Balloon feats and garden flowers from a past era
A mixed readout recalls Montgolfier balloon history with early flights from Versailles to Paris, Pilatre de Rötler, and the dangers of early aeronauts, followed by a playful Turtle game and a long list of flowering symbolic meanings for many plants and flowers.
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Pilatre de Ritter
Seine
Paris
Pilatre de Rorler
Marksman game with air pistol helps safe target practice
A new indoor game uses a numbered target and a vacuum-creating rubber tip projectile to avoid injury. Players shoot at a table or wall, scoring as a fun rainy day activity suitable for all ages, with no danger to people or furniture.
Real Trouble on the Moscow to Nizhni Novgorod Rail Line
A traveler recounts chaos at Nijegorodsky Voksal when two passengers with booked berths in a sleeping car faced others storming the wagon lit. He bribes an official to secure seats as a wild scramble erupts with shouting and pushing. He laments Russian public administration and apathy.
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Moscow
Nizhni Novgorod
Bolshaya Yarmaka
Nizhni
Nijegorodsky Voksal
Vladimir
Russia
Little Man's Long Silence
A 12 year old boy, son of a Central American rubber planter, travels to New Orleans to secure options on plantations. He keeps silent per his mother’s orders, reveals the option in a jacket, and the broker confirms the documents after a private reunion with his father. The story ends with cautious pride from the father.
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Central America
New Orleans
Anecdotes From Famous Literary Circles in Londom
A fragment describes anecdotes about Mrs Brookfield and her circle in London, including Carlyle’s sensitivity to readings, Tennyson’s readings and the social dynamic at gatherings. It recalls Macaulay’s dinner remark about Jane Austen and a remark by Moxon to Tennyson in Lucerne.
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Londom
Carlyle
Thryckfeld
Macaulay
Jane Austen
Lucerne
Tennyson
Assembly directions for a fireplace clock and stockings
Cut out three pieces and center ESPs ceo end alin dotted Mnes. Label A and S under two side pieces BB. Bend sides of the fireplace and join side panels with laps OC. Paste flaps BD to the back of the shelf. Fold base, place Japa FF beneath, align the fireplace string in blank Bgnd. Close the clock and tie the middle part to shelf blank space H. Place stockings in front space G.
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Itmnes
Monumental Grizzly carved for Alaska grave
Seattle artist Andrew Thompson ships a 3000 pound marble grizzly carving to Wrangel Alaska for the grave of R Shadesty a prominent northern Indian leader who died December 17 1903 leaving 600 for the monument Thompson 25 years of carving for Alaska tribes notes the piece first to show a defensive pose and unique in its concept with tribes transporting it overland to the Bear family grave site
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Andrew Chester Thompson
Seattle
Alaska
R. Shadesty
Seattle Times
Wrangel
Bear Family
Thompson
Shadesty
The Fate of Sennacherib Poem Fragment in War Imagery
Fragmentary OCR text presents a battlefield scene with imagery of the Aggers, banners, angel of death, and fallen riders. The poem invokes ancient names and vivid sea and forest motifs, ending with a lament on Ashur’s widows and a lordly exclamation.
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Graf
Japan
Avignon
Champ de Mars
Versailles
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Dauphin
Weett Hi
HOLT
Andre Dahl
Fuchsias
Leonard Fuchs
Magnol de. Montpéliier
Asia
America
France
Peru
Schillings
Grizzly Bears
Agerria
Wolf
Galilee
Ashur
Lord Hyron