Rats and Cats at War the Louvre Souvenir
Alfred Trumble recalls a French campaign tale where a zouave roasted rats on a ramrod to gauge rations. The Louvre houses a painting commemorating this episode as part of the army’s improvised sustenance during conquest. Meanwhile, reports note large fees paid to L L Barlow and Joseph H Choate in major Erie and Stewart will cases.
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Horace Vernet
Africa
Fountain Head
Louvre
Alfred Trumble
New York
New York World
Kipling's Monkey Tale From Mine Own People
Fragment from Kipling's Mine Own People recounts Bertran the French naturalist and an orangutan named Bimi. The narrator recalls a voyage, a snake hiss scene, and Bertran's odd bond with the ape in a colonial New Guinea setting, framed by brief notes on other items.
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Han
Hans
Mogoung Tanjong
Berlin
New Guinea
Bertran
Francis of
Assizi
Becho-De-Mar
Opera Comique
Bimi
Brevan Kipling
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C. K. Lide & Co
Ene
ASD
Waa
Seaver
A. B. Bowman
Frerenir
Proctor Land Company
Studebaker Wagon
East Tom
Beaver & Fhloffmeidters
Knoxvila
Johnson City
Pullman's
J. N. Harris
Singiser & Chandler
Tennesse
THE
Ules
John L. Milam
Pasa, Ag't
Knoxville
Tenn
B. W. Wrexn
Pads
A. Bexsporrer
Kipling
Boston Transcript
London Atheneum
Gray
Cambridge
Grand Rapids
Detroit
Toney & Brown
Hotel
Carnegie
East Tennessee
Farr
J.D. Weaver & CO
Watauga Lighting & Power Co
Wilder Pros't
H.W. Hargreaves
Sup
J. W. Core
Loc'y
Tres
Carnegie Tron Company
Johnson City, Tenn
Manupact
Jobe
W. C. Snapp
Tennessee
CARNEGIE + LAND + COMPANY
T. Wilder
J. W. Cure
Seety & Treas
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