East Hampton Home of John Howard Payne Remembered
Lucy Cleveland writes of Payne's boyhood home in East Hampton, describing the two story frame house on Main Street with its Revolutionary kitchen charm. She recalls the antique threshold, the weathered placard listing town offices, and the single staircase that leads to a upstairs filled with nostalgia for Payne and his ballad. The piece blends lyric homage with local color and notes Payne left no money for Cleveland in New York Journal.
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Thad
Old East Hampton
East Hampton
John Howard Payne
Old
New England
Bank of East Hampton
Shinar
Mother Goose
Mother Wise
Egypt
Cinderella
Old Sweet Home
Honay
Cleveland
New York Journal
Eltham Strong Room Described As One of World’s Strongest
At Eltham the late Colonel North’s seat is said to house a remarkably secure strong room. It stores gold and silverware and includes special security for ladies' jewels during overnight stays. The room features a cement floor several feet thick and walls built of massive granite blocks.
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Eltham
Colonel North
How Aquatic Weighing Works for Live Fish
A visitor learns the method of weighing a live fish by placing it in a water filled pail. The process compares the weight of the pail with the fish, then weighs the empty pail and water to deduce the fish’s weight. The explanation appears in the New York Sun and clarifies the simple principle behind the measurement.
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Aquarium
New York Sun
Jumping cocoons puzzle entomologists in South Africa
Dr. D Sharp reports on cocooned jumpers from South Africa described as remarkable gymnasts. The pupae emerge by a chiseling mechanism inside a hard cocoon, using hooks and repeated forward thrusts to carve an escape groove until the insect frees itself. The insect's order remains uncertain possibly an anomalous lepidopterous insect allied to trichoptera.
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D. Sharp
South Africa
Dr. Sharp
Sharp
Adela
Puritan Thanksgiving Dining Traditions and Dishes
A historical note describes early Puritan meals with limited forks, shared pewter platters, and benches. The dining setup used boards on supports, chests for storage, and varied courses including pike, venison, giblet pie, roast beef, and turkey with oyster puddings, tansy, woodcocks, and pumpkin pie.
Municipal Time at Glasgow Standard Clocks Trial
Glasgow plans a citywide standard time system using electrically controlled clocks linked to the observatory stellar clock. A regu lating clock in the city chambers governs three clock circuits with about a dozen clocks now, aiming to install 200 to 800 eighteen inch dials and 61 miles of wire, possibly extending to private homes.
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Glasgow
Westminster Gazette
Morley and His Fox Terrier Echo in Canvass Exchange
John Morley famed for his dogs especially a small fox terrier seen with him on the Thames embankment and in Battersea park. In a heated canvass an opponent called him a dog and Morley replied that dogs show fidelity and devotion surpassing some humans.
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John Morley
Thames Embankment
Battersea Park
Morley
Oxygen as Healer Observed by Army Surgeon in War Wounds
Br. Geof Stoker, a former army surgeon in the Zulu war, observed natives treating wounds with exposure to pure air and water at high altitude. He tested oxygen therapy on ulcers and burns, reporting rapid healing and decolorizing effects. A hospital at 35 St George's Square was planned under Baroness Burdett Coutts to extend the trial.
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Geof Stoker
Stoker
Burdett-Coutts
St. George’s Square
S. W
India
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Payne
Lucy Cleveland
Miss P
Philadelphia Press
Chicago Post
Detroit Free Press
W.A. Haynes & CO
Maynard, Mass
J. W. Henderson
Boston
South Acton, Mass
T.F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concorda Junction
Mass
Wood and Stone
Concord Junction
Teremiah Sheehan
Josef Kalcsar
J. Kalcsar
Concord Junction, Mass
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
J. C. Friend
H. P. N. Dahl
Riverside Block
Ryan & Walsh
Basin Cocks
Boynton
Keith
Crockery
BOOTS
Tuttles
Jones & Wetherbee
FFER
Ladies’ Victoria Chains
H.p.n.dahl
Ernest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
Hapgood
Stovez Mass
Enterprise Office
W. A.cunningham
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