Whistler Pastels and the Venetian Bet in Venice
Otto Bacher recalls a lively wager over Whistler pastels set in a Bauer Grunwald restaurant. A Russian provocateur sought to pass off copied pastels, but the jury, including Martin Rice and Frank Duveneck, rejected Volkoff’s works as Whistler’s.
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Bauer Grunwald
Whistler
Wolkof
Whisler
Venice
Spain
Martin Rice
Bnafand
Henry Woods
R. A
Volkoff
Houta
Otto Bacher
Century
A Peripatetic Investment Story and Curiosities
A quirky tale notes a scallop’s rapid swimming as it opens and closes its valves. A French planter’s failed idea to breed scallops on a New Hagland beach ends with all stock fed by the next day. Arch bishop Whately is cited for frugal, appearance minded habits and mock frictions with clothing.
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Hagland Beach
Foolish Question and the Pink Elephants
A fragmentary exchange shows a neighbor asking about building a new chicken house while Nettles jokes about a rack of pink elephants. The scene shifts to an actress named Mrs Mddons amid a tense interruption, with applause breaking the moment as voices spur movement.
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Nettles
Farmer and union satire through quirky verses
A humorous, rambling verse piece mocks farm life, unions, and practicalities with misheard phrases, domestic quirks, and spoof dialogues. It blends sketches of farmers, a judge, travelers, and a professor, ending with nostalgic contrasts and inane punchlines.
Poetic Fragments on Life and Power and Loss
A collage of verses and prose sketches reflect on money power and social vanity. It weaves in river imagery and social scenes, quoting Weatherly and others, with musings on happiness, labor, and longing. Strong entities include The Wend ers and Captain and His Whiskers, plus anonymous authors.
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F. I
Weatherly
Gems In Verse The Toiler Of The Tower
Poem fragments celebrate toil and faith through vivid imagery of fields loom and furnace heat. Benjamin Hathaway is referenced amid lines about endurance and spiritual resolve in a rugged rural tone. The piece shifts to Twickenham Ferry scenes with a ferryman and a playful exchange about love and travel. Theophile Marziats name appears as attribution.
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Toodman
Benjamin Hathaway
Twickenham Ferry
Twickenham Town
Bud
Bwickenham Town
Petersham
Peter Schuttler Wagon Makers Distribute Catalogs
For sixty five years the leading farm wagon. Send for a catalogue. Peter Schuttler Co., Chicago, Ill., makers. Ketchum & Gaston Co., Marshalltown, Ia., distributors.
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Peter Schuttler
Reem
The Gulf Stream Edges Revealed In Ocean Tales
A report notes sharply defined edges of the gulf stream observed by Captain James Torne aboard the Loch Garry on a voyage from Australia to Boston. The article recounts Civil War blockade runner near Wilmington and Nantucket whaler Folger noting the stream as a factor in historic transatlantic passage.
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James Torne
Australia
Bosston
Usteated
Loch Garry
Boston
Gulf Stream
Wilmington
N. G
Providental
Nantucket
Folger
Franklin
Rhode Island
New York Press
What Barbera Must Know and Other Notices
A collage of notes and anecdotes from a newspaper page. It cites barber knowledge and respect, strawboard invention tests, a social slice about a "magnificent girl," a California cheap travel sale ending soon, and travel details for a Kansas City Santa Fe Route trip to Los Angeles with timing and agent contact.
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Barbera
New Orleans Times-Democrat
California
Jews Central
Fourlat
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Arizag
New Mexico
Los Angeles
Legree Ackley
Ders Central
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Felend
Meniua Ie
Hutier End
Bs Durcar M. Smite
S’posin
Willam
Bill
Tam “Whitt
Susy
South Africa
Ike
Dus Dome
London Bridge
jAnd
O Aly
Twickenhan Town
Twickenham
Theophile Marziats
Peter
Hasi Beg
Ackley
Oxfords
Depety
Kesley
Lowa
J. A. Miter
Busch
Presiderat
Eggert
Cawhier
Cash
The
First National Bank
Trey
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