Adventurers Club tale of Mae Towers and the Devil
Mae Towers of Bay Park recounts a 1918 Christmas Eve when Old Lady Adventure visited unannounced. A neighbor woman, distraught and mad, appeared at her door, mistaking Mae for danger, leading Mae to help calm and assist until police arrived.
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Elso
Weldamn
Uvet
Mae Towers
John J. Towers
Bay Park
Mae
New York City
Bay
Santa Claus
Betas ST
Ae Pasha
Boosae
Mic
Moe
Fand
Nwd
Atlanta’s Early Names and Era of Founding History
Fragmentary notes trace Atlanta’s origins from its site at term Terminus to a renamed Nucthusville, linking Creek land cession, the slate railroad stake, and a shift in civic identity. The text cites early lectures by Emerson and Webe in a garbled account of 19th century literary figures and public addresses.
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Atlanta
Nucthusville
Govere Te Lamphie
Feris J. Alber
Ralph Wala Emerson
Waltham
Lyceum
Daniel Webe Tur
Cooper Union
Henry Ward Reecher
Ator Ondine Livingstone
Attica
Honey M. Stoney
Neil Wapeulisen
Cockroach Ola Timet and Cockroach Types
The passage discusses cockroach history and types including the Croton bug first found in New York, the American cockroach likely from tropical America, and the Australian cockroach similar to the American species but smaller. It notes about 235 fossil species of the past.
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New York
Tropical
America
Early bookplates from Germany and America described
The oldest known German bookplates show movable woodcut engravings with armorial shields supported by an angel, pasted in books sent to the Cartusian Monastery of Buxheim by Brother Wildebrand Brandenburg around 1480. The earliest American example is John Cotton’s plain printed label.
1938 In Pictures Anschluss and Roosevelts Purge
A damaged OCR fragment notes March 14 1938 event of Anschluss and German Reich symbolism. It mentions Roosevelt's purge movement, a Montana bridge wreck injuring a coach and others. The piece mixes political and wartime imagery with garbled names and places.
Double Bedspread from Taffeta by Ruth Wyeth Spears
Dear Mrs Spears letters discuss how to make a double bedspread from ten yards of taffeta, detailing cutting dimensions for an 8 foot spread, ruffles, seams, and suggested books by Ruth Wyeth Spears offered for order in Chicago.
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Ruth Wyeth Spears
Spears
Spears Weil
Desplaines St
Chicago
Hibernating Bridge on Furka Oberalp Line
The Steffenbach bridge on the Furka Oberalp railway is a rare winter removal span in White Switzerland. Each autumn the line closes and the bridge is moved to protect the Furka Pass from avalanches after 1918 when an avalanche swept it away, and again in 1928 a foldable winter bridge was installed across the Siettenbuch valley.
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Steffenbach
Furka-Oberalp
Witeerland
Ube Siettenbuch
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