Digest of Historical Facts and Inventions Across Regions
A compiled list notes dental information, life insurance in London and America, Bayonne Bayonets from 1679, English use by 1698, the longest bridge over the St Lawrence River at nine thousand one hundred forty five feet, Oberlin College admitting women, European public life history with havik founded in 1171, postage stamps in England 1740 and the United States 1847, bee and hornet stings, Britain's cherry trees planted a century before Christ, snakes’ resilience, imports of canaries from Germany, naturalists on swallows eating thousands of flies daily, oil to smooth rough surfaces, and the first U.S. telegraph between Washington and Baltimore on May 27, 1844.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
America
Philadelphia
Bayonne
England
St. Lawrence River
Oberlin College
Europe
Britain
Germany
Naturaliate
Washington
Baltimore
Neighborhood Notes From Our Exchange Table
Belleville builds a ladies natatorium while court records show 44 new October cases. Millstadt reports a crawfish shower. Joliet grants 81 saloon licenses. A Posey child ingests morphine pills but survives with medical help. Chester notes a burning straw pile as a spectacular sight. Carlyle youths monitor trains to steal data. schemes fade. Language puzzles amuse as writers chase meaning in verses and homonyms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra. Lamar
Posey
Chester
Chester Tribune
Carlyle
Ilinois
Strange Insects and Odd Creatures Around the World
A survey of remarkable insects and creatures from West Africa to Brazil, with notes on a masklike cocoon butterfly, a cave full of white flies in Georgia, backward flight in Hawaii, the Atlas moth in Central Brazil, color-variant butterflies in India, a Borneo moth nicknamed air fox, and a fox or mouse‑like head shape. The piece also discusses changing driving customs, whistle blasts on trains, and Werda Dahomey’s Temple of Serpents where killing a temple serpent is a death crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Hawaii
Sandwich
Brazil
Uet
India
Borneo
Werda
Dahomey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dental Information
Hood
J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Belleville
Millatadt
Illinois
Southern Base Ball League
Glandars
Harvel In
Staunton
Council of
J. B. Vaneil
Modesto
Mr. Vancil
St. Louis
Monte
Burgdoffe
Callinville
Avery
F. W. Zanders
James N. Jarvis
Notary Public and Cometancer
Central Hotel
Meiners
Big Boor
F. L. Hampton
F. F. Miller
C. E. Ritcher
Notary Public
Attorneya
Law
Troy
E. Peter
Opera House
F. Kuntzmann
Robt. L. Dawson
Plasterer
Masket Street
City Livery Stable
Bimberlin
Hack
Vandalia
Main
Troy, Il
a7Woman's Mutual Benefit Co
Joliet
Iia
Laurie B. Dawson
Albert Reider, Pron
Farmers’ Exchange
Troy, Ill
John
Riebold
Gurcka
M. F. Auwarter
General Merchandise
Public Square
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