Mount of the Holy Cross Not Damaged by Rock Slide
Report from Denver and Rio Grande photographers shows that rumors of the Mount of the Holy Cross being destroyed by a rock slide are unfounded. After traveling to Notch Mountain, they found fresh snow lines confirming the cross remains intact and unchanged from historic photographs.
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Famou
Holy Cross
Colorad
America
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
Notch Mountain
Mount of the Holy Cross
Beheading Stone and Market Bowl In Stirling Museum
The Stirling beheading stone, protected by public subscription in 1887, is housed in an iron cage by the Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society. A second relic in Stirling is the bowl used by the public executioner to measure meat from farmers at the market.
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Stirling
Five Year Old Musical Prodigy Melvyn Hesselberg
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg of Nashville Tennessee is five and already composes tunes and writes stories. His father Edouard M Hesselberg a Belmont College music chair and Russian grand nephew of Davidoff notes perfect memory and original melodies. Melvyn dictates tunes to his father and rejects any changes, while his stories reveal early narrative skill and a rare memory for detail.
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Mozart
Europe
Albert Wiener
Taft’s College
Wiener
Spencer
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
Nashville, Tenn
Hesselberg
Nashville
Edouard M Hesselberg
Belmont College
Davidoff
Moscow
Lizst
Rubinstein
Belmont
South
Little Hesselberg
Melvyn
Chimalin
Sherlock Holmes
Enough
Ninety-Pound Policeman Gains Notoriety in Indiana
James Vincent, a five-foot, ninety-pound Boonville officer known as the midget constable, has over eight years without using force yet made more than seven hundred arrests. A feared figure among locals, including a colored man claiming Vincent’s menace, he previously worked as a Kentucky teacher and a jockey before serving in Indiana.
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Boonville
Ind
James Vincent
Indiana
Jimmie” Vincent
Vincent
Steverson
Southern Railroad
Mr. Vincent
Kentucky
Nashville
St. Louis
Iinois
Tennessee
Missouri
Snakes Invade Adams Express Office in Rockwell
Hartford correspondent reports William H. Dowling of Rockwell faced a staged snake scene at the Adams Express office when a crate spilled snarling snakes, including deadly species, slithered through boxes and onto desks. A traveling showman arrived to explain the misrouted display as a rain softened box.
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William H. Dowling
Rockwell
Adams Express Company
Hartford
Travelin
Rockville
Curious Shadow Sighting in Nantucket Front Building
In Nantucket during the summer vacation a curious shadow of a heart forms on the front of a building each morning at 9 o'clock. The scene evokes rare charm in the town’s ancient streets and back alleys.
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Nantucket
Southern girl charm and prowess defined in tribute
A 1906 Bowles tribute extols the Southern girl as adorable yet powerful. It praises charm, social deftness, and self reliance from childhood training to marriage roles, noting education varies by region but overall women excel in arts, music, and governance of home life. The piece reflects period views on gender and Southern identity.
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Old Dominion
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
South
Joseph B. Bowles
A Light Luncheon at a New York Eatery
Eugene Field, worn in countenance but quick of tongue, visits a Manhattan restaurant for luncheon. A waiter offers a long menu of foods, while Field finally asks for only an orange and a few kind words.
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Eugene Field
New York
Field
Satin stitch border embroidery design for trims
A pretty satin stitch border suitable for many uses. It can ornament box-pleats straps blouses linen dresses infants head squares flannel petticoats flounces and flannel dressing gown straps. It offers versatile trimming options for light fabrics and garments.
Modeling for Children
A simple cornstarch based composition makes amusing shapes for children. Mix one pound cornstarch with two quarts water, mold balls and cubes, then dry slowly in a warm oven or sunlight. Use for rainy day relief and for older children to make relief maps.
Narrow shelf above lintel for decorative plate display
In the dining room an over-lintel shelf can fill the blank space above a high doorway. Install a narrow shelf stained to match woodwork and bank it with plates and a tall vase with grasses or autumn leaves. A home carpenter can add this practical decorative touch.
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Trescott' Bros
Colorado
France
M. Deibler
M. de Paris
Paris
YOUNG
Lord Fauntleroy
Cherub
Conn
Baptist Church
Sennaire
Margaret Sancher
Sunny ‘Soriane
Margaret E. Sangster
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