Modest Yet Self Reliant Grant Anecdotes From Sherwood and Baylor
Frances Courtenay Baylor recounts General Grant as modest and self reliant noting his aim to “get there.” Mrs Sherwood recalls his reaction to West Point honors and a London dinner tale contrasts thrift in European households with American habits. Superintendent Murphy and Chief discuss firemen legends including a man who swung a ladder and a famed jumper nicknamed Corks.
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London
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Lee
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West Point
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Frances Courtenay Baylor
Murphy
Kansas City
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Republicans Map 1898 Greensburg Delegates in Indiana District
The Fourth Indiana district Republicans call a delegate convention in Greensburg on February 1 1898 at 11 30 a.m. to select a district committeeman. Delegates are apportioned by votes for Henry G Thayer in 1896 with county committees organizing January 22 and 29 1898. James E Caskey signs as district committeeman.
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Greensburg
Paar
Chicago
Indianapolis
Southport
Greenwood
Whiteland
Franklin A
Ediobur
Columbusar
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Hiizab’town
Scipio
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Henryville
Memphis
Sellersbu
Jefferson Wie
New Albany Ar
Louisvillear
Pat Louisville
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Sellersburg
Henry Ville
Scottsburg
Crothersvi
Mehow O- Seymour
Franklin
Wohitelan
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Ladiangpoll
Pan Eee Enone
Alcibiades of Athens and Contemporary Anecdotes
A collection of historical and humorous tales about Alcibiades, his lavish life and downfall, plus anecdotes from Strand Magazine and the Pittsburg Dispatch. The pieces cover his beauty, wealth, and volatile fortunes, a post office prank, and a chiropodist joke about a misread prescription.
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Alcibiades
Athens
Hipparete
Hipponicus
Babylon
St. Louis Republic
Optical illusion mimics radiography with simple feather trick
A correspondent notes photographers can imitate radiographs without coils tubes or screens by holding a pheasant feather near the eye and viewing through radiating ribs toward the hand. A feathered illusion shows transparent flesh and a central bone when lit by gaslight diffusion.
Notable A Lively Mix of Letters, Quotations, and Tidbits
A collage of excerpts notes Tennyson Browning letter humor on literary sympathy and gifts, a Boston Tram script line about kissing, a nine year estrangement, UK dog density statistic, Ruskin quip, and claims of rising athletic prowess and stature among American men across generations.
Columbus Fuel and Ice Co Ad For Coal Types
Coal is king for fuel offering best grades of D Pittsburg Jump air nut coal and anthracite. The ad markets reed and beach tests with vth block and stove options and notes Columbus Fuel & Ice Co at a3 on 11S) Wash.
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Pittsburg
Beach
Biddle puzzled visitors and eye pupils in portraits
A short anecdote contrasts a Philadelphian slang term biddle with a tepid explanation of its meaning and then notes a common optical illusion about eyes in portraits. The writeup uses brief quotes from Current Literature and the New York Press to illustrate misinterpretation and a simple mechanical solution.
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Biddle
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Washington
Baltimore
New York Press
Scottish originial tests ice with witty retort
A London Fan note recalls a Scottish originial who refused to cross doubtful ice for skaters, joking he would test it only with well manners first. It also mentions Wicquefort writing from prison on embassadors and describes Siam’s palace with white walls enclosing temples seraglios stables and military facilities.
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London
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