Birds and pets boarding trade fuels high canary prices
The New York boarding houses for birds and small animals list 50 cent weekly rates for common pets and up to 1 dollar for choicer birds like nightingales and bullfinches. Canaries sell for hundreds, with buyers including society women. trainers say song birds learn tunes from visiting instructors in controlled lessons.
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Hartz Mountains
Germany
Fifth Avenue Episcopal Church
Saxony
Philadelphia
Pigeon care tips from the St. Louis Republic
Keep quarters clean and segregate into small flocks. Pigeons breed best in even pairs with February as a quarreling exception when odd numbers occur. Feed peas, provide fresh water, and keep nesting spaces roomy. Eggs hatch in 16 to 18 days. squabs mature in four to six weeks.
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St. Louis Republic
Rice Eating Contest At Marchey Laundry Wins Title
A chaotic rice eating contest unfolds in Marchey's laundry with fifteen Celestials racing fifteen bowls. Ti Jing You endures twenty four hours without food, outlasts rivals Hop Kong Ram Kee Ti Jing Lee Lee Long Charlie Hop and Tsing Po to claim the $2 prize as spectators watch in hushed awe.
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Ti Jing You
Ti Jing Lee
Lee Long
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San Francisco Chronicle
Hop Growing On the Farm Offers Bright Mortgage Hope
A New York Sun piece outlines hop farming as a solid income for modern farmers. It details planting with sets, multi year profits, and methods from pole to tent yards, plus the seasonal hop picking schedule, worker types, and communal country life surrounding the harvest.
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New York
The Greased Man in the Count and Baron Heist Tale
An American woman recounts a tale from China involving jewels entrusted to Baron H and Countess. A stealthy thief, greased from head to foot, nearly steals the jewels at night but is stopped by Count’s quick restraint, escaping with the jewels intact. The incident tests trust between spouses and associates, ending with the thief’s capture failing and the jewels staying with the Countess.
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Baron H
Vienna
Specis
Lea
Dimmer
Nicha
Pers
Chiraman
Xoa
Re Fork Tribune
Giant Danish hound at Gatschina peeks into czar’s private halls
A large Danish hound, claimed to be the world’s biggest of its breed, stretches its powerful frame in the hall near the czar’s private apartments at the Russian palace in Gatschina, drawing attention as a striking feature.
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Gatschina
Woodpecker notes delight in tree bore and bird benefits
Mr. F A Bates discusses woodpeckers noting their strong head muscles, long tongues, and nesting in Florida Everglades. He quotes an amusing Plymouth nest under a fungus, and cites the common golden bill and downy woodpeckers while defending farmers’ view of sap suckers as ignorant of insects they eat.
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F. A. Bates
Everglades
Florida
Plymouth
Mr. Bates
Brownstown Man Killed by Lightning Then Monument Struck
James Striebel of Brownstown Indiana was killed by lightning last summer after he cursed the elements. His friends buried him and raised a nine foot monument which was struck by lightning a few nights ago, frightening local residents with the omen.
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James Striebel
Brownstown
Ind
Striebel
Iis
Fragmentary OCR Pace Notes Missing Context
Text shows a fragmented diary style line with unclear subjects and dialogues. Key names places and events are absent, leaving insufficient details for a coherent summary card.
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