Frogs of Commerce Delicacy and Weather Prophets Compared
The article surveys frog farming from bull frogs in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes regions to spring and tree frogs. It notes breeding in multiple ponds, egg counts, development from tadpole to frog, and market sizing at two and a half to three years. It highlights weather-signalling frogs and cautions about predators, feeding, and cultural beliefs surrounding frogs.
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Great Lakes
Losz
Jas Zere
Mark Twain
Remarkable Mouse Feeds Itself From Its Own Pocket
A laboratory mouse fed from a self-access pocket in its cheek at room temperature for three years, subsisting on dry bird seed with less than 10 percent moisture. It consumed no water or green food yet showed no health decline or loss of spirit, challenging assumptions about hydration and digestion in captivity.
Double Alarm Clocks Rule The Street Car Trade
Chicago News reports a trend among workers to use two alarm clocks on front of cable and trolley cars and for those who collect nickels. One clock rings a few minutes after the first, with a burly crimeman recalling only one miss in fifteen years due to a child tangling with the clock.
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Cripman
Chicago News
Rooster Back From the Dead in Norway Garden Tale
Sylvanus Cobb Jr. told a tall tale as his twins Cyrus and Darius visited in Norway Maine. A Spanish gamecock was shot at, struck by a granite throw, and supposedly killed, but later the bird was found alive strutting in the garden.
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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr
Moscow
New York Ledger
Cyron
Darius
Norway
Sylvanus
Dr. D
Cyrus
Indians Plan to Help Dead Man Reach Happy Hunting Grounds
In Hudson Bay regions near by, tribes such as the Creek and Nascoppile place a dead individual in a box with a loaded gun powder horn tobacco pouch flint axe and snowshoes. The box is left on a hill for ten days then the valuables are removed as the belief the deceased travels to the afterlife.
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Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay Company
Denver Woman Invents Stocking Darners for Profit
Denver inventor Mrs Agnes G Maynard claims a new stocking darner will transform mending. She conceived the device while at her sewing machine noting a steel band with prongs to grip material. She expects the invention to bring substantial earnings, potentially near a million dollars.
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Denver
Agnes G. Maynard
Maynard
Automobile Rates at Tonopah
In Tonopah stock broker R E Mulcahey recalls paying 300 dollars for an auto trip to Bullfrog, noting the 12 hour ride and that the chauffeur quoted a regular tariff with no discount, as cited by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Tonopah
R. E. Mulcahey
Bullfrog
Goldfield
San Francisco Chronicle
Fashion Sketches Question One Hat Fits All Women
A witty rebuttal to the notion that one hat style suits every woman, presenting a set of sketches that challenge the idea with diverse looks and details. The piece teases variety and personal style beyond a single trend.
Embroidery Set Hoops Aid Stocking Darning
A description details an embroidery set with a second hoop and edge bars nearly as thin as pins that project to hold the stocking portion not mended. It notes the darner can be used on any sewing machine made.
Surplus of Venison At Phillips Maine
Report from Phillips Maine describes an overabundance of deer both dead and alive. Families struggle to dispose of venison with one woman attempting to convert a deer into mince pies while another plans to eat an apple pie or two next year and contemplates giving up on processing the remaining meat.
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Phillips
Venices
Turtle of One Farm 109 Years on Wiest Farm
A land turtle on the Wiest farm in Oley township near Boyertown carries an inscription documenting a 1796 birth and successive renewals by the Wiest family. Daniel Wiest found it at age 18, marked it with 1796 D W, and after his death the inscription was kept up by his relatives through 1838 and beyond.
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Wiest
Oley
Boyertown
Daniel Wiest
D. W
John
Tence
Tanlee Giatartin Bantheent Nara
Philadelphia
Transferred Court to Hotel Amid Coal Economy Fears
A fragmentary report notes Judge Jelly of Hingham moving a court to a hotel, citing concerns over coal economy and panumenis as the reason for the unusual relocation. The text is incomplete and presents a partial scene without a clear outcome.
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Jelly
Panumenis
Beauty Now Made to Order Contrivances for Noses and Mouths
The New York Herald reports on cosmetic devices for artificial noses and mouths built into spectacle frames and rubber roofs. It notes a clothespin like attachment to shape a nose, a wire mask with screw adjusters to create dimples, and a toothed tongue-cleaning knife with a sponge brush, offering various methods to alter facial features and appearances.
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New York Herald
Paris shoplifter hid 2600 pipes amid kleptomania claim
A Parisian woman arrested for stealing pipes confessed to a compulsion toward theft. Police found 2600 meerschaum pipes in her apartments, colorfully colored, none paid for, and she claimed addiction to tobacco and irresistible impulses rather than moral guilt.
The Lobster That Delayed A Masher
A New York Globe anecdote recalls a dapper would be flirt at downtown eateries who misreads a lunching stenographer. He asks if she is waiting for him, she replies she might be, then he boasts of his order to a late lobster. The humorous exchange hinges on mistaken intention and social miscue.
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Pies Sresh
New York Globe
Brandied Exchange Sparks Quarrel Over Drinking Claim
A fragment shows John William Skidmore challenged by his partner who accuses him of drinking. He denies the charge, insisting he is not drinking and admonishing the allegation as unfounded. The exchange hints at a domestic dispute and alleged intoxication.
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John William Skidmore
John William
John William Bridmore
Welsh Speech Before Jury Impresses Baron Bramwell
A Welsh counsel addressed the jury in a Crown Court case on the South Whies circuit. The simple appeal led to a prompt acquittal and drew Bramwell’s note that the vernacular briefing was understood only by Welsh speakers. The judge, prosecutor, and complainant were English, while the defense counsel spoke Welsh.
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Baron Bramwell
Crown
South Whies
M. L
Scotsman
Long Journey Home and a Pig That Found Its Way
A farmer’s sly pig escapes by river and road, swimming two rivers to return home to his master in the old island tale. Pimley Acker notes room for reform in town councils as a German village council watchman observes the debate.
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Harvard
Little Island
Kennebec
Big Little Island
Richmond
Fritz
Pimley Acker
Philadelphia
Fercely
A Woman's Trip Test of a Leavenworth Checkbook
A Leavenworth man warned his wife before a business trip to freely use his checkbook. Upon return in Rome he found her pale and anxious as she confessed she had tested the checkbook.
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Leavenworth
Rome
Purifying Water and Food Standards Innovations
A California invention uses electrolytic action to purify liquids and age bottled beverages by circulating current between platinum electrodes within a specialized bottle. The U.S. secretary of agriculture advances food purity standards, tasking experts to set and publish fixed purity definitions for foods beverages and condiments nationwide.
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California
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Association of Official Agricultural Chemists
Bureau of Chemistry
Pigeons Misled by Solar Eclipse Confusion
During a recent European solar eclipse carrier pigeons showed odd behavior as many flew opposite to their usual direction. As darkness waned some corrected course while others zigzagged and plunged, with birds landing on rooftops before resuming flight.
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Europe
Guce
Severs
Grest Bright
Jene
Buseim Mpace
Macy Sigeng
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Frogs OF Commerce
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Louisiana
Rooster
Anes Aad
Meeterte
Byron Williams
Etts
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