Elephant nurse Zip cares for Irene Princehorn at Glen Island
An Indian practice is echoed in New York as Zip the elephant tends baby Irene Princehorn at Glen Island Museum of Natural History. The trained elephant walks a delicate line between nanny and watchdog, never deserting his charge, amusing her with trunk tricks, and guarding against burglars and snakes with remarkable senses.
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New York Journal
Zip
Irene Princehorn
Glen Island Museum
India
Nizamul-Mulk
Hyderabad
Golconda
Charles Reade
Rudyard Kipling
The Beetle Family and Its Bright Emerald Beings
The piece explains the beetle family with vivid detail noting the jewel like tiger beetle and other cousins worldwide. It describes ladybugs brown dotbugs junebugs and stag beetles then explains burying beetles bury dead animals and the swiftness of beetle wings under hardened wing covers.
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Grange Judd Farmer
Strange meat dishes across cities noted by traveler
A globe trotter reports in Antwerp and Rome meat markets feeding locals with broiled cat and other dishes while South American tables feature stewed mule as a common menu item.
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Globe Trotter
Antwerp
Rome
Fruit Bearing Sermon on the Vine and Branch
A sermon analyzing Jesus teaching on the True Vine, detailing the relation between the Father the Husbandman and believers as branches. It explains abiding in Christ producing fruit the purpose of spiritual life and the pruning that yields greater fruitfulness. It treats fruit bearing as the measure of discipleship and divine glory.
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A. N. Kellogg News Paper Co
Chicago
Palestine
Nazareth
Jesus
Israel
Isaiah
God
Garden
Gethsemane
Jesus Christ
Christ
Mr. Moody
Mr. Meyer
God of Heaven
Christ Jesus
Heaven
Western Forest Fires Threaten Wyoming Timber Lands
Reports from Cheyenne indicate multiple large forest fires along the Wyoming Colorado line north of Pearl Colorado. At least 18 serious fires burn across Wyoming with many more smaller fires threatening pine timber in Medicine Bow. Government agents and state leaders seek aid as hundreds of square miles burn in Fremont Carbon Uintah Shoshone and other counties.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Gav. Richards
Grand
Wyoming- Colorado Line
Pearl
Col
Hames
Wyoming
Albany County
Medicine Bow Range
Carbon County
Fremont County
Uintah County
Jackson Hole
Shoshone Reservation
Netrona County
Big Horn Mountains
The Colorado Fires Reach Across the State
Forest fires grip Colorado with limited progress in containment. Chicago Creek blaze again out of control threatening Clearcreek towns and water supplies. Cassells area near Platt Canyon receives mining aid. Estes Park and Eldora fires burn slowly or fiercely, destroying timber and affecting summer resorts.
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Colorado
Denver
Col
Chicago Creek
Clearcreek
United States Forest
Henry Michaelson
Cassells
Platt Canyon
Estes Park
Eldora
Soldiers Riot at Presidio Over Saloon Attack
San Francisco reports a riot by about 500 soldiers outside Adolph Redfield’s saloon after an initial assault Monday. They ransacked the front, robbed stock, and seized cigars as police and guards dispersed them to camp. Coal in Philadelphia rises to 12.50 a ton amid harsh winter ice and slow mining.
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San Francisco
Presidio
Adolph Redfield
Redfield
Rehifield
Philadelphia
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Thas
Glen Island
Long Island
Byayway
San Franecisco
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