Spurious Antiques and Clever Forgeries Across Arts
Forgeries in antiquities show rare skill across furniture prints china pictures armor ivory bronze and tapestry. Experts at national museums have been duped with items from a Palissy plate to Isis and Osiris figures forged from modern clay. Forgeries span leather racks horn books medieval manuscripts and clerical vestments with gold and silver pieces most susceptible to deception. A noted judge recounts forgery cases from ancient to modern times including a putty effigy found by Smithsonian experts.
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British Museum
Isis
Osiris
Smithsonian Institution
Count Tyskiewicz
Italy
Syria
Rome
Sicily
St. Louis Republic
Varied Joints of Cornmeal in Traditional Dishes
Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus Magazine extolls cornmeal as versatile for all meals. He lists breakfast batter cakes waffles muffins corn pone dumplings hoecake with gravy or mush and milk, ending with a peaceful scene of family rest.
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Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus’ Magazine
An Oversight in the Bohemian Evening
Chappie awakens in his apartment in pink pajamas with a woe filled look. His valet Alphonse notes the night was unhappy and suggests the pajama creases caused the trouble, as the neatly prepared trousers hung across the bed foot.
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Chappie
Alphonse
Mrs Hall Praises Attire With Humorous Compliment
An exchange at a social gathering shows Mrs Hall eager to compliment friends on outfits. She tells a guest her gown was a dream and adds she nearly mistook the wearer for someone else, ending with a light, cordial joke about recognition.
Women outsmart men in shared tasks claims Telegraph
A London Telegraph quote asks if a woman is clever enough to do any work a man can. The man replies she is smarter to make the man do the work and reap the benefit. The exchange frames gender roles with wry sarcasm.
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London Telegraph
Overboard tobacco hoisted from gun in Dewey port order
In a foreign port Admiral Dewey ordered the ship to hoist the heaviest tackle from the hold with no delay. After two hours the tackle was in place and a large chew of tobacco dumped overboard from a gun, a puzzling action noted by observers.
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Adm
Dewey
Courage Under Fire on the Confederate Picket Line
Captain T. CC Morton recalls an incident from the Southern Historical Papers where John Ford on a Confederate picket line dives into sand to escape a live mortar shell four feet away. The fuse fizzes as he burrows, explosions echo, and his comrades shout Scratch John scratch while the danger bursts. Ford emerges unharmed and calls out with a cheer.
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Focal
T. CC. Morton
Southern Historical Papers
John Ford
John
Scratch
Ford
Electrician Services On Mill Street
Electric wiring of all kinds and electric supplies at 124 W Mill St. Lamps, new cells, door bells offered. Estimates gladly given. Sto. and once Austin Minn.
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Electrician
W. Mill St
Dr Homer F Pierson Graduate Physician in Minneapolis
Homer F Pierson M D a graduate of St Marys Hospital Minneapolis has an office over Wolds Drug Store corner Main and Bridge Streets thriving medical practice serving the local community.
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Homer F. Pierson
St. Mary
Minneapolis
Wold’s Drug Store
Cor Main
Bridge Streets
Rochford Want Column listing various property and service ads
A fragmented want column lists housing sales and rentals, livestock for sale, a job request for a housekeeper, and notes on farm and exchange proposals. Entries mention several properties with room counts and prices, a St Bernard noted as good watchdog, and a six percent interest offer projected around 1908 with references to farms in Mower County and Oakland Avenue.
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Chicago
Maple Leaf
West Southwest
Chicago Great Western Railway
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Christmas Presents For
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Third Ward School House
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