Den After Dinner With A Pipe And A Bath Of News
George Rogers builds a new barn on Trufant street while the Kennebec tides drift wooden sidewalks on Commercial street. Schooners Ella H Kimball and Myra W Spear unload at Rogers and Kelley Spear yards as wags discuss Bath club plans, dog licenses, and wartime ethics. The Smoker notes Yale’s Maxim guns for the cruiser, same as Dewey’s metal, a Bath fire, public policy on tramps, and a vivid portrait of Miss Rober’s Circus Girl performance amid a near stampede. Young Baby Clifford entertains behind the scenes, while a century of sea chatter and theatre life frame a restless Bath.
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Columbia
Miss Rober
Brownson’s Smile in Rio Harbor Blockade Clash
In January 1894 the Brazilian civil war neared a climax in Rio harbor as insurgent Admiral da Gama blockaded the port. Commander Brownson of the Detroit, aboard the San Francisco, is said to have smiled on taking position and again after signaling his guns. A tense standoff followed with insurgent ships and tugboats near Enobados island before Brownson warned Trajano and steered his squadron toward the docks, aiding the rebel cause and prompting the fleet to back down. The episode became a naval legend among American seafarers.
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Brazil
Rio
Admiral da Gama
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Europe
America
Benham
Rio Harbor
San Francisco
Brownson
Detroit
Aquidaban
Tamandare
Viana Island
Trajano
Guanabara
Tuga
Cobras
Villegaigon
Liberdade
Admiral de Gama
Enobados Island
Amy
Parahyba
Enohados
Cobras Islands
Howse
Encados Island
Navy
Duilora
New York Sun
The Decorator Crabs Shed Shells At The Aquarium
At the aquarium the decorator crab molts into a pliable soft shell then quickly grows a new hard shell. The crabs are fed individually with food placed on a stick, and in a dry tank two shed shells were found with food inside, the crabs having left their old homes as the new shells hardened.
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Ulva
Aquarium
New York Sun
Sleep and dreams and Agassiz remembered by Himeself
A recalled anecdote from the London Spectator about Agassiz studying a fossil fish at the Jardin des Plantes. He dreamed the solution twice, then with a notebook and three bones appearing in the drawing, woke to find the notes on hand. He later corroborated by cutting a scale to match. Also a quip from Cleveland Leader about battleships and cruisers.
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Agassiz
Himeself
Spectator
Jardin Des Plantes
Jardin Dos Plantes
London Spectator
Willie Spriggs
Mr. Spriggs
Willie
Cleveland
Pony’s Illness From Dried Vegetables In Early Expedition
In the journey's early stage a pony broke loose and ate dried vegetables, dog biscuits, and oats due to food shortages. The surplus caused illness. Armitage and I formed a small pill dose using pedophyllin and two types of pills, mixed into frozen fat, which partially restored the pony's health.
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Armitage
The Secret To Firm Croquettes From The New York Post
The recipe explains mixing ground meat with milk and a flour batter to form a thick paste, then adding parsley lemon rind onion juice and seasoning. After two hours the meat is molded, dipped in eggs and bread crumbs, and fried in hot fat. It warns against using powdered shredded biscuits in breadcrumbs for escalloped tomatoes.
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New York Post
Make a Glass Lamp from a Wine Bottle
A New York Mail and Express note instructs shaping an ordinary quart Rhine wine bottle by tapping to remove glass and inserting a candle. After wrapping the bottle in ruby paper sealed with mucilage, stand it on a triangle of burned muntches and light the candle to create a simple lamp with no wick trimming needed.
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New York Mail and Express
Byron on idiosyncrasies in medical practice
The New York Ledger quotes Lord Byron noting that physicians often misapply remedies, assuming a cure for one disease fits all patients. He stresses temperament and disposition influence treatment outcomes, while conceding his distrust of both medicine and divinity professors.
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Lord Byron
Countess of Blessington
Byron
New York Ledger
Shakespearean Autographs and London Gasometer Facts
The article notes seven Shakespeare autographs exist across wills conveyances and editions with ownership details. It mentions a Montaigne translation autographic in the British Museum priced at over 800 guineas. It also reports the East Greenwich gasometer as the largest in the world, containing 12,000,000 cubic feet of gas when full, weighing 3,200 tons, standing 180 feet high and 800 feet in diameter, requiring 1,200 tons of coal and costing nearly £40,000.
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Montaigne
British Museum
East Greenwich
Speaking Passing Ships Decline Cables Say Captains Too Busy
The article notes the fading custom of speaking passing ships and reporting signals. Lloyds secretary Colonel Hozier advocates reviving the practice to ease anxieties about overdue vessels and share news with maritime stakeholders. A veteran skipper recalls the once universal exchange of names and destinations, now largely neglected. A light anecdote about a lottery examiner and a Japanese match factory hints add variety to the piece.
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Colonel Hozier
Lloyds
Froud
Shipmasters’ Society
Hozier
Tam
Freud
London
Gunpowder invention claim spans England and Germany
An Englishman Roger Bacon lived in the thirteenth century and is credited, while Germany asserts multiple earlier contributors who are said to have worked about eighty years after Bacon’s death.
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Roger Bacon
Germany
Bacon
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Rogers Yard
Myra W. Spear
Kelley, Spear & Co
J. Edward Drake
Maine
Hyde
Popham
Dan Hart
Savage’s
Ben
Bath Gun Club
Bath
Centre Street Hill
Yale College
Admiral Dewey
Porter
Mississippi
Dewey
Independent
Palais
Mr. Richie
The
Rober Co
Baby Clifford
Wand
F. J. Parks & Go
Centre Street
Ty Hall
Putin
Warren EX. Carr
Broad and
J. C. Higgins
Pront Street
F.v.moody
MRS. Hennessy
Statement OF the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co .F. Philadelphia
Aeea
Collecon
Ees
Field & Cowles
James B. Drake
Miss Loach
Boston
B.F. Savage
Centre St
D. M. Humphreys
Fire and Marine Insurance
Room
Sagalahoc Block
Ance Oo
Elm Street
Bates
Front Street
Foote & Sparks
Frans-Josef Land
Robbins
Mia
E. Robbins
White Wright
Tex
8. B. Hartman
Columbus, Olio
Ioc
Congressviie
Civil Service Commission
Nate
Hale
Pike
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