Sheep Shearing on Santa Cruz Island
A San Francisco Chronicle account describes Santa Cruz Island’s sheep ranges with large crews of California shearers. The piece outlines the two hundred to three dozen mile island landscape, the central interior valley headquarters, and the horsedriven drive to the corrals. It covers the four to seven minute fleece times, brass 5 cent checks, tallying, weighing, and packing of wool, the overseer’s discipline, and the after-work social scene in the messhouse with cards and monte gambling using brass checks as currency.
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California
Santa Barbara Channel
Santa Cruz
Santa Rosa
San Miguel
Santa Cruz Island
Knights of the Shears
Great
Interior Valley
Vajuera
Great Corra
San Francisco Chronicle
Merciless Thunderbolt Destroyed Wild Black Horse
In a scenic Texas valley the narrator recalls a lone coal black stallion with a white star on its forehead. A sudden green prairie cloud signals a lightning storm. the horse rears and is struck dead by a merciless thunderbolt, a fatal blow witnessed by the campers.
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Guadalupe Mountains
Texas
Nhew
M. Quad
Buffalo Herd Safe At Yellowstone After Decline
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that buffalo robes declined with the railroads but Yellowstone National Park now hosts 200 to 500 buffalo, with numbers rising slowly. Park superintendent George S Anderson cites increasing herds, hoping the species survives alongside European aurochs descendants.
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Great Plains
Denier
Great Yellowstone National Park
George 5. Anderson
Chicago Academy of Science
Milwaukee Sentinel
Weather Plants Weather predicting plants in Vienna garden notes
An Illustrirte Gartenzeitung writer hedges against overblown claims for weather plants. He lists common species with modest forecasting power such as Galium vernum smelling strongly before rain, Carlina vulgaris closing leaves before rain, Calendula pluvialis remaining closed after seven in the morning to signal rain, and others whose leaf or flower timing suggests approaching weather changes.
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Illustrirte Gartenzeitung
Vienna
Ain
Alsine Media
Child Labor Rules Abroad Compared With England
The New York Press notes that while Britain debates restricting under eleven year olds from factory work, many continental countries permit child labor earlier. France Hungary Spain and Denmark allow work from age ten, Italy from age nine, and several nations restrict under twelve though enforcement varies. Holland Belgium Sweden Portugal limit under twelve, while Switzerland and Germany set fourteen as a legal minimum if enforced.
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House of Commons
Holland
Belgium
Sweden
Portugal
Switzerland
Germany
New York Press
Various Reflections on World Affairs and Society
A miscellany notes 2009 English speakers vs other European languages and large watermelon acreage. a coroner's jury rules a tramp's railroad death as due to the deceased's neglect. World’s Fair funding and militia displays proposed. musk scented architecture of St Sophia. Hindoo magnate Petit and Chilean real estate. Chinese migrants and leprosy fears in Canada. military mobilization ideas for the fair. a Brethren publication on heaven's dimensions. Berlin regimental colors losses. Elizabeth More builds a cottage. Norman Hall bellboys recall Secretary Blaine. plan to honor Grand Army founder Stephenson. Canadian immigration issues with Chinese migrants.
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National Guard
Mil
Thomas W. Palmer
General Miles
Miles
Elizabeth More
Edgeworth
Miss More
Jane Gray Swisshelm
Normandie
Washington
Mr. Blaine
Mars’ Blaine
Benjamin Franklin Stephenson
Grand Army of the Republic
Petersburg
New York World
The First Slot Machines and Early Uses
A Philadelphia Press account recalls the first slot machine in England a tin box with tobacco for tavern patrons and a lever to release a pinch. It notes modern uses from postage stamps in England to rock and rye in Washington and ads via penny slots for pencils and profits from these devices.
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Philadelphia
England
Washington
Hoffman House
New York City
Grandmas Cure for Dandruff Declared Simple Remedy
A physician praises an old granddaughter remedy warning against modern fad cures. He prescribes five cents worth of sal tartar dissolved in warm water to wash the scalp without soap, repeating every three months for a year to quell dandruff, per the York Recorder.
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Aruz
Sal
E* York Recorder
Temperature Spike From Meteorite Air Impact
A reader note discusses the extreme speeds of cannon balls and meteorites, stating meteors penetrate air at up to 40 000 metres per second and ignite air to around 4 0000 to 66 000 degrees centigrade as they collide with the atmosphere.
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Texas Prairie
Colorado
United States
WueEs
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Geo. E. Waring, Jr
Stephen Smith
Hindoo
Bomanji Dinshanji Petit
India
Asia
Chili
Canada
Victoria
Ttawa
Brethren
Dunkards
Berlin
New York
Dominion
Grandma
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