Desperate fight with jaguar on Jemerara River ends in survivor
A Dewerara correspondent reports a farmer named Sally Davidson and his dog pursuing a jaguar. The beast climbed a tree where Davidson wounded it in the heart, then the animal fled, but the jaguar leaped the drain and was killed by Davidson who held its head under water until suffocating it. The jaguar measured five feet eleven inches. Davidson, badly wounded, crawled home and is recovering as friends celebrate his escape.
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Dewerara
Jemerara
Sally Davidson
Davidson
Demerara
Missovet
Magee
Glenwood
W. E. Floyd
Eagle Township
Snider
Booneville
Joe Creech
Louisiana
Elijah Young
Warrensburg
Avis
Lost Creek
Arctic Travel by Paroska and Baggage Stack in Century Note
The passage describes a long difficult journey in icy regions using a paroska a seatless traveling sleigh with heavy baggage stowed in a vast sheep skin bag and straw. It explains packing methods to insulate against extreme cold and notes boiled ham freezing at forty degrees below zero and practical food storage ideas for nourishment. The scene ends with a farewell departure from Hotel Deke while a driver and horses ready the trip.
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Siberia
Table Mountain
Mr. Frost
Hotel Deke
German Botanist Unveils Secrets of Plant Perfume
Mr Regel, a German botanist, reveals that light and heat affect plant perfume. He notes that darkness prevents perfume in partially developed buds and that flowers emitting fragrance only at night lose odor when kept in constant darkness.
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Regel
New York Telegram
Inside a New York firehouse with drill and discipline
A New York World reporter tours Engine No. 17 with Deputy Chief McCabe. The piece describes a morning drill from wake to six seconds turning out, the crew’s precise routines, harnessing horses, engine detaching, and the double-company setup at No. 3 engine-house with Capt. Siegman and Lieut. Reilly. The report also notes sleeping order, gear arrangement, and drills aboard the Zophar Mills fireboat with Capt. Spence.
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New York World
McCabe
Siegman
Capt
No. 3
Reilly
McCutcheon
Cow Defeats Rattlesnake in Yard Melee
An Alderney cow on Bald Hill near South Branch charged a rattlesnake after sniffing the air. The fight ended with the cow trampling the snake to death, while other cows watched intently. The combat left the cow unharmed and the snake dead.
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Chicago Tribune
Mendota
Ill
Ralph Shaffer
Wroth
Wisconsin
McCourt
United States
Peter McCourt
American Society of Psychical Research
J. C. Flood
Nob Hill
San Francisco
California
Arlington
Snohomish County
James P. Park
Philadelphhia
Philadelphia Record
Yas
Ohio
Arctic Circle
Gulf
Alaska
Seattle
Samuel Drenser
Austin
Minn
I. Meredith
Monticello
Lil
Robert James
Blue Lick
Clark County
Ind
Marvin Svith
Montville
Conn
Thames
THE
NEW York Fire Department
Jerry Ma' E
Slaan
Sliescens
Zophar Mills
Tenth Street
OM Mall
Arnot Spence
Bath River
Sty-Second Street
Dye Ae
Spence
West Street
Twentieth
Capt. Spence
Alderney
Bald Hill
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