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Echoes of the Past: Headlines tell stories of another era

There are often some surprisingly bizarre headlines in the newspapers from the 1920s, and this week is no different. The commonly-published sensational headlines certainly drew the attention of readers, urging them to dig deeper into the stories. Here’s the first one capturing my attention from November 1925 “Horse jumps onto auto.” A horse jumped onto the car owned by Mathias Dotseth the other evening, breaking the hood and plunging a piece of windshield glass into the lip of Oscar Dotseth, so that he had to have it sewed together. The Dotseths, with their two sons, were motoring to Decorah from Spring Grove to spend the day with relatives. The incident happened while they were passing Reuben Seeegmiller’s place south of Locust. The post Echoes of the Past: Headlines tell stories of another era first appeared on Enterprise Media.

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‘A dorm-wide conspiracy to hide the kittens’: Students save strays despite no-pet policy on college campus, nurturing them for adoption while avoiding monthly inspections

Have you ever heard about a college student heist to save a litter of abandoned stray kittens who were found outside their dorms, malnourished, scared, and alone? Yeah, we neither. But guess what? You’re about to hear this story, just like we did. All is courtesy of the Cat Distribution System, of course the great rearranger of fate for feral felines to become spoiled house floofs. Just as nature intended. Every cat deserves a home. This is just a universal truth. We didn’t invent it, but the CDS is the one mysterious organisation helping it stay as true as day one adoption at a time. But these brave student souls? They didn’t take care of only one adoption. We’re talking about four little floofy babies. They were abandoned by their feral cat mama (she’s fine and taken care of, by the way so don’t worry), left malnourished on campus grounds, looking for the one who would help them. but there were way more than one person involved. With a strict no-pet policy on campus, and monthly dorm inspections, a whole group of students were involved in heisting these smol kitties to safety until they’re healthy and happy to be adopted. It’s a story about bravery, initiative, wit, and a whole lot of fluffy kittens.

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‘A dorm-wide conspiracy to hide the kittens’: Students save strays despite no-pet policy on college campus, nurturing them for adoption while avoiding monthly inspections

Have you ever heard about a college student heist to save a litter of abandoned stray kittens who were found outside their dorms, malnourished, scared, and alone? Yeah, we neither. But guess what? You’re about to hear this story, just like we did. All is courtesy of the Cat Distribution System, of course the great rearranger of fate for feral felines to become spoiled house floofs. Just as nature intended. Every cat deserves a home. This is just a universal truth. We didn’t invent it, but the CDS is the one mysterious organisation helping it stay as true as day one adoption at a time. But these brave student souls? They didn’t take care of only one adoption. We’re talking about four little floofy babies. They were abandoned by their feral cat mama (she’s fine and taken care of, by the way so don’t worry), left malnourished on campus grounds, looking for the one who would help them. but there were way more than one person involved. With a strict no-pet policy on campus, and monthly dorm inspections, a whole group of students were involved in heisting these smol kitties to safety until they’re healthy and happy to be adopted. It’s a story about bravery, initiative, wit, and a whole lot of fluffy kittens.

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Most modern dogs have wolf DNA from relatively recent interbreeding. Here’s which breeds are the most and least ‘wolfish.’

Most modern dog breeds have small amounts of wolf ancestry from long after dogs were domesticated, according to a new study. The wolf DNA isn’t left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past few thousand years. That wolfish influence may be linked to certain characteristics, such as size and personality traits, in different dog breeds, researchers reported Nov. 24 in the journal PNAS. “Dogs are our buddies, but apparently wolves have been a big part of shaping them into the companions we know and love today,” study co-author Logan Kistler,.

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Eric Swalwell Sues Trump Admin After Criminal Referrals for Mortgage Fraud Hit

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California filed a federal civil lawsuit against Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, alleging that Pulte violated privacy protections while seeking criminal referrals against political figures. According to the lawsuit, Pulte referred Swalwell to the Department of Justice for alleged mortgage and tax fraud after obtaining records tied to federally backed housing programs.