a Father’s Duties
An anxious note quotes Paiquette asking about the duties of a father at his daughter’s computer party. The remark ends with a dig at putting up and shutting up, reflecting social humor in a New York Herald item.
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New York Herald
What Tact Is By S M Crothers
A compact meditation on tact describing it as the timely withholding of information friends do not wish to learn, and the skill of delivering what is truly good only on proper occasions.
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Crothers
Jaures Duel Recounts With Deroulede Cited
The article recalls socialist leader M Jean Jaures disputing a duel with M Paul Deroulede over a worn. It notes the occasion involved Joan of Arc as the hypothetical lady and confirms neither participant was injured.
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M. Jean Jaures
M. Paul Deroulede
Joan of Arc
M. Jaures
M. Deroulede
Jance
Murder and Robbery Suspected As Man Found Near Little Mountain
A hunter found a man buried under rocks near Little Mountain fourteen miles west of Oxden Utah. The victim, believed to be Enoch D. Jenkins, had the back of the head crushed and pockets turned inside out, suggesting murder and robbery for his money.
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Oxden
Utah
Little Mountain
Here
Enoch D. Jenkins
Prince Dmitri Sviatopolk Mir Seeks Reform in Russia
Prince Dmitri Sviatopolk Mir, who succeeded Plehve as minister of the interior, works to push reforms by czar's order but is checked by grand dukes influence. Bureaucrats oppose his policy of kindness and conciliation.
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Pierre Dmitri Sviatopolk-Mirsky
M. de Plehve
Interior
Russia
Another Banker in Trouble in Minneapolis
Thomas I. Clement of the First National Bank of Farhboutt has been arrested on a warrant by U S District Attorney A M Dickey for misappropriating 21000 of bank funds. The bank failed January 2 and charges were raised that Clement diverted funds to enterprises in which he had interests.
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Minneapolis
Thomas
Clement
First National Bank of Farthboutt
A.M. Dickey
United States District Attorney
Woman's single shot kills thirty nine rabbits for apples
A Miller South Dakota dispatch reports a woman fired through a kitchen window during a snow night, killing thirty nine jackrabbits as a wager. She sold enough rabbits to buy a bone cutter and fed the rest to chickens boosting egg mood and feed efficiency.
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Miller
S. D
Fire destroys five business buildings at Portage La Prairie
Vive Business Buildings Harned Portage La Prairie Man Feb 7. A strong wind and the cold weather hampered firefighting as five business places were burned and several smaller buildings damaged, with a loss of 892,000.
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Harned
Portage la Prairie
Man
Objects to the scheme by college leaders and chancellor
New York undergraduates face opposition from Chancellor Mac Cracken of New York Diversity who rejects sending college men to Washington for the inaugural parade. He argues the plan mocks patriotism by relying on legs over brains and would interrupt college work for a multi day recess. In Missouri, archaeologist John Michau dies at 81 after completing a manuscript on Archaeology and History.
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New York
Mac Cracken
Washington
Ying
Tnalwurnt
Capitol
Bishop Hoban urges Sunday games for working boys
In a Scranton sermon at St Peter's cathedral Rev. M J Hoban bishop of Scranton urged allowing working boys to play athletic games on Sunday during a sermon on child labor.
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Scranton
St. Peters Cathedral
M. J. Hoban
Chicago Markets Show Slow Trade and Lower Hog Prices
Chicago Feb 1906 market notes indicate cattle and hog prices mixed with weakening hogs and steady to lower beef and sheep values. Receipts estimate 50 000 hogs and 41 000 hogs tomorrow. heavy and rough hogs quoted around 4.65 to 4.75 and cattle steady to weak.
Cotillion Evening Favor Debuts In Chicago Cotillion
A new newspaper titled the Cotillion Evening Favor circulated to 170 guests at Chicago’s Virginia hotel during the second annual midwinter cotillion. The event featured elaborate lighting and novelty dances such as Toyland Rainy Day Mistress Marys Garden and a German band procession. The uproarous moment came when a newsboy shouted Extry Evening Favor here as the supper began.
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Chicago
Virginia
Chicago Tribune
Red
Jimmie Durkin
Tn 100
Ambassador Choate
Court of St. James
Cotition
Mary
Cotilion
Mein Lieber Halsted Street
Czar's costliest kitchen staffed by forager and dozen chiefs
A St Petersburg dispatch details the czar's extravagant court cuisine with a court forager at the apex, twelve secretaries, many lackeys, two French chefs, a large pastry division, and lavish spending on wine and rare fruit while the czar drinks modestly.
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Europe
St. Petersburg
New York
Count Benkendorff
Fancy gold hatpin holders dazzle society ladies
Society girls flaunt new hatpin holders in gold rather than silver with high art work by a New York firm. Anita Sands owns a gold sheath with arabesque patterns and a diamond, ruby, and sapphire monogram, while Evelyn Burden showcases a Roman gold holder in emeralds and turquoises.
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New York
Anita Sands
Evelyn Burden
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Carter
Canada
Prince Mirsky
Price Baking Power Co
New York University
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Michau
Egypt
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Beach-Wickham Grain Co
Chi Board of Trade
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